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6/6/2011

Clearly No Bias At Huffington Post / AOL!

Filed under: General — Stranahan @ 10:16 am



{Guest post by Lee Stranahan]

Nobody can accuse them of not covering the #WeinerGate story. They have a piece that shows new photos AND phone sex in the Congressman’s office. They ARE covering it! Look at the front page of HuffPost.

But Don’t Worry – It’s Covered More On Their Politics Page.

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18 Responses to “Clearly No Bias At Huffington Post / AOL!”

  1. Gosh, everyone is talking about me.

    Ridiculous Bulge (e7d72e)

  2. Weiner is a victim of a weiner obstruction.

    DohBiden (15aa57)

  3. BG just now posted the NAKED CHEST Weiner photos.

    gp (72be5d)

  4. Also gone entirely quiet on the main Weiner issues (namely, is that picture OF HIM and DID HE TWEET IT) is Chucky of LGF. He’s trying to make folks forget that he called the story false by focusing on other things entirely (OMG POLITIFACT RATED ROMNEY ‘PANTS ON FIRE’) or on tertiary Weiner issues.

    Chucky? We remember. You’re not fooling anyone, even your heavily culled posters. We JUST DON’T MUCH CARE.

    Mitch (890cbf)

  5. Weiner is going to have a hard time denying these NAKED CHEST pix, since his face is in them. Hard to see a way he can spin these. Maybe Ace is right: his career ends today.

    gp (72be5d)

  6. Who gives a crap about Weinergate?

    It’s far less interesting than every single story on Huffpo’s cover.

    Everyone knows Weiner is accused of sending dirty pictures, and all but admitted it in his awful spinning. This story is over.

    Rick Santorum’s candidacy, Medicare Reform, a new Apple product? Those stories should be above Weiner update 94.

    I’m not going into threads on this topic to criticize Lee for his obsession with a salacious and boring scandal. I suspect it wouldn’t be appreciated if I did. But Lee takes it upon himself to criticize the editorial decision not to cover this stupid story, which is practically the same thing.

    Oooo big dramatic red arrows. Hey, why don’t we criticize some more high school girls with completely unsubstantiated theories that they are part of a coverup? Why don’t we bounce from one lie ‘Weiner was framed!’ to another ‘PatriotUSA is a woman!’ to another?

    Yeah, Weiner’s a douchebag. But meta-analysis of how dramatic and horrible it is that this story is getting enough coverage? Seriously?

    The real problem with this story is that some people have jumped the gun in over-covering it. Or trying to show their brilliance off by making prediction after prediction. I’ve even seen Lee say ‘you guys better thank me when it’s shown how right I am!’. Well, you’re bound to eventually seem prescient when you predict a million things.

    I do like Lee’s non-partisan nature, but this devotion to a petty stupid story seems misguided.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  7. Who cares about the Huffington Post? Its going down in flames anyway.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  8. well, not “cover” so much as “front page”, but I think Huffpo’s front page is better than one with more Weinergate. I don’t mind a little coverage, but I think Huffpo is actually correct about the importance of the story.

    The other topics really are important, you know.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  9. Roger Ailes’ Fox News propaganda sluts don’t even have a single mention about Weiner on their homepage at this time

    happyfeet (a55ba0)

  10. The story has moved up a couple of places on HuffPo’s front page since these screencaps were posted.

    carlitos (b8daca)

  11. ==boring scandal==

    Whoa, Dustin. You must live a very exciting life if you find Weinergate to be boring! LOL

    Seriously, this single story encapsulates almost everything about American politics that many people hate and despise. Arrogant lying politicians, media bias which handles lefty stories differently than righty stories, attempted coverups, and possible misuse of government assets. Why should such a story not be shouted from the rooftops as a reminder to everyone and especially politicians on the taxpayers’ payroll that the new media– apparently the real fourth estate– is watching.

    elissa (814781)

  12. Roger Ailes’ Fox News propaganda sluts don’t even have a single mention about Weiner on their homepage at this time

    Comment by happyfeet

    Good.

    This story justifies a maximum of 500 words summing up the story. But it’s salacious, and people will read it instead of reading about economic analysis or Syrian violence. I’m not trying to look down my nose at people who want to read gossip and sex scandals and guess if there were underage girls, but that Nancy Grace journalism is shit journalism.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  13. Dustin, I think much of the point is, Imagine how much coverage the criticized media (HuffPo, Moronic Green Morons, etc.) would have been giving, and MUCH SOONER, to a Republican who became embroiled in such a scandal.

    It’s not the scandal per se so much; it’s the bias. If you believe that HuffPo would have “downsized” the same story about a GOP figure, well, just damn.

    Mitch (890cbf)

  14. Huffingglue post is defending Weiner’s Weiner from the castrating force of truth.

    DohBiden (15aa57)

  15. BTW, any page showing how they covered the Foley story or the Senator Toe Tap?

    Sponge Bob Square Pants (fccc6f)

  16. Huffington’s lack of coverage is even worse given what Breitbart said at the press conference today (at 3:50) — that Breitbart originally got a tweet from PatriotUSA76 and it was also sent to Arianna Huffington. Where was HuffPo’s investigation?

    Anon (fdd243)

  17. If you believe that HuffPo would have “downsized” the same story about a GOP figure, well, just damn.

    I don’t read Huffpo enough to really know. It’s full of self important blowhards trying very hard to gain attention.

    Anyway, of course the media tends to be less fair to Republicans, and is dominated by democrats. Huffpo is just another example, but it’s rampant.

    I don’t really know if there’s a comparable example to the Weinergate story. I mean, most Republicans don’t lie like this, in a way that creates much more certainty an accusation is true, but also prolongs the story.

    Anyway, if a Republican did that, of course every left wing outlet like Huffpo would go nuts. So what? They are left wing, after all.

    My point stands. Every story ranked about Weinergate deserved it. In any sane universe those stories would be more prominent.

    If the thesis of this post is that the world needs more prominent coverage of Weinergate, I disagree. However, if the thesis is that Huffpo did go ahead and report this story to its partisan audience, for those who are interested, but not as the leading story, so what?

    Dustin (c16eca)

  18. I’m with Dustin. I’m bored with this story; it’s had its 150 minutes, or 1500. Ultimately there’s no substance to it; there was no illegality and not even any immorality worth the name. This wasn’t even a third-rate burglary. It’s more like the Foley think in 2008, which also got far more attention than it deserved; Foley should have ignored the whole thing and not resigned. But even more I’m reminded of the summer the media spent obsessed with Chandra Levy and John-John.

    Milhouse (ea66e3)


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