Subject: Coulter AND O'Reilly: We Own the Media Now

[donsu]

http://www.buzzflash.com/mailbag/05/07/mai05204.html


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Subject: Coulter AND O'Reilly: We Own the Media Now

Oliver Willis found audio of Ann Coulter saying that conservatives have the media now.

It's not an accident, it's a talking point. Bill O'Reilly had the following to say:

One major casualty in the war on terror is the liberal press in the USA. Don't believe the right-wing ideologues when they tell you the left still controls the media agenda. It does not any longer. It's a fact.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,163815,00.html

The Right seems to be declaring victory over "The Liberal Media." Why now? What's the advantage of actually admitting it?

A BuzzFlash Reader

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they feel safe

[getmeouttahere]

1. Ploy for more publicity

If a piece of human excrement like Coulter can get a book published, anyone can

[Dogmudgeon]

2. An old saying explains this

"They're talking out of both sides of their mouth, and their ass, at the same time."

There was never any "liberal press". Editors and publishers have always been conservatives. The point has been supported by the same so-called scientific studies the conservatives quote to prove they've been oppressed.

--p!

[kenny blankenship]

3. After hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives lost

they need to be able to declare a victory over something.

[getmeouttahere]

4. I like that, kenny blankenship

[Moochy]

5. Victory over Most Extreme Impeachment Challenge!!

Right you are Kenny!

[Mz Pip]

6. Still they are angry.

They control the WH, the Senate, the House and the courts and they still rant and rave like lunatics whenever anything doesn't go their way.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[dchill]

7. But somehow,

you know that if O'Reilly says it, it can't be true. My guess is he's worried that the balance has tipped, the tide is turning, and the shark has been jumped.

[RandomKoolzip]

8. How odd that O'Reilly would say that, seeing as how he said THIS:

O'REILLY: No, no, no, but I think it's more organized than ever before and I think they have more access to the media than ever before because the celebrity media, as I said, is so profitable and pervasive. So now it becomes a Leni Riefenstahl Third Reich propaganda proposition where what they say and do is put in everybody's face.

A few months ago.


http://mediamatters.org/items/200406140007