Here is Media Research Center’s Tim Graham:
AP writer Douglass Daniel was enjoying the moderate Republican (and Obama Republican) response to conservatives on the Sunday talk shows.
How does Graham know the AP writer enjoyed anything? The writer never says anything of the sort in the story, and Graham links to no supporting materials. This is part of the reason people in journalism have a hard time taking MRC seriously vs Media Matters, FAIR, and others. MRC is emotion-based, all about imputing feelings and notions to reporters in order to further their mythology about liberal bias. MRC very rarely – if ever – refutes actual facts.
ALSO: Congrats to MRC on their new website. Imitation is surely the sincerest form of flattery.
MRC has started the wliveroillis.com blog
Sunday morning, May 24, 2009.
Woke up late, flipped on NBC and watched Republican Karl Rove’s dance partner David Gregory crack jokes with sleazy Republican Newt Gingrich and even fluff Gingrich for a 2012 Presidential run right before NBC cut to one of the many Oil & Coal Company commercials that seem to own NBC’s Meet the Press.
Flipped the channel to CBS’s Face the Nation and watched Republican Colin Powell get sucked up to Bob Schieffer, continuing CBS’s Schieffer’s pattern of almost never asking a Republican a tough question (though, curiously, Schieffer often finds a way to give a hard right wing frame to any questions he asks Democratic guests and often even mock those Democratic guests’ answers).
Flipped back to NBC to listen to right winger Rich Lowry from National Review lie about and smear Nancy Pelosi.
When right winger Rich Lowry advocated for torture waterboarding and got an affirmative response from Republican Rove’s dancing star Gregory, with Gregory effectively saying that the torture war crimes authorized by Republicans were “vindicated”, I turned off the TV and turned on my local Air America radio station.
If I’m going to listen to purported “liberal bias”, I’d rather it not come from right wing sycophantic hosts fluffing Republican talking points from 1994 and the 15th century Inquisition.
As I’ve said before, it’s a sad day in journalism when the bawdy Randi Rhodes regularly crams more facts and truths in a ten minute rant than corporate media puts into any hour segment.
It seems to me that conservatives work off of emotion (Get the terrorists! Gay marriage will destroy our society! Etc) while liberals work from a position of logic and calm analysis. Conservatives want a 5 second talking point snarled at them (ala Fox news or every right wing screamer on the radio) while liberals want an hour long discussion on NPR. If you’ll allow an analogy, Liberals are Vulcans and conservatives. are Klingons
Liberals are Vulcans and conservatives. are Klingons
Some Klingons have honor.
Conservatives are Ferengi.
http://google.com/search?q=Ferengi
Not sure how the MRC website imitates the MMFA website…