The Press Is Still Biased

I stopped writing much about this subject years and years ago because, like so much of contemporary politics, it long since became tiresomely repetitive. The Extreme Media has been, well, extreme, and hard-left, since before I was born, and has only become moreso as time has gone by - and especially during the Bush presidency. But the last few days have seen the press bubble become so loathsome that it exceeded even my rendundancy threshold.

The New York Times ran two more ringing defenses of the Iranian mullahgarchy that sound several messiahnisms away from something that ol' Adolph Ahmedinejad himself might have said.

Thomas Friedman, the Times columnist who is supposed to actually know something about foreign policy, wrote that letting Iran go nuclear is better than trying to stop it militarily because Bush has frakked up Iraq. His alternative? "Deter" the mullahs and fire Donald Rumsfeld. Yeah, that'll keep Tel Aviv in one piece.

This past Sunday Richard Clarke and Steven Simon, two ex-Clintonoids who were architects of our defenselessness to the 9/11 attacks, manage in a single column to cast the Bush White House, not the mullahs, as the warmongers in this confrontation, blame Newt Gingrich for Iran's 1996 Khobar Towers attack, put themselves over as super-spooks who stopped Iranian terrorism cold with nothing but empty bluster and spittle, and demand that the Bushies follow their hideously failed example. Unfortunately, the Administration appears to be doing exactly that, as Dick Morris lamented on Monday.

It isn't all flacking for our enemies, though. Scott McClellan finally decided he'd had enough. No, it's not much of a scalp (though a lot of the scalp is visible), but it is something. I only wish the President would replace him with somebody like Kant Jorel, UFP President Nan Bacco's press secretary in Articles of the Federation. It would be so cathartic to see a White House spokesman give as good as he gets from those despicable press jackals, and sometimes even knock them back on their pampered, pompous asses.

But the slam dunk event is also the least surprising: the awarding of a Pultizer prize to New York Times reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau for what the usually staid and understated Brother Trunk called, "...their treasonous contribution to the undermining of the highly classified National Security Agency surveillance program of al Qaeda-related terrorists."

As Andy McCarthy argues today, by so rewarding Risen's and Lichtblau's perfidy, the entire journalism "profession" has tarred itself with it. Indeed, one might say they've bellyflopped into the bog and wallowed around joyfully and lustfully. And if their illegal disclosures lead to another mass attack on our soil, will they contritely accept responsibility for their role in helping to facilitate it? Or will they be too busy blaming it all on George Bush and proclaiming that it wouldn't have happened without "his" war on terror?

Never was a question more rhetorical. Small wonder that I only get a Sunday paper anymore - and that's only for the ads....