Convention and/or political round up

I can't say I read Dick Morris very often. Usually he is silly, boring or just plain wrong. However, once in a while he hits a home run. Today is a day. His write up of Laura Bush's speech is right on.

The protestors in New York are unhappy with FOX news and especially unhappy that the ratings of FOX during the convention are very high. Especially compared to CNN or MSNBC.

The New York Times is also unhappy that the Republicans would dare to hold their convention in its city and by the NYT actions are making it well known the "paper of record" isn't interested in being the paper of record but rather being a partisan paper as they are in the UK. Well if they want to be a Democratic paper, I think that is fine because if any company wants to drive away a large number of its customers (read moderate and conservatives), they will only be hurting themselves because the advertisers won't purchase as many adds.

And finally, if one repeats a lie often enough, does it make it true? Well that is what the media seems to be trying to do about the Swift Boat adds. The Washington Post has an opinion by Benjamin L. Ginsberg on the double standard about the Swift Boats and the scrutiny it and its donors are receiving verses the liberal 527's. Now Ginsberg is not a disinterested party in the matter, he was a lawyer for both the Swift Boats and for the Bush/Cheney campaign.

Ginsberg also points out that what he was doing is NOT illegal nor is it illegal for the folks working on the liberal 527's and the Kerry campaign. However only the Swift Boat 527 is given the scrutiny.

I do believe the media should treat all 527's the same, either condemn them all or praise them all and investigate all possible conflit of interests or ignore them. But to only scrutinize one 527 and ignore the rest is a double standard.