They Know Better

by digby

Ezra Klein documents another example of your puerile political press corps deciding who you are allowed to vote for:

I find the purity of my dislike for Mitt Romney is basically being overwhelmed by my discomfort with the press corps’ white-hot hatred for the guy.

It had been a long time coming. In Michigan, the frustration over Romney’s complete disingeniousness about “bringing your jobs back” conjured a rare degree of camaraderie, and we caucused together and came up with a list of questions that we agreed to ask no matter who got called on at the next press conference. For instance: “If Bain Capital was going to invest in the auto industry, what segment would it invest in, and how would that help Michigan?”

Gee if only they’d shown this kind of “camaraderie” when George W. bush was lying to their faces about weapons of mass destruction and a thousand other things, maybe they’d have some credibility (and might have saved us a lot of dead bodies.) But no, these people only get exercised enough to try to pin down a politician when they don’t “like” somebody and it’s about something totally stupid and trivial. (As Jon Stewart would say, “who the fuck are you?”)

Ezra points out that John McCain could say that he was going “to drive his Straight Talk Express directly into GM’s corporate lobby, force the American auto CEOs into a room, and tell them to ‘cut the bullshit and give everyone their jobs back,’ the press would swoon over his plan.” You bet they would.

I’m no fan of Romney, but I’m really not a fan of these unelected scribblers putting their ham fists into politics for their own amusement and affecting the race with their own petty prejudices and knee jerk assumptions while presenting themselves to the mass of Americans as unbiased and objective.

If they hate Romney so much that they can’t be objective then they should admit it publicly or stop covering him. Manipulating and slanting the coverage, especially for their own amusement, is journalistic malpractice. This has been going on for a couple of decades as least and it’s not getting any better.

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