One of These Things is Not Like the Other

Two particular images are circulating the blogosphere that really just sum up why liberals laugh in the faces of conservatives when we’re told there is a liberal media bias.

While overt signs of conservative bias – such as Anderson Cooper saying “all blacks are lazy” during his broadcast (because after all racism is most certainly a conservative ideal) are probably few and far between, it’s the covert – the inadvertent, almost involuntary aspects of media coverage that those of us on the left have screamed about for decades.

For example, 300,000 march on the Washington Mall for gay rights – 99.98% of the crowd are loving families, your neighbors, your coworkers, etc. Who gets the lead image on the story? The 200 drag queens flying penis kites.

Also – think of the last time you saw a black missing child make headlines during your local news. You can’t can you. Either black children never go missing or the media might have slant toward covering pretty white children – Joan Bonnet Ramsey or missing Aruba teens anyone?

When talking to a Republican coworker about the latter, she mentioned that she’s happy the media covers all the missing teen stories – it really gets the search effort going and if her own daughter was missing she’d want all the media help she could get. Good thing my coworker’s daughter is both white and pretty.

This however, inspired me to create a simple little test regarding the latest in media Right Wing bias.

Look at the image below. These are actual photos from actual AP stories and the captions are exactly what was posted, word for word. You can find the photos on the web here, and here.

Tell me what’s wrong with what you see. If your answer is, “there are more people in the picture on the bottom,” then it means you vote Republican.