Please Explain

11:06 am EST June 5th, 2006 | Politics | 12 Comments

Why exactly the media feels that demanding accountability, oversight, and common sense leadership – as prescribed by the constitution – is now only the domain of leftism?

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12 Responses to “Please Explain”

  1. mr.curmudgeon says:
    June 5, 2006 at 11:06 am

    Because it always has been. When the media actually *was* “leftist” (as opposed to corporate/conservatively dominated, like it is now), I think there was a greater obligation to inform the people, rather than placate them. (Can you hear Edward R. Murrow spinning in his grave?)

    The right has a stranglehold on these talking heads, and they’ll spew whatever filth necessary to keep the money-train humming. Accountability be damned.

  2. Rheinhard says:
    June 5, 2006 at 1:06 pm

    Everything you need to know about this piece is encapsulated in the word choice in the first sentence:

    Anti-war and anti-Bush fervor is growing among rank and file Democrats, threatening to pull the party to the left and creating a rift between increasingly belligerent activists and the party’s leaders in Washington.

    You see the narrative? Any effort on the left side of the party is “threatening”. When was the last time there was an article anywhere suggesting the activities of the James Dobson and Pat Robertson religious whackos, or the Grover Norquist “we should drown government in the bathtub” laissez-faire zealots where “threatening” to pull the Republican party to the right?

  3. Dugger says:
    June 5, 2006 at 1:06 pm

    The MSM is overwhelmingly leftist. And did you read the article? Where was there anything about demanding accountability etc. it describes the divide between liberals and leftist fanatics. Perhaps those are your words to describe the far left position on Iraq – which to most us means withdrawing right away or on a strict timetable. Which is interesting since, per that definition, even Al Gore does not support accountability etc. Could Gore, too, now become a non person – along with Lieberman, and Hillary?

    Dugger

  4. qkslvr_wolf says:
    June 5, 2006 at 2:06 pm

    Not to mention its not between liberals and fanatics, but between moderates and liberals.

    And the threatening point above is accurate.

    The “MSM” hasn’t been liberal in 30 years, you jackass, get over it.

  5. Oliver Willis says:
    June 5, 2006 at 2:06 pm

    Actually Dugger the article was about Dems using subpeona power and oversight if/when they regain the majority and how this was all of a sudden a “leftist” position.

  6. drpedro says:
    June 5, 2006 at 3:06 pm

    Journalist are more than twice as likely to state they are democrats vs republicans. Further, journalist are state they are republicans at one-half the rate the general population does.
    http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=28808

    Perhaps “liberal” doesn’t equal “democrat” in your book wolfie, but it sure as hell leans more to the left than to the right.

  7. SaveFarris says:
    June 5, 2006 at 3:06 pm

    Actually Dugger the article was about Dems using subpeona power and oversight

    Nope. Sorry.

    What you say the article is about: “demanding accountability, oversight, and common sense leadership” Except there’s one small problem. NONE of those words appear in the article. It also clearly implies that Bush has already been tried & convicted in Lefty minds and Dem ascendency would lead directly to impeachment.

    Leftists don’t want “accountability”. They want payback.

  8. BD says:
    June 5, 2006 at 3:06 pm

    Funny thing, Farris, is that it might be possible to get both accountability and “payback” in the same set of actions. The two are not, in fact, mutually exclusive, as you would imply.

  9. Zython says:
    June 5, 2006 at 4:06 pm

    Oh, almost forgot. drpedro, sure, many journalists say* they’re democrats, but what about the people on top? The editors? These are the people that decide in the end what goes in and what doesn’t.

    *Don’t forget, Bill O’Riley says he’s an independent, but…well…you know where I’m going with this.

    On the other hand, you’ll probably ignore this post, just like you did in “The Premise is Simply Invalid”.

  10. Zython says:
    June 5, 2006 at 4:06 pm

    Leave it to Farris to be only able to read each individual word and not full sentences. Here’s a clip from said article.

    Many outside-the-Beltway Democrats want the party to turn forcefully against the war in Iraq and to investigate, censure or even impeach President Bush should the party win control of Congress this fall.

    Maybe it’s just me, but investegations, censurings, and impeachments sound like forms of accountability to me.

  11. Dugger says:
    June 5, 2006 at 6:06 pm

    “The  MSM hasn t been liberal in 30 years, you jackass, get over it.”

    Right you are. I separate left wing agenda-driven news ‘reporting’ from ‘liberal’.

    “Why exactly the media feels that demanding accountability, oversight, and common sense leadership – as prescribed by the constitution – is now only the domain of leftism? ”

    Hmmm. Who said this?

    Dugger

  12. drpedro says:
    June 6, 2006 at 2:06 pm

    zython pops up with a big ole’ “but(t)” pretty quickly there eh?

    “sure, many journalists say* they re democrats, but…..”

    shorter: “I’m an idiot, BUT…BUT…BUT!”