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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Politico Looks Into the Right’s Successful Attacks

Divide between right, mainstream media:

The right-wing media’s single-minded focus on a handful of targets over the past months and its success in pushing those stories into the mainstream have underscored the sharp divide between traditional news organizations and the bloggers and talk show hosts aggressively pursuing an ideological agenda on-line and on TV and radio.

From birthers to tea parties to town halls and ACORN, the scandal-plagued anti-poverty group — not to mention President Obama’s speech last week to school children and the background of former White House aide Van Jones — issues initially dismissed or missed entirely by the national media have burst, if only fleetingly, onto the national agenda after relentless coverage on Fox News, talk radio and in the blogosphere.

 

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Posted by Peter Daou on 09/17 at 06:18 AM

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“Birthers” is an example of a “successful attack”?  The fake “controversy” over Obama’s school address was a “successful attack”?  The only things these are “successful” at are making the right wing look really wacky, and that’s one of the reasons the MSM isn’t picking them up.  The right is throwing all the stuff they can think up, and there’s so much chaff that the real stories are hard to differentiate.

Posted by Steve Stein  on  09/17  at  07:21 AM

I find it belly-bustingly funny to read a leftist complaining about media bias and ideological agenda. 

Does the reality-challenged author have even a remote idea that the appearance of “relentless coverage” was simply by comparison to the complete abdication of journalistic integrity by the leftist media? 

Two kids with a hidden camera and no credentials managed to do the investigative journalism that NO ONE at MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, The New York Times, etc. even lifted a finger to do.  The dinosaur media should be mightily ashamed. 

At least the author didn’t toss in the pejorative mis-designation of “teabaggers” as the nasty leftist media talking point handbook has called for.  However, he did make up for that accidental slip into honesty by tossing in “birthers,” even though those people have been roundly condemned by conservative bloggers.

Posted by RedBeard  on  09/17  at  10:17 AM

Race baiting is the new birther movement…
...just ask Jimmy Carter and Maxine Waters.

Posted by skinny @ blrag.com  on  09/17  at  11:37 AM

I hope Jimmy and Maxine continue that nonsense.  Nothing will render the leftist argument null and void faster than listening to them spew such utterly childish claptrap.

Posted by RedBeard  on  09/17  at  12:50 PM
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