I think we’ve now had a pretty fair demonstration of the kind of false equivalency that is routinely accepted and perpetrated by the media.

Organized labor does not equate to big money in the aftermath of Citizens’s United.

If ever there was a test for this frustratingly frequent misrepresentation of the resources of the left vs. the resources of the right, the Wisconsin recall election was certainly it.

Despite every effort of labor-backed Democrats to finance the campaign of Walker’s opponent,  Republicans were able to bring in much more than twice the Democratic cash for their own campaign.  Walker was carried back into office almost literally on a sea of money.

If this is the shape of things to come in the general election, hang on to your hats…because they may be all that Democrats have left, come January.  (Coincidentally, while I was writing that sentence I received a robo-fright-call from the NRA.)

We’ll get no help in correcting the perspective from national media, because they are committed to the Republican meme that “Big Labor” is a rich and powerful counterpoint to big business (aka Republican) interests.  To abandon that meme would be to bring into question all of the other false equivalencies that shape what they have come to regard as the meaning of “fair and balanced news.’

There’s the one about Democrats and Republicans in Congress being equally guilty of obstructionism; and the one that holds that Democratic criticism of George W Bush is somehow equivalent to the blatant racism and scattergun hate that has been directed at President Obama.  I could go on, but we’re all familiar with the expanded list.

What will the media’s position be when the “99%” finally get it together to demand that Citizen’s United be overturned…or else?  Will they play to their comfort zone and try to strike an equivalent with Roe vs. Wade?

‘Wouldn’t surprise me a bit.