Monday, November 28, 2005
As reference for my earlier comments, merely check Media Matters today. Chris Matthews says that “most people” “like the president personally” even when his job approval ratings hover around 40% and polls show most people believe he lied about Iraq. Lou Dobbs continues to host Ann Coulter, the most aggressive conservative liar and demagogue in existence. The only fair counterbalance to her would be either Nome Chomsky or perhaps a violent anarchist, though it goes without saying that on Lou’s conservative show neither will appear.
Why does Dobbs host a person who has repeatedly said that women are inferior to men? Who has said that the deceased person she most admires is Joe McCarthy? Who, as the Media Matters article points out, has called Clinton a rapist (what?), New Yorkers cowards, and Canada “lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent.”
This is news, sheeple. This is supposedly what you want. Let us hope that CNN follows the lead of MSNBC, the National Review, and USA Today and makes her persona non grata. The fact that this has gone on as long as it has is proof positive that every individual involved has no moral integrity whatsoever. This, unfortunately, is not rare. Chris Matthews apparently thinks that as long as he is left of Ann Coulter and less crooked than Tom DeLay he’s somewhere in the center of the political spectrum. Ditto for Lou Dobbs, Bob Woodward, Hardball. Most of the editors at the Chicago Tribune. Half of them at the New York Times. Most newspaper editors, the two biggest radio talk shows and most of the rest, and most of the TV editorialists in this country lean right. The liberal media charge is a Big Lie: the media is conservative and the rest are cowed.
