The Pitiful Left’s Media Attacks

Yesterday I had the “pleasure” of reading “The Pitiful State Of Our Media” – a loony leftist attack on “right-wing media bias” by Pacific Views.org. The article accuses the MSM of collaboration with the Bush administration! That statement would even make Pelosi laugh!

It would appear that the far left has decided to jump into media-bashing as a way of defending a completely ludicrous and defenseless accusation. Of course the lefty MSM doesn’t mind this silliness by their unhinged comrades because now the MSM can point to these mindless accusations and say, “See we get it from all sides, so that proves we aren’t biased.”

I thought you might enjoy a few excerpts (hyperlinks added by me). . .

Three stories this week show just how damaged the mainstream media is. It is
clear we are in deep trouble as a nation if we cannot get the media to do a
better job because it is this dysfunctional media that has enabled the worst
administration in American history as well as their extremist collaborators to
take us to war and to weaken the institutions that are needed to help us deal
with the enormous problems facing us. These stories were designed to slime
Democratic leaders and to justify more war by stoking the fear factor once more.
. .

The Edwards blogger story was another example of
manufacturing a controversy that was designed to damage a top Democratic
candidate. Glenn Greenwald thinks that the overall outcome of this story shows
how the liberal blogosphere has started to fight against the right-wing noise
machine, yet he sees the Edwards story as a prime example of the influence of
the right wing network on our public discourse.

For
the last 15 years or so -- since the early years of the Clinton administration
-- our public political discourse has been centrally driven by an ever-growing
network of scandal-mongers and filth-peddling purveyors of baseless, petty
innuendo churned out by the likes of Rush
Limbaugh, Matt
Drudge, various right-wing operatives and, more recently, the
right-wing
press led by Fox News. .
.

We are in the position we are in as a country
because there has been really no effective counterweight to the lowly, deceitful
and filth-peddling right-wing network which has dominated our political
discourse and the media's coverage of it. . .

Edwards
was able to reconsider his original decision to fire Amanda and Melissa because
the blogosphere gave him backing. (And I suspect his very smart wife was
involved in working with him as he came to the right decision in the face of
this manufactured firestorm because she knows and participates in the blogging
world herself.) Nevertheless, this particular tempest in the teapot did its
dirty work on the John Edwards campaign, by asserting that he was associating
with extremists via the "liberal bloggers are bad" meme (using Malkin and Donohue, neither
would would be considered respectable arbitors of civil discourse or political
correctness in any sane world). This a story was designed to make him look weak
if he buckled down to the right wing machine. But when he decided to stick with
his bloggers, the right wing can run with a new meme that Edwards has given in
to the rabid rabbits that make up the left blogosphere. Talk about a no win
story for Edwards, just because he had asked two smart and gutsy gals to join
his campaign. What can the candidates learn from this episode to get in front of
nasty attacks from the right wing? And how do we help them?

The final story is yet one more example of the way the
mainstream media will collaborate with the adminstration as they try to frighten
and anger the public in to backing a war with Iran just like they did before
attacking Iraq. . . .

Well it’s obvious that this nitwit went way, way over the top. I couldn’t resist leaving a comment gleaned from Wake Up America’s fine article, “The Obligatory Edwards/Bloggers Post.” I posted the suddenly removed but stealithily archived examples of the “trash-talking Stalinists at Pandagon” and challenged Mary, the author, to keep the comment up. So far it’s still there and there are no other comments. It would appear that even the far, far left is blushing with embarrassment!



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