Lacking any legitimate criticism, the pedigreed media haters are piling on Tony Snow for being born good-looking. The nerve of that guy, not having the right bad genes! The MSM is of course rightly intolerant of bias on the grounds of race, gender, or disability...but if you're exceptionally abled, like Tony is, in the looks and brains department and about to go to work for the wrong kind of (Republican) White House? Well, that kind of discrimination is A-OK with them. As Rebecca Dana writes in the New York Observer, the Houston Chronicle's Julie Mason is leading the how-dare-he-be-hot charge:
“It’s sort of the obvious elevation of style over substance,” said Julie Mason, a White House correspondent for the Houston Chronicle. “Not that he doesn’t have substance, but they do seem to be going with flash over someone who’s a little wonkier. Usually that’s done in a more sleight-of-hand, subtext way, not like, ‘Here’s a guy with great hair.’”
...Great hair—thick, fluffy, a graying Ken doll’s hair—is just one of Mr. Snow’s broadcast virtues. A former speechwriter for George H.W. Bush and a popular radio host, he is full of Southern charm and colorful language.
Mason has just created a new definition in the media-bias dictionary: saying that someone has "style over substance" is another way of saying "acceptable discrimination."
Also, apparently, "charm and a way with words" is now synonymous with "unfair advantage." So, fair is unfair and unfair is fair. Make sense to you? Nope, not to me either...but that's why bias was invented: to arbitrarily excuse injustice.
