Loose Lips

The New Media Journal ^ | October 1, 2008 | Paul R. Hollrah

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At a March 3, 2002 Presidential Gala at Ford’s Theater, in Washington, President George W. Bush was seated in the front row. When emcee Kelsey Grammer introduced blind musician Stevie Wonder, the president smiled and raised his right hand in a perfunctory wave. It was clear to those seated nearby that his gesture was intended for Grammer, one of Hollywood’s few unabashed Republicans. Nevertheless, the Washington Post published a story the following day implying that Bush had waved at Stevie Wonder, saying, “The Prez is such a dolt, he waves at blind folks,” and Democrats all across the country repeated the fiction.

Months later, on December 5, 2002, while participating in the 100th birthday celebration of Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC), Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) made what liberals and Democrats charged was a “racially insensitive” remark. Clearly, Lott was attempting only to patronize the longest-serving member of the senate, but liberals and Democrats claimed racial bias and used his remark to drive him from his senate leadership position.

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2008 is the year when the Mainstream Media died. Now it is nothing but a pack of liberals going on search and destroy missions against anyone who is a conservative. If Obama loses, and all their efforts have been in vain, it will be the year the media went on an ill fated Kamikaze attack, and surrendered the news landscape to Fox and Rush Limbaugh.

[Jackson57]

And YET, hardly a word was said about Biden asking an audience member in a wheelchair to stand up so everyone could see him ... nnnnnaaaahhhh, no media bias.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Comparing the incidents speak volumes. Bush was attacked as being stupid and insensitive for waving to a blind person. Biden should also have been attacked as stupid and insensitive to the handicapped by asking a wheelchair bound man to stand up. The only place I have heard about the Biden incident has been on talk radio and here on Free Republic. Yet that Bush/Stevie Wonder incident was all over the MSM at the time.

[Jack of all Trades]

“Entrenched Media” seems to me to be a better reference because they sure don’t reflect or illuminate any true mainstream.

[magslinger]

The MSM died April 16, 1962. There just wasn't an Internet at the time to announce the fact.

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April 16, 1962 is the date Walter Krankheit took over as anchor for C^BS news.

[RandallFlagg]

I’ve been calling them the, “Enemedia,” for years. I’ll add it as a keyword to this thread. Click on it and see what you’ll find.