Bloodless Coup

Yeah, America's tolerated Governing-Alaska-lends-foreign-policy-cred FOX News without a whimper, but god for bid someone in the supposedly liberally-biased media actually, you know, espouse a liberal position in anything even approaching the way FOX does with conservatism.

NOte, please, all present who opine that the media is biased against the left, that the New York Times, is declining to develop any meaningful analysis of MSNBC in comparison to FOX, or even hint at the idea that there might be a double standard: the right can have proudly factually-disabled windbags screaming into the breeze while crawls beneath them attempt to convince viewers that the guy who disagrees with them does so because he's a closet muslim terrorist; but should anyone else in the media even hint at critically examining the inconsistencies of conservatism in prime time, they will be excoriated as working for the enemy.

NBC should stand up and say, "Look, you want 'objective news,' presently defined as providing a stage for spinmeisters to call each other liars, go check out our NBC broadcast. You want opinionated people who speak from an entirely open orientation toward things, that's at MSNBC. You want to find idiots who can't tell the difference? There on the RNC floor."

But no, they cave. And it's caving like that that has cost the Dems power, and the media credibility, for as long as I care to remember. I'm sick of it, I really am. Can you imagine how roundly the left would have been mocked had they chanted FOX NEWS SUCKS from the floor while their candidate blamed his lack of a credible answer for any real policy problem facing americans on the media that created him?

Per usual, the right continues to understand that staying on message doesn't require, you know, having one.

Well I'd go beyond that and question the degree to which Keith O is regularly espousing leftist position. I don't think he is. I think most of his attacks on certain powers who happen to be are attacks on corruption, hypocrisy, excessive secrecy and lies - things that, you know, you'd think any journalist regardless of their party would speak up for.

But of course GE isn't necessarily in the journalism business, or even apparently in the ratings business (they don't honestly think people would rather watch David Gregory do they) - but it would appear they are definitely in the business of being deferential to whining Republicans and the tempermental and vindictive people at the McCain campaign.