When tagging items at NewsBusters, one of our Media Bias sub-categories is "Sudden Respect." The notion is that to win the affection of the MSM, all a Republican or conservative has to do is to turn on members or positions of his party. There was a great illustration of the phenomenon on today's Morning Joe. During last night's undercard debate, Lindsay Graham repeatedly ripped fellow Republicans for their rhetoric on Muslims, at one point even apologizing to Muslims for Donald Trump's comments.
And that of course elicited a collective GrahamBasm for the Morning Joe crew. Mike Barnicle called Graham "fantastic," Nicolle Wallace said "I adore Lindsay Graham." But most amazing was Mika Brzezinski, who beyond praising him as "incredible" actually declared, sounding like she was choking up "I feel a connection with Lindsay Graham," causing Joe Scarborough to claim [we presume facetiously] that Mika said "where has he been all my life?" Not to be outdone, Joe called on President Obama to award Graham the Presidential Medal of Freedom.