From the fantastic Media Research Center’s CyberAlerts this morning:
1. ABC: McCain Psychologically Damaged? Suffer Dementia? Die Soon?
Not waiting until the actual Friday release of John McCain’s medical records, on Thursday’s World News anchor Charles Gibson (who’s 65) and Dr. Tim Johnson (who at 72 is older than McCain) speculated about McCain’s health. Gibson wondered about “psychological damage” from his POW captivity. Assured there’s no evidence of that, Gibson jumped to wonder how much longer McCain has to live, a question which led Johnson to warn, that while McCain may live another 16 years, there’s a decent chance he’ll develop “dementia.”
At the National Post this morning, McCain’s positive, pretty much A-OK health record story is headlined: “McCain in good health, no cancer recurrence”. An Associated Press story at Yahoo News is headlined: “McCain appears cancer-free, healthy”. Yes even Reuters says: “McCain deemed in good health by doctors”.
Meanwhile, the liberal-leftist CBC and CTV both intone the negative: “McCain medical records show skin cancer concern, healthy heart” (CBC), and “Medical records show McCain at risk of skin cancer” (CTV).
I also liked this story, because it sounded so CBC:
3. CNN: Cindy McCain ‘Stepford Wife,’ Mrs. Obama ‘Camelot with Tan’
CNN correspondent Carol Costello compared Cindy McCain to a “Stepford Wife” due to her “low key” role in her husband’s campaign so far, in a segment on Wednesday’s The Situation Room. Costello, detailing Mrs. McCain’s recent photo spread in Vogue magazine, stated the feature “projects an image quite unlike the Cindy McCain we see on the trail,” and a talking head described this “Cindy McCain we see” as “low key…taking the traditional role of standing by her husband’s side at events.” Costello then quipped: “A role critics say makes Mrs. McCain look like—well, Glenn Close in the movie ‘The Stepford Wives.’” On the other hand, Costello described Michelle Obama’s Vogue spread more glowingly: “Michelle Obama chose a traditional black dress with pearl earrings for her Vogue spread. As The Washington Post described it, it was if Michelle Obama was saying ‘I am not some scary other….I am Camelot with a tan.’”
And speaking of the ridiculous, childish CBC, this one killed me: Despite their long and concerted effort to drum up a scandal involving Conservatives, and their transparent effort at mendaciously casting what was actually the Obama is a double-talking lout on NAFTA story as a blame the Canadian Conservatives and call it “NAFTA-GATE” (because, um, “that’s what it’s called!”) story, they had to report today that an investigation cleared the PM’s staff of any wrong-doing (or, shall we say, “Gate”-making).
How did they headline it?
“Report clears PM’s chief of staff in NAFTAgate controversy”.
Oh my.
For more liberal-left media bias, refer to just about everything you read, see, and hear in the Canadian news media.
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