This past week saw The Washington Post ask a classically liberal question: Is America more racist or sexist?
Following the lead of this major paper, ABC’s Diane Sawyer asked the same question, adding a surreptitious angle. She wondered, "Is the nation, secretly, I guess, more racist or more sexist?"
The "Good Morning America" host wasn’t through, however. On Tuesday, she offered the query again. This time, Sawyer added a new spin, "secret genderism." The recipient of the question, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, readily agreed. America is guilty, she asserted, it just isn’t "very secret."
Speaking of The Washington Post, ever wonder how many times the paper mentioned "macaca?" According to MRC President Brent Bozell, the paper featured the phrase no less then 112 times!
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann absurdly linked domestic terrorism to "right-wing blogs."
While Olbermann slimed conservatives, CNN labeled the current low gas prices "a recovery." Why, just a few weeks ago, the falling costs represented a link between "Big Oil" and the GOP. What a difference an election makes!
Another CNN program, "Reliable Sources," featured seasoned journalists who admitted that Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi is receiving "a honeymoon."
Ted Koppel, a veteran of the "old media" appeared on Wednesday’s "Daily Show" to bash President Bush. Noting the President’s current international trip, he joked that Bush joined the National Guard "to stay out of Vietnam. And now he’s going to Vietnam to stay out of Washington!" It’s hard to imagine why Americans view these people as skewed to the left.
The weekly magazines framed the midterm elections as an example of the death of conservatism. The MRC’s Rich Noyes noted this isn’t the first occasion Time declared the demise of the Reagan Revolution.
Finally, the always biased Helen Thomas declared that the Democrats victory indicated that "democracy works."
—Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center.
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WTF?
November 17, 2006 - 11:59 ET by CDarklockIs America more racist or sexist? I don't know. Do you still beat your wife?
Bad questions produce bad answers.
Well if you ask me...
November 17, 2006 - 14:54 ET by Guy Arthur ThomasAs long as Rap Music keeps those "bitches" and "ho's" on every CD...I think it will be more sexist, that is until Dave "I hate my nigger-self" Chappelle does some new shows and then, back to racism.
I am a member of LSCA (Lazy Spell Checkers Anonymous).
CDarklock,I thought THE SAME
November 18, 2006 - 07:56 ET by Indiana JoeCDarklock,
I thought THE SAME EXACT THING when I saw that question. WTH are these people thinking? Don't they realize how idiotic they sound???
"Stupid is as stupid does" - Forrest Gump's momma
High Gas Prices 06 & Military Draft 04
November 17, 2006 - 12:28 ET by kwIsn't it amazing how so man
November 17, 2006 - 18:14 ET by JDWIsn't it amazing how so many stories are defined as truth by CNN, NBC, WP, CBS...?
ABC told us Abramoff charges against Mr Reid could not be substantiated and consequently would not be considered. We are told Mr Reid has agreed to help on other gambling issues..., creating a light of innocence. ABC actually quotes a spokesman, "These kind of old allegations are completely ridiculous and untrue..."
What doubt is there that things focus on what the news media wants them to be?
JDW
Kerry: "You know, education, if you make the most of it ... you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
Spot on, JDW. These folks con
November 18, 2006 - 08:06 ET by Indiana JoeSpot on, JDW.
These folks consider mere "reporting" to be beneath them. They are "opinion-shapers," or "part of the dynamic," or "movers and shakers," or any number of other hollow terms. God forbid they should be called mere "reporters." Yet they claim the legacy of being the descendants of the true "watchdog press." What a crock!
And when they say things like, "this story is over," as they tried with the Kerry insult to the troops, red flags should pop up in minds all across the country!
Just left watching Jim Lehrer
November 17, 2006 - 20:39 ET by ucJust left watching Jim Lehrer News Hour to see NB site weekend recap >> Former Africa expert in Clinton admin. "Rice" really brought home though accidentally how much the Democrats campaigns this year didn't reach out to raise international dialogue and international citizenship in American democratic voters. Dems really did run an only in our back yard civil rights are for you to vote for our own histories in such and ignore wider struggles that if you actually did pay attention to them and lobby for them you could of any race and economic strata have chance at some profitable international internet business. So Democrats didn't get a mandate but did succeed with conservative Dems retaking the party from Deanites. So no we wait to see if Dems put forth legislation only after they have tried to make it veto proof or just worthy of close to 2/3 majority voting in favor. I think America did itself proud this election day by voting for accountability. Can we mandate more Democrats get degrees in international business and international law?
uc , in answer to your ques
November 18, 2006 - 08:53 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsuc , in answer to your question I would have to say:
Hunh???
DSG
MoDo
November 19, 2006 - 00:45 ET by nkviking75Quoting from above
The "Good Morning America" host wasn’t through, however. On Tuesday,
she offered the query again. This time, Sawyer added a new spin, "secret genderism."
The recipient of the question, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd,
readily agreed. America is guilty, she asserted, it just isn’t "very
secret."
That from the author of the recent book, Are Men Necessary. Thanks, MoDo.