Even after 14 Wisconsin Democrats childishly abandoned their senatorial duties and fled to an undisclosed resort in Illinois like angry little school children to prevent a vote on a bill that would stymie the very unions that own their souls, the leftist media continue to lionize them. But if 14 Wisconsin Republicans had skipped town, the Left's media denizens would be framing a completely different narrative.

Those of us on the Right can only imagine what the fury of the left-wing press would be if 14 GOP lawmakers had abruptly left their states and were holed up in a plush resort – paid for by the very people they deserted. In the corporate world, no boss in their right mind would keep them on the payroll. Then again, being a Democrat makes you instantly inoculated from any and all mainstream media scrutiny, no matter what you do.

Perpetually drunk with power and full of their own self-importance, these 14 Democrats currently on the lam have the leftist media in their back pockets as the useful idiots in the press literally campaign for them with gross comparisons to the uprisings in Egypt, while ignoring the facts surrounding Gov. Scott Walker's bill to end the union juggernaut.

According to Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee chair, “over the past week, Democrats and their Big Labor union bosses have been subverting the democratic process, intimidating taxpayers and walking out on the job in order to secure generous taxpayer-funded benefits for themselves at a time when everyone else is cutting back.”

Priebus said “it's no secret Barack Obama and his Democrat allies are in the pocket of the union bosses who work to secure special benefits at the expense of taxpayers,” adding:

Predictably, however, the leftist media have been silent about these little-known facts.

The all-too-familiar adversarial relationship between the leftist media and the GOP is once again being played out in broadcast, print and cyberspace, with the Left's media minions taking sides with their fellow leftist Democrats who are busy playing hooky on Wisconsin taxpayer's dime.

“Wisconsin state troopers were dispatched Thursday to try to find at least one of the 14 state Democrats who have been on the run for eight days to delay a vote on Republican Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to strip collective bargaining rights from nearly all public employees,” wrote Associated Press writers Todd Richmond and Scott Bauer (Feb. 24, 2011). Despite telling readers that Democrats were on the lam, Richmond and Bauer still defended them by claiming that Scott Walker plans to “strip” the so-called “rights” of “nearly all public employees.”

As an unwritten – and unspoken – rule, media leftists routinely frame the questions posed to Democrats and determine how readers will get the story, while never actually getting both sides of a given issue.

As usual, Democrats get a free pass, getting away with patently juvenile and unprofessional behavior, while Republicans they perceive as doing the same (even if they aren't) are portrayed as villains who would never get the same kid glove treatment – especially if they fled their states and were in hiding out, which they would never deem acceptable for Republicans, but all right for Democrats.

In a separate story, Richmond certainly expressed his sympathy for “sleep-deprived Democrats” he actually thought were caught off guard when state Republicans rightfully passed the bill that would end the union monopoly in the state.

“Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly took the first significant action on their plan to strip collective bargaining rights from most public workers, abruptly passing the measure early Friday morning before sleep-deprived Democrats realized what was happening,” he wrote (Feb. 25, 2011).

Richmond also accused Walker of not sounding “conciliatory” when Republicans “had no intention of backing off the main tenets of the bill.” Richmond went on to further defend his fellow Democrats and Obama's union bosses by claiming that “Democrats and unions see the measure as an attack on workers' rights and an attempt to cripple union support for Democrats.”

“Union leaders say they would make pension and health care concessions if they can keep their bargaining rights, but Walker has refused to compromise,” Richmond wrote, lacing his one-sided story with quotes from several Democrats and union workers – but with only one Republican who actually “applaud[ed] the Democrats in the Assembly for earnestly debating this bill.”

“Democrats looked around, bewildered,” Richmond sympathetically wrote. “Only 13 of the 38 Democratic members managed to vote in time. Republicans immediately marched out of the chamber in single file. The Democrats rushed at them, pumping their fists and shouting “Shame!” and “Cowards!” The Republicans walked past them without responding. Democrats left the chamber stunned. The protesters greeted them with a thundering chant of “Thank you!” Some Democrats teared up. Others hugged.”

According to the Media Research Center (MRC), the Wisconsin protests are “a perfect case study in the media's longstanding double standard favoring left-wing causes while demonstrating much more hostility to the Tea Party and conservative protest,” said the MRC's Rich Noyes in a Feb. 22 report analyzing the blatant hypocrisy of the leftist media coverage of both the Tea Party and Wisconsin union protests.

Case in point: CBS Early Show's Chris Wragge who worried if “this governor [Scott Walker] is trying to basically break unions and that other states may then follow suit…should unions be on alert all around the country?” he asked Mike Huckabee.

In addition, MRC's Kyle Drennen noted that Wragee claimed the Wisconsin protests were “the Tea Party movement for the Left,” with fellow CBS political analyst John Dickerson gushing that “this is the energizing moment on the Left, progressives and unions have always been together....It's about the threat to their benefits.”

That same day, CNN leftist Carol Costello panicked that “corporate America is about to win big time” in Wisconsin. In his typical leftist take on all things anti-GOP, the Washington Post's in-house Communist, Carl Bernstein – who helped bring down Richard Nixon with unsubstantiated allegations and unnamed, phony sources – labeled Walker as “ahistorical” and “demagogic” for daring to stand up to unaccountable unions.

But staying true to form, NBC's Brian Williams cheered on the Marxist protestors, gushing that “the workers” are “rising up and saying no to some of the most extreme cuts in the nation.” Fellow NBC colleague Ann Curry asked New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie if the GOP was trying to “scapegoat” unions (Feb. 23, 2011).

However, last March, when the Tea Party peacefully protested, ABC World “Skews” Tonight's perennial leftist Diane Sawyer described them as “roaming Washington,” with “some of them increasingly emotional, yelling slurs and epithets,” charges which later were proven to false. But Sawyer never issued a correction – let alone an apology – like she would have if she misquoted a fellow leftist Democrat.

In August 2009, ABC anchor Charles Gibson complained about how “protesters brought pictures of President Obama with a Hitler-style mustache to a town hall meeting,” yet he failed to mention that the signs were produced by Lyndon LaRouche's Far Left, Marxist political action committee and not the Tea Party, Noyes noted.

On Sept. 29, 2010, one of MSNBC's many conspiracy theorists and overall nutcases, Lawrence O'Donnell, squawked that “one of the central questions about the Tea Party, and one of the accusations that flies around is that this is a racist group – predominantly racist group, partially racist group, or more racist than your average collection on a subway car in New York City. You've been in and among them. What's the answer to the Tea Party racist question?”

Not surprisingly, N.Y. Times leftist editors asked in a Feb. 19 diatribe: “Is Wisconsin the Tunisia of collective bargaining rights?” to wit, CBS's Face the Nation's Bob Schieffer asked Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan: “Is Madison, Wis., Congressman, the Tunisia of American politics now?” (Schieffer obviously took his cue – and his daily talking points as every left-wing “reporter” does – from the Times.) Joining them, the ever-predictably loony Newsweek's Jonathan Alter on Nov. 1, 2010 declared that “the GOP agenda has to be stopped.”

Despite the facts to the contrary, the daily theatrics we always see with Democrats never get them in trouble with the leftist media. In fact, if these kinds of pathetic romper room politics the Wisconsin Democrat truants are playing right now reveals anything to the American public, it continually shows how petty, arrogant and partisan they really are. This is exactly the kind of childish temper tantrums their leftist press friends would never tolerate if Wisconsin Republicans had skipped town. They would have been mercilessly smeared and belittled them for having the audacity to leave their jobs and hide out.

Not only have members of the left-wing press offered excuses for their fellow Democrats, they have shown unabashed admiration for their fellow Democrats in hiding, even to the point of knowing their undisclosed location (where some have interviewed them instead of exposing them). But Republicans aren't afforded such luxuries. The leftist media wouldn't just play hardball with Republicans by calling them cowards; they would disclose the very location Republicans were hiding out in if the roles were reversed.

While this actual “angry mob” of left-wing teachers and union workers in Wisconsin close down schools and take fake sick leave notes from doctors like kids in a candy store, this same leftist media who are excusing this brazen behavior have ruthlessly mocked the Tea Party movement's peaceful rallies.

While the leftist press had zeroed in on a few placards Tea Party members weren't even carrying, they patently ignored the signs carried by real Marxists at the Wisconsin rallies calling Walker “Scott Stalin,” “Scott Walker = Adolf Hitler” and comparing him to Hosni Mubarak in Egypt as “One dictator down” with Mubarak's face on one side, and “One to go” with Walker's face on the other.

“During the Tea Party protests,” noted David Martin, executive vice president of the Media Research Center (Feb. 23, 2011), “ABC anchor Charles Gibson was aghast that protestors brought pictures of Obama with a Hitler-style mustache to a town hall meeting. Gibson deceptively failed to report the truth that these signs were not from a Tea Partier but rather a product of Lyndon LaRouche's ultra-left wing fringe movement. But the truth doesn't matter when the leftist media are on a mission to discredit and demonize conservatives.

“Jump forward to the Wisconsin union protests and no one in the liberal media seems concerned about signs featuring Gov. Scott Walker as Adolf Hitler or soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Signs with messages like, “Don't Retreat, Reload; Repeal Walker” with crosshairs over the face of the governor are ignored,” Martin added. “By comparison, a Facebook map posted by Sarah Palin that placed a crosshair graphic on maps of congressional districts – not elected officials – was the subject of a liberal media meltdown last month.”

At the same time, the leftist press ignored Obama's deafening silence over the faux outrage in Wisconsin, which is really a fight to hang on to union coffers who funnel millions into the elections of fellow Far Left Democrats. If that wasn't enough, CNN on Feb. 23 named Walker's prank caller Ian Murphy (who pretended to be billionaire David Koch) the “Most Intriguing Person of the Day.” Most of the other networks played up the incident to discredit Walker. MRC's Matthew Balan noted that CNN's Suzanne Malveaux, who has a long history of pro-Democrat bias, didn't even mention that Murphy referred to him in an article on his blog, Buffalobeast.com, as a “Koch Whore.”

Plus, the fact that protestors were bussed in by Obama's Organizing for America, a leftist reactionary arm of the Democrat National Committee, was flat out ignored by the majority of the leftist media. They also didn't report about the Marxist groups at the protest who were drinking alcohol and smoking dope right in the state capitol building.

But, conversely, the leftist press has portrayed Tea Partiers as the uncontrollable ones, when it is the Far Left who's the real perpetrators of violence.

“On Saturday (Feb. 19), as pro-reform protestors rallied in Madison, they received very different coverage by the national media,” wrote Jeffrey Folks of American Thinker (Feb. 21, 2011). “Unlike the enthusiastic and extensive coverage of union protestors, that of pro-reformers ranged from polite indifference to snide attack. Everything from crowd estimates to characterizations of intent was distorted.”

Yet, all the left-wing networks virtually disregarded acerbic comments by Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Michael Capuano, who called on union protestors to “get a little bloody when necessary” with Walker, in which Capuano later apologized only when he was caught on video. But if he were a Republican, the leftist media would have pounced.

In the end, “the media's reporting of Wisconsin is, of course, a warm-up for larger battles ahead in Congress, and for the 2012 presidential campaign,” Folks said. “Whatever media restraint, however miniscule, may have existed in the lull following the Tea Party victories of November, it has now been cast aside.”

“Anyone who thinks that the media has cooled off following the November election is madly mistaken. All that has changed is that the tactics of the mainstream media have become more outrageous,” Folks added. “From now on, it's back to the playbook of the 2008 campaign, when everyone with a “D” following his name was lauded and everyone with an “R” was vilified.”

Bottom line: If Scott Walker were a Democrat, the Left's media idiots would be praising him as a hero and providing pretty of favorable coverage. But if the 14 Democrats who ran away like children were Republicans, the leftist media would have vilified them for shirking their responsibilities and would be screaming for each of them to be recalled. If only we had more Republicans with Scott Walker's backbone, then we would have real change – even though leftist media bias would more than likely not change one iota.