When CNN hired Erick Erickson, I learned how the media defines "diverse views"

[alp227]

After I read on the FAIR.org site that CNN hired Redstate.com founder Erick Erickson, I began wondering: Why the hell does the media that conservatives enjoy attacking as liberal feel obliged to hire right-wing airheads to comment on current events?

Let's see,

On This Week, which from 2002-2009 was hosted by someone who once worked for the Clinton White House, conservative columnist George Will has been a regular weekly panelist since the '80s. Will denies climate change among other lies. This Week also has had Roger Ailes, president of the lie machine Fox News, and another Bush 43 admin official whose name I can't remember, on its roundtable.

Michelle Malkin once wrote a book titled In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror. I'm not kidding; that's an actual book that she wrote in 2004. In 2002, she wrote a book titled Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces. Those were only her first two books; she's made a career out of writing a stupid blog, sensationalist substance-free books, and cable TV trash talk. Oh, she's also appeared on ABC's This Week and NBC's Today Show too.

Karl Rove, who built up the president who started a war on false pretenses and made all sorts of stupid decisions that royally screwed up America last decade, regularly gets coddling, softball interviews on "liberal media" outlets - including on NBC's Today Show! Not to mention that George "War Criminal" Bush has regularly gotten softballs even by outlets not named Fox News...even by Jim Lehrer on PBS, Brian Williams on NBC, and link:mediamatters.org/research/200609080011|Katie Couric on CBS].

Those are just a few names.

Honestly, how many times has Michael Moore showed up on outlets besides Countdown with Keith Olbermann to comment on the news?

How many voices from labor have you heard on ABC, CBS, PBS, NBC, and CNN compared with the many "pro-business" voices? I once saw the president of AFL-CIO on Bill Moyers Journal. I don't recall if This Week, Face the Nation, or Meet the Press ever interviewed anyone who represented the average American worker.

For the record, I tried looking for examples of egregious liberal bias that smacks of substance-free journalism of Fox News style on the Media Research Center website. It seems that the MRC doesn't like CNN interviewing an American who supports Cuban Communism even if his interview regarding Cuban health care is fact-based. "Rich Sanchez again hints Rick Perry is a racist...boo hoo. See more examples here.

For the record, here are my regular sources of news
- The New York Times
- The Washington Post
- San Francisco Chronicle
- San Jose Mercury News
- BeyondChron.com
- BBC
- DU!!!!
- Jonathan Turley
- various blogs

[Marr]

1. You know, I think that conservatives who see "liberal bias" in the media

must be talking about social issues. There's certainly no pro-labor bias to found in the corporate media. They're not even present. It's the CEO view at all times.

If you're one of these empty-headed loons who think, for instance, that the idea of 'separation of church and state' is a liberal conspiracy, however, I suppose you might find "bias" there. The things they accept as absolute truisms are not presented as such, and to a right-winger, that equals attack. Much as Fundamentalist Christians interpret hate crime laws as attacks on their rights.