...but you wouldn't know it from this AP article. How about this CNN story? Nope, not there. Don't tell me the MSM doesn't have a liberal bias.
New York has 19.3 million residents.
Idaho has 1.5 million residents.
It will be interesting to see if this scandal about a governor of a state with nearly 20 million people gets even one-third the press a scandal about a senator from a state with about 1.5 million people got.
This story is still breaking as I type this so who knows where this will go.
Update 1: the Corner (National Review) points out a slideshow of scandals put together by ABC. In short, 13 people are identified six of the seven Republicans are identified as such but only one of the six Democrats is identified as such. The Corner also notes the absence of Mel Reynolds which is understandable because they can't have the number of Democratic scandals equal to or greater than Republican; D must never be greater than R-1. As the old saying goes: "he who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future."
Update 2: Newsbusters points out how when the Larry Craig scandal broke in August, it was horns-a-blowin' and trumpets-a-blarin' time when it came to making sure we knew what party Larry Craig belonged to - the word 'Republican' was the fourth word out of Kate Snow's mouth on ABC and NBC's Brian Williams somehow managed to hold out until the middle of his second sentence.
The only way this Spitzer saga gets near the press Larry Craig did is if the media spends time discussing the good Spitzer has done.
Update 3: typing "eliot spitzer is a democrat" into Google does not yield a link to my site yet. Given how often Googlebot visits my site, this is suspicious.
Columns read: entry/hits/files/Kbytes/visits/hostname (March 2008 only)
1 579 8.05% 550 9.17% 16705 12.15% 73 5.59% crawl-66-249-67-207.googlebot.com
Alltheweb, it's sixth. Altavista, it's sixth also. Maybe Google has a quota on how many negative stories about Democrats it will return.
The AP feeds are updated. Next time I'll have to save it. I saved the CNN article here.
[Eliot Spitzer is a Democrat]...but you wouldn't know it from this AP article. How about this CNN story? Nope, not there. Don't tell me the MSM doesn't have a liberal bias.
http://news.google.com/news?q=spitzer+democrat (Google in preferred language appropriately reported nothing, so I changed to English)
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/s ... 20democrat
http://www.google.se/search?q=site%3Acn ... r+Democrat
OH SHI
CALLED OUT
cf. observational selection
http://news.google.com/news?q=spitzer+democrat (Google in preferred language appropriately reported nothing, so I changed to English)
However: http://www.google.se/search?q=spitzer+demokrat
So will you avoid using observational selection in the future? That'd be really cool. Thanks.
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