Our "Liberal Media" Cowering in Fear

Conservative Liars James O'Keefe and Andrew Breitbart

If we had systematically pointed out that the pre-Murdock Wall St. Journal was a touch on the right, do you think they would have tried to resurrect Joseph Stalin to bring him in as a blogger? No? Then why the fuck do media organizations accused of being liberal need to hire (or validate) not just conservative, but the most discredited, lying, and bigoted conservatives they can possibly find to throw off the dreaded liberal label?

Here are three examples, just from the last year. (I'm therefore excluding, among other incidents, MSNBC hiring Michael Savage and the NYT and Washington Post hiring half the neo-con crazies in the world for their op-ed pages.) In May, CNN hired Erick Erickson. Most of us just chalked that up to CNN being as ridiculously, vapidly, stupid as they usually are. I mean, liberals and anyone paying attention to the media were upset, naturally, but CNN is an easy target, and they were worthy of nothing but scorn long before that.

Coverage of the Wisconsin Protests Is Unsurprisingly Lacking

Haven't written in a while. Been having a few of those "everything is so obviously awful that there's just no point in commenting on anything" weeks. Anyway, here's something short: the television news coverage of the Wisconsin protests. Well, actually, Digby already made the point pretty much as well as anyone can. (It's a short post with image and video, so I can't really quote it - just go check it out.)

Perhaps I should be surprised and outraged that two weeks of 70,000-100,000 protesters are ignored by the same CNN that for two years has breathlessly covered tea party rallies described by Fox News as "thousands strong." But in reality, it's not the least bit surprising. That's your "liberal media."

And because I feel this post is too short, I'll end with a "joke" I'm going to blatantly steal from reddit: A unionized public employee, a member of the Tea Party, and a CEO are sitting at a table. In the middle of the table there is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO reaches across and takes 11 cookies looks at the tea partier and says, "look out for that union guy, he wants a piece of your cookie."