The Palace Guard MSM Drops the Mask

PJ Media ^ | June 25, 2014 | Ed Driscoll

[QT3.14]

Since its birth in the 1920s with the first national radio networks, the modern MSM has always had a cozy relationship with power, and until the creation of Fox News, one channel on your TV dial or satellite guide, that power has almost exclusively meant their fellow Democrats. The media have long voted overwhelmingly Democrat in presidential elections; as Walter Cronkite once said at a Radio & TV Correspondents Dinner in the mid-1990s, in-between feting the Clintons on his yacht in Martha’s Vineyard, “Everybody knows that there’s a liberal, that there’s a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.” But in the past, those correspondents at least paid lip service to being out for the little guy, and holding politicians’ feet to the fire. Al Roker of NBC has had enough of that pretention – and as we’ll see, he’s far from the only one. But first up, here’s Roker this morning, trashing a fellow NBC “journalist”:

[vladimir998]

There was a mask?

[blueunicorn6]

American news people are just paid Democrat liars.

[mrsmel]

I know, there wasn’t even a little make-up,on either of their faces.

[gaijin]

BJ for ya, big guy? Ha?

Come on, fella traveler, whaddya say…?!

[skeeter]

‘Al Buttsquirt, at your service.’