Don't believe anything--There's bias in everything--Language is our most powerful weapon

Alright.  First, watch this video.

Now, if you've finished choking on the irony of seeing Bill O'Reilly refer to anything as 'offensive', read these paragraphs from an article by Steve Holland for Reuters:

...John McCain said on Friday he fears that al Qaeda or another extremist group might attempt spectacular attacks in Iraq to try to tilt the U.S. election against him.

McCain, at a town hall meeting...was asked if he had concerns that anti-American militants in Iraq might ratchet up their activities in Iraq to try to increase casualties in September or October and tip the November election against him.

"Yes, I worry about it," McCain said. "And I know they pay attention because of the intercepts we have of their communications ... The hardest thing in warfare is to counter someone or a group of individuals who are willing to take their own lives in order to take others."

While this is not a post about content, but instead about presentation, I would like to offer a few thoughts before getting to my point:

A.) I can't believe the sad blind trust it must take to discount the majority of the things Rev. Wright said...

B.) If I could find a pastor like that, I would be in church every Sunday.

C.) I change my mind.  I wouldn't want to have a beer with John McCain after all.  He would be an insufferable drunk.

Anyway, not content but presentation.

The pastor story was broken by Fox News, the most unabashedly right-wing media outlet popular in America today.  They ran the story almost nonstop for two days, almost always with a big picture of Obama's head plastered in the lower right-hand corner of the screen, along with captions like 'Obama's Campaign Over?'.  For two days that ran.  Meanwhile, other news outlets reported the story and let it go.  Fox drug out analysts to discuss the video, all the while having the video that so offended their "America! Fuck Yeah!" sensibilities in a nonstop loop.

Bias in video construction is easily spotted.

But look at the John McCain article, pulled directly from the liberal, brainwashing media.  "...might attempt spectacular attacks."  First off, there is no reason a professional news article need include a four-syllable adjective that is not part of a direct quote, and most-certainly not one as over-wrought and dramatic as 'spectacular'.

And notice how the first two paragraphs end with the election both tilted and tipped "against him."  Not "towards the Democrats."  In fact, the Democrats aren't even mentioned.  This is an entire article built to poke fun at John McCain's extraordinary ego (he is, after all, the most egotistical major politician since, well, G.W. Bush), and we're clued in by the flowery, unnecessary language in the first sentence.  

Now whether al Qaeda wants John McCain to lose the election or the American media want Barack Obama to win is neither here nor there.  

I imagine as liberal Americans, the media would prefer Obama, but things aren't going to get easier for al Qaeda in either scenario.  Palestine is not going to get the disputed lands it claims it deserves regardless of which political party takes office, and that's what all this nonsense is about anyway.  And al Qaeda knows that.  But CNN apparently doesn't

In conclusion: 

 John McCain makes Paris Hilton look humble, al Qaeda is smarter than the American media, and Barack Obama's pastor believes in karma.

or

War is peace--Freedom is Slavery--Ignorance is Strength

You decide.