The left’s obsession with Judge Kavanaugh’s teenage and college years nearly four decades ago during Senate confirmation hearings received wall-to-wall coverage from the liberal media, which many conservatives consider to be a tool of the Democrats.

While Kavanaugh’s antics as a college frat boy have been thoroughly scrutinized, the mainstream media has been silent about the sexual misconduct allegations against Rep. Keith Ellison, the Minnesota Democrat running for state attorney general and the second highest ranking official in the Democratic National Committee.

Unlike the vague, confusing, uncorroborated Kavanaugh charges, the accusations made by Ellison’s ex-girlfriend Karen Monahan are current, detailed and documented. Monahan claims she has been smeared, threatened and isolated by the Democratic Party.

According to the Media Research Center, there have only been 3 minutes and 28 seconds of Ellison coverage on CBS — and none on ABC or NBC — during their morning and evening newscasts. The fact that the Ellison charges are being ignored by news outlets speaks to their journalistic ethics and commitment to objectivity.

It was refreshing to see some conservative journalists and commentators outside of the Fox Network step up in defense of Kavanaugh. S.E. Cupp, a political commentator and host of the show “Unfiltered,” and NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck both pointed out the double standard and the media’s obvious desire to stop Kavanaugh from being the latest conservative vote on the Supreme Court.

The liberal media bias we’ve seen in the Kavanaugh reporting is no surprise. Earlier this year, the Media Research Center, which studied all broadcast evening news coverage of the president, found that 90 percent of the evaluative comments about Trump were negative. That was the same percentage of hostile coverage they documented last year.

Another problem with the media’s politicizing of the news cycle is that it pushes other newsworthy and relevant stories out of the news cycle.

Outside of Fox, there was hardly any coverage outside last week when President Donald Trump awarded former Staff Sgt. Ronald Shurer II with the Medal of Honor, our highest military decoration. Serving as a Special Forces combat medic in Afghanistan in April 2008, Shurer and his team of commandos were ambushed and pinned down by an enemy force of more than 200 militants. Under withering fire from snipers, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, Shurer managed to evacuate the wounded soldiers down a near-vertical 60-foot cliff.

After leaving the Army, Shurer joined the Secret Service, where he’s worked ever since. Last year, he was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.

“He’s been fighting it every single day,” Trump said during last week’s medal ceremony in the East Room at the White House. “He’s a warrior.”

Addressing Shurer’s young children, Trump said that he was in awe of their father’s courage.

At the Senate hearings, another father found himself in the media spotlight but the atmosphere was much different. Judge Kavanaugh showed the most emotion when explaining how the onslaught of unsupported accusations was affecting his family, especially his two young daughters.

Democrats and the liberal media dismissed that show of emotion as a lack of “judicial temperament.”

Regarding temperament, how about those radical protesters who were seen following and screaming at senators about their Kavanaugh vote? The leftist media, of course, considered them to be passionate protesters exercising their rights.

Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy’s assessment of the Kavanaugh proceeding was more descriptive. He said the tactics employed by Democrat senators and protesters at the Kavanaugh hearings amounted to “an intergalactic freak show on steroids.”

By Jim Zbick | tneditor@tnonline.com