On Friday, Rachel Maddow focused attention on the efforts of doomed North Carolina Republican Senator Richard Burr (up for re-election in 2010, makes Liddy Dole look like the homecoming queen) to block the nomination of Tammy Duckworth to be an assistant secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs. It's not just that Duckworth is herself a double-amputee decorated Iraq War veteran, she has an actual trackrecord doing virtually the same job for the state of Illinois, and earning high praise for it. So, naturally, someone to put a hold on, right?
Maddow handles this appropriately:
The NY Times? Not so much.
This the Times weighed in with "balance"-blinded look at growing GOP obstructionism towards Obama nominations, in which Duckworth figured not at all. She wasn't the only missing, however. Putting too many nominees into the story might be confusing. It might give folks the wrong idea. And so, we got a story with just two nominees mentioned, and only one discussed in any detail at all: "Storm Clouds Gather Over Obama Nominees". (Storm clouds "gathered" as if by magic. Look, ma! No hands!)
STATE BLOGS
