The bolded point in the first set of indented paragraphs agrees with what I have said all along about the left. They tend to be much angrier and much more negative in their responses. If pressed they will insist it’s just being more passionate. I call…

A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention….

Entelechy on February 22, 2007 at 8:12 PM

Thank you, Bernie Goldberg’s book. Too many Bernsteins Bear books in my life.

I remember Bush 41 talking about the dreaded “L word”, and the liberals going off the deep end.

Shortly after, they began referring to themselves as “progressives”, as if a pig by another name….

91Veteran on February 23, 2007 at 2:15 AM

This is one of the funniest things about the word “liberal”. People who are liberal and hate the word “liberal” don’t seem to realize the relationship between the word and the negative connotation. Democrats aren’t cast in the negative for being associated with “liberal”… the word “liberal” got its connotation because of it’s association with Democrats.

My advice to the next president stands. FIRE EVERYONE! Federal executives seem to think they, not the electorate should decide things.

“Nothing to see here folks, it’s just Sandy Burglar, stuffing National Security documents in his pants, then destroying them, go about your business, nothing to see, Don’t worry, the MSM Press will not bother you with details, just listen to your traffic reports, Brittany Spears, …….. and watch the Anna Nichole Smith verdict……”

PinkyBigglesworth on February 22, 2007 at 10:25 PM

WHAT?? No American Idol? Tell me they didn’t cancel it!

Jaime must have been on Idol last year huh?

Slightly off-topic, ever notice how many liberals don’t want to be identified as liberals (usually because they know it’s a 4-letter word), but conservatives are almost always proud to be called conservatives?

ReubenJCogburn on February 22, 2007 at 9:24 PM

I remember Bush 41 talking about the dreaded “L word”, and the liberals going off the deep end.

Shortly after, they began referring to themselves as “progressives”, as if a pig by another name….

Hey, Len? They hate you for the same reason any extremist hates any moderate: you’ve got the right idea, you just haven’t got enough of it.

When you walk in the middle of the road, you get run over.

You won’t find a book in the Library of Congress titled “Great Moderate Leaders In History.”

;)

The Washington Post’s Len Downie attempts to play this tired cliche amongst the ever-decreasing number of media figures unwilling to admit their biases:In our news gathering, we seek to be strictly nonpartisan and nonideological. We’re human beings, …

the left is much more critical, and much more angrily critical, of our coverage than the right has been.

Michael Steele, also unavailable for comment.

In our news gathering, we seek to be strictly nonpartisan and nonideological.

Washington Post.

George Allen was unavailable for comment.

Exit question: If the feds can get away with this, what else can they get away with? What’s next — deporting illegal immigrants?

That and finding out what ever happened to Jamie Garilick and the “Abel Danger” investigation………. (gone from the face of the planet!)

“Nothing to see here folks, it’s just Sandy Burglar, stuffing National Security documents in his pants, then destroying them, go about your business, nothing to see, Don’t worry, the MSM Press will not bother you with details, just listen to your traffic reports, Brittany Spears, …….. and watch the Anna Nichole Smith verdict……”

Yeah, that’s going on all around town. There’re investigations of sources going on all around town, and it’s very, very worrying. It’s not good. It’s not good for the free flow of information to the public, and it’s not good to criminalize sources and reporters who are merely engaged in trying to keep the American public properly informed.

Maybe some large portion of the American public wants elected, public officials to be properly informed as to the sources of leaks. It’s so funny that this tool wants to restrict the free flow of information, in the service of an unrestricted right to make information flow. G*d, what a fvck1ng tool. “We will take your informers, b1tch, and we will make them do for us what they do for you.”

Moreover: While decent men conduct lawful investigations, men like me seethe with murderous wishes. The sources and reporters are alive by the calculation of each of us, calculation of our good and of the country’s common advantage in the maintenance of the laws. They should thank some god for my malice, because it’s surely not for love of them that I remind them what awaits them if they destroy the laws with their highminded lawlessness.

Here he is in a September 21, 2006 radio interview:

EDSALL: I agree that whatever you want to call it, mainstream media, presents itself as unbiased, when in fact, there are built into it many biases, and they are overwhelmingly to the left.

Here’s another:

(Radio host) HUGH HEWITT: [Jim Vandehei of the Washington Post] probably is a Republican. But given that number of reporters out there, is it ten to one Democrat to Republican? Twenty to one Democrat to Republican?

EDSALL: It’s probably in the range of 15-25:1 Democrat.

Source: NewsBusters, 9/25/06

Any questions?

“mail.nytimes.com, What the?!”

- The Cat

Slightly off-topic, ever notice how many liberals don’t want to be identified as liberals (usually because they know it’s a 4-letter word), but conservatives are almost always proud to be called conservatives?

For one thing, we probably get as much critical e-mail from righties as lefties because (a) our audience is composed overwhelmingly of conservatives and (b) they’re more likely to care what we think than liberals are.

I leave critical comments because (c) you’re stupid. Just kidding. You’re right; we chasten whom we love–sweetheart.