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Here's Howie Carr on the media’s double standards (h/t
Instapundit):
Have you ever noticed how
differently Republicans are treated in the media than Democrats?
Every newsroom in the country used
to have what was called the “AP Stylebook” to use in writing news stories.
Now you need two AP stylebooks, one
for Democrats, about whom seldom is heard a discouraging word, and a second for
the GOP, with a hundred different pejoratives.
Two parties, two vocabularies. One
positive, one negative — very bad, evil in fact.
Consider the testimony by Michael
Cohen last week in front of various Congressional committees.
For example, since he worked for
Donald Trump, Cohen was described about a million times as a “fixer.”
Democrats, on the other hand, have lawyers.
To prevent the release of
embarrassing information, Democrats’ lawyers negotiate NDA’s — nondisclosure
agreements. Republican fixers’ NDAs are “hush money,” or “bribes.”
Hillary Clinton paid hundreds of
thousands of dollars to Democrat operatives who then bought or made up false
Russian dirt on Trump — that was opposition research. Republicans, on the other
hand, “collude!”
Republicans lie, Democrats misspeak.
Democrats plan, Republicans scheme.
Republicans hire lobbyists,
Democrats use advocates. Republicans employ operatives or hired guns, Democrats
prefer community activists.
If a Democrat changes his or her
position on an issue, they have evolved … grown. Republicans “flip-flop.”
Whenever an unfamiliar politician
is ensnared in some scandal, you naturally wonder which party he or she is a
member of. If the “embattled” pol is a Republican, affiliation is usually noted
in the headline, or at the very latest in the first paragraph.
If, however, you reach the third
paragraph of the story without his party being identified, you can be
absolutely certain you are reading about a Democrat miscreant.
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