Shame on Time. It’s Feb 4 cover story “The Phoenix: Can John McCain Keeping Rising”) fairly drools over Mr. McCain. On the heels of McCain’s endorsement by the New York Times, this is not news. It’s blatant advocacy plastered over six glossy pages. Tellingly, with Super Tuesday right around the corner, the current GOP delegate-count leader, Mitt Romney, gets not a single photo or heading in the entire issue.
Giuliani gets a full page (”Will Rudy Shine?”), as do both Sly Stallone and Amy Winehouse. But the GOP poll leader in Florida gets nothing. His name is mentioned three times in six pages, each time in a negative or neutral context. Real journalists objectively report and let the audience decide. Not Time. The bias is palpable:
So on the night of South Carolina’s Republican primary, when the victory he needed to keep his campaign alive seemed as if it might be slipping away once again, McCain stood silent amid the chaos of his crowded hotel suite, his eyes fixed on the television screen. . . .
[Finally] the announcement came: “McCain wins South Carolina!” The room erupted in cheers; McCain’s wife Cindy dissolved into tears; and the candidate’s pale, scarred, 71-year-old face spread into a triumphant grin. . . .
Conservative fears about McCain are often irrational . . .
Conservative elites are the ones most likely to break out in hives at the mention of McCain’s name . . .
All the while — and this may be what galls conservatives most — McCain has been hailed by liberals and lionized in the mainstream news media for being a rebel.
Rebel? Not hardly. Liberal shill and collaborator, yes. I guess it might concern thinking conservatives to hear McCain “lionized and hailed” by liberals and the mainstream media, especially Time.
Shame on Time and shame on James Carney, Time’s Washington Bureau Chief, who wrote this sorry excuse for a news report. Conservative voters looking for an outsider to clean up Washington should note well this oh-so-typical inside job by a real Washington insider, James Carney, just looking out for one of his boys.
I’ve decide not to provide a link to Carney’s campaign blast. It doesn’t merit one. Time’s anti-Romney, pro-McCain bias can be read by thinking conservatives as more confirmation that Romney is their man.
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