Posted by
Matty on Friday, November 30, 2007 3:08:22 AM
Organizations like Media Matters for America often cause me to evaluate my worldview. If the people on that website can so wholeheartedly believe that Chris Matthews and his ilk are Republicans (I can't make
this stuff up), if they can so easily disregard evidence to the contrary all the while accusing me of doing the same, I could have been wrong this whole time. Maybe literary criticism has some merit; after all, what could be more powerful than going into a situation (or book) and expecting to derive a certain theme from it?
They all choose to ignore seemingly glaring evidence of Left-leaning bias in today's television and newspaper media. One such example I like to cite often is the hatred for Bush and the Iraqi conflict. I was reminded today of punk band Anti-Flag's lyrics in the song "The Press Corpse":
"
The press scribble scribble every half-truth spoke/
Then shoot it round the country like an April Fools joke/
Hype the nation for a Desert Storm love affair/
Wave the stars and stripes like you just don't care!"
Even when thinking back to when I was a purely objective child observer, I cannot recall any positive news coverage of the Iraqi conflict. No one ever cites it (not even Media Matters for America because it's so busy showing us how Rush Limbaugh condemns large branches of the military who hold an ideology and that CNN gives Democrats harder questions in their YouTube debates), especially when complaining of said positive coverage.
But I believe this is evidence of something much more ignorant, much more nefarious, and much, much more ostentatious. How did the 72% of people who supposedly disapprove of Bush suddenly come to realize that he was such an evil man? All of those people (we'll call it 216,000,000) did independent research as to the handling of the war? They all broke free from the herd and sneered with disdain at the Media's reporting of the positive nature of the war and the Administration? Maybe it was those clever bumper stickers I always see telling me that I shouldn't support a war for oil. Or perhaps it was that silver bullet argument from the Left that anyone who supports the war but doesn't fight in it is a chicken hawk. Strong logic there, and a very persuasive bit of rhetoric.
I'm not entirely sure how, but the sheep really stuck it to the Matthews, the Schieffers, the Olbermanns, and the like. Nevermind when one of the aforementioned demands the President resign because he is a "liar"; nevermind when Jack Cafferty implies that Bush put out the bin Laden video tape and smears him (not Osama, you dummy!) with great vigor.
I think there may be some credence to Mark Levin's claim that there are Marxists among us today. Why the obsession with the counter-culture rebelling against the evil big guy? Why do we want to destroy one big guy to implement a bigger one? It's never big enough, though. Even seemingly radical journalists (ones who should seem radical to anyone socialized in the United States) aren't doing their jobs well enough for our Leftists.
Neither are their seeing eye dogs.