Posted on 05/12/2006 6:54:57 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
May 12, 2006
psychosis: 'A severe mental illness in which the person has lost contact with reality."
OK, I'm not kidding: judging from tonight's episode of Hardball, either the MSM is psychotic, or I am. You be the armchair psychiatrist.
Chris Matthews' guest was NY Times media reporter Bill Carter. Matthews, discussing W's low poll numbers, observed:
"Bush is down there, Lou Harris, a liberal pollster, let's get straight on that, has got him down at 29. Is it too easy now to bash him? Even the money guys now in our business are saying, 'hit him again'. Is it too easy now to bash him?"
Carter: "You have to say, the media didn't go after him for a long time."
Matthews: "Tell me about it. They were embedded, I think. Too much."
Carter: "Way too much. So when it turns around . . . "
Matthews:
"Here's a favorite topic of mine, which is the war in Iraq. I've been skeptical about the arguments made. I can't say right or wrong, but I think there's been real questions about the case made. But I see the media still in this lazy habit of assuming if you're pro-war, if you think this was a smart thing to do, you're treated as the majority. The fact is that Cindy Sheehan, is more representative of most people's thinking now, as far left as she seems, because most Americans for months now believe it was a mistake to go to war, yet the mainstream media continues to act as if most people support the war and it's the outside weirdos that oppose it. That's not true! The average American opposes this war."
Carter: "That's what the polls are telling us."
Matthews: "Why does the media still act as if this is a gung-ho country?"
Carter: "I think the media has been very much currying favor with the administration for a long time."
Matthews: "Why?"
Carter: "Because I think that was the only way to get access with these guys. They've been very difficult to talk to and you see that playing out."
Matthews: "You're singing my song. I think you're right. The word embedding is of course appropriate for people like David Bloom who went out there and lost his life, really risking in the tough conditions of war, but when you start thinking like the party you're covering, the politicians you're covering . . . "
Carter: "I've seen more comment recently about that whole embedding thing was a psychological ploy almost and it worked very effectively to get the media thinking we're involved, you're more involved that way."
Look, no one denies that there's been more discontent lately with the war. But the notion that:
The MSM "didn't go after Pres. Bush for a long time."
The MSM were psychologically 'embedded' with the Bush administration.
The MSM treats pro-war people as "the majority."
Cindy Sheehan is representative of America.
The MSM act as if most people support the war.
The MSM acts as if this is a gung-ho country.
The MSM has been currying favor with the administration for a long time.
The MSM thinks like the Republican party and Republican politicians.
Sorry, but either Matthews and Carter are crazy, or I am. As I said, you be the judge.
Hardball/NewsBusters tell-me-if-I'm-crazy ping to Today show list.
Who is nuttier Jimmy Carter or this clown who used to work for him?
Radio KSFO 560 am SF with Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan have a larger audience.
And their audience is not represented by this poisoned thinking.
I have nothing in common with these people. Absolutely nothing.
And I am proud to say that.
Which country, Syria?
Where have they gotten that canard from? I've seen it a lot lately, and I'm sorry, but I just cannot remember the time the weren't going after him.
Maybe September 11-12, 2001...no, wait...they blasted him for not heading back to the White House, and said he was running scared.
Not you, definitely.
Sissy Chrissy is NUTZ!!!!!!!!!!!
Can I say the B word on FR?
Cindy Sheehan is representative of America.
Yep, I've always maintained that the vast majority of Americans are rather simple minded like Cindy. Perhaps Mr. Bush's poll numbers reflect those of us who have enough grey matter to carry on a rational discussion.
Be afraid. Be very afraid! :)
These people are incapable of any original thought whatsoever! This goes back to their playback of "we're losers because we haven't got out our message"... I understand that it's tough trying to find a soul if you don't have one, but come on! Try something else Dems/libs! Your setup has become tiresome.
You'd have to be rabid to take a single word in this piece seriously.
This guy think Sheehan is a good represenative of America? HA!
I have yet to meet a left winger, or any other person who is against this war, describe the terrorists as freedom fighters. Most of them have referred to them with words I can't use here.
I haven't met a person who thinks this country isn't worth dying for.
Also, America is nearly as self-absorbed as she is.
Chris Matthews is a complete idiot.
He then finds other insane people to join him on his program.
Throw a net over the whole bunch of them and get them into straight jackets before they combust right there on TV
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