…it is quite astounding that the mainstream liberal media \u201d\u201d NY Times, Washington Post, NPR, PBS, Time, Newsweek, etc. \u201d\u201d has simply offered no substantive criticism of Obama’s flips on renditions, military tribunals, wiretaps, intercepts, Iraq, or \u201d\u201d given their past fury over the Bush deficits \u201d\u201d the Obama plan to run up more red ink in a year than Bush did in eight.<\/p>\n
Bush was constantly criticized by mainstream conservatives for his comprehensive immigration proposals, for deficit spending, for failure to veto any bills in the first term, for No Child Left Behind, for the prescription drug benefit, for the Harriet Miers nomination, for the first pullback from Fallujah, for appointments like Scott McClellan and “Brownie,” etc.<\/p>\n
The result, I think, will prove fatal for the media. For the last eight years, rendition (hey, they even made a hit-piece movie about the supposedly awful practice), intercepts, military tribunals, and Iraq were sort of the refrains of the liberal-media choruses. Looking back, in light of the Obama media, was such hysteria simply politics, pure and simple? Bush did it: bad; Obama did it: fine?<\/p>\n