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...left-leaning voters elevating Obama as the ultimate American ideal, who conquered racial prejudiceand relative poverty by his own merits, and resisted the appeal of high-paying positions in law. The reality, though, is that Obama’s message appears to have the capacity to transcend racial bias where Alan Keyes or Al Sharpton’s have failed; he may just have a bit more of that Weberian charisma than Hillary Clinton. He certainly has more than Walter Mondale, next to whom John Kerry gains a sudden, electric appeal...
...cannot help but feel the pangs of sadness as this bias becomes more and more clear. Ferraro, once labeled “something that rhymes with rich” (to quote Barbara Bush) did in courageous failure pave the way for this year’s historic primary. Now, older, off her game and embroiled in the vitriolic message warfare attached to that primary, she appears to have debased her own iconic legacy in an attempt to sully another—Obama’s—which is still being shaped...
...question is: What took her so long? Biographers have traced Hillary Clinton's beefs about press bias back more than 30 years, to Bill Clinton's first, failed, campaign for Congress, when reporters could have been more diligent in knocking down false rumors about Clinton's anti-Vietnam activities. Yet, while her husband has been grousing about the media's coverage of Obama for months, the candidate was passing out chocolate hearts to her press corps as recently as Valentine's Day. This, too, is part of the saga: since the early 1980s, Hillary Clinton has tried charming the press...
...Radcliffe Institute luncheon, that the government had “turned its energy and attention away from upholding the rule of law” would draw the criticism of the Times’ public editor, who issued a reminder that the “merest perception of bias in a reporter’s personal views can plant seeds of doubt that may grow in a reader’s mind.”Despite the remarks, former newspaper man Jones said he was “absolutely sure” that the paper did not want to see Greenhouse...
...Knowledge cannot defile […] if the will and conscience be not defiled. Bad books […] to a discreet and judicious reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate.” All people, regardless of geographic and cultural bias, have a basic capacity for reason; governments should leave it to their citizens to discern between the true, the absurd, and the erroneous. Freedom of speech—which includes the right to seek truth by forming opinions of others’ freely-expressed thoughts—is a right fundamental...