During the 2004 campaign, comedian Whoopi Goldberg told a joke about George Bush at a fundraiser attended by John Kerry. The right wing erupted and the media went agog over it. The Bush White House led the charge against the comedian trying to keep the story alive. Ken Mehlman was particularly riled up. Then everyone in the right wing demanded John Kerry apologize and rebuke Whoopi, who is, again, a comedian.
The traditional media does not hold GOP candidates accountable for the hate speech of top GOP commentators. Didn't hear a peep about Coulter on the Today Show this morning. Even though Coulter is a frequent guest on that show. Besides Fox and UPI, the only outlet to cover Coulter's faggot remark was the LA Times and guess what? No response from the GOP Presidential candidates:
A Giuliani spokeswoman said she had not heard the speech, and a Romney spokesman did not return calls late Friday.Let's review: comedian makes a joke about the President, media frenzy. On the other hand, top conservative calls a Democratic candidate a "faggot" -- an extremely vulgar term that demeans a significant population of Americans and their families -- at an event attended by all the major GOP candidates and the Vice President of the US and it's not even news. Does Dick Cheney approve of that language? You may recall that his daughter is a very prominent lesbian. When Kerry and Edwards mentioned that true fact, the media also went beserk.
And they say it's a liberal media. So many reporters are just patsies for the right wing.
Not bad for an early Saturday morning rant.
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