Powerline:
The Most Insanely Biased "News" Story In History
At least I think it's intended to be a news story. It popped up on Yahoo News a while ago, which I assume means that many thousands of people will read it. It's written for McClatchy by two reporters--I guess they are supposed to be reporters--named Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel and is titled "Cheney's speech contained omissions, misstatements." The article is basically a compendium of DNC/Daily Kos talking points from 2003 to the present. It is full of falsehoods, long-discredited canards, and misleading statements. I'm going to bed and don't have time to deconstruct it, but if you read it no doubt you will be able to make corrections as you go along. It is one of those "news stories" that is intended solely for the ignorant. If we had comments, maybe we could let our readers tear this piece of nonsense apart line by line while we sleep. Perhaps someday.
NewsBusters:
McClatchy Report on Cheney Speech Sounds Like DNC Talking Points Memo
Would anybody at the ailing McClatchy Newspapers care to point out to us even the slightest hint of neutrality in the reporting of two correspondents for that chain, Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel, on former Vice President Dick Cheney's speech yesterday about terrorism? You sort of get the idea where these two are coming from just by reading the title of their report: "Cheney's speech contained omissions, misstatements."
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So did this sound like an unbiased report or a couple of political hacks taking partisan shots at Cheney? Oh, and when will Lawrence O'Donnell begin working as a reporter for McClatchy?
Notice how none of these blogs even attempt to dispute the claims made by the McClatchy reporters. They just make some bizarre statement about Those Silly Moonbats and leave it at that.
I mean seriously, if you're going to accuse McClatchy of lying on behalf of the DNC, wouldn't it be logical to try and debunk the article using actual facts rather than ad hominems?
I guess Saint Reagan said it best:
Facts are stupid things.