Big Media's Pro-Democrat Agenda
Professor Hanson lays it out for you:

Contrast the Democratic reactions to respective advice offered by Congressman Murtha and Senator Joe Lieberman. The former is a respected but not nationally known Democratic figure; the latter ran for the vice presidency of the United States. The Democrats gushed over Murtha’s bleak Dean-like assessment that the war is essentially lost and that we must leave as soon as possible. But then when a vote was called on the issue, they voted overwhelmingly not to follow the congressman’s prescription.

In contrast, when Lieberman returned from Iraq and gave a cautiously optimistically appraisal that our plan of encouraging elections, training Iraqis, and improving the Iraqi economy is working both inside Iraq and in the wider neighboring region, he was shunned by Democrats — who nevertheless by their inaction essentially agreed with Lieberman and so made no move to demand an immediate withdrawal. How odd to be effusive over the Democrat whose advice you reject while ignoring the spokesman whose advice you actually follow.

This shunning of Lieberman is most apparent in Big Media's news coverage: Murtha's announcement was made into a major event and a peg for a lot of stupid commentary. But Lieberman's remarks? Practically ignored.

Via the MRC comes this notice of Kathleen Parker's recent Orlando Sentinel column discussing just this problem:

It's not that Murtha doesn't deserve airtime to voice a point of view many Americans share. It's that Lieberman surely deserves at least equal time for a point of view that other Americans, as well as most Iraqis, share.

Those who rely on traditional news sources other than The Wall Street Journal, which published an op-ed by the Connecticut senator, may not even have known that Lieberman recently returned from Iraq. Or that his conclusions were that the U.S. has to keep fighting the insurgency, and that two-thirds of Iraq is in "pretty good shape."

You don't have to be a partisan war hawk to see the difference in treatment of these two stories, from news reports to the talking-head shows. Nearly all news outlets have presented Murtha as though he were suddenly emerging from the fevered swamps of manly conscience to share his revelations with a duped public.

But Lieberman? The Leftists are slamming him for his heresy, calling him "Holy Joe" ---an obvious swipe at his religious identity as an observant Jew.

In another week, Iraq will have undergone a third national election this year in their quest for a self-governing country. I say we applaud their efforts and remember that it's American might that helped bring them to this milestone.

It's time for Democrats to quit trying to surrender in the middle of this crucial work that our best and bravest have undertaken in the heart of the Middle East.