Kurtz Gets It Right.
Much of the MSM missed the boat.
Too many wrote predictable leads about the Coretta Scott King funeral, all but ignoring, or at least burying, the Bush-bashing that was going on.
Whether you think it was appropriate or galling for Jimmy Carter and Rev. Joseph Lowery to use a funeral to take partisan shots at a president who was sitting behind them, this was news.
Sometimes I think reporters come to a set-piece event like this with the lead in their heads and even if the place is set on fire, they don’t deviate from their path.
That’s much of what I’ve been saying all along about MSM reporters. They know what they want to write even before they get to the event they’re covering. They might as well just stay home and post their stories from the comfort of their living rooms.
Preferably while wearing pajamas.
The one thing that Kurtz missed (and, to my knowledge, few if any in the blogosphere have noticed either) is that there were at least two partisan political speeches made from the pulpit of a church. Given what we’ve been told for the past decade or better, those speeches were flagrant violations of the “wall of separation” between church and state.
Still, nothing’s been said. I keep wondering why the silence exists. I can’t help but think that if two conservatives had stood there and railed against some left-leaning President, we would have had Barry Lynn, Katrina van den Heuvel, and the other usual suspects on television warning us of the looming American Theocracy and maybe, just maybe, invoking the Dread American Taliban.
I do hate a double standard. Don’t you?
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