Caught by Newbusters: ABC’s David Muir referred to Alec Baldwin’s tweet calling Daily News reporter George Stark a “toxic little queen” as an “alleged slur,” while omitting any mention of Baldwin’s follow-up tweet announcing that the actor would “put my foot up your f–king ass, George Stark, but I’m sure you’d dig it too much.”
Alleged slur?
Baldwin’s slur isn’t alleged, it’s preserved in screen shots all over the internet. Muir’s claim that the obvious slur is only alleged can only mean “toxic little queen” in the context of an exchange alluding to the male target enjoying violent anal penetration can be reasonably interpreted as anything else. It cannot.
I didn’t notice—did ABC also refer to Paula Deen’s admitted use of the term “nigger” as an “alleged slur”? If it did, I apologize: Muir isn’t biased…he’s just an idiot, following ABC’s idiotic policy. But if it did not—-and it didn’t-–then Muir’s effort to go easy on a fellow liberal’s bigotry is just one more of the little bits of proof of how left-biased the news media is that slips out periodically if one is objective and paying attention.
Of course, the Democrats and liberals among us who benefit from having the news slanted to support their candidates and issues only see alleged media bias when these smoking guns appear—just as Muir sees “toxic little queen” as an alleged slur.
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Pointer and Sources: Newsbusters
Graphic: Largescalecentral
Ethics Alarms 
Can we stop calling it Left-biased? As though they are *accidentally* allowing their preferred agendas to cloud their reporting.
How about Left-Partnered?
Why would the media want to protect Alec Baldwin? I don’t get it. I’m generally conservative, and it doesn’t give me any desire to defend a creep like, say, Newt Gingrich.
It makes you wonder whether these guys have some kind of chart hanging up in their office. “We’ve had 3 scandals involving a liberal-type person already this month! Stop reporting these until the conservatives have had time to catch up!”