If you’ve been analyzing how the MSM has approached the coverage of our candidates and potential candidates over the past few years, you should probably start worrying about what the Washington Post — the co-sponsor of tonight’s GOP debate — might have in store for our new (according to some polls) frontrunner, Herman Cain. Whenever we have any kind of rising star who isn’t Mitt Romney, the MSM targets them for destruction. Palin and Bachmann are just two examples, but the most recent and glaring has been Texas Governor Rick Perry.

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I’m not going to sit here and pretend Perry isn’t his own worst political enemy, but even if he wasn’t, there’s no question the Governor’s been targeted by the MSM for political assassination. In the debates Perry’s participated in thus far, we’ve seen CNN, Politico, and MSNBC moderators do everything in their power to turn the entire night against him. Batting clean-up, though, was the Washington Post, who last week Sunday savaged Perry with lies of commission and innuendo that embroiled him in a racially-charged debate that in a just world never would have seen the light of day.

And who knows how much better Perry would’ve fared over the last month had he not been targeted?

The MSM’s plan is simple: Obama can’t get re-elected on his failed record so one-by-one every GOP threat must be taken out using any lie, rumor, or distraction necessary.

So knowing what we know, what can we expect at tonight’s debate?

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Jerry Brown’s campaign conspired to commit political rape, calling Meg Whitman, his female political opponent, a “whore.” And he got N.O.W.’s political endorsement for doing so. The liberal beauty mask is so off the wrinkled, geriatric, age-spotted National Organization of Whores (yes, only a woman could write that so I just did).

Yet for all the mild hand-wringing over whether the “w-word” should have been used, no one in the Make-Believe Media is even questioning N.O.W.’s endorsement much less mocking the utter hypocrisy of it all. A women’s organization rewarding a politician for calling a woman a whore and no one notices. They’re all too busy with damage control for Brown’s campaign.

Stephanie Schriock, the leader of the prominent pro-abortion group Emily’s List, ever so gently criticized Brown in a remarkably tepid and muted way, concluding that, “It’s unfortunate to hear it in any place.”

“It’s inappropriate; it’s just wrong,” said Stephanie Schriock, the leader of EMILY’S List, a Democratic group dedicated to electing pro-choice women, on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers.” Such words “just shouldn’t be used anywhere by anyone, period. It is just not what our democracy is about. It’s unfortunate to hear it in any place.”

Unfortunate?!? “Unfortunate” is when it rains on your newly washed car or you break a nail. How about “vile” or “despicable” or “reprehensible”? Get a thesaurus, Ms. Schriock.

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I have written here several times recently about the all too visible partisanship of the Washington Post, but Karen Tumulty’s lead article on Sunday (August 8), “In Va.’s 5th, incumbent Democrat Tom Perriello sees voter frustration firsthand,” takes the cake. Or perhaps it’s simply that as a resident and voter in Virginia’s 5th District I can see her slant more clearly and hence resent it more.

Her bias appears right away:

CHARLOTTE COURT HOUSE, VA. — The crowds that have been showing up for Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello’s town halls have been smaller and more polite than the angry throngs he saw during last August’s raucous congressional recess.

Catcalls about socialism and death panels have given way to substantive and pointed questions — about the intricacies of the new health-care law and financial regulations, finding alternative energy sources, and that most perennial of Virginia problems, traffic.

Gale-force outrage — both the real kind and the kind manufactured for television — has faded this August. There is still the occasional outburst: On Saturday, the Lynchburg Tea Party Patriots hastily called a rally outside a Perriello town hall in Fork Union to demand that he vote against $26 billion in aid to state and local governments when the House reconvenes briefly this week.

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