Okay, it's early and I'm just up. There are so many times I want to give "examples" of the media bias but it is often so fleeting, I don't write it down and just turn off the television or toss the newspaper in disgust.
But since I'm up and my fingers are functioning, I just watched Fox & Friends—they covered a story of last night's late night filibuster caused by a (R) senator—didn't get his name— who blocked a vote on extending unemployment benefits. And Martha McCallum (bless her) made sure to clarify that in this heated exchange, the senator DID SUPPORT the extension of those benefits but he wanted congress to pay for them NOW and not to add to the ever growing debt. Commercial—I can't watch commercials. I flip to the beautiful Robin Mead on HLN and Jennifer Westhoven, who is about to cover the same story. Jennifer Westhoven states that a "republican senator blocks the extension of unemployment benefits." Period. I don't have to turn to MSNBC to see how they will cover the story. But this type of selective media disclosure is why my heart sinks every time one of my facebook friends posts a rant from Keith Olberman. They literally don't know the (as Paul Harvey would say) "rest of the story."
As for Charlie Rangel today—I don't know how MSNBC is going to defend yet another ethics violation on the part of this elitist windbag. This man should not only not be in congress, but to have a school named for him with the words "public service" in it is an oxymoron—perhaps the kids should be taught the definition of that word first.
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