Decision ‘08

What Liberal Media?: Part 948

HH [Hugh Hewitt]: …the old media is overwhelmingly liberal, correct, Mark Halperin?

MH [Mark Halperin]: Correct, as we say in the book.

HH: And so everyone that you work with, or 95% of people you work with, are old liberals.

MH: I don’t know if it’s 95%, and unfortunately, they’re not all old. There are a lot of young liberals here, too. But it certainly, there are enough in the old media, not just in ABC, but in old media generally, that it tilts the coverage quite frequently, in many issues, in a liberal direction, which is completely improper. And it goes from the big and major like CBS’ outrageous story about President Bush’s draft record right before the 2004 election, to the insidious and small use of language describing Nancy Pelosi’s liberal policies and ideas different than they would Newt Gingrich’s conservative ones.

Yes, indeed…

12 Responses to “What Liberal Media?: Part 948”

1 mikebdot Says:
October 31st, 2006 at 1:53 pm
The daily howler has been reviewing Halperin’s book for the past week and a half. Today he mentions it in passing while providing actual evidence for trashing of Pelosi that is blatantly asinine and quite ironically scripted, as it were. The evidence is that even if liberal pundits think they’re liberal that doesn’t mean it biases their reporting. In fact, liberal pundits trash liberal candidates rather openly as he often demonstrates. And, yes, I’m aware he has a fetish with campaign 2000 and mentions it pretty close to every day.
2 mtl Says:
October 31st, 2006 at 2:29 pm
The dems are toast, and even the media can’t help them out.

Kerry’s quotes, about our military being ‘uneducated’ is the fire that the media won’t be able to put out. If they ignore it, the gop will be free to run with it. If they cover it, it still is horrible-and brings more attention to it.

This is the same problem that the swift vets presented. Fight back and draw attention, or ignore it with the help of the media, with little attempt to staunch the bleeding.

The only way out of it was kerry’s stupid statement, followed by bi-partisan disgust, and then an apology from kerry. kerry is not going to apologize, and the window for condemnation from democrats is closing, fast. The media will choose to ignore it, the gop will campaign on it, and after a week of festering it will be too late to lance it and stop the infection.

The mantra for the gop is going to be that the democrats think that our troops are uneducated. A local dem may dispute, but then he must answer why he hasn’t condemned it. This is a BIG problem for dems to deal with…and even the media can’t help them.

Half of the voters are going to make their minds up within 48 hours of the election…this was not a well timed conversation.
3 Mark Says:
October 31st, 2006 at 2:35 pm
I gotta disagree with you there, mtl. Not that the Kerry quote wasn’t stupid: Lord, was it ever! But I don’t hink it will affect anything other than confirming that John Kerry is perhaps the worst presidential candidate of modern times (at least from the big two parties)…
4 Mark Says:
October 31st, 2006 at 2:36 pm
Though I am about to blog on it, because it’s too rich a target to resist…
5 Mark Says:
October 31st, 2006 at 2:44 pm
Well, Mike, Halperin is the political director of ABC…I think comments like that have to be taken with a certain degree of authority…
6 mikebdot Says:
October 31st, 2006 at 2:58 pm
Because those in charge always know everything that goes on or the innermost thoughts of those they micro-manage. I know my boss’s boss knows quite a bit about my personal life…oh wait, that’s right, he knows absolutely nothing about me. And he sits, literally, 25 feet away from me. I’m just saying, evidence speaks to me, unsubstantiated insinuation does not.
7 megapotamus Says:
October 31st, 2006 at 3:57 pm
What we know as the MSM is and has for many years been nothing but an arm of the hard, pro-totalitarian Left. Cronkite after many years in retirement admitted that he is a socialist. What could be more contemptible than that? Nothing. He did more to lose the Viet Nam war for the forces of freedom and decency than even John Kerry, miserable traitor that he was and is, and that is saying a mouthful. Cronkite was not the beginning and certainly not the end. Lefties want to deny it? Who cares? These treacherous louts who long for nothing more than to strangle freedom and capitalism (same thing, actually) will lie, cheat and bomb to bring about their Worker’s Paradise, what is a little glossing the news? It is past time to face facts. The Left is the existential enemy of America; of freedom, of decency… of humanity really, always has been, always will be. They will align themselves with any crop of thugs, the Islamists are just the latest, to achieve their goals. They bitterly hate themselves and with ample justification and long ONLY to make the whole of the earth as awful a place as their black, resentment-filled little hearts. Never trust a Leftist. Never, never, never.
8 Andy Says:
October 31st, 2006 at 4:59 pm
Nothing like telling someone how you’re gonna screw him over then proceed to do it. Had HH asked, I suppose MH would have said, “just lie back and enjoy it”.
9 peter Says:
October 31st, 2006 at 6:44 pm
MH is a New York news guy — he knows what happened to Tex Antoine –

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Antoine
10 mtl Says:
November 1st, 2006 at 8:34 am
you know…being a bobby knight fan…

The phrase that got him in trouble when asked what it was like to be coaching during a blowout of his team:

“It’s like rape, you might as well sit back and enjoy it”

Feminists were up in arms. The defense he could have used now, but strangely not then, could have been that he did not specify the sex of the victim-he could have been referring to a man or a woman.
11 peter Says:
November 1st, 2006 at 1:55 pm
I was living in New York City at the time, and I remember the horrified reaction when Tex Antoine said it — he joined the pantheon of career enders like Jimmy the Greek and Marv Albert –
12 Andy Says:
November 2nd, 2006 at 11:49 am
I’m not going to fact check it. But when I wrote the above, I had Bob Packwood in mind as the originator. I may well be wrong, but it’s interesting to see the divergence in our total recall.

I don’t remember Antoine, but the Knight episode sounds familiar, but I’m quite sure it was a politician that said it first