MSM: Allen is racist… therefore Bush is bad
I know we have grown accustomed to bias in the MSM, both small and large, but that doesn’t mean we should just ignore it. In fact, we should call it out whenever it occurs.
One example is today, in which a WRAL-TV news article about the George Allen “macaca” controversy includes a headline (Bush Helping Lawmaker Who Used Racist Term) and a single paragraph stinging Bush for raising money for Allen.
It’s a story that is really about the Allen controversy, but which has been prepended with a single paragraph designed to imply the by continuing support for Allen, Bush is equally culpable. This reporting is based upon an equally flawed Associated Press article.
It’s not that Allen didn’t make a stupid remark, he did. It’s not that he didn’t understand it as a racist statement or that it would be interpreted that way, he probably did.
It IS that the MSM uses nearly every opportunity to implicate Bush in every evil thing.