Media Bias favors Right Wingers

Dan Rather has been demonized by right wing talk radio and bloggers for his use of forged documents to attack President Bush, and the right wing whines about “media bias against conservatives.”

Well, the right wing ought to be grateful. Left wing politicians, such as Clinton, get a free ride from the press, even when they lie under oath about serious sexual harassment crimes. Can you imagine what the press would do to Bush if he were caught in a lie about sexual harassment? There have been no investigations by the press of the charges against Kerry about his war crime admissions, nor about the charge that he used political connections to fabricate a third, sanitized and glorified Silver Star citation. And his brother Senator from Massachusetts, Edward Kennedy, got away free from any investigation of what was likely to be felony drunk driving and homicide with the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.

In contrast, right wing politicians are hammered by the press. And both right wing politicians and the general public are prosecuted by the government ruthlessly. Martha Stewart is serving jail time for not telling the truth to government employees, and although she was never even charged with a crime related to the stock transaction, it is enough that she told a lie. Kennedy lied about Mary Jo Kopechne, and Clinton lied about his sexual harassment, and Kerry lied about atrocities committed in Vietnam, but none of them have been jailed.

But the right wingers (and the general public) should be grateful for this. Since we, the general public, and they, the right wingers, are held to a higher standard, right wingers are much more likely to be honest and honorable. I certainly do not agree with a lot of the righty-tighty viewpoints, but I know I am much more likely to hear the truth out of George W. Bush that John F. Kerry, since there is no investigative reporting in the major media about the truth behind Kerry’s claims.

The leftists cannot field a decent and honorable candidate. Because of the pressure to say whatever you think your audience wants to hear, it is much more work for a lefty than a righty to be honest in politics. Since there is no pressure from the mainstream press for the lefty-loosies to be honest, the honest lefty-loosies are selected against. I think the last of the honest lefty-loosies was Jimmy Carter.