I wish I hadn’t been triple-booked tonight, because I would have loved to confront Jackson Kibitzer/Baker at the SPJ forum on media Presidential coverage. Fortunately, Mediaverse live-blogged the event; I’m particularly interested in this excerpt:
7:30: Asked if he feels if the media invaded Joe The Plumber’s privacy by exposing his private details and whether he consented it, Baker said he invited the scrutiny because he asked a question of Obama that could have been politically advantage and the media was right to inspect his public image. Baker said that was a classic case of the media doing its job since McCain used him as a test case for his own agenda.
I’d like to have clarification on what “could have been politically advantage” means.
Still, Baker thinks Joe the Plumber — a private citizen — “invited the scrutiny” of his “private details” because he asked a question that provoked a controversial answer from a politician passing through his neighborhood?
Baker thinks the media was right to inspect Joe’s “private details” because a second politician seized upon that candidate’s gaffe to advance his own campaign?
And yet Baker thinks it “ain’t good” for the media to investigate an actual, prominent public figure who may have fathered a child with a paid campaign staffer (who apparently had no prior experience doing the job) while still married to his seriously-ill wife, may have been spotted visiting the child under the cover of night, and may have continued to lie about the whole scenario, while simultaneously being (seriously) considered for U.S. Attorney General?
Astounding.
It appears to be Kibitzer/Baker’s contention that private citizens who embarrass Democrats should be subjected to exponentially greater media scrutiny than public servants who engage in seriously unethical behavior but happen to be Democrats.
Kibitzer/Baker says “everything [I] do is boiringly ideological,” but he’s the predictably Leftist shill.
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