Media Matters for America: After an 8 year holiday on unfairly criticizing national level politicians, the media are back to their old games.
But this week brought signs that much of the media is set to resume the absurd and shameful behavior that defined the 1990s — guilt by association, circular analysis whereby they ask baseless questions about non-scandals, then claim they have to report on the “scandal” because the White House is “besieged by questions,” grotesque leaps of logic, downplaying exculpatory information, and too many other failings to list.
If that happens — if the media continue to behave as they did in covering Whitewater — they will damage the country. It’s really that simple. We cannot afford to be distracted from serious problems by overheated conjecture and baseless insinuation masquerading as journalism.
Unfortunately for the hystericals at Media Matters, the MSM are well rested after having spent the last 8 years resting on the bench, taking no notice whatsoever of the Plame Affair (at least after it came to land in the lap of a politician outside Bush’s inner circle), pornographically dwelling on the barbarisms of pointy-headed twits at Abu Ghraib (and inferring that 4AM dog trots of humiliated POWs were authorized at the highest levels of American policy), shrieking from atop the kitchen chair at the excesses of the Patriot Act (which President-elect Obama seems content to continue pretty much as it always has done), Guantanamo (about which, no one knows quite what to do), the whole “16 words” thing (much ado about nothing, as it turns out), and the firing of politically appointed at-will employees (for whatever reason or no reason at all, that being what “at will” means).
Not to mention actively sabotaging the efforts of the national command authority in a time of war.
So, investigating the Clinton’s various and sundry sordid acts during peacetime was “absurd and shameful behavior” but undermining the actions of a command-in-chief in time of actual war was, well: Unremarkable. Because taking an militantly adversarial stance against a Republican administration is honest and admirable, while shining a flashlight on the potential corruptions of a Democratic administration is “overheated conjecture and baseless insinuation.”
Because political ideology and party trumps country.
We always knew that some people felt this way. It’s just surprising to see them come out and say it.
Media Matters for America is a fever swamp. They have already damaged the country and are unwilling to admit to what they have done. It’s just possible, however, they are insane and unable to see what they have done. If they are not insane, then they criminally culpable for treason, and should be treated as such.
What’s happened to this country? What’s happened that all of a sudden party trumps the well being of the country?
Never before have I felt so sad for America…
Jim C
Quartermaster
You noticed.
My mouth just dropped open at the blatant hypocrisy. It’s enough to make you cry.
As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
The media have ill-served this nation, and the nation shall suffer for it.
Have we really spent the last 8 years on a journalism junket? The Plame affair, which the very same Fitzgerald presided over, knowing full well that Armitage outed Plame? And yet, he found reason to send Scooter Libby to jail???
And, didn’t at least ten of the Whitewater conspiritors end up in jail? So, everyone was guilty BUT THE CLINTONS? The rewrite is the Clintons were naves and lost money… That really is a new one on me.
How about the Rose billing records that magically appeared in the personal confines of the White House… A strange coincidence I guess…
The comments to the link were as expected. One only needs to watch Washington Journal every morning to see how cracked the American electorate is. If it isn’t Bush then it must be the Mossad… These people vote!
And BTW, pay no attention to the cattle future trade Hillary made on the advice of her broker that netted her $100,000 in less than a week. THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO with the integrity of the Clinton Presidency or any other derogatory thing you might dream up… She just got lucky!
The media told me so.
“We cannot afford to be distracted from serious problems by overheated conjecture and baseless insinuation masquerading as journalism. ”
That’s a pretty fair description of this article, and of what Media Matters does for a living, as long as there is a Republican in the White House, of course.
Costco and Sam’s Club should start selling barf bags by the pallet – I think there’s going to be quite a demand for them in the next few years by those of us who are allergic to hypocisy.
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The media situation has been unbelievably biased all along and I don’t look for it to get better.
Thank goodness, right or wrong, the next 4-8 years will be blissfully free of criticism and full of praise.
The media elected a new administration and the media will keep the new administration of its choosing free from the appearance of graft and corruption.
Virgil- It’s hard nopt to notice when they rub it in your face at every opportunity. They are either idiots or treasonous. I don’t see there’s much room in between.
Quartermaster:
Try ZERO/nil/nada/zilch (or any other term you want to conjure up) amount in between.
This is terribly and unbearably sad.
Democracy according to print.
Once read of the late C.S Lewis,
“…A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.”