Media Ignore Teddy Kennedy's Mockery of Kerry

Imagine the screaming headlines and days of snickering remarks by TV "news"casters if Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist were caught ridiculing President Bush. Now consider the media establishment's roaring silence about Sen. Teddy Kennedy's mockery of John Kerry.

The Boston Herald yesterday blew the whistle on Teddy's nasty jab, but other media refuse to report this news.

The Boston Globe, which generally has had surprisingly semi-fair coverage of Kerry despite its extreme pro-Democrat bias, didn't like getting scooped by its Beantown rival. All it reported today was that Kennedy "had privately told friends that he opposed delaying the nomination because it might draw less media and public interest ... aides to the senator said he intended to support Kerry unconditionally in public, given that they are friends and allies and Kennedy serves as co-chair of the presumptive nominee's campaign."

Kerry's chief cheerleader in the media, the New York Times, which issued a lengthy apology yesterday for not being pro-Saddam enough, didn't even mention Kennedy in its story today.

A search of newspapers and news wires found no mention of Kennedy's ridicule of Kerry except by the Herald, NewsMax and RushLimbaugh.com.

The Globe's boring headline today: "Kerry rules out delaying tactic." The much more informative and entertaining Herald had this: "Sen. Flip-Flop does it again! Now Kerry will accept nomination in Hub."

Ken Mehlman, manager of President Bush's campaign, noted that "only John Kerry could be for a nominating convention, but be against the nomination."

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