Today's game: guess the headline!
Written by: Beck
Many of you are likely familiar with "527 groups," institutions able to raise tax-exempt money and engage in political campaigning so long as it is strictly independent from the candidates themselves. The rest of you will be familiar with them by the end of this post.
On the left, by far the most well known 527 is MoveOn.org, a group responsible for a whole host of ads, including one directly comparing
Bush & Republicans with Hitler & Nazis (which, I'll have you know, I find extraordinarily offensive). On the right, the best known 527 is the Swift Boat Vets for Truth, the organization which has caused
so much controversy of
late.
Left leaning 527s are greatly
out fundraising and
out spending right leaning 527s.
Now, given all these details, which of the following headlines do you think is more likely to pop up on a major news outlet like, say, choosing at random, CNN?
Option 1: Kerry: Bush lets attack ads do 'dirty work'
Option 2: Bush: Kerry lets attack ads do 'dirty work'
If you picked
Option 1, you were right! Yes, it's counterintuitive, but it's the truth.
So what's my point? Just demonstrating another case of liberal media bias. I feel the need to do this because there are actually still people out there--primarily the liberal media themselves--who consider such hallowed institutions as NBC, the New York Times, and Time-Warner, to be moderate and/or unbiased.