The media is so dramatically conservative in Washington, D.C. that Grover Norquist outranks former Democrat presidents, vice presidents, and presidential candidates in the booking order. So claimed the Daily Kos blogger known as "Dengre" in a post on "The bias we fight." Be amazed:
And as we fight we need to know that we start every round of every battle at a disadvantage. If you are a liberal or a progressive you are always a dirty f***ing hippie --- always a weak-ass panda in this Bourgeois Town. And Conservatives are always the voice of power with access to any media outlet they wish to use. Grover Norquist can get on any show he wants to be booked on and he will always be treated as a serious player. Al Gore, Howard Dean or Jimmy Carter will never be given the respect that the inside-the-beltway crowd gives Norquist and the rest of his merry band of conservative think tank thieves. The gap is big.
Grover Norquist is a serious Washington insider, but let's not suggest that if he threw a huge anti-Gore concert to laugh at the hype over global warming, NBC would broadcast it for 75 hours. He also hasn't guest-hosted the Olbermann show like Howard Dean just did.
Don't miss the whole blog, as "Dengre" (an employee of the liberal group Green America) expresses his love for The Washington Post, but laments that the donkey and elephant sculptures they have outside the Post's downtown headquarters are painted in a conservatively biased fashion. The donkey has the "weak-ass pandas" painted on it, while the elephant has D.C. monuments. Even the sculptors are conservatives?
(Hat tip: Cash for Buick Regals)
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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They Have To Tell Themselves That
July 31, 2009 - 15:09 ET by txradioguyThe Liberals have to tell themselves that the media is obviously biased to the right (a blatant lie) to justify in their pointy little heads why America...real America not the vacuum THEY live in...is rejecting in total their ideal of turning us into the next Socialist Utopia.
Libs believe that it must be a Conservative/Rovian plot to squash "the truth"...and allow Fox News (Faux News to Libs) to spread lies and relegate Keith Olberman (the best most honest journalist to the Libs) to cellar dwellar status in the ratings...right down there next to Meaty Fingers Maddow (the second most honest journalist to the Libs)
God forbid they wake up to the hard reality that the majority of Americans don't subscribe to or want to buy into turning the U.S.A into another U.S.S.R.
"I May Be Changed By War, But I Will Not Be Defeated By It" - Audie Murphy
The sad truth I think this
July 31, 2009 - 15:23 ET by bedmondsonThe sad truth I think this blogger and others are beginning to see, is that American opinion is swayed by those who are yelling the loudest. Glen Beck has known that for a while and think it can be seen in the last election with masses of people at Obama rallies. If the libs or conservatives yell something with enough volume and enough times the public who generally doesn't care or pay attention will be influenced. So if Dengre can repeat this, get his buddies to say it, and then get emails going around and so on, popular convention could be influenced with some people whether or not it is true.
The Daily Kooks won't be
July 31, 2009 - 15:23 ET by mattmThe Daily Kooks won't be satisfied until all opposition is crushed.
"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses." - Vladimir Lenin
Please Do
July 31, 2009 - 15:47 ET by slickwillie2001Please DO put Jimmy Carter on the TV more often, in fact maybe he should have his own show on CNN.
Norquist, a frequent guest?
July 31, 2009 - 16:26 ET by Gary HallNorquist, a frequent guest? Can get on anywhere he wants - anytime?
Oh, I doubt that many in the MSM have any interest in having Norquist on as a guest. I caught him on C-span, once last year - in the midst of a love fest for Obama economics (well, he offered up some balance). Is Rush a welcome guest on any of the MSM network and/or cable shows - or do they simply prefer to have liberals on to throw insults at Rush?
On the other hand, Gore, the other Gore - Vidal, Carter, Bill Maher, Ayers, Whoppie, Janeane Garofalo, Clinton, etc., are always welcome guests all across the spectrum of the MSM. The more to the left they are, the more welcome they are.
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Norq
July 31, 2009 - 16:48 ET by mrbillNoruist is very dangerous in the Repub party. He is a big time Islamist and is married to a Palestinian. He is at a lot of the Islamic meetings around the country schmoozing them. His wife was a big time participant in all the Pally things around the country. Questions are being asked if the Norq has joined in and become a Muslim...??
Needs ot be watch at all times.
Another is Darrel Issa, he makes many trips to Syria and is far to close to that area.
Your points deserve consideration since Muslims are...
August 1, 2009 - 10:08 ET by ThalpyYour points deserve consideration since Muslims are under no obligation to be truthful with unbelievers. Gaffney and Horowitz have expressed similar concerns. **
** http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=15084
This kind of talk sounds
August 1, 2009 - 10:52 ET by Chris NormanThis kind of talk sounds bigoted and makes me, for one, uncomfortable. You are playing us right into the hands of the other side.
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
Umm,
August 2, 2009 - 10:03 ET by UpNorthSeems like racial/religious profiling a little. First off, just a minor thing, his wife was a Kuwaiti-born woman of Palestinian descent. If you check, I think you'll see that Norquist is in the business of making money. That might explain his going to a "lot of the Islamic meetings". And, as far as watching those who make many trips to the mid-east, I know a bunch of soldiers and Marines who've done that too, maybe you should watch them too? They're "far too close to that area".
I think this is Freudian or
July 31, 2009 - 17:04 ET by Chris NormanI think this is Freudian or something. Deep down, this guy knows that Norquist deserves more respect than the political con men - Dean and Gore - and is just expressing that realization in a negative (and crazy) way. It's like someone who's jealous of a beautiful woman saying, "But, don't you agree that she's too beautiful?".
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
This is embarassing but...
August 1, 2009 - 18:01 ET by mizflame98I knew the name Grover Norquist but I just couldn't figure out who the guy was. I looked him up in Wikipedia, and he didin't ring a bell. I looked up the guy's picture and still his face didn't jump out as someone recognizable. I went on Amazon.com to find any books he might have written. He did write a book that I want to get and I recall that he was interviewed on Glenn Beck (or was Glenn interviewing it Randy E. Barnett?) You know, for someone who has unilimited access to the media outlets, I just don't recognize the man. Sorry you silly Kosacks, I just can't buy off on what you're trying to sell.
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