[moneyrunner]

Forgive me if this has been posted before. I did a search and could not find any reference to Cadell

[Buckeye McFrog]

He appears to be the last sane man left in that party.

[GraceG]

Another Liberal mugged by fellow liberals...

[Signalman]

Forgive me if this has been posted before. I did a search and could not find any reference to Cadell

That's because his name is "Caddell". :>}

[MissMagnolia]

Pat Caddell is one of the few Dems I listen to rather than hit the mute button.

[ModelBreaker]

“Democrats and Republicans, despised the press commonly, because they were SOBs to everybody. Which is exactly what they should be. They were unrelenting. Whatever the biases were, they were essentially equal-opportunity people. That changed in 1980.”

Cadell obviously does not remember the 1964 race, where the media assaults on Goldwater were as bad as anything today.

I believe the media has always (during my life) been left-wing biased. But it becomes especially vicious when an actual conservative is running OR when a radical liberal is running. They will attack actual conservatives viciously because they threaten the conventional wisdom gravy train. They will enthusiastically support radical progressives because that is such a win (in their mind).

In other words, the media jumps in hard for the democrat when (1) The modern progressive agenda is threatened by a conservative or (2) When they see a huge advance in the agenda by electing a radical progressive.

This explains a lot. 1964 and the Reagan years were actual conservatives running for president. Nasty, nasty press. 2000, OTOH had a “compassionate” conservative against a blah moderate democrat. Press was more balanced. 2004 was a “compassionate” conservative vs a radical progressive, Kerry. Vicious. 2008 was a moderate R vs a radical progressive. Unbelievably biased. Etc.

[TigersEye]

Here is video of his speech.

Pat Caddell slams the media: They have become an “enemy of the people” (video 26:00)