Tim Graham does his thing in an Oct. 3 NewsBusters post, doing a pre-emptive attack on debate moderator Jim Lehrer, with the headline “Can Jim Lehrer Moderate Debate Fairly Given Romney’s Desire To Cut Subsidy For PBS?”
Of course, professional journalists put aside their biases in an attempt to be as fair as possible. Such professionalism, meanwhile, is not practiced — and certainly not encouraged — on the right, which is why Graham appears to be unfamiliar with the concept.
Graham also bizarrely takes Lehrer to task for cheering that the wildly corrupt President Nixon was taken down. We didn’t know that Graham was a secret Nixon-lover.
All of Graham’s ranting about Lehrer’s supposed liberal bias ignores the fact that liberals have complaints about Lehrer’s previous debate performances as well. Which seems to suggest that Lehrer plays things more down the middle that Graham will ever admit.
Then again, Brent Bozell is not paying Graham to make such a reasonable analysis.