L233 said:
Vince, reading through the link you provided it seems that Rather is critized for his critical attitude towards the administration but frankly, nothing I read there but him anywhere near Coulter or O'Reilly, let alone Limbaugh. So Rather might pass as a liberal? W00t. Makes like what? Three of them? Great. And none of them is actually more than a moderate liberal.
To borrow (and hack apart) the words of Margaret Thatcher, "I seem to smell the stench of denial in the air."
So, you're going to dismiss the 3 major News Networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) aswell as several major Newspapers (NYTimes) or NPR as insignificant and instead focus on the conservative radio-shows and commentators on Cable that are a reaction to the blatent liberalism in the mainstream media.
To even defend Rather (after 30-odd years of this documented liberal bias) is insane. Just Google for him and Bias - and it's the same for the other mainstream media figures.
And the populace doesn't want to see political discourse, it wants to see a bunch of morons raving their lunatic heads off about some political issue. O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Coulter and their ilk have tourned political discourse into entertainment. Provocation, name calling, strong worded ad hominem attacks... that's what most people in America enjoy when it comes to politics. And that's what they get dealt by the republican talking heads.
You are so full of shit. Then why didn't
Phil Donahue's show even survive a few months, forget prospering. The man's an animal - the liberal embodiment of the qualities you stated, yet where's his show now? And before Donahue was Mario Cuomo & Jim Hightower - both swiftly crashed and burned. People just don't give a shit about the liberal viewpoint, how many liberal type shows need to fail for you to see this?
Beyond that, It's "provocation, namecalling and straong worded ad hominem attacks" when conservatives do it - what's it called when Paul Begaula and James Carville do it to an extent that make the conservatives you listed look like pussies.
Watch
Crossfire and tell me how the conservative (eg. Tucker Carlson) is what you stated above and how the Liberals have no voice. If anything Tucker is the man of tact and class in his argument, as opposed to the Ex-Clinton headhunters/hit-squad who are Begala and Carville.
The media has dumbed the populace to an extend where Ann Coulter's nutty rants are okidokey while Dan Rather's mildly worded critizism is seen as blatant, unfair und slanderous bias.
Wait... I'm confused. You have 1st hand knowledge of the full spectrum of American media how? Your view is soo inconsistent and far from fact, you can't possibly live in America.
