about how our media treats Democratic presidential candidates. See also the article about Gore's new film and how a certain NYT op/ed columnist is reacting to it.

http://www.dailyhowler.com/index.shtml

FOSER GETS IT RIGHT: Good lord! Jamison Foser rocks the world in this report from Media Matters. We’ll quibble with Foser on one small point. But liberals and Democrats need to grasp what he says in this important passage:

FOSER (6/2/06): Too many people chalk up outrageous media treatment of, say, Al Gore or John Kerry to the men's own flaws, pretending that if they were better candidates, they'd have gotten better press coverage. That's naïve. The Democratic Party could nominate Superman to be their next presidential candidate, and two things would happen: conservatives would smear him, and the media would join in. To illustrate this, we look back over the last dozen or so years.

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Later, Foser makes a second point, one which is very important:

FOSER: And then Al Gore came along and, as The Daily Howler's Bob Somerby argues convincingly, was treated to the most relentlessly hostile (not to mention dishonest) media coverage any major party presidential candidate had ever seen. He was mocked for wearing "earth tones" (who doesn't?). Reporters simply made up quotes they attributed to him, then declared him a liar because the quotes—which he never spoke—were exaggerations. And, to be clear: when we say reporters made up quotes, we aren't talking about Rush Limbaugh or Matt Drudge. We're talking about the New York Times and the Washington Post.

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We’ll offer another example of that silence tomorrow. But Foser makes two important points. When we focus on Gore’s alleged flaws, we completely miss the main thing that happened. And the main thing that happened—that War Against Gore—was driven by the mainstream press corps. If liberals want to understand the real world, we have to stop pretending that what happened was Gore’s fault—or that this war was run by Rush Limbaugh. It’s simply amazing to see the way liberals still cling to these false story lines.

(more at link)