By Mr. Curmudgeon
For those of you who were living under a rock during the Ronald Reagan era, or are too young to remember, what you are about to read may shock you. The mainstream media is overwhelmingly to the left in its political leanings, with the loonier amongst its minions conspiring by e-mail on how to spin stories in a way that reflects badly on conservatives and will propagate through the echo chamber that is the mainstream media.
Funny, you don't look shocked. Neither am I. Still, it's nice to get confirmation in black and white.
Kudos go to Tucker Carlson, himself a cable news talking-head and the Editor-in-Chief of the Dailycaller.com. Dailycaller got its hands on tasty e-mail exchanges between influential left-wing yellow journalists, left-leaning organizations and academic members of the Internet site JournoList.
Here are just a few excerpts of e-mail exchanges between lefty scribblers and a nutty professor regarding the only conservative voice on television:
John Judis, The New Republic:
“…It may be that it's counter-productive for the White House to out them [Fox News], but it would not be unprincipled for the O adm to give precedence to the other networks and to newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post that try to adhere to, rather than exploit, the older standard.”
Daniel Davies, The Manchester Guardian:
“…I'm genuinely scared by this development…a shameless and unethical media organization cannot be controlled by any form of peer pressure or self-regulation, and nor can it be successfully cold-shouldered or ostracized…”
Jonathan Zasloff, UCLA law professor:
“…I hate to open this can of worms, but is there any reason why the FCC couldn't simply pull their broadcasting permit once it expires?”
Remember those tense days after Fox's Glenn Beck outed Obama's “Green Jobs Czar ” Van Jones for founding a Maoist organization in la-la-land San Francisco? I mean, no one in the mainstream media would touch that story with a ten-foot cattle prod. On the one hand, it reflected badly on the Obama administration's vetting skills. On the other hand, it showed a possible Obama administration affinity for the redistributive Marxist ideas espoused by China's mass-murdering fanatic.
That was the last straw.
Someone in the Obama administration must have gotten the New Republic's John Judis memo, and Fox was denied access to all the administration's talking heads. But the tactic backfired.
Fox personalities just started interviewing each other. Suddenly, Fox's large and growing audience (ratings spiked during the White House-Fox spat) was treated to 24-7 conservative analysis of the world - with no snappy comebacks from Obama's White House.
Then Beck added another White House scalp to his belt. He aired a video of then White House communications director Anita Dunn going on and on about one of her favorite philosophers…Mao Tse-tung. She joined Van Jones under the wheels of Obama's ever-busy killer bus.
The president eventually relented, figuring it was better to let Fox interview Obama officials than to fire every Maoist on the White House payroll.
When John McCain made the only rational decision of his dismal political career and picked Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate in 2008, the minions at JournoList hooked up in cyberspace to craft a plan to deal with the meddlesome Reaganesque conservative:
Suzanne Nossel, chief of operations for Human Rights Watch:
“I think it is and can be spun as a profoundly sexist pick. Women should feel umbrage at the idea that their votes can be attracted just by putting a woman, any woman, on the ticket no matter her qualifications or views.”
Jonathan Stein, Mother Jone's:
“That's excellent! If enough people - people on this [JournoList] list - write that the pick is sexist, you'll have the networks debating it for days. And that negates the single thing Palin brings to the ticket.”
Daniel Levy, Century Foundation:
“This seems to me like an occasion when the non-official campaign has a big role to play in defining Palin, shaping the terms of the conversation and saying the things that the official [Obama] campaign shouldn't say…scare people about having this woefully inexperienced, no foreign policy/national security/right-wing Christian wing-nut a heartbeat away [from the presidency]…”
If only Palin had topped the 2008 Republican ticket instead of the clueless John McCain, Obama would still be the woefully inexperienced, no foreign policy/national security/left-wing ACORN wing-nut Senator from Illinois.
The JournoList smear campaign against Palin still echoes to this day, but Palin is having the last laugh. Today, she is the driving force behind the Tea Party juggernaut eradicating McCain-like drones in the Republican primaries (with the notable exception of the pathetic McCain himself…no one is perfect). And Palin's Tea Party picks are well positioned to sweep into Congress and take the purse strings from the hands of that Bay Area lunatic, Nancy Pelosi.
Since the days of the Cold War, the left's single and unrelenting charge has been that the right is continually looking for conspiracies under every rock.
The unrelenting reality of history is that the conspiracies were there, the left was either in denial or favored their outcome.
JournoList-gate and Climate-gate shows that, where the left is concerned, their conspiracies have global reach. Like Satan, the left “as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.”
0 comments on "What Media Bias?"