…on the attack towards Republican presidential contenders, that is. By now, you’ve heard about or read the latest hit piece (via Politico) on Rick Perry, who happens to be the GOP presidential frontrunner according to the fourth poll conducted in the past two weeks. If there’s one thing to remember about the liberal media during this and every presidential election cycle, it’s what Ed Morrissey at HotAir writes:
It’s like clockwork. As soon as a Republican primary season starts to heat up, the national media likes to uncase its three narratives about presidential contenders. They’re either weird (Romney), scary (Bachmann), or idiots. Guess who gets the idiot treatment?
Notice that these memes never get applied on the other side of the aisle, either. Did any media question Obama’s intelligence when during the campaign when he made these whoppers?
• The Selma March in 1965 did not contribute to his birth in 1961.
• Kansas tornadoes in May 2007 killed 12 people, not “ten thousand”.
• Afghans do not speak Arabic.
• Within 24 hours, Obama reversed his assertion that Iran did not pose a “serious threat” to the US to an assertion that the threat is “grave”.
• “On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”
• 57 states
No, they didn’t. Why? Because the media only uses the weird, scary, and idiot memes for Republican candidates, that’s why.
Precisely, Ed. And how about this latest gem: the fact that Obama has pledged to unveil a jobs plan in September, just as he pledged to do last August...deja vu?
Nope, we get the ‘nothing to see here, move along’ lines from the liberal media. Geniuses.
