It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => Media Bias/Media War => Topic started by: jpatrickham on September 05, 2011, 08:34:49 AM
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I could have told you, for instance, that the narrative surrounding the Texas Republican was going to be, “Is he dumb?” And sure enough, on Politico’s front page Monday, the headline read, “Is Rick Perry Dumb?” It is only one of many.
I also could have told you that the narrative surrounding the female candidate was going to be, “Is she weak?” And sure enough, for at least a couple of weeks, the press worried if occasional migraines would make Michele Bachmann a weak-kneed President. MSNBC.com did a hard-hitting investigation inviting a number of doctors to speculate about her headaches. “Expert says they could be ‘huge problem,’ ” the piece warned. Anyone have smelling salts?
Mitt Romney has suffered three lazy story lines: “Is the businessman boring?” “Does the millionaire have too much money?” “Are Mormons weird?” To the Mormon issue, in a June broadcast of “Meet the Press,” David Gregory asked Rick Santorum, whom he called the “Christian conservative” candidate, what he thought of Romney’s Mormonism. Now how is that relevant?
For Tim Pawlenty, the best the liberal media could do was to wonder if the former Minnesota governor was too “Minnesota nice.”
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