Liberal Media Brings Out the Hockey Pucks

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Liberal Media Brings Out the Hockey Pucks

 

By Jonah Goldberg · August 31, 2012

In 2004, Arnold Schwarzenegger, then a popular figure in the Republican Party, gave an exciting, upbeat and surprisingly funny speech at the GOP convention. He covered a lot of territory: the story of how he came to America, how he became a Republican after listening to Richard Nixon, and other highlights of his life story.

Afterwards, then-CBS News anchor Dan Rather reported that Schwarzenegger "slapped John Kerry around like a hockey puck."

The only problem: Schwarzenegger never mentioned John Kerry, not even once.

I bring it up because it's hardly news that much of the press likes to report the convention as they want it to be rather than as it is.

It's also somewhat less than a thunderclap revelation that the press and the Democratic Party tend to see things the same way. Which is why it's unremarkable that the "fact-checkers" and Democratic Party press-release writers are on the same page.

Hence the relentless coverage of vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan's "lies" during his convention speech. His story about a Janesville, Wis., GM plant, in particular, has

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Over on CGP there was a constant whine that all the GOP was doing was attacking Obama. I pointed out that if they were not aware it is the Republican National Convention.

 

Now I'm gonna go waaay out on a limb and make a bold prediction...next week when the Democrats meet there maybe some attacks on Mitt Romney. Remember you heard it here 1st.!