http://www.eandppub.com/2008/11/more-sour-grape.html*snip*
The Time.com blogger has gotten a lot of Web attention since Friday when, at a forum in L.A., he called media bias against McCain "disgusting," the worst display of media malfeasance since the run-up to the Iraq war (which Halperin himself was a part of, he neglects to say). Here's Halperin's full quote: "It's the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war. It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage." Getting much less notice was the response from Mark Barabak, political writer for the L.A. Times, at the same affair: "Look at it in it's totality, at the end of the day did the media serve its function, to inform people about who these two men are? Yes they did."
Much more in a coming post on all this, but for now see what I wrote on this subject recently. But Halperin himself couldn't be biased, could he? One recalls his remarkable letter to far right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt last year when he declared, "I really enjoyed our radio talk and I appreciated the opportunity to appear with someone I respect so much....As I said on the show, you and I agree on almost everything we discussed." Halperin co-authored a book with John Harris of Politico last year, in which they titled one chapter "Matt Drudge Rules Our World." They explained that Drudge "is the gatekeeper... he is the Walter Cronkite of his era." The pair also declared that for any Democrat to win the White House in 2008 they would have to somehow neutralize and get past Drudge. In fact, Drudge, amazingly, turned out to be a relative non-factor in the campaign.
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And who can forget Halperin's lengthy post at his site back in February when he listed 16 things that "McCain can do" in taking on Obama that the vanquished Hillary Clinton could not. The list included "6. Allow some supporters to risk being accused of using the race card when criticizing Obama" and "11. Emphasize Barack Hussein Obama's unusual name and exotic background through a Manchurian Candidate prism." Since he is close to McCain's campaign team, this was readily interpreted as direct advice and offended so many that Halperin later placed at the bottom of the post in red, Note: This is analysis of what is likely to happen, not advice or endorsement. And in that update he disingenuosly commented, "McCain has already been forced to denounce several instances of some of these efforts." Gee, wonder who might have inspired "some of these efforts"?
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