Newsweek hearts Obama
Bloggers have been buzzing about Newsweek‘s startlingly biased cover story, “Sit Back, Relax, Get Ready to Rumble” by Richard Wolffe and Evan Thomas. The article explains “how Obama and his team will battle the GOP onslaught.” Bloggers agree that Newsweek is now officially shilling for the Obama campaign. Just how biased is the article? At the Corner, Rich Lowry posts comments from McCain adviser Steve Schmidt: “It’s one of the top five most biased pieces of journalism ever written. It’s a broad attack on the Republican party. It deliberately fails to mention the increasing negative energy on the MoveOn.org side and the 527’s on the left. It tries to define issues of great importance as illegitimate.” Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey further dissects the article and concludes, “That’s a lot of propaganda to pack into such a small space, but Wolfe and Thomas are pros.” And the STANDARD’s own Sonny Bunch, blogging at Doublethink, explains, “Just in case Newsweek didn’t spell it out for you in stark enough terms: Obama=America’s last great hope; McCain=Worse than Nixon.” And Newsweek might as well be considered part of the Obama campaign. At Newsbusters, Noel Sheppard calls it “a truly disgraceful Newsweek article which continued to demonstrate just how in the tank media are for Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama.” At Contentions, Pete Wehner says that Obama is lucky: “Few people are fortunate enough to receive the kind of love and tenderness we find in the Newsweek story.” And The Corner’s Kathryn Lopez discusses the moving black-and-white cover: “Nothing like the MSM driving home the ‘historic moment’ (you want to be a part of! Yes We Can!) point.” Luckily, Mark Salter wrote a sharp letter to the Newsweek editor, calling out the authors on their misleading statements. But, as Goldfarb noted here, “It’s also worth noting what Salter does not say. After furiously denying that the campaign will make an issue out of Obama’s race or religion, Salter makes no mention of whether hanging around with America-haters is fair game. But the GOP won’t need to ‘paint’ anything to make that case.” As the Gateway Pundit agrees and says of Obama’s friends, the truth will “speak for itself.” And no adoring Newsweek profile can stop that.
