Mark Steyn: America's liberal media bias does their darling Democrats no favours whatsoever

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 11/08/03 | Mark Steyn

[tet68]

Steyn Bump!

God, the man has a way with words!

The Daily Telegraph, in a curious editorial that sounded as if my colleagues had been up all night snorting Democratic talking points

Bwahahahaha!

[CT]

BUBBLE PEOPLE!

That's what our family has taken to calling liberals.

We live in Oregon, near Portland, but outside it.

Everyday my wife and I go into town. We are surrounded by liberals. They talk about what they heard on NPR. They have the famous Saddam poster on their walls, except with a likeness of GWB being pulled from the Capitol dome.

They dish it out to conservatives like me. But I dish it right back by telling them they are the ones in the dark.

They only have each other to talk to. They dismiss anything they hear from a conservative. They act as though they represent a significant majority. Problem is, for them atleast, they are far from even a majority. I remind them of this, but they aren't phased the least.

Best of all, they think Howard Dean is keen. And if he won't do there is always Hillary.

These are the same people that slept for 8 long years. Yet they now have some new-found for imagined corruption. They fail to recognize war for what it is.

They are BUBBLE PEOPLE. And every work day I get to be around them.

[EDINVA]

condolences.

[EDINVA]

condolences.

[Plutarch]

I wonder if the British readers of the Telegraph understand our politics and media enough to comprehend the truth of Steyn's points.

The usual writing from a British perspective betrays a lack of understanding. Their view is obscured by the cultural fog drifting in from the Continent.

[tet68]

- because in the long run stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty."

That's essentially a cultural argument, and one artfully in tune both with white rural male gun nuts who resent Democratic predations on their own liberty and with newer, younger, 9/11 Republican converts who think the way to stop Islamic terrorism is to fix the problem at source. And the pretzel contortions of the Democratic candidates can't match it.

Oddly enough,"stability purchased at the expense of Liberty"
was a sentiment our founding fathers found distasteful also.

"Is Life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH!" ~Patrick Henry.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

Chris Matthews said yesterday that Southern white males vote Republican because they are still pissed about events in the 60's.

At their own peril, The Dems choose to ignore the fact that it is really because their organization is consistently anti white 'successful' male.

Why would this group vote Democrat?

[gcruse]

when even our allies across the pond notice the 'Liberal Cocoon'

Mark Steyn lives in New Hampshire.

[Kay Soze]

Because of the net and the cable there are now too many soruces of news available.

And logic is not on their side only emotion.

[gcruse]

Nice riff on the dangers of believing your own propaganda...

Jonathan Winters on emerging from a stay in the nuthouse:

"Sometimes I got to believing my own stuff."

[Southack]

"... the change in voter identification since September 11 is all in one direction - Florida: Republicans up six points; Minnesota: Republicans up eight points; Michigan: Republicans up nine points; Iowa: Republicans up 12 points; Arkansas (home of the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library): Republicans up 15 points."

The voter rolls are just one of numerous trends currently going against the Dems. Another such trend is in fundraising. Their time has come and gone. What do they have to show for it?

[Little Bill]

Time for a New Bumper sticker, enslaved in the Peoples Republic of Mass, I think that "Any A$$Hole can be A Democrat", might be appopreate, My What would Jesus Say sticker hasn't gotten the desired result.

[Timesink]

What happened to Beebwatch?

[Wolfstar]

The speech the President gave yesterday was superb. This from a man the Dems and their media shills labeled "stupid," and "lacking gravitas," and unable to string an articulate sentence together. This "inarticulate" Republican President has given several of THE most important, powerful, and beautiful speeches in American (and world) history.

[xp38]

Steyn produces the occasional dud of a column so he far from perfect. However they are drowned by a sea of excellence of which this column is a part.

[xp38]

I think pod people might be an even better description.

[mc5cents]

Well, it's true even Democrats can find good news if they know where to look. In my town in New Hampshire, a Democrat neighbour recently got elected cemetery commissioner, which may prove useful experience, the way things are going for her party.

LOL!! Mark Steyn you are BEEEE YOUUU TEEE FULL!!

[DeepDish]

I think the reason white male southerners are going republican because of Hollywood and news broadcasters who for years have been portaying them as unwashed gap toothed morons who have at least one water-headed banjo playing cousin.

[baseballmom]

Steyn bump.

[Agnes Heep]

With liberals, the image is everything. So it doesn't really matter to them if they're getting their butts kicked, as long as those polls look good.