Your Liberal Media

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Media
Posted on Fri Nov 17, 2006 at 08:12:18 AM EST
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It's worth noting that the last time the House turned over, in 1994, Tom Delay beat Newt Gingrich's handpicked choice for majority leader and somehow the whole town didn't interpret that as Newtie's waterloo.
Newt Time's Man of the Year

. . . There are no honeymoons for Democrats. Remember that. And "moral authority" is about haircuts and Hollywood, not torture and illegal wars. It is not merely a fight against the Republicans or a fight over politics and policy. It is a non-stop battle with the press to cover events with seriousness and responsiblity. For some reason, when Democrats are in power the press corps immediately goes from being merely shallow to insufferable, sophomoric [jerks].

The 2006 election was nine days ago and this is what CNN had on their screen today:

Pelosi Damaged Goods?

These are Clinton rules, folks. Get used to it.

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HUH? (4.00 / 1) (#5)
by Red Hog on Fri Nov 17, 2006 at 09:35:38 AM EST

I think Deconstructionist is having a bad day. But enough about him.
The "liberal press" did indeed enjoy reporting on disharmony in the ranks of democratic leadership. One can only suppose that they created this hype as a result of their having lost sight of what a fair election and ardent discussion really is. At the same time, the "liberal press" is treating Trent Lotts election as minority whip as the feel-good comeback story of the year. Heaven help us!

: 2008 (none / 0) (#7)
by jimakaPPJ on Fri Nov 17, 2006 at 09:57:10 AM EST

Some Repubs I know are arguing that the "liberal" press is happy because they know Lott's comeback will hurt the Repub in 2008.

Bias? (none / 0) (#6)
by jimakaPPJ on Fri Nov 17, 2006 at 09:55:26 AM EST

Big Tent - Actually I have always understood that the complaints of bias reflect the views of the complainer. Thus the Repubs complained continually about Clinton's good press, and were to a large degree correct. But seeing that Clinton was of the age of the media, worked them beautifully, what else did the Repubs expect?

Now, if you want to look at some examples of bias, consider this picture from SF. It is deceptive in the extreme.

And you can get a full look at good leaks vs bad leaks here

And you can see some of who is paying who here.

And a look at how the press let's its bias blind itself to people.

And the latest outrage by CNN being the publisher for the terrorist propaganda.

I could go on, but I think I have made my point.

And if you are outraged by the mild headline questioning Pelosi's future, I wonder what you be saying if you were a Repub.

Correction (none / 0) (#8)
by jimakaPPJ on Fri Nov 17, 2006 at 09:58:49 AM EST

oops - The sniper photo comes not from CNN but Time, although CNN as done the same.


Yup (none / 0) (#9)
by aw on Fri Nov 17, 2006 at 10:26:41 AM EST

Real objective reporting in those links, PPJ.


: SOP (none / 0) (#10)
by Gabriel Malor on Fri Nov 17, 2006 at 11:16:12 AM EST

Shortcut: Don't bother addressing the content, just go after the source.

This is just the standard rethug trick... (none / 0) (#11)
by Bill Arnett on Fri Nov 17, 2006 at 12:04:42 PM EST

...of trying to label and define the opposition in a thinly-veiled attempt to plant false ideas in the media.

Unfortunately, with the terrible newspapers we have today and "news" networks playing stenographer for the rethugs they often succeed.

Apparently the electorate saw through their BS about the horror of a "San Francisco liberal" which hopefully indicates that the stats are true: the vast majority of Americans believe that bush is dishonest, that he hides things damaging to his maladministration, and that they trust Democrats more than bush and the rethug guard to correct what ails the country.

You can't fool all the people all the time.