What Media Bias? Reporter Caught Smearing Romney Over Hot Mic

John Nolte @ Big Journalism:

The source of this is Jon Ward, a political reporter for the Huffington Post, and he deserves a lot of credit for telling the truth about what he overheard:

Reporters overheard on politico live stream speculating before Romney event that there is "a 40% chance that he says something stupid."

— Jon Ward (@jonward11) October 30, 2012

The so-called “reporter” in question was apparently — and to no one’s surprise — one of Ben Smith’s head BenSmithers, McKay Coppins:

https://twitter.com/mckaycoppins/statuses/263340369951989760

You can hear the comment below at the 1:45 mark as Coppins commiserates with someone else over what they think Romney “should” say — how arrogant:

This is yet one more example of just how childish and unprofessional these partisans disguised as “objective” reporters are — and it gives you a hint of what Romney’s been up against throughout this entire campaign. Not just from the likes of BuzzFeed, and they’re bad enough, but from a media atmosphere so stacked against Romney and in favor of Obama that anyone pretending to be an “objective” journalist can feel comfortable popping off like this.

It’s also a look at how comfortable these elitist jerks are behaving this way amongst themselves when they think no one is listening. I have no issues with reporters joking around, but it’s no coincidence that you never ever hear this kind of thing coming from the “objective” media about President Obama.

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