Right-wing assult on my morning commute!!!

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Some mornings on the way to work I like to pick up the Investor’s Business Daily to check out information that might affect my meager portfolio. I rarely ever check out any editorials because the IBD, like the Wall Street Journal, tends to be a little hard right whacko.

But this morning I was the title of one article caught my eye. “Bush’s "Mess," Clinton's Free Pass” it said. I thought I was dreaming. What?! The media finally going after Chimpy the way they snipped at every morsel of a story from Bubba. Good news indeed.

But alas it wasn’t to be. The writer, L. Brent Bozell III (I love the way right-wingers will sometimes pit the numbers behind their names to seem old money) is the founder of the Rightward leaning Media Research Center and his article was the typical right-wing screed. Media liberal. Media mean to Bush. Media bad.

Here’s a sample:
The cover of Newsweek screams from the mailbox and the magazine rack: "BUSH’S $87 BILLION MESS." In case that rhetorical punch isn’t strong enough, it adds the promise of uncovering "Waste, Chaos, and Cronyism." Today’s task for deniers of liberal media bias is set. Please find a Newsweek from the Clinton era with the words "mess" or "cronyism" next to a picture of that president.
Since the Clinton foreign policy team rarely risked top-of-the-news foreign policy initiatives (and certainly never wanted to risk an American casualty), the typical foreign-policy cover story of the second Clinton term read: "Mad About Madeleine: Washington Loves Her. Will the Rest of the World?" Team Clinton’s infamous diplomacy-for-donors schedule of foreign trips and its shameless milking of foreign donors for campaign soft money, including cocaine kings and Beijing-connected "businessmen," were never newsworthy enough to be considered cover-story material, apparently, and never mind a "mess."
"Clinton" and "mess" didn’t even merge on the Newsweek cover when he made a hash of his presidency with the Monica Lewinsky mess. Instead, the "news" magazine employed headlines like "The Secret Sex Wars." Or, after the April 1998 dismissal of the Paula Jones case, the cover announced: "Clinton Wins a Big One. Now It’s Starr’s Turn to PUT UP OR SHUT UP." In case you weren’t sure how Newsweek felt about Clinton and his opponents, the first edition after the Republicans flopped in the 1998 midterms carried a photo of Newt Gingrich and just these words, bold and taunting: "THE LOSER."
Oy! If you can stomach more of this go here- http://www.mediaresearch.org/BozellColumns/newscolumn/2003/col20031028.asp

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1. Glutton for Punishment

I have a nasty habit of listening to Consvervative Talk Radio, like Glenn Beck. Mainly just to hear them spew their lies and twist reality, sometimes I find there logic hysterical, most of the time disturbing. This morning I heard GB state a blatant lie about Wes Clark. He stated: " Wes Clark wants to recind the tax cuts on the affluent, remember now the affluent starts at $70,000 a year." This is a perfect example of how the right distorts the truth. Clarks proposal recinds the cuts for those who earn over $200,000 a year. Mr. Beck was stating all this in a rant about why affluent americans aren't spending there money--because their afraid that the cuts won't become permanent, negating the fact that affluent americans already have plenty of money to spend and are probably just investing or saving there money. I hate their selective logic and reasoning, unfortunately though, most of their listeners probably aren't educated enough to catch on or just don't care. Very scarey times we have today.