{"id":1332,"date":"2009-07-15T13:50:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T20:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2009-07-17T16:44:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T23:44:42","slug":"gov-sanfords-treatment-by-the-liberal-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1332","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Sanford’s Treatment By The Liberal Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are a few examples of how the so-called “liberal”<\/em> media rushed to smear Republican Gov. Mark Sanford after he surfaced from his hike in Appalachia<\/s> …er… vacation in South America<\/s> …er… tryst with his Argentinian mistress. These are emails sent to Sanford to solicit him for interviews.<\/p>\n

Griff Jenkins of Fox News<\/strong>
\n“Having known the Governor for years and even worked with him when he would host radio shows for me — I find this story and the media frenzy surrounding it to be absolutely ridiculous! Please give him my best.”<\/span><\/p>\n

If the Gov does an interview and its exclusive, it will make air on the tv channel and our radio news service all across the country. And I’m not sure if you’ve seen the stuff I do on the channel as a reporter, but I work mostly for our primetime coverage – Oreilly, Hannity, Greta, Beck – so there likely would be primetime coverage as well for some soundbites of the gov dispelling this flap.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jenkins, you may recall, is one of the contingent of Fox News ambush journalists (along with Jesse Watters, and Porter Barry). He was also prominent in last April’s Tea Baggery. In this affair he is unabashedly promising a political delinquent favorable treatment.<\/p>\n

Brendan Miniter of the Wall Street Journal<\/strong>
\n“Someone at WSJ should be fired for today’s story. Ridiculous.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Miniter is actually bashing his own paper for publishing a story that merely reported that Sanford was off hiking the Appalachian Trail. So I guess that I’d agree with Miniter. Someone should be fired for having gotten the story so wrong. And Miniter should go with him for pandering to the story’s subject.<\/p>\n

Joseph Deoudes of the Washington Times<\/strong>
\n“If you all want to speak on this publicly, you’re welcome to Washington Times Radio. You know that you will be on friendly ground here!”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Isn’t nice to know that there is “friendly ground”<\/em> available for wayward Republicans? Not that this is news coming from the Moonie Times, a perennial happy place for rightists.<\/p>\n

Ann Edelberg of MSNBC’s Morning Joe<\/strong>
\n“Of course the Gov has an open invite to a friendly place here at MJ, if he would like to speak out.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And if anyone can call themselves a friend of Sanford, it’s Joe Scarborough, the former Florida congressman who had his own problems with the press when an intern turned up dead in his office.<\/p>\n

Jake Tapper of ABC News<\/strong>
\n“NBC spot was slimy.” […] “For the record, I think the TODAY show spot was pretty insulting.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tapper’s main problem here is not that he is offering Sanford a safe haven, but that he is deliberately bashing his competition. Tapper is crossing the line in order to get a story. To his credit, he apologized and acknowledged that what he did was inappropriate. None of his colleagues have yet to do so.<\/p>\n

Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central<\/strong>
\nAs you may know, I declared myself Governor of South Carolina last night. I went power mad for abut 40 seconds before learning that Gov. Sanford was returning today.<\/span><\/p>\n

If the governor is looking for a friendly place to make light of what I think is a small story that got blown out of scale I would be happy to have him on. In person here, on the phone, or in South Carolina.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stay strong, Stephen<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Et tu, Colbert? As the most reputable journalist of the bunch, it is disheartening to see that Colbert has compromised his impeccable journalistic credentials (a Peabody winner) in order to suck up to this miscreant governor. Since Colbert is on record as being philosophically opposed to apologies, I wouldn’t expect one to be forthcoming. In fact, it would hardly be necessary for him to bother correcting the record since, as he has noted, “reality has a well known liberal bias.”<\/em> So what’s the point?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are a few examples of how the so-called “liberal” media rushed to smear Republican Gov. Mark Sanford after he surfaced from his hike in Appalachia …er… vacation in South America …er… tryst with his Argentinian mistress. These are emails sent to Sanford to solicit him for interviews. 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