A roundup of Palin bias, just from this weekend:
- A Washington Post story entitled “Biden Releases His Tax Returns,” omits the release’s embarrassing revelation (Biden gives just 0.2% of his income to charity, one fifteenth of the national average), and spends 60% of the article reporting conjectural attacks on Palin. (Via Newsbusters.)
- The camera work in the Charlie Gibson’s interview of Palin was arranged to make Palin look small and inferior, in contrast to his interviews with Obama and Hillary Clinton. (Accident? If it makes you feel better to suppose that ABC sent its B-team to handle the Palin interview, go right ahead.)
- Liberal talk show host Randi Rhodes says Palin molests teenage boys.
In case McCain is feeling left out, he’s still getting the treatment too. The photographer used by The Atlantic (the magazine famous for fanning the fake-Palin-pregnancy rumors) to photograph John McCain for a cover story brags that she deliberately used the photo shoot to make McCain look bad. For example:
After getting that shot, Greenberg asked McCain to “please come over here” for one more set-up before the 15-minute shoot was over. There, she had a beauty dish with a modeling light set up. “That’s what he thought he was being lit by,” Greenberg says. “But that wasn’t firing.”
What was firing was a strobe positioned below him, which cast the horror movie shadows across his face and on the wall right behind him. “He had no idea he was being lit from below,” Greenberg says. And his handlers didn’t seem to notice it either. “I guess they’re not very sophisticated,” she adds.
Meanwhile, the media is getting mad that it’s being accused of bias.
UPDATE: More on the McCain photo shoot. (Via Instapundit.)
UPDATE: A director speaks out on the Gibson-Palin camerawork. He says it’s normal practice to choose the camera position and lens to adjust the apparent height of the subjects, which ABC chose not to do. (Via Instapundit.)
UPDATE: The Atlantic is doing their best to get in front of this. Good for them. They need to do something about Andrew Sullivan too, though. (Via Instapundit.)
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