Unbalanced Reporting

by digby

Did anyone catch Wolfie getting all nervous and twitchy when he thought that Cafferty hadn’t been “fair and balanced” in reporting the response to his question aabout Boehner renting his apartment from a lobbyist? He was very agitated that Cafferty didn’t report any emails that said it was ok if Boehner “paid fair market value and the apartment wasn’t luxurious.” The fact was that Cafferty did read an email that said exactly that (how odd) but Wolfe apparently didn’t hear it. Unfortunately for Wolfie, his little fit made Cafferty mad and when pressed on the matter, Cafferty said that out of 700 or so emails he had received only half a dozen or so supporting Boehner. Oops. Wolfie’s in the doghouse now. His masters pay him big money to manage these situations and they expect him to do it better than that. (I certainly got the feeling that somebody’s been leaning on Cafferty about “balance” and he’s not happy about it.)

This is reminiscent of Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post being forced to add a “Democratic scandal” to a story on recent scandals even though the Democrat in question was out of congress when the scandal happened. “Balance it out, by God, even if you have to make something up.”

Man, the media are really petrified of Karl Rove, aren’t they?