Legal Commentary

Mike Allen's Right Wing Bias

By Big Tent Democrat

Via Brian Beutler, in Politico, Mike Allen writes:

[T]he media's left-of-center bias is rarely more apparent than during court fights. The coverage running up to the pick was slanted heavily toward the notion of how "pragmatic" Obama's legal views are and how unlikely he was to pick a liberal.

(Emphasis supplied.) Only a right wing ideologue could write about the Media's left bias. As for court fights, the fawning over John Roberts, whose credentials on paper were incredibly inferior to Sotomayor's (Roberts had less than two years on the federal court compared to Sotomayor's 18), contrasts sharply with the Media's racist attacks on Sotomayor's "intellectual heft." Who are you kidding here Allen? At least Allen is now open in his right wing bias.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on May 28, 2009 (boomark / email).