It is truly incredible how duplicitous big media is with the statements of politicians:
Mondale and Kerry made this list for accurate statements. Reagan, Bush and Bush don’t appear, despite some famous groaners. In fairness, you can’t entirely blame the editors; their recollections faithfully track the culture of the insider press corps over the past forty years. All too often, groaning misstatements by Major Republicans have been ignored, fudged and wished away, eventually lost to history. Accurate statements by major Democrats have been turned into major scandals which linger in insider memory. Outlook is simply recording the era as it actually has unspooled. But during this era, the culture of the insider press has often turned truth on its head.Democrats get pilloried for telling the truth. Republican skate despite obvious bullshit.
This is the reason our culture is in existential peril. Al Qaeda is the least of it. We don't care what's true any more, only what the conventional wisdom is - no matter how far nor how obviously it departs from reality.
The Daily Howler still got game! After all this time, Bob Somerby is a blogging stud!
4 comments:
I hardly think the list was meant to be all-inclusive; it was just a list. Nor do I think telling lies was Kerry's problem. There are some truthful things that just shouldn't be said if you want to keep your career. Anyways, I'm just not seeing any right-wing bias here. President Ford's and Colin Powell's statements were even included. Am I missing something?
Yes, you're missing something.
Yaks aren't happy with this!
I would assume that the yaks only object to the deadness...
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