Guess who’s not covering the McCain Burma lobbyist story?
Last week I published a study showing that four major conservative blogs — michellemalkin.com, redstate.com, littlegreenfootballs.com, and powerlineblog.com — focus almost entirely on non-policy issues in their Obama coverage. Instead, they focused largely on guilt-by-association stories by hyping every controversial figure even vaguely tied to Obama. For instance, they published dozens of posts criticizing Obama for serving on a few panels with Weather Underground founder Bill Ayers (even though Ayers wasn’t a member of the campaign) and the fact that Hamas had issued a quasi endorsement for Obama.
Over the weekend, Newsweek broke a major story that McCain’s handpicked choice to manage the GOP convention this summer is lobbyist Doug Goodyear, whose firm once represented Burma’s repressive regime. It has also been revealed that Doug Davenport, a regional campaign manager for McCain, was a lobbyist at the same firm who worked directly on the Myanmar account during 2002.
In the short span that the Newsweek article has been online, it has become one of the most widely linked news articles on the web.
But guess who’s missing from that long list of blogs who have addressed the article? You guessed it, the four blogs in my study. The blogs that went to any length to launch guilt-by-association attacks on Obama for people who weren’t even involved in his campaign (Ayers). Now here we learn that McCain’s hand-picked manager of the GOP convention (which is a metaphorical representation of the entire Republican party) and one of his regional managers were lobbyist trying to spruce up the image of a repressive regime that is currently getting a lot of negative news coverage, and not a single one of these blogs think it worth mentioning?
Sorry guys, you make the rules. Now it’s time to play by them.
It’s been over 24 hours since the story broke. Let’s see how long it takes them to address it, if ever.
This is totally bizzare. Google ads are displaying an Ann Coulter ad when I look at this. (Can you tell the difference between her statements and that of Hitler ? (for the record, though, I clicked on the ad to give you that small revenue boost and to take it from her financial empire–there, justice!)
I don’t want to sound like I’m defending right-wingers. But why should they be obligated to cover this story? If you believe that the other side covers your own party too critically and its own party not critically enough, wouldn’t the proper focus of your blog be to cover the blind spots of the other party?
Their response would be: of course it’s newsworthy that McCain has this affiliation. But we know the left-wing media will have a field day with that. What more do we have to add? Far more important is to report the scandals of Obama/Hilary/Michael Moore/Al Gore.
Your blog is becoming surreal and hilarious! John McCain on the home page. oh, Google Ads really are dumb, aren’t they?
sorry, typo. Meant to say, “Ads for John Mccain are on the home page…is Google Ads really that dumb?”