Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin’s wild detour into “legitimate rape” displayed not only a buffoon – but an undisciplined candidate with a tendency to wander down blind alleys like repealing the 17th Amendment (it’s the economy, stupid).<\/p>\n
But the Akin controversy also exposes another problem: Why is the media obsessing over the abortion issue?<\/p>\n
After all,\u00a0repeated polls<\/a>\u00a0find that abortion does not crack the Top Ten in issues that matter to voters in this election year fraught with economic and debt crises. Yet liberal media – parroting the Obama War on Women line – has elevated the issue at the expense of news paramount to voter’s economic concerns (this writer is pro-choice).<\/p>\n The AP,\u00a0for example<\/a>, led it’s GOP convention coverage with the abortion issue despite the story being a week old and despite virtually every Republican having denounced Akin and disinvited him from Tampa. The wire service’s partisan brethren, reports the Media Research Center, found the MSM gave FOUR times the coverage to Akin’s gaffe compared to Joe Biden’s racially-insensitive “chains” gaffe<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Michigan (and national) readers were deprived of these important stories:<\/p>\n