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What have conservatives got to be angry about?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | 7/10/2006 | Bill McClellan

Posted on 07/11/2006 6:02:15 AM PDT by erikm88

I came into the newsroom Friday morning and expected to see a lot of long faces. We liberals had taken such a whipping on Thursday that the Friday paper was filled with bad news. I'm sure our night staff worked hard to slant things, but sometimes things go so badly that even the valiant efforts of the left-leaning Main Stream Media aren't enough to hide the truth.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Miscellaneous; Philosophy; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: journalist; liberaljournalists; liberals; missouri; stlouis
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1 posted on 07/11/2006 6:02:16 AM PDT by erikm88
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To: erikm88

The Supreme Court for one.


2 posted on 07/11/2006 6:03:04 AM PDT by Brilliant
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What do conservatives have to be angry about?

Getting sold out on illegal immigration?
Having to fight two wars abroad whild fighting the libs at home?
Having to deal with a fifth column media?

How's that for starters?


3 posted on 07/11/2006 6:05:54 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Amnesia is a train of thought.)
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To: erikm88
A liberal with a sense of humor? Incredubable!

I walked over to the photo desk to chat with a friend. His job is to look through the hundreds of photos we get every day from the wire services and pick out the most unflattering one of President George W. Bush. That is not easy work.

4 posted on 07/11/2006 6:06:31 AM PDT by DeFault User
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To: erikm88

I was 3/4 of the way through the article when I realized the writer was trying to be sarcastic. Unfortunately for him, I think there is more truth than fiction in the first part of his article.


5 posted on 07/11/2006 6:06:37 AM PDT by teddyballgame (red man in a blue state)
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Well, for one...leftist newspaper hacks who think chimp jokes about Dubya is still either novel or funny.


6 posted on 07/11/2006 6:06:44 AM PDT by RichInOC (George W. Bush is smarter than a lot of the people calling him stupid.)
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To: RichInOC
...who think making chimp jokes...

Doh!

7 posted on 07/11/2006 6:07:50 AM PDT by RichInOC (George W. Bush is smarter than a lot of the people calling him stupid.)
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To: erikm88

Don't worry, this MSM clown is a dying breed. He and his ilk will be toast sooner rather than later.


8 posted on 07/11/2006 6:08:49 AM PDT by Wage Slave (Good fences make good neighbors. -- Robert Frost)
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To: Personal Responsibility
Anybody noticing that this liberal tool is confessing that he and everybody at the STL P.O.Trash is a flag-burning liberal 'fellow traveler'? Hello, is Editor and Publisher going to pick this up as news? The guy is actually proclaiming that they are liberal, biased and they are 'slanting' (his words, not mine) stories to make them seem less damaging to liberalism.

Anybody want to argue about the MSM being liberal with this guy? Maybe Eric Alterman should add this STL idiot to his last hatefilled book about the liberal media being a myth.

9 posted on 07/11/2006 6:10:53 AM PDT by bpjam (If we take 12M illegals, they have to take Kennedy & McCain!)
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To: teddyballgame

Democrats can't understand that it is not enough for conservatives to be in power...it is enough for them. This why they supported Clinton even though he did things that were not popular with the base. We actaully want our elected officials to push the conservative message.


10 posted on 07/11/2006 6:10:55 AM PDT by nyconse
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To: RichInOC
Well, for one...leftist newspaper hacks who think chimp jokes about Dubya is still either novel or funny.

They are at the writer's of this article small home base, the DUmpster.

11 posted on 07/11/2006 6:11:01 AM PDT by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: Wage Slave
His mouth... is his seltzer bottle.


12 posted on 07/11/2006 6:12:35 AM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: bpjam

I think he was saying those things tongue-in-cheek.

Most of the bias that gets printed is not overt as in "Lets find the worst picture of Bush that we can". It is subconcious as in "I hate Bush so I tend to choose the worst picture of him without realizing it"


13 posted on 07/11/2006 6:13:09 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Amnesia is a train of thought.)
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To: nyconse

good point. That's why the kook, moon-bat left kept their mouths shut during much of Clintoon's term.


14 posted on 07/11/2006 6:13:19 AM PDT by teddyballgame (red man in a blue state)
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To: bpjam
Hello, is Editor and Publisher going to pick this up as news?

It's a satirical piece--he's "showing" how "ridiculous" it is to think such things go on in the newsroom. So E&P won't pick it up because it's actually intentional humor.

15 posted on 07/11/2006 6:13:23 AM PDT by Darkwolf377
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He's a dying breed, and he doesn't even know it.

He appears on a local PBS show every week where he and three other liberals "argue" over the issues of the day. This guy always looks hung over and unkempt. His hair is often uncombed, and his tie is always loose. He makes a very poor impression if we're to take him seriously at all.

16 posted on 07/11/2006 6:13:34 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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The MOST glaring error in this lib's story is: "In fact, Clinton was the guy who pushed through welfare reform."

NOOOOOOOO, he didn't. He vetoed it twice, and was finally forced to sign it. And now that it's worked, he's still taking credit for it. It was the Republicans who got it through congress.


17 posted on 07/11/2006 6:16:21 AM PDT by kitkat (The first step down to hell is to deny the existence of evil.)
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To: erikm88

Sounds to me as if the writer is a little bitter and sarcastic, but trying to dress it as satirical humor (unsuccessfully).


18 posted on 07/11/2006 6:17:54 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s...you weren't really there.)
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To: ShadowAce
I knew he was making an attempt at humor and satire, however, the sad thing is there is an element of truth to it.

I've never watched the PBS program. I've only lived here for about 9 months. I'm still trying to learn the politics of the area (I'm in St. Charles Co.)

--erik

19 posted on 07/11/2006 6:18:01 AM PDT by erikm88
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To: nyconse
We actaully want our elected officials to push the conservative message.

I expect elected officials to advance the conservative policy

20 posted on 07/11/2006 6:18:15 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Don't you think it's interesting how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather?)
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