VDH on MSM integrity: epic fail

A must-read from Victor Davis Hanson on our integrity-challenged liberal media:

Looking back, in light of the Obama media, was such hysteria simply politics, pure and simple? Bush did it: bad; Obama did it: fine? Was the issue always just Bush, and never (as alleged) the Bush profligacy in spending — given the silence now over Obama's crazed borrowing? Was there never any real concern about the supposed "cultural of corruption" when the media seized on a Tom DeLay, Duke Cunningham, Mark Foley, etc. — given the pass granted to Rangel, Dodd, and the tax-fraud nominations to the Cabinet.

Bullseye. Principle-driven criticism couldn't work this way.

This isn't long, and you must read it all (because I haven't quoted the best parts) but here's a bit more:

How odd that just six months ago we had screaming reporters and columnists talking about the near-end-of-days with Bush — and now doing contortions to assure us that things suddenly aren't that bad after all, or that we must give Obama flexibility and time to sort out the prior mess.

A small illustration of desperate Obama-spin -- the Obama economy isn't that bad! -- that you might have missed:

The recession has entered a new phase, pulling away from an economic abyss into a period of steep, but orderly, decline.

You can't blame us for being cynical.

h/t: Smitty

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