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Dan Radmacher is a blogger in Roanoke, Va., with whom I am acquainted. I cannot profess to know him well, but we have many mutual friends and professional associations.<\/p>\n

His latest blog continues an ongoing battle of wits he\u2019s been waging with Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto, this time over the depth of the recent scandals that have spit up all over President Obama.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the link to his latest post. It\u2019s worth a careful look:<\/p>\n

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I want to congratulate Dan for saying something that needs saying time and again. It is that while the conservative media are fond of accusing the liberal media of bias, those on the right do so without the slightest understanding of what they\u2019re saying \u2013 about themselves. Taranto seems to think the media are in the tank for Barack Obama and have gone far too softly on the president. <\/p>\n

Radmacher wrote this in response:<\/p>\n

\u201cTaranto moves onto the \u2018liberal\u2019 media, accusing the media of being more in cahoots with Obama than it\u2019s ever been with any other president or political party. This ideological and political alignment, Taranto warns with no hint of irony or self-awareness, has led the media to abdicate \u2018their guiding principles of impartiality, objectivity and sometimes even accuracy.\u2019 The man works for a paper owned by Rupert Murdoch, and he wants to lecture others about abdicating impartiality, objectivity and accuracy? Never mind that the conservative media that he is part of is far guiltier of abandoning impartiality and objectivity, and has never cared much about accuracy. But how could Taranto miss that the biggest mainstream media blunder in recent weeks \u2014 ABC\u2019s reporting on Republican fabrications of those recently released emails as if they had seen the originals \u2014 worked against Obama, not in his favor?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t have said it better myself, Dan.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve long noted that a cable news network, such as the one owned by Rupert Murdoch, that must proclaim \u2013 over and over \u2013 that it is \u201cfair and balanced\u201d usually is neither.<\/p>\n\n

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