Posted on 09/15/2009 12:23:33 PM PDT by sdkruiser
Apparently, it's not just me.
For years, conservatives' claims of media bias have been dismissed as pure paranoia. I wonder if the fact that people on the left now feel the same way means I've been cured.
Television and print news have become such hack-fests that one barely needs the research skills of a, well, modern journalist, to find evidence of bias.
Let's just take a stroll through the past week.
The MSM and its entertainment partners (Letterman, John Stewart and Co.) have been all over Joe Wilson for having a spontaneous (albeit rude) outburst of honesty last Wednesday. It's been part of the national dialogue for almost a week now, so much so that Congress is preparing to take action on this pressing issue and vote to rebuke Wilson, despite the fact that he offered a personal apology to President Obama and it was accepted.
For six days, Wilson has been treated as if he had plumbed new depths of Congressional rudeness. About the only thing that could possibly be more horrifying than one representative rudely interrupting a president speaking in front of a joint session of Congress would be a group of them doing it, right?
While the press was out digging up the shocking fact that Wilson has taken No-Doz in the past, "crazy" bloggers were uncovering an actual loon in the House of Czars. 9/11 Truthers are so universally deemed insane that it's the one issue that conservatives and Bill Maher agree on. That one of them had his hands on $80 billion of stimulus cash seemed like a story to many.
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It is the typical liberal witch hunt.
They go after conservatives....and stop at nothing.
Obamacorn is not news to them, Joe Wilson, now that’s a big story.
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.
In the pre-Reagan days when the Berlin Wall still stood, some Soviets were fond of saying “the only difference between our press and the Americans’ is that we know our media lie to us and they don’t.”
Just a memory I have, which was recalled by reference to recent events.
There’s no truth in the news and no news in the truth. (Pravda and Izvestia)
The “MSM” is neither stupid nor biased; it is dedicated and manipulated.
IMHO
MSM = Marxist Trojan Horse.
It’s nothing new — the same horse gallops around in Europe.
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