Thursday, June 5, 2008

Right-wing vs. Left-wing Media Bias


Image from source, LTR

Even with the rise in the ratings of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, I still think the "conventional wisdom" of a liberal media is a load of hooey. And I'm not the only one who thinks so. Take a look at this article, and see if you don't come around to my way of thinking.

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O'Reilly Says Media "Raped the President Verbally"

. . .Because DailyKos is critical of Republicans, Markos Moulitsas is equated with a KKK grand wizard. Hillary Clinton is called a murderer and baby killer. Barack Obama is repeatedly equated with Hitler. Even Bush compared Obama to a Nazi appeaser.

These are not statements dredged from the comments sections of blog posts. This is the accepted language of the right wing as spoken by its superstars and most popular, best-selling personalities: Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, William Kristol, Jonah Goldberg, Michelle Malkin, Pat Buchanan, Michael Savage, etc. etc., and even the f***ing President of the US. If you want to claim that the "liberal media" or the left is "just as bad," tell me the last time Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Katie Couric, Brian Williams, Arianna Huffington, Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, any Democratic politician, or anyone writing for the New York Times said anything even approaching this. . .


Read more at: Huffington Post


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