What no one seems to pick up on is that through all of these primary and general election campaigns the one party never questioned or attacked is the corporate media themselves. Last night's 20th "debate" between B. Obama & H. Clinton points this up. Tim Russert was basically given free reign: to come up with bogus scenarios about Iraq, to bring up Matt Drudge-instigated photos apropos of nothing and to point to hateful anti-Semitic language of some douchebag named Farrakhan and, guilt-by-association-like, blame Obama for it. He did all of this shit basically unchallenged by either candidate. One is left to assume that they are too concerned with scoring points off one another to make time for accountability for two obvious hacks who couldn't be bothered to do any journalism but rather just read the Drudge Report. The blogger Digby makes a much better case for this in her post here.
This is a problem, a huge problem. Obama should have slammed Russert for showing the photo at all, saying that this photo has been out in the public realm for a year and a half -- AP did the story as well as took the photo -- and shame on you for not knowing better than to rely on Matt Drudge for any truth. He did not do that, and it is unfortunate because until we have accountability for these stenographers of smear people will not see politics any differently than they do now, and will continue to be apathetic and not vote in numbers that they do in the rest of the world.
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