The annals of the “liberal media”: Washington Post headline on the Michigan Democratic primary, where Hillary Clinton got 56 percent of the vote against a campaign for voters to vote “uncommitted.”

44 Percent Vote Against Clinton.

Sure, it’s worth noting. But ….

SPEAKING OF MEDIA: This is from a Glenn Greenwald column in which CNN’s John King demonstrates, in spades, how touchy journalists get when THEY get criticized. But it has universal application.

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Ponder how much better things would be if establishment journalists — in response to being endlessly lied to and manipulated by political officials and upon witnessing extreme lawbreaking and corruption at the highest levels of our government — were able to muster just a tiny fraction of the high dudgeon, petulant offense, and melodramatic outrage that comes pouring forth whenever their “reporting” is criticized.  

ARKIE MEDIA: The Stephens-owned paper in Las Vegas (that’s a Little Rock-based empire, if you didn’t know), which is that state’s mightiest paper by light years, has endorsed Obama and blasted Hillary. Can the Cabot Star-Herald be far behind? But given the ownership, this passage, which is mirrored in the headline, is kind of, well, ironic or hypocritical or something:

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As Nevada Democrats head to their caucuses Saturday, they might ask themselves whether they really want to spend two months later this year watching a re-run of the horror movie “It Came From Little Rock,” with the sound turned up much too loud — or if they’d rather make it a real contest this fall.

 

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