More Media Malpractice

Michael Tomasky on some in the "mainstream media" rooting for the failure of Obamacare, or for anything Obama-related:

... [T]here’s a certain type of political journalism that so exists in the moment that numerous such moments have been declared to be disasters for Obama, going back to Jeremiah Wright. This kind of hyperventilating approach always turns out to be wrong and overheated. It turned out that all those things were pretty bad, but it also turned out that Obama survived them. And he’ll survive this, too.

He mentions some of the usual suspects =cough=Politico=cough=.  We'd like to offer a few more journamalists who're getting the story all wrong.

Like Chuck Todd and his never-ending false equivalencies, this time on opposition to privatizing Social Security in the Dumbya years vs. Republican hostage-taking on every possible issue today:

No one on the Democratic side of the aisle was willing to burn the place down when we didn't get everything we wanted as we've seen the Republicans, who were more than willing to do just that with taking the country on the edge of an economic collapse -- and the pundits in the media like Todd and his ilk have been doing their best to erase that hostage taking and the economic damage it did to our country from our memory banks from the moment it finally ended.

Like Lara Logan and her bosses at CBS News (we're going to have to start putting quotation marks around News pretty soon) playing to a certain audience in their botched Benghazi!  Benghazi!! BENGHAZI!!! 60 Minutes debacle:

"My concern is that the story was done very pointedly to appeal to a more conservative audience's beliefs about what happened at Benghazi," Mary Mapes told Media Matters. "They appear to have done that story to appeal specifically to a politically conservative audience that is obsessed with Benghazi and believes that Benghazi was much more than a tragedy."

We can make out the whirring sound of Edward R. Murrow spinning -- heck, even Chet Huntley's getting some revolutions.   (Look 'em up, kids.)

Just remember what the biggest political story of the past 25 years has been (the radicalization of the Republican Party) and who's been covering it in the "mainstream media" (crickets chirping).