Where have I been? It’s been the devil’s own week but I have a spectacular weekend to look forward to. A good night’s sleep and 7 hours of perfect work-y bliss and I’m off to Bal-mer. As Cartman would say, “Sweeeeet.”
Before I go, I thought I’d leave all of you with this lovely little tit-bit.
Seems America’s most ungracious loser feels that conservatives have too solid a lock on the media – cable news and radio at least – and so liberals need their very own network to air “progressive” viewpoints.
Now, that’s just plain funny. Liberals pretty much run the majority of print news, the viewpoints of CNN, MSNBC and network news is fairly slanted left but, according to Mr. Bearded Lady, ” . . . there are some major institutional voices that are, truthfully speaking, part and parcel of the Republican Party.”
Oh, you poor baby. I would have thought by now it was quite clear that the success of Fox News, the New York Post, the Washington Times, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and all the rest can be directly traced to the idea that the public WANTS to hear an alternative viewpoint. Well, maybe Hannity and O’Reilly did good because people just don’t get enough Mick in their diet. I can’t say so-called conservative outlets are any more or less biased than the rest since I’m an unabashed partisan but surely the public has chosen. I should think the somewhat reformed coverage we’re seeing out of the more mainstream outlets – not to mention the recent troubles of the New York Times – are somewhat due to the fact that the public has voted with their feet and just won’t suffer their news to be filtered through Big Nanny’s happy-filter anymore.
Thanks ever so much Al, but we’re big boys and girls now. We actually like to make our own decisions about schooling, guns, seatbelts and – imagine that! – we like to spend our own damn money.
Could it be? Do we have ’em on the run? If so, God be praised.
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