MSM is doing a Lewinsky for Democrats

The Monica Lewinsky service to Bill Clinton was marked up to immaturity, vanity and self-serving by both, compounded by denial, in an act lacking respect for basic standards of behavior. That description, and the lack of respect for basic standards, applies to the conduct of our major media in its drive to win the 2006 elections for the Democrats.

As in the lead-up to the 2004 elections, selective leaks, selectively presented, are trumpeted by leading media organizations that seek to reinforce Democrat charges of incompetence and failure in policies to undermine the Bush administration and Republicans. Elemental research is not performed, as repeatedly evidenced by the almost immediate factual fisking performed by bloggers. Even when facts are presented refuting the charges, they are ignored, spun, or relegated to passing reference late in the paragraphs.

This isn’t a calibrated, coordinated conspiracy. It doesn’t need to be. The common worldview and politics of MSM journalists creates the receptive sucking up to Democrat memes and failure to observe basic standards of research that results in deficient journalism. Every study of political leanings among MSM journalists demonstrates an overwhelming Democrat orientation, ranging from 7-1 to a retiring star self-described liberal Washington Post political reporter’s estimate of 25-1.

Couple this predilection, an unprofessional failure to use the Internet on their desk to research their stories, and an abysmal ignorance of the elemental basics of American history or civics found by a University of Connecticut/ISI sample of 14,000 students at 50 colleges, and you have a picture of an immature, partially-educated Lewinsky MSM media absorbed in its own self-importance, behaving with a sense of impunity to being astray, and Democrat leaders eager and focused on using their services to spread their seed.

In 2004, the election was saved by a thin margin from such “October Surprises” due to the emergence of bloggers and alternative media exposing such MSM Lewinskyism. This year, the Bush administration is bolder and faster in exposing such MSM twisting of truth. Bloggers must man their computers vigilantly to do so also, and deliver a “November Surprise” to MSM servicing of Democrat leaders.

UPDATE: A reader just alerted me to Lorie Byrd’s more genteel op-ed in today’s Examiner on this subject, “Hard to sort out the truth in mainstream media.”