Poor little misunderstood Barack Obama — no one can ever love him as much as he does, unless it’s the entire MSM, evidenced by all three network news anchors making news themselves by their sycophantic efforts to avail themselves to be at his disposal as he travels around the globe — padding his pathetically thin political resume fact finding.

Meanwhile, as we said yesterday, with good ol’ Barack over there showing the world that he’s all presidential and such, he doesn’t have to worry about being out-o’-the-loop back home, doesn’t have to worry that the GOP’s candidate, John McCain, might get a brief mention on the nightly news, or a column inch or two in a major daily newspaper — evidenced by the NYT’s Op-Ed editor refusing to run McCain’s opposition piece to the Obama Op-Ed printed a week earlier. Old news that, but Big Lizards has a new take on it today:

But here is a rare piece of breaking news on Big Lizards… as in, breaking the facade of elite journalistic objectivity wide open. In a stunningly candid attempt to “defend” his position, the editor of the Times’ editorial pages, David Shipley, has admitted that he spiked the McCain op-ed precisely because he doesn’t agree with it.
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While no legal rule requires a newspaper to be fair — obviously, or the elite print media wouldn’t even exist — the Times and other top “news”-papers has certainly claimed for decades that they do not discriminate against those candidates they oppose, that they are unbiased in their willingness to allow both sides of contentious issues to be aired, that they are not simply partisan propaganda mills for liberal Democrats. But this brazen new fracas puts paid to that false preening. Shipley has as much as said that he won’t publish McCain’s response unless McCain relents and “admits” that Obama is right and McCain is wrong on the critical foreign-policy issue of this campaign.

With media bias like that, what more could the Democrats want — return of the Fairness Doctrine? Well, that’s a fight for another day. Today, we have to deal with the fawning press and this Obama World Tour 2008. All this hasn’t escaped the attention of The Anchoress either:

I’m not even much of a McCain fan, but the Times decision strikes me as so outrageous, controlling and foreign to the concept of the free exchange of ideas in an election season. The NY Times says “revisions are often requested”, well, okay, but when Obama is getting the equivalent of millions of dollars of free and uncritical exposure, why can’t McCain just be allowed to say what the hell he wants for a few hundred words?

No kidding — great question ‘A’. Why the hell not? Of course, the MSM would counter that it just never occurred to them that anyone out there would be even a tiny-scosh interested in what McCain, or any Republican for that matter, has to say — especially about the war. Jonah Goldberg, LA Times Opinion columnist has some advice for McCain — stop using the I-told-you-so argument with Obama about the Surge and when to leave Iraq and start talking about leaving Iraq after winning the war, with HONOR. That would contrast nicely with Barack’s constant bleat to get out of Iraq, no matter the consequences, no matter the cost — to the Iraqis, natch. The general public really doesn’t want to lose a war — that’s a concept near and dear only for the Lefty fringes to get all hot and bothered about.

But, America is getting tired, and the memories of 9/11 are getting faint. The reality is that until we are attacked again, and unfortunately we probably will be, especially if a navel-gazing socialist-leaning military-hating Democrat is elected, John Q. Public doesn’t want to hear about war no more. I keep chuckling to myself over Obama’s call to take our forces out of Iraq — and put them into Afghanistan. Like there won’t be any suicide bombings there, like there won’t be anymore attacks against U.S. troops like the one just last week, like there won’t be anymore flag-draped coffins coming home to be greeted by devastated families — ’cause our troops wouldn’t have been sent there by the evil McBushHitler, they would have been sent into battle by the Obamessiah his own self?

To steel their resolve as they face the enemy they could all recite The Obamessiah’s Prayer — Wait a sec Okie . . . that’s not funny!

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