Were the shoe on the other foot, let's say it was a doctor who had treated John Kerry -- or even better, Hillary Clinton -- who was battling addiction, you can bet something like that would have been the headline.
But in this case it's Vice President Dick Cheney's personal doctor who has been abusing prescription drugs for years and has finally been fired. The New York Times story was buried in the paper and with a headline that is politely couched in discrete terms. And you've got to read all the way to the fourth paragraph of the story, which seems to be more about patients' privacy than anything else, to find out that Dr. Gary Malakoff was ... well it never actually comes out and says he was fired for being high on the job but rather that he was suspended because he was found to be too impaired to continue treating patients.
Liberal media indeed! Why isn't this story about how Malakoff, after treating Cheney for his third heart attack four years ago pronounced him, "up to the task of the most sensitive public office" despite his history of heart disease ... a diagnosis that was soon followed by Cheney's fourth heart attack? Why was it important to tell us that Malakoff had read Al Gore's medical records but never treated him? What is there in the system that allows this drug addicted man to continue to treat patients for at least six years? Would the average black male in the inner city have been given the same opportunity?
New York Times: Doctor Who Treated Cheney Has Had an Addiction Problem
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