Here are the Top 5 smear merchants in the mainstream media:
5. Janeane Garofalo - she's a good actress actually, but she hates conservatives. She thinks people who become conservatives have a human weakness, a frailty, to use her word. And when George Bush was in the White House, she said the Republican Party, their message and their politics of exclusion and the tilted playing field appeals to the dumb and the mean. There is no shortage of dumb and mean people in the culture. So therefore, the dumb and the mean find a nice home in the GOP. Jeanine represents the cacophony of voices in Hollywood. You know, the place in America filled with political professionals. **
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4. Bill Moyers - because he represents the most elite wing of the most liberal elite media. Bill Moyers is a true believer who these days is posing as a journalist. He's very civil and high brow to an extent, but also despises conservatives. During the Bush administration, he said that the right-wing wrecking crews in government, right-wing wrecking crews were deliberately, intentionally, trying to destroy the United States of America. Really, Bill? I mean, right-wing wrecking crews and the government are deliberately trying to destroy America? And he's on PBS which is tax-payer funded.
3. The Daily Kos - they are very significant in this current media world in which we live. They have one of, if not the biggest, left-wing political Web sites. They are rabidly anti-conservative. Yet, its founder Markos Moulitsas has so much clout that not only does he get on the most mainstream of shows, "Meet the Press," to talk politics, but the Democrats who are running for president of the United States went there and made speeches to the Daily Kos convention. The Daily Kos is the blog who startedt the rumor that Trig Palin was actually Bristol Palin's child. Democrats are afraid of offending The Daily Kos, that's how much power they wield. Hmmmm, maybe Republicans should say the leader of the Dem party IS the Daily Kos. Sound familiar?
2. The New York Times - There is no news organization that is more influential with the so-called mainstream media. If The New York Times went on strike tomorrow morning, the CBS Evening News wouldn't know what to put on the air tomorrow night. Everybody takes their cues from The New York Times. And under the leadership of its publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., and its executive editor, Bill Keller, this once great newspaper, liberal, great newspaper has just descended pretty far down the list. They've adopted a view of conservatives that is prevalent on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and that is that conservatives aren't simply wrong, conservatives are morally inferior. So that if they disagree with you on, let's say immigration, Then you become a racist.
1. MSNBC - because they are a division of a major news organization, NBC News. And the villains are not even people on the air. They're executives who most Americans don't even know their names, but they have made a business decision to allow defamation of conservatives with whom they have a beef. So this qualifies them, in my book, as journalistic hookers. But I say this, with apologies to the other hookers out there, who only sell their bodies. These people have sold their journalistic souls.
(Bernard Goldberg contributed to this post.)
Thanks for reading,
Michael
