‘What Else Should a Reporter BE’ But a Liberal?

Publius' Forum ^ | 1/22/09 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

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So what do you get when you mix a Canadian TV hostess with the venerable Helen Thomas? An admission of bias so strong that it could ward off a vampire. Just why the image of the undead first came to my mind is anybody's guess, but there you have it.

On a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation morning TV interview show called "Sun Day," Thomas was interviewed on how she felt about presidents past, present what was to be future with the Obama inauguration still then days away. She was also quizzed on her profession in which Thomas claimed only liberals should be engaged. And that isn't all. She also said that conservatives are neither thinking nor caring people.

Like most of her ilk and her era, she felt John F. Kennedy was "the best" president. It has always been a bit ridiculous to rank JFK as a great president, though. With his scant 2 years in office he didn't really have the time to affect the policies and government of the nation in a way that might find him placed among the greats. It can be said, however, that he greatly affected the members of the media that adored him, covered for him, and elevated him to near Godhood. To folks like Thomas, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the greatest despite his small number of accomplishments as president.

I can't help but feel that the Kennedy era primed the Old Media for this sycophancy for Obama. They had, after all, already fallen for a man with a very small record of actual achievement before. It isn't too much lower to go to fall for Obama, a man with even fewer actual achievements than their last great hero. The bar was lowered terribly for Kennedy and now it lay nearly on the ground for Obama in the eyes of the media...

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[Mobile Vulgus]

Hideous.

[timm22]

Amazing.

I can't understand how a reporter, especially those covering Washington, could possibly remain a liberal. If you spend your career exposing incompetence, corruption, and scandal in government, how could you have faith in that same government to solve even the simplest of problems?

[techcor]

Not to mention covering countries like North Korea and Zimbabwe. I'd put Cuba in there too but they always get a guided tour of it with no chance to see the real Cuba and come back convinced all of Cuba's problems are because of the US.
When these liberals spout off about how "caring" they are I just wish someone would ask them just what have they done that is so caring?

[kellynla]

“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.”
P.J.O'Rourke

[exile]

Helen Thomas: I’m a liberal, I was born a liberal, I’ll be one ’til I die

Here's hoping that day comes very, very soon.