Interview with Jack Coleman of NewsBusters

 Today Pundit Press is proud to present interview number 28 in our ongoing series. Today we're interviewing Jack Coleman, who is a contributor for the site NewsBusters. Mr. Coleman is a veteran of the Air National Guard and has been blogging since 2004. He has covered some impressive stories-- including recently liberal host Mike Malloy (who may be insane) threatening Andrew Breitbart. We thank Mr. Coleman for taking part in our interview.

1. When and why did you start writing for NewsBusters?

I began blogging for NewsBusters in October 2008, little more than a year after a friend asked if I'd be interested in monitoring liberal radio and blogs for the Media Research Center. I did that for 14 months, listening to the radio shows of Mike Malloy, Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow (back when she was at Air America), and reading Crooks and Liars, Raw Story and Huffington Post before I was asked to write for NewsBusters.

2. What is the best part about writing for the site?

Helping combat the rampant bias of liberals in the media. A close second is learning about many subjects, often in short order, to write about them and point out deceitful claims, half-truths, lies of omission, etc. In this respect, the work is much like journalism. Before blogging, I worked for more than 10 years as a reporter and copy editor at daily newspapers in Massachusetts. Writing at NewsBusters wonderfully compensates for all those moments I bit my tongue around liberals in newsrooms.

3. How did media bias shape the 2008 elections?

Without a doubt it helped elevate Barack Obama to the presidency by downplaying troubling aspects of his past, mainly his affinity for radicals such as Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers. Obama, by dint of his skin hue, represented an opportunity for many in media to expiate liberal guilt. The same politician, white, would have been deemed an inexperienced mediocrity.

4. How could bias affect 2012?

Bias could be worse in the 2012 campaign because so many people in media have a huge stake in Obama remaining president, since it would be a huge loss of face for them if he served only one term. If this occurred, Obama would be remembered as another Jimmy Carter, and his apologists would suffer accordingly.

5. How apparent was bias against the Tea Party in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting?

So apparent that the liberal meme of incivility in political discourse as cause of the rampage is rarely heard anymore, all of six weeks after the massacre. By all means, let's have more civility in politics, and while we're at it, more reliance on reason in making our arguments. On both counts, liberals lose, since they inevitably fall back on well-ingrained habits that rely on neither.

6. Anything else you'd like to add?

I know from my own experience as former left winger that many liberals are not beyond persuasion and will eventually join our side. We should remember this when we challenge them, that an inherently optimistic conservative is yearning to emerge from that frustrated, angry, grasping liberal before you.

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