Conservative firebrand Bill O’Reilly assails the press’ “in-the-bag” Obama bias in the past election:<\/p>\n
“It’s the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war,” O’Reilly said at a panel of media analysts. “It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage.”<\/p>\n
O’Reilly, who maintains Time’s political site “The Page,” cited two New York Times articles as examples of the divergent coverage of the two candidates.<\/p>\n
“The example that I use, at the end of the campaign, was the two profiles that The New York Times ran of the potential first ladies,” O’Reilly said. “The story about Cindy McCain was vicious. It looked for every negative thing they could find about her and it case her in an extraordinarily negative light. It didn’t talk about her work, for instance, as a mother for her children, and they cherry-picked every negative thing that’s ever been written about her.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Of course, coming from Bill O’Reilly, that’s no surprise.<\/p>\n
CORRECTION: Oops. I slipped while doing a “replace all”, and inadvertently substituted “O’Reilly” for “Mark Halperin”, the admittedly<\/a> left-leaning<\/a> “Time” magazine editor who actually said all of that<\/a>.<\/p>\n
I regret the error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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