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The Legacy media’s “intellectual incuriosity”; part deux.

You would think that after the fallout stemming from the lack of reportage on the Van Jones story, as well as the revelation of falling public trust in their accuracy and objectivity in a recent Pew poll, that the legacy media would be on top of the most recent scandals involving ACORN; especially since they were dropped from participating in the census and the Senate overwhelming voted to cut off their access to public funds.  But that is not the case.

As usual, all we hear “crickets” and deafening silence…

Don Surber points out that the NY Times has one of the largest reporting staffs in the US, but amazingly does not have anyone available to cover the growing ACORN scandal, an organization who counts among their alumnus the current President of the United States, and instead are going with wire stories.  And, in an almost absurd statement, ABC’s Charles Gibson proffered that he didn’t even know about it!

Instead, major media outlets seem to have become obsessed with reporting, and “outing”, the hate-mongering racists that are behind the dissent to Mr. Obama’s legislative agenda.  Speaking about this past weekend’s protest in Washington DC, Howard Kurtz strains to reach for a racist motivation, an exercise which ACE thoroughly destroys.  Conversely, I doubt that Mr. Kurtz or any of his colleagues will see anything wrong with Congressman Johnson’s (D-Ga.) assertion that unless Joe Wilson is censured, and his underlying “ideas” rebuked, then folks will once again don white hoods and go riding through the countryside.  Is the Congressman’s assertion asinine and hyperbolic?  In a word, yes.  Will he be taken to task by the legacy media for inflammatory remarks that demonstrate a racialist outlook?  Somehow, I don’t think so.  Heck, Keith Olbermann will probably crown him as the best person in the world!  It’s just the usual pathetic media double standard, as Mark Salter observes at RCP.

This is a subject that I’ve written a few posts on, and unfortunately will likely have the opportunity to do so in the future.  But the Democrats and their media allies should reconsider the bias in their reportage.  Not only to slow the decline of the legacy media outlets, but to ensure that those charge others of racism, perhaps the most toxic pejorative in America today, does not go the way of the boy that cried wolf in the fable.

Exit Question:  Is Allah Pundit right when he pronounces the much heralded post-racial Presidency dead and buried?

UPDATE (SHOCKAH!):  Boston.com  breaks meta-narrative ranks reporting on how Obama's Kenyan relatives live in ABJECT! poverty.  You'd think he would do them a solid and let them hold a little somethin'...

Considering that Obama often admonishes us on how, "WE are our brothers keeper", and on, "Spreading the wealth around", you'd think that the legacy media would be all over it; as they often say about conservatives, "Because of the Hypocrisy!".  I wonder when MSNBC will tackle this one..?

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