During the 2004 election, the press could not get enough of the "flip-flopper" story, even though Kerry had only changed a few votes. Some of these votes were changed due to the fact that riders had been added to a bill in an attempt to pass something else along with it. Something that John Kerry did not want to vote for. A perfectly reasonable reason to change a vote. The liberal medai apparently missed that opportunity to help out the liberal candidate, and instead helped bury him.
The other big story was how John Kerry only threw his ribbons, not his medals, over the White House fence. Forget about the fact the he had medals to throw in the fist place, owing to his honorable service, when Bush had only his shirking of his Guard duty to tout. Not too mention the fact that he was pushed to the head of the line ahead of more qualified pilots to get there, and miss out on the war that Kerry went to fight. Somehow though, the liberal media once again missed this chance to make Kerry look favorable and chose to concentrate on the negative.
Cut to 2008, where the republican candidate has changed his view and vote on every issue he ever said he believed in. Do we hear a "flip-flopper" anywhere in the press? After crucifying Kerry for holding on to his medals and not getting "wounded enough" to have received them in the first place, we don't hear anything about graduating 894 out of 899 from his military school, or crashing two planes. Just that he shot two down. We don't hear about how McCain got his wings back even though he could no longer fly.
Somehow the kid from Chicago who grew up helping the less fortunate became the elite, and the poor student, poor pilot, entitled, son of two admirals, who married an heiress, became the hero of the working class.
Darn those liberal media elite! They missed another chance to help our guy and instead championed the other guys candidate. They must have missed the meetings where we didn't want them to do that.
