THE ABRAMS RETORT


dan speaks truth to media power.

With a great big tip o' the hat to my favorite Hollywood-on-the-Mon insider -- we'll call her Ms. D. -- I direct you to this long but essential segment of last night's edition of The Abrams Report, in which host and MSNBC General Manager Dan Abrams bemoans, exposes, and lambasts the often dramatic differences in the way political reporters and pundits have covered, and continue to cover, the Obama and Clinton campaigns. He cites poll numbers and statistics and specific examples, then arrives at a simple and long-obvious conclusion:

I just can't think of any explanation, apart from the media enamored with Obama, to explain the coverage.

If, by some odd and unreasonable stretch of your imagination you think he does not have a case, I urge you to listen to the answers -- by which I mean evasions, rationalizations, and apologies -- of his three panelists, Lawrence O'Donnell, Rachel Maddow, and Roy Sekoff. All three of them may as well be wearing Obama '08 buttons right over the political hearts on their allegedly objective sleeves.

I'm not often, and not lately, a fan of Dan Abrams. But this time, speaking truth to -- and about -- media power, he hits the biased nail right on its disingenuous head.

Posted: Thu - January 31, 2008 at 08:15 PM          

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