obama driving bus

Last week, the NYT published an “exposé,” detailing Marco Rubio and his wife’s traffic violations since 1997.

Oh, the horror!

Included in the article: 10 pages of court documents.

But, in 2007, here’s how the Legacy Media responded to Obama’s history of traffic violations:

Via Daily Caller:

….In March of 2007 it broke that then Senator Barack Obama had 15 outstanding parking tickets from his days in law school 17 years earlier, and it was met with a dismissive tone from the mainstream media.

The Times wrote:

While the Iraq debate had a prominent place in the blogs today, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and his collegiate parking habits also received attention.

While one conservative site saw some meat to the news, many blogs from each side of the fence felt the need to move on.

….Meanwhile, the Columbia Journalism Review chastised the media for bothering to report the story at all. The CJR wrote a dismissive piece entitled “Obama’s Parking Tickets: Who Cares?”

The piece concluded:

This is a story that never should have made it beyond local Boston TV news, if that. It’s the kind of lazy, picayune nonsense that passes as a “character issue,” but really adds nothing to our understanding of a candidate. Yet such stories tend to pile up during a campaign, often at the expense of questions and issues that actually matter. Up next: Did you “experiment” with marijuana as a college student?

Related:

NewsBusters: NYT’s Backfiring Rubio Blunder Just the Latest of Times’ Fizzled Anti-GOP Hit Jobs

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  1. strider says:

    Of course O’s tickets were for parking. Ever see the movie : “Up in Smoke” ….. “hey man how’s my driving? ……. we’re parked man…….”

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