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Networks Spent 70% More Time Attacking GOP Staffer Than Covering Gruber

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On December 2, 2014 @ 9:24 pm In The Point | 5 Comments

It’s gotten so bad that watching network news should be considered a contribution to the Democratic Party.

When the architect of ObamaCare was caught repeatedly calling Americans stupid and taking apart the myth that ObamaCare was anything other than a giant scam, the network news only reluctantly covered it and then mainly to play defense once the story had gone viral.

But a minor Republican staffer suggesting that Obama’s daughters should dress more nicely for official events led to a firestorm of coverage.

On Sunday and Monday, the broadcast networks seized on the personal Facebook comments of mid-level congressional staffer Elizabeth Lauten criticizing the Obama daughters – devoting over 14 minutes of national news air time to the controversy in the period of two days. However, it took those same networks several days to even notice the video comments of ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber crediting “the stupidity of the American voter” for passage of the law – providing only 8 minutes of coverage to the much larger scandal.

Amazingly, NBC, ABC, and CBS gave Lauten approximately 70% more coverage than Gruber.

They only wished it could have been the full 100%.

The Washington/Amazon Post got so desperate that it assigned a foreign affairs writer to dig through her college paper articles and found nothing.

Two network news vans camped outside of Lauten’s parents home in North Carolina on Tuesday, one day after she resigned as communication director for Rep. Steven Fincher (R., Tenn.) due to the controversy. Lauten was not at the house.

That morning, the Washington Post also assigned one of its foreign affairs correspondents to comb through an archive of columns Lauten wrote for her college newspaper in 2006 and 2007.

If only Lauten had invented ObamaCare, the media wouldn’t cover her if she detonated a nuclear bomb on Fifth Avenue.

 


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