Morning Joe
It seems Mika isn't trying to hide her obama support like she tried when McCain questioned her. Mika: This is supposed to be a Biden attack-free zone.
MIKA: Well you know it's interesting, because I'm going through the papers. I figure there's got to be, just as you analyzed, Joe, political ramifications to that comment, gaffe, however you want to make it—two in a row, though—but I'm seeing spotty media coverage. I feel like half the media covered this. I'm just going through the papers and seeing if it plays highly, and I'm not finding it in the [Washington] Post so far.
SCARBOROUGH: Would that be above the fold on the front page of the New York Times, the Washington Post? Would that be a lead story? We've got somebody who's an expert in the media who I think, Mika, knows a lot better than we do, Dan Rather. Dan, talk about the double standard. Are there times that you would cover this story differently if Sarah Palin said it rather than Joe Biden? Not you, but the media.
RATHER: Well I think the point is well taken, Joe, that certainly if Sarah Palin had said this it would be above the fold in most newspapers today....But let me point out that what happens on the internet may be as important or more important than what's happening in the newspapers. And I'll be surprised, and you know, Joe, I'm frequently surprised, but I'll be surprised if this doesn't have a run on the internet, with among the points two that you raised. Number one, if Sarah Palin had said this, the newspapers would have jumped all over it and so would have the major television outlets. And number two, they can't be happy inside the Obama campaign about this, and let me emphasize I've not spoken with them this morning.
SCARBOROUGH: They are not.
And then later Andrea MITCHELL says: "I did hear Mika say this morning that this is a Biden free fire zone (and Dan Rather) so we don't criticize Joe Biden, so how do we get around it?"MIKA: We're gonna have to break the ban. He said it - we question it.
They sit there and laugh but had Palin said it? Senator Clinton? McCain? Double standard is beyond belief. How is the I see Russia on a different plane then the world is waiting to test this young president
HARDWOOD: His youth is a magnet for international crisis. (later repeated)
MITCHELL: I'm just wondering if Biden's been woodshedded. He disappeared from the campaign. They said he was taking the day off, was because of all this?
GIBBS: No he didn't have any scheduled events yesterday.
MITCHELL: Are they keeping him under wraps?
GIBBS: He didn't have any scheduled events. He was on the West coast and he was flying home.
Nicole Wallace (GOP): He's being debriefed.
BUCHANAN:...in an undisclosed location.
SCARBOROUGH: Have no scheduled events till after the inauguration.
They all laugh. And if it were Palin or McCain or Clinton?
MADELINE ALBRIGHT: Nobody's better qualified than Joe Biden. I've worked with him over the years and he really is a very, very smart person on issues of foreign policy, and has the experience and has been to many countries - doesn't just look at them.
Great zinger...doesn't just look at them. And she said it with a complete straight face. Why doesn't she come out of hiding?
Later Scarborough said he was emailing the other networks to see if they were going to run with the story. He said they were waiting to see what McCain was going to do with it. The MSM is impartial? An impartial media doesn't exchange emails with each other to see if they're going to run with a story.
Another irrefutable example of pro-Obama media bias right from the Republican horse's mouth. They don't even try to hide it anymore.
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