"It's Miller time, and not just in Alaska"

11/1, "Corrupt Bastards," IBD Editorial

"Bias: Caught with their mikes and mouths open, people at an Alaskan TV station say they were only joking about making up stories about the GOP Senate candidate. Sarah Palin's not laughing, and neither are we.

Like methane bubbling up from the bottom of a swamp, every so often we get glimpses of the overwhelming liberal bias that dominates America's newsrooms, nationally and locally. Such was the case when

• a call from Anchorage CBS affiliate KTVA to the Joe Miller campaign failed to disconnect and some revelatory comments were recorded.

KTVA general manager Jerry Bever acknowledged in a statement that a call made to Miller spokesman Randy DeSoto to discuss a planned Miller appearance on the newscast

• failed to properly disconnect and that KTVA staffers were recorded discussing plans on
  

• how to concoct embarrassing stories about Miller.

Bever tried to paint the controversy as the incorrect "interpretation of conversation snippets." "The complete conversation," he said, "was about what others might be able to do to cause disruption within the Miller campaign, not what KTVA could do."

• Yeah, right. KTVA staffers are clearly heard discussing
  

• how they might look for known sex offenders at Miller rallies, not that somebody else might.
  

One reporter speculates about putting out a Twitter/Facebook alert about Miller being punched at a rally.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who knows a little about how disparagingly liberal media can treat conservative candidates, was not amused. She knows how they look down on conservatives as some lower life-form

• the way ABC's Charles Gibson looked at Palin during an interview like some professor quizzing a grad student.

Palin experienced it personally during and after her vice presidential run. She knows how low in the gutter some media outlets will go.

• The New York Times Web page had no fewer than three stories on Bristol Palin.
  

• Slate, owned by the Washington Post, ran a "Name Bristol Palin's Baby" contest.
  

• Us Weekly had "Babies, Lies, and Scandal" and a picture of Palin on its cover,
  

• and the media openly speculated on whether Trig was really her child and not Bristol's.

There may have been a bit of personal grievance when she called the Alaskan media "corrupt bastards" on "Fox News Sunday."

• Bristol's boyfriend was more thoroughly investigated than Barack Obama's lifelong association with terrorist William Ayers.

We've seen reporters scouring Tea Party rallies for "racist" signs and other indications of intolerance and craziness.

We remember CNN correspondent Susan Roesgen's confrontational interview of a Tea Party rally attendee. Roesgen finished by saying:

"You get the general tenor of this 'Tea Party.' Anti-government, anti-CNN, since this is highly promoted by the right-wing conservative network Fox, and since I can't really hear much more and I think

• this is not really family viewing," she tossed it back to the studio.

The media endlessly parroted the Bill Maher story about Delaware Tea Party Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell's "dabbling in witchcraft" to please a high school boyfriend while ignoring her opponent Chris Coons' dabbling in Marxism in college, writing a paper about his transformation into a "bearded Marxist."

• The media gave endless play to Democrat Jack Conway's wild charge that Rand Paul, the Tea Party-backed GOP foe beating him for a Kentucky U.S. Senate seat, kidnapped a woman during a college prank and made her worship the "Aqua Buddha." That is their idea of hard news.

As voters go to the polls, they have a chance to not only choose leaders who will work for them but to tell media poobahs that despite their shenanigans,

it's Miller time, and not just in Alaska."

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via Free Republic