Media Double Standard: Zell-t Down

[LostInAnomie]

Remember the Democratic National Convention, that week of hopeful, optimistic speeches that promised a new direction for the country and a voice to the voiceless that have been muffled under this administration. Ex-presidents, Admirals, Generals, Reverends, and shining party stars leveled clear, concise critiques about this countries problem and how our party can change them if we would only join together. Most of all John Kerry delivered the speech of his life that set our democratic hearts afire.

With all of this going on the media should have been overwhelmed sorting through all of the talk of policy, and charges against the administration, but they weren't. Instead as it has been widely verified the most reported on even during the DNC was a confrontation between Theresa Kerry and a Op-ed columnist where Theresa told the reporter to "shove it".

This week was the Republican National Convention. A week full of the morbid exploitation of Sept. 11 by what I like to call Necro Cons, and character assassination of John Kerry. The worst of which was committed be Democratic turn-coat Zell Miller.

In a speech full of gross mischaracterization of John Kerry's record, and a visceral hate for his own party and their partisanship he played to the absolute worst nature of a auditorium full of the absolute worst the Republicans have to offer. Cheering wildly the crowd probably didn't realize that they were feeding off of the viscous partisanship that Miller was supposedly "railing" against.

Here is where the double standard come in. Nevermind that Zell's speech was completely inaccurate, misleading, and in many cases flat out lies. After his speech Zell does an interview with Chris Matthews where he insulted Matthews' intelligence "Don't you know what a Metaphor is!?" told Chris to "Get out of my face!" even though Chris wasn't even in the same room, and worst of all essentially challenged Chris to a duel.

Shouldn't this have been the biggest story for the next few days. The keynote speaker of the RNC who is supposed to set the tone for the convention and what is to follow makes a death threat to a reporter on national TV and it hardly even gets played. Why are we not seeing this with the intense replay, and analysis that the media relished so much with Mrs. Kerry's outburst? Shouldn't the media be drooling over this story? Where is the liberal bias?

[vivalarev]

1. The media whores love conflict and anger

thats all they want to show, and fortunately for them, thats all they got with the RNC

[TrustingDog]

2. there sure was a lot of 'hatefest' talk on the media about the DNC...

newly surprised alla the time at how deep and sinister and weasly the bigMeadia is.