Mainstream Media Serve Up Garbage As Legitimate News Coverage – Color of Law

Meanwhile, conservative-turned-liberal commentator Arianna Huffington has criticized the “self-loathing” liberal media for placing “unabashed propagandists” on their payroll, deceptive individuals such as Karl Rove at Newsweek, Tony Snow at CNN, and Bill Kristol at the New York Times.

To add insult to injury, one of the debate moderators, George Stephanopoulos, a former advisor to Hillary Clinton’s husband when he was president, was a walking conflict of interest. And he appears to have received some of his questions from the right-wing Fox News. Fox host, Sean Hannity, suggested that Stephanopoulos ask Obama about his ties to William Ayers, a University of Illinois at Chicago professor who was a member of the Weather Underground in the 1970s. Stephanopoulos complied with Hannity’s recommendations, and his conduct was criticized even by much of the mainstream media, and the thousands of people who left comments on the ABC website. How many of us long for the days when the League of Women Voters sponsored these debates and focused on the issues that mattered, as opposed to today’s sensationalism, gossip and guilt by association?

It was far easier for them to create the narrative of the wild-eyed, irrational Black radical than to present the truth: a scholar and theologian with a master’s degree from the University of Chicago and a doctorate from United Theological Seminary, who is far more educated than those who would unfairly critique him; a man who served his country for six years in the Marines and in the Navy, and was part of the medical team that cared for President Lyndon Johnson; a man who has served his Chicago community for thirty-six years, and a man who has received death threats, and whose church has received bomb threats since his statements were first publicized.