One of the key ingredients in a successful Republican candidacy for president is skill in handling media bias. Ronald Reagan was a master of the craft, but others who followed were much less so. Perhaps the worst moment of the Romney campaign in 2012 was the second presidential debate, where Candy Crowley’s brandishing of a transcript conveniently at hand in response to President Obama’s misleading claim of having identified Benghazi as a terror attack marked the end of the Romney momentum generated in the first debate. Fortunately, at least some of the GOP field this time around are showing the way in handling bias. The star so far is Carly Fiorina, who is not only articulate, disarmingly charming, and female, but who also plans ahead to counter the obvious obstacles ahead. A phony “scandal” has been trolled up and even given a –gate suffix: “domaingate,” in an obvious effort to discredit her tech savvy. Instead of looking lame and...(Read Full Post)