Posted by
Always To The Right on Saturday, August 30, 2008 6:22:11 PM
While NBC's Matt Lauer took pains to label John McCain's vice presidential nominee a "staunch" and "stalwart" conservative on Friday, all three network morning shows almost entirely avoided any ideological descriptors for Senators Obama, Biden and the major liberal speakers during the just completed August 25 to 28 Democratic National Convention.
Some of the individuals at the convention included Al Gore, Senator Ted
Kennedy and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, all politicians with an obvious
leftward tilt. The only exception to the liberal label blackout
included references by NBC's "Today" and CBS's "Early Show" on Tuesday
when various reporters affectionately referred to Kennedy as the
"liberal lion," of the Senate, a clear term on endearment. (ABC's "Good
Morning America" used the word "lion" in regards to Kennedy, but not
"liberal.") This foreshadows a Republican National Convention,
September 1 to the 4, a period where John McCain and Sarah Palin will
very likely be labeled "conservative" many times.