More Pundits find partisan Bias at the Post

In the words of Roger Simon below, the media is the story now...................

The Post finally addresses the critics of Kerry's war record, but rather than investigate the merits of the charges, alleges that the critics are ...hold your breath....Republicans. At least they acknowledge that Kerry, instead of responding to the critics, only blames President Bush.

"Instead of rebutting each charge, Kerry blamed Bush for sanctioning such highly personal attacks."

LGF finds a double standard at the Post and received 540 mostly favorable comments.


WaPo Suddenly Discovers Swift Boat Veterans
The shameless bias of mainstream media in favor of John F. Kerry has been one of the big stories of this campaign. Case in point: the Washington Post has totally ignored the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and their allegations against Kerry for weeks—until today, when they discovered a small discrepancy in one of Swiftee Larry Thurlow’s statements.
That story goes on page A01 of the Post: Records Counter a Critic of Kerry. Will WaPo readers wonder why this story suddenly pops up on the front page, when they’ve read nothing about it until today?

Instapundit offers an explanation......the story is devastating for Kerry.

August 19, 2004
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO GET THE POST LOOKING AT MILITARY RECORDS? A story that's bad for Kerry's critics, I guess. No mention at all of the Cambodia story, though, in which Kerry's critics have been proved right (as even the Kerry campaign has admitted) -- and which the Post has ignored.

UPDATE: Something I said there that bears repeating -- the reason why the Christmas-in-Cambodia story is getting the media cold-shoulder, and why what SwiftVet coverage there is focuses on the medals, etc., is that the Christmas-in-Cambodia story is clear, and has already been proven false. It's easy to understand, and that makes it much more devastating for Kerry.
The medal stuff is complex, and can be spun in a way that makes people's eyes glaze over. So that's what we'll mostly get, along with "political" stories that will treat the SwiftVets stuff as partisan hackery in a way that Michael Moore never gets treated by the same outlets.

ANOTHER UPDATE: And here's an example, in the "budget" from the New York Times, advising affiliate papers of what's coming:
ANTI-KERRY-ADS (Undated) - The story of how swift boat veterans with a grievance were found by Republicans looking to tarnish Kerry's image, and soon came to be running ads, writing books and blanketing cable television in a modern day tale of the creation of a political attack machine. But some of the veterans have recanted their stories or made charges that military records prove untrue. A look at how the veterans were organized and what they claim. By Kate Zernike and Jim Rutenberg.
With photos and a graphic.
Editors, will move in both full and abridged forms.


Will it say that the Cambodia story has already panned out? I doubt it.

Roger Simon weighs in against the Post also....which remains reified!

MORE: Just for the record, the WaPo and others are casting aspersions on one of the Swift Boat Vets Larry Thurlow. They may be right. But frankly I don't care. That's about medals, arguably a pompous and silly side issue. (In warfare, they're given out by the bucketful anyway). What is not pompous and silly is a Senator lying on the floor of that institution in order to advance his foreign policy position. Cambodia, Mon Amour... Until the WaPo et al deal with that, they remain reified. And if they don't know what that means, they can look it up.


The Post's reporting about Israel remains reified also......if only we had such an outpouring in the blogsphere about her reporters there...if only.