Sarah Palin today tweeted a link to a slam on the Andrew Breitbart BigJournalism website that offers a poor attempt to paint Associated Press as a pro-Democratic outlet.
RT @BigJournalism AP Bias: 'Name That Party' Blasts Repubs,Leaves Dems Unnamed in Stories http://bit.ly/bTwhkz
The item she linked to, a piece by Warner Todd Huston, criticizes AP for identifying Republican subjects with their party affiliation, but not Democrats in two examples.
“One of the many ways in which the Associated Press lends its support to Democrats and leftists in its political reporting is often evident in its stories about political scandals,” the piece claims. “The most common assist the AP gives to Democrats is to somehow forget to mention that a politician in the news because of criminal activity or other scandals is a Democrat. Yet when any pol in the news for scandal is a Republican, his party affiliation often leads the story, if it isn't in the headline, even.”
For Palin to point out such an accusation and, meanwhile, remain a paid commentator for Fox News -- which goes beyond this approach in its pro-right reporting -- is clear hypocrisy.