Imaginary Pro-Obama Bias?

You’ve got to be kidding me right?  So on Huffington Post’s website, I read this post by Bob Cesca entitled “The Extreme and Imaginary Pro-Obama Bias.“  Before beginning my rant on this subject, I want to clearly point out that I was one of the thousands of independent voters in this country.  As an independent voter, even I could see the pro-Obama bias in the media.  I don’t think I have ever seen the media, in particular NBC and MSNBC, so biased toward one presidential candidate before in my life.  Apparently, Bob wasn’t watching the same news I was watching over the course of the last year.  Even the Ombudsman of the Washington Post, one of the most liberal papers in this country, stated there were more positive stories on Barack Obama than John McCain.  Hmm…..

The basis of his post was a quote that Mark Halperin made during a forum in which he indicated quote:

“It’s the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war,” Halperin said at a panel of media analysts. “It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage.”

Now, I must say, I don’t think the media failed the people during this presidential election; however, I do feel that the media must provide “equal” coverage to each candidate.  I would like to call out something though that Bob Cesca does point out in his post, and that’s his claim that Barack Obama was not rated the most liberal senator in the U.S. Senate.  Apparently, the National Journal must be incorrect in their rankings, especially for 2007, which can be found here, and the table clearly indicates that Obama is rated the most liberal.  For what it’s worth, Senator Biden was ranked third in the same year’s rankings.

Now, I will also say that the media did go overboard with some of the negative reporting on Barack Obama.  On Fox News, they did overplay the Jeremiah Wright issue, which I definitely thought they took too far.  I also think they gave too much air to the whole Bill Ayers question.  However, I do think, overall, Fox News was fair to Barack Obama, and I thought he showed a lot of guts to appear on Bill O’Reilly’s show.

Now, did Barack Obama mostly run a positive campaign, yes, was McCain’s negative, yes.  However, the media did act like Barack Obama could do no wrong, and as I have stated in my previous post “Can We Now Ask Serious Questions?”, I will await to see if he will actually be asked serious questions, and if he does make a mistake, that they will be fully reported on by the media, on all networks, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, and Fox News.  When, and if, that happens, I will be happy to acknowledge no pro-Obama bias in the media.

However, until that time, the idea that it is imaginary, is simply inaccurate, as is the notion that Barack Obama was not the Senate’s most liberal member.