It is easy in this day and age to discount let another story of "media bias", but we should not get complacent about this stuff since it is destroying our country. Bill Dyer at Hugh Hewitt's blog recounts how Joe Lieberman gave a straightforward statement:
Lieberman said he was confident that Palin, whose foreign policy background has been questioned by Democrats, could step in and handle the chief executive's job.
"If, God forbid, an accident occurs or something of that kind, she'll be ready," Lieberman said. "She's had executive experience. She's smart and she will have had on-the-job training."
So what headline does the Associated Press, Washington Post, USA Today, ABC News, CNBC, San Francisco Chronicle and others put on this story?
"Lieberman skirts issue of Palin's readiness."
This is not just media bias, this headline is an outright lie, and contradicted by the story that follows. As Dyer writes:
This sort of headline, ladies and gentlemen, is another bald-faced lie brought to you by the Associated Press and by mainstream media editors across the country. They are so cynical that they're willing to completely prostitute their journalistic credibility — by using headlines to tell obvious lies contradicted by the very stories they accompany — because those headlines fit their pre-existing pro-Obama narrative. They're willing to live with the likelihood that most people will either just read the headlines or won't read the actual text closely enough to spot the lies.