Just imagine if Whitman had used a vulgar sexual slur when referring to the California Nurses Association

If you are looking for evidence the media is running interference for its preferred candidate in the CA governors race, look no further than the media's treatment of Jerry Brown's "teabagger" slur.  Readers of this blog know on Friday's MSNBC Hardball show, Jerry Brown demeaned members of the Tea Party by using the sexual slur "teabaggers."  As of Sunday afternoon, no major newspaper has reported on the slur.

I did a Google News search for Jerry Brown teabagger Sunday afternoon and here is what I found:

(Click to enlarge)

The only item listed is the report from Newsbusters.  Nothing from the Sacramento Bee, the San Francisco Chronicle, the LA Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, Reuters, the AP, or any other mainstream news source.

If you want to get more information on Brown's slur you have to go to the blogs and alternative media.  Here are a few of the blogs reporting on the slur:

• NewsBusters: Governor 'Moonbeam' Employs 'Tea Bagger' Insult on MSNBC's Hardball
• BreitbartTV: California Attorney General Uses 'Tea Bagger' Insult
• Bluegrass Pundit: Jerry Brown Calls Tea Party Members "Teabaggers"
• Escape Tyranny: Dem candidate for CA Governor Jerry Brown uses “Tea Bagger” sexual insult
• Ben Barrack: VIDEO: JERRY BROWN'S TEABAGGER MOMENT
• No Governor Moonbeam!: Jerry Brown uses vulgar "teabagger" sexual slur
• Pat Dollard: Jerry Brown Dismisses Anti-Communists As Sexual Deviant “Tea Baggers”
• Weasel Zippers: Moonbat Jerry Brown Refers to Tea Party Members as “Teabaggers"
• Weekly Political Review: Jerry Brown and Chris Matthews Talk Down to Voters During Hardball Interview 
• The Fox Nation: Governor "Moonbeam" blasts "Teabaggers" 
• The Lonely Conservative: Video: Dem Candidate for CA Governor Uses the Term "Tea Bagger"

You can imagine the media hysteria if Whitman had used a vulgar sexual slur when referring to the California Nurses Association.  That story would be front page news across the state and a hot topic on cable TV shows.

And media elites wonder why newspaper circulation is in freefall?

Mainstream reporters covering CA governors race silent on "teabagger" slur by Jerry Brown

So far, the Sacramento Bee has not reported on the "teabagger" slur Jerry Brown used on his appearance on the Hardball show Friday night.

Search the Sacbee.com web site for "Jerry Brown" and this is what you find:

A Google News search only turns up the NewsBusters piece.

It is a serious character flaw on Brown's part to demean citizens with this vulgar slur.  If reporters covered the story it would damage Brown's candidacy. 

If Whitman used a slur to refer to the nurses union it would be a major story, and rightfully so.

So why aren't reporters covering it?  One reason: a great number of reporters want Brown to win and are acting as a propaganda arm of the Brown campaign.

I'll let you know what Jack Chang, Carla Marinucci, Joe Garafoli, and their colleagues have to say in their next reports.

McClatchy now acting as the propaganda arm of the Jerry Brown campaign

McClatchy and the MSM are acting as the propaganda arm of the DNC and the Jerry Brown campaign.  Moonbeam appeared with several Latino politicians in LA yesterday to slam Meg Whitman and tout his support by Latino politicians.  McClatchy covered the event by doing little more than repeating Jerry Brown's talking points as gospel.

Looks like Bee reporter David Siders took Brown's comments and re-packaged them into several paragraphs for publication.  Of course, he is following the example of  the Bee's senior writer Dan Morain.

Is the nurses union writing headlines for McClatchy?

Looks to me like McClatchy is doing what it can to ensure Jerry Brown is elected California governor this fall. Want evidence? Look no further than the headline in this McClatchy piece published Monday:

If you read the article, the Whitman campaign videotaped a union event and live-streamed the event back to Whitman headquarters.  Not much different from what political campaigns from both parties have been doing since the invention of the video camera.  But since the campaign doing the videotaping was Republican, the McClatchy headline-writer calls it "spying."

The Sacramento Bee and the McClatchy newspaper chain are essentially working for Jerry Brown and the entire Dem slate of candidates.

Related:

• Objectivity at the Sacramento Bee