Posted on 04/27/2013 9:54:16 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
It's enough to make you wonder whether Bob Herbert inhabits the same planet as the rest of us. Appearing on Melissa Harris-Perry's MSNBC show this morning, former New York Times columnist Herbert literally laughed out loud at the notion that American media leans liberal. According to Herbert, the bias in the American media is "overwhelmingly" to the right.
Herbert's snicker came in response to a statement by New York Times reporter Amy Chozick, also an MH-P guest. Chozick recently wrote an article reporting on the Koch brothers' possible interest in buying the Tribune Company, which among other media outlets owns the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. According to Chozick, the brothers' interest was in part sparked by their outrage in seeing the liberal bias when they picked up American newspapers.
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When you are that far over to the Left, even a socialist looks conservative.
Bob Herbert, columnist from the Planet Benzar? Ping to T
Today show list.
Guess who fears being out of a job if he has to report the truth?.
Hate lies bribes and fear are the only tools the left has.
Will someome please remind me why the Koch brothers are considered right wing? Let’s see, they are pro-taxes, pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, etc.. etc. The just don’t like certain union agreements. Does that really make them conservative?
It’s like Joe Lieberman. He was only 99% Stalinist left and he was deemed a “Conservative.”
Herbert views Karl Marx as a Tea Party conservative, so it all makes 'sense'.
LOL! I wouldn’t worry about Herbert’s views. Bob Herbert is so far to the left that he renamed the right side of his body right side “Not Me.”
A fish doesn’t realize it’s wet.
Mark
Bob who?
The Koch Bros are considered ‘right wing’ only by the likes of Bob Herbert. They are, overall, more conservative than liberal, but solidly in the libertarian camp. Totally free market and in that same libertarian vein, totally open on social issues.
They’ve founded and/or funded several more conservative organization (Americans for Prosperity, Cato Inst, Mercatus Center). Their $ support has enabled many conservative causes to advance, including the SCOTU case of AFP.
Well, if you write for the New York Times, it may appear that even MSNBC (and Karl Marx) are to your right.
The Bob Herbert who got his journalism degree from a correspondence school.
That Bob Herbert.
Bob Herbert is a half witted racist hateful socialist clown. In a sane society no one would give a rat’s rump about anything he says or writes, much less to actually pay him to do it.
Sometimes liberal psychopaths don’t realize they are liberal psychopaths because they only talk to other liberal psychopaths.
Bob Herbert is being dishonest.
We need to organize demonstrations and letter-writing campaigns in support of the Koch brothers.
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