On And On

PAC Men
RedStateVT editors spend hours each day scouring news publications searching for evidence of Liberal bias. Well that's not exactly true. It doesn't take very long at all. 


Today, for example, we see that the New York Times and Washington Post have coordinated stories on Super PACs. (More on this aspect in a minute.) The Times article runs 34 paragraphs and mentions Democrat Super PACs only once in paragraph twenty..one sentence! This notwithstanding Obama's recent call for more Democrat Super PAC money. The Post article likewise focuses almost exclusively on Republicans, but at least gives us this: 


...the liberal billionaires George Soros and Peter Lewis, for instance, contributed $23 million apiece to Democratic-aligned 527s in 2004. (Washington Post, 2/25/2012)


Cynical readers will conclude that the Post was trying to soften the negative impact on Dems by mentioning contributions from a long eight years ago. Why that's old news!


Now to the coordination. What is clear is that the media continues to follow the playbook as dictated by the DNC. So several weeks ago we have George Stephanopoulas introducing the issue of contraception at a Republican debate. DNC objective? Paint Republicans as religious zealots. Let that play out for a while and then feather in Super PACs. DNC objective? Cast Republicans as bought and sold by shadowy rich businessmen. 


And Liberals scratch their heads and wonder why Fox News is so successful.


Hot Times
There is something truly baffling about the 2012 presidential candidates hotly debating Planned Parenthood and birth control. These battles were fought — and won — half a century ago. (Elaine Tyler May, Washington Post, 2/24/2012)


May, a professor at the University of Minnesota, gives us this bit of journalistic malpractice. The essence: the Church and those backward Republican have it wrong on birth control. Of course May does not answer the question that RedStateVT has posed - and that no Liberal has addressed. Namely, why does birth control have to be covered under health insurance plans? 


But May's real crime here is in bringing up Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger AND FAILING TO MENTION HER PROMOTION OF EUGENICS! Why it is akin to discussing the life of Ted Kennedy and not mentioning a little thing called Chappaquiddick....actually that probably happens a lot. Do even the most basic Google search and you can read about this side of "Birth Control Pioneer" Sanger. Is it too late to deny May tenure?