It's getting to be the usual modus operandi at NPR. But what is happening there is a microcosm of the rest of the media. Prodded by the Clinton campaign, NPR, has laced into Rev. Wright, blamed Obama (but not other candidates for the excesses of their religious experiences), and brought in FIXED News analyst Juan Williams to comment with the usual bias and expound that a contrived controversy isn't going away. The public doesn't care about this issue, but NPR andthe rest will keep on trying to make it care. Meanwhile, as others have noted here at RK, both Clinton and McCain have their own religious extremist problems.
For example, Mother Jones here reports on Hillary's long-standing link to The Fellowship, an ultraconservative group of word-parsing theocrats. McCain distanced himself from the late Rev. Jerry Falwell and then, when he needed something, went crawling back to Falwell shortly before his death. And then there is the GOP Moonie problem. Where is the media? One outlet has mentioned that of late.
On foreign policy, the two war supporters,
McCain and Clinton have shown their bad judgment. Yet NPR this AM tried to discredit (it cannot be done) Obama's speech opposing the war in 2002. Because the so-called MSM didn't cover it, NPR tries to persuade the listener that it didn't really happen. The only problem was thousands of people heard himv and know otherwise. But NPR tries to minimize it anyway. Obama wasn't the featured speaker, it told us. But that factoid didn't change a thing. NPR also used a Clinton talking point (with Clinton's own words) that she and John McCain have a lifetime of experience while Obama supposedly has none. As if...
McCain today said he doesn't care what anybody says, we are succeeding in Iraq. He'll continue in his belligerant and dangerous talk, but Bill Clinton goes out of his way to praise the patriotism of John McCain, while blatantly snubbing Obama on the same subject. Bill Clinton's appalling statement that it would be nice if we had two candidates who loved their country tells you what you need to know about this former president what he has become. (He's definitely bene hanging around the Bushes too much. This shameless behavior by Clinton and the media, and the outrageous questioning of some voters' patriotism by McCain must stop. And if it does not, then the Superdelegates and the remaining electoral contests should send a message to Bill and Hillary Clinton.
On teh subject of Hillary, the so-called MSM contrives Obama controversy and yet fails to hold Hillary Clinton accountable for her many fictions: her supposed opposition to NAFTA from the beginning (when her own words say otherwise); her photo op she claimed brought peace to Northern Ireland; the supposed effort on S-CHIP, her false claim that she experienced incoming fire in Bosnia. She never, ever had a security clearance, so she could not have been privy to the events she claimed such a vital role in. It goes on and on and on. And yet the media, especially NPR, continues to pretend she is more "experienced." Resume padding would be too gentle a term.