York: Journalists More Interested in Denying Conservatives a
Victory Than Exposing Jones  In his column in Tuesday's
Washington Examiner, Byron York, who in a Friday blog post
recounted "The Van Jones (non) feeding frenzy," asked: "Why did
the press ignore the Van Jones scandal?" The chief political
correspondent for the paper answered: "The question may not be
so much who they are, as who they hate, or at least who they
intensely dislike." York pointed out:  The first words of the
[New York] Times' story on Jones' resignation were, "In a
victory for Republicans and the Obama administration's
conservative critics...." One news anchor suggested Jones was
"the Republican right's first scalp." Other coverage called the
Jones affair a victory for Glenn Beck, Fox News, right-wing
blogs, and even Sarah Palin, who played no role in the matter.
If you throw in Rush Limbaugh, you have all the bogey-people of
the conservative world. To some on the left, including some
journalists, denying them a victory was a top prior