Biden his time - Megan McArdle
I was at a friend’s birthday party last night, and another financial/political journalist and I were marvelling at the way that Obama has been able to get away with complaining about deregulation while sharing a ticket with The Man from MBNA. Why haven’t journalists pointed this out? I asked.
You know, I’m really sick of this sort of approach that asks a question like this as if the questioner were seriously puzzled.
I like Megan, and have read her since her earliest Jane Galt beginnings, but now that she works for a big MSM outlet, she’s forcing herself to conform to the pretenses of her employers, to wit that the MSM is objective, interested primarily in honestly reporting the news, and so a lapse of this sort is, well, almost unexplainable. Certainly puzzling.
Horseshit. And Megan knows it.
This isn’t being reported because the mainstream media is as partisan as any political party, and is almost entirely in the tank for Barack Obama. Therefore, any news that might tarnish or in any way impede the campaign they are waging for him will be ignored, suppressed, or spun into some sort of falsehood that favors the candidate they all support.
Megan? It’s disingenuous to ask a question like that, when you already know the answer. And it is a far step down from the observer and analyst you used to be. In short, bullshit like this is beneath you. Stop it.
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Bill, I had been meaning to send Megan a similar note over the last few months, as her comments have become more…nuanced in certain regards.
Appears that she has been bought and paid for and her new owners are telling her what color lingerie to wear in the next shot.
Seems to be a hazard of the trade.
You’re really sick of how she reports on how she seques into a critique of the McCain campaign at parties? Here’s the rest of it:
“…Why haven’t journalists pointed this out? I asked. He shrugged, and then said it’s really McCain’s fault–it’s his job to make that case, and he hasn’t.
“Which makes me wonder: why hasn’t he? Sheer incompetence wouldn’t exactly shock me from that campaign, but is there a more strategic explanation?”
No, Anon, I’m sick of exactly what I posted about, not your further interpretation. McCain is incompetent. His campaign is about as hard-hitting as my Grannie’s left hook - and she’s been dead for fifty years.
I don’t like the explicit pretense in Megan’s question - no matter where she takes it from there.