Confirming the Media’s Anti-Clinton/Pro-Obama Bias

SNL spoofs Hillary Clinton's 3AM ad. Click here to watch ad.

Once again, Saturday Night Live has featured a Clinton/Obama routine. This time the show spoofs Hillary’s 3AM ad, featuring an inexperienced President Obama calling Sen. Clinton in the middle of the night for advice on what to do about Iran and how to fix the heating in the White House.

It was SNL that originally threw the spotlight on media bias favoring Obama over Clinton in covering the Democratic primary race. In today’s St. Petersburg Times, columnist Bill Maxwell follows up on that charge:

“For a brief period last week, earnest members of my chosen profession, the press, did a little soul-searching and asked if we have been, and are, biased against Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton.

“The conclusion: Of course we are. Any journalist who denies this fact is unable to recognize objectivity if it were branded on his eyeballs.

“I am not referring to opinion writers, who are expected to bring their personal perspectives and slants to issues and events. I am talking about editors and reporters charged with delivering a product the public can trust as truth and fairness. (For the record, though, most pundits, conservatives and liberals, also show bias against Clinton.)

“If Clinton had not raised the issue and if Saturday Night Live had not spoofed journalists for fawning over Sen. Barack Obama, like puppies licking their owners' mouths, the charge of bias probably would have remained a mere wink-and-nod charade.”

Maxwell goes on to cite a memo to the media from Clinton fundraiser Walter Shorenstein, founder of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and reports from several other media watchdogs confirming the media’s anti-Clinton, pro-Obama bias.

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