So I have to wonder…where is the “Liberal Media?”  I don’t think that the media is particularly “liberal” at all.

Take a look at this bit from Media Matters.org

It describes how CNN left out a HUGE chunk of a statement by Sen. Joe Leiberman (who I generally am not sympathetic to) in order to make it look as though the Senator was remiss in his duties during the confirmation process and therefore was responsible for the appointment of “Brownie” to FEMA director.

Here’s a block quote of the pertinent statement lifted from Media Matters.org, although I would recommend that you go to the site for yet more of the story.  Media Matters.org bolded the omitted material in the quote.

LIEBERMAN: This is one of those classic cases, deputy to an organization, where you say the president has earned the right to make the choice of who he wants to serve him. Congress has to decide not whether I would have chosen the person, but whether the person is acceptable for the job. And at that point, he sure looked like it. In the aftermath of what's come out in the last week, I'd say information -- that it seems that either consciously or unconsciously, there was an element of his resume that was wrongly stated, that suggested he had more background in emergency management than he did. I want to say just one thing: He became director of FEMA without a hearing, and that was wrong. That was as a result of a section of the law creating the Department of Homeland Security that I opposed but that the administration fought to keep in, where they could take somebody who had experience that was germane to the position for which they were being nominated in the new department and put them in without a hearing. I thought that was wrong. Needless to say, the replacement for Michael Brown will receive quite a hearing.

So, the media that calls Dems “obstructionist and partisan” when they hold nominee’s feet to the fire, and yet when the Republican’s use a political trick to get their appointees through the process without a hearing, the media uses creative editing to make it look like it’s the Democrat’s fault because they weren’t doing their jobs?

And somehow the regressiveist claim that the media is biased against them and that conservatives are the victims of discrimination and persecution somehow hold water with some people.

Sigh.