Michael Kelly: Liberal bias continues to exist in the mainstream media

Union Leader ^ | 12/19/02 | Michael Kelly

[kattracks]

THE QUESTION posed in my previous column — “Does a (still) largely liberal news media (still) exhibit a largely liberal bias?” — can be answered both as a matter of logic and as a matter of fact, and in both cases, the answer is: Sure.

As to logic: “The essential argument by the media is that, yes, most mainstream journalists may be left of center, but they operate in the tradition of objectivity, so this doesn’t affect their coverage of the news,” notes S. Robert Lichter, president of the independent Center for Media and Public Affairs. “What this argument fails to grasp is the way bias works in people. Yes, journalists tell the truth — but, like everyone else, they tell the truth as they see it.”

[Paleo Conservative]

"The essential argument by the media is that, yes, most mainstream journalists may be left of center, but they operate in the tradition of objectivity, so this doesn’t affect their coverage of the news,”

More Barbara Streisand.

[Coleus]

Yes, the DemonRats are racists. Senator Robert Byrd, DemonRat from West Virginia, on TV last year used the "N" word twice on national television, covered up by the left-wing biased press, never reported. This Rat was a past grand wizard of the KKK. All covered up by the left wing racist press.


Interestingly, Byrd was not in the armed forces in WWII, and that was also precisely when he was in the Klan. On D-Day, Strom Thurmond, a 42-year-old who resigned his judgeship to volunteer for the Army, landed in Normandy, and Robert Byrd, 26 at the time, worked comfortably in a defense plant in West Virginia.

In 1964, President LBJ, Democrat, praised the Republicans for their vote for the civil rights act of 1964 where 21 DemonRats voted NO while ONLY 5 Republican voted NO.

Bill Clinton, Governor 12 yrs. Arkansas, celebrated Confederate Flag Day for ALL 12 of his yrs. as governor and signed ACT 985 enacting Robert E. Lee day, If you forgot your history Lee was the General of the CONFEDERATE army.

Don't forget Bilbo, Faubus, Maddox, and Fulbright. Perhaps the worst of them is Hugo Black, a leading liberal Democrat senator from Alabama who pushed FDR's new deal through congress and, for his loyalty, was appointed by FDR to the US Supreme Court.

Like Byrd, Hugo Black was also a former Klan member. But whereas Byrd was a recruiter for the KKK, Black was much worse.

Black was literally a Klan attorney. He represented Klansmen who were under prosecution for hate murders. In fact that is how Black became famous in Alabama and later won his senate seat.

In 1921 a Klansman went into a Catholic church in Birmingham and murdered a priest in cold blood. He was brought up for prosecution and Klan lawyer Hugo Black signed on as his attorney. Black appealed to racial and religious hatred throughout the trial and even used his Klan connections to sway the jury. Reports of the trial note that at one point Black approached the jury, which included some Klan members, and flashed a series of Klan signals with the implication that they should acquit their fellow Klansman of the murder. They did and Black achieved his fame as the lawyer who got a fellow Klansman off the hook for a hate murder.

IN 1984, Democrat Gary Hart, visited the Wallace mansion in Alabama.

JFK called Wallace his friend.

Roy Cohen worked with Joe McCarthy and Sen. Robert Kennedy was his lawyer.

Martin Luther King's room was bugged by orders from JFK and Robert Kennedy

Yes, the DemonRats have their facts wrong and cover up their biases within their biased press which they control. 93% of the media voted DemonRat.

Merry Christmas, well thanks to the political correct DemonRats, that's a bad term to use, it's now Happy Holidays.