Kos and the people who support the site have gone to school. They learned their tactics from watching the wingnuts in talk radio. They have learned by watching FoxNews. What we’re seeing is natural. It’s the end result of a system that doesn’t separate fact from fiction and where news is reported with a strong political bias aimed at a particular segment of the population. In otherwords, when I was a child, news organizations tried to educate and inform their viewers on the events of the day. Not anymore. Fox changed all that.
News is no longer objective. There are some people who will believe anything they hear as long as they hear it on Foxnews. On the other hand, there are also people who refuse to believe anything they hear if it appears on Fox. Kos is an attempt to do for liberals what Fox has done for conservatives. The righties shouldn’t be surprised at the tactic of going after advertisers. The right has been using this same tactic for years. Mr. Simon says that what kos is doing is somehow worse than what Bill O’Reilly did when he shamed JetBlue into removing their logo from the YearlyKos site. Why? Because the for the Roger Simons of the world, excesses and mistakes made by the people he supports and agrees with can be forgiven or even defended. The same conduct should never be tolerated by those with whom he disagrees.
