They Hate Us, They Really Hate Us
“They hate us. They really hate us,” NRO’s Jay Nordlinger noted, along with numerous examples left wing hate speech, immediately after the 2004 election. Certainly, each of the big three networks drops the mask sooner or later.
Let’s start with the newest example, first: “CBS News’ Political Director: Obama Must ‘Destroy’ Republican Party,” as spotted by John Nolte of Big Journalism:
The author of this outrageous left-wing fever dream is John Dickerson, whom Slate describes as “Slate’s chief political correspondent”. What Slate leaves out of its little bio, though, is that Dickerson is also the political director at CBS News.
Dickerson is merely being Dickerson, and there’s no doubt he speaks for legions upon legions of those in the media today.
What is worthy of note, though, is that a CBS News’ political director is now comfortable openly calling for the destruction of the Republican Party. He obviously fears no admonitions from his colleagues or his employer. And why should he? Earlier this week, Bob Schieffer, a CBS News “living legend,” was perfectly comfortable publicly comparing the NRA to Nazis.
You lump all of this with CNN chief Jeff Zucker applauding Piers Morgan’s shameless feasting off the dead children of Sandy Hook for ratings and attention, and what you have is a media that’s finally … coming out.
In the fall of 2004, Mark Halperin, then ABC’s political director (now with Time magazine) ordered his network not to treat both parties equally, which I imagine didn’t require much arm-twisting inside the House of Stephanopoulos:
An internal memo written by ABCNEWS Political Director Mark Halperin admonishes ABC staff: During coverage of Democrat Kerry and Republican Bush not to “reflexively and artificially hold both sides ‘equally’ accountable.”
The controversial internal memo obtained by DRUDGE, captures Halperin stating how “Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and mistakes all the time, but these are not central to his efforts to win.”
But Halperin claims that Bush is hoping to “win the election by destroying Senator Kerry at least partly through distortions.”
“The current Bush attacks on Kerry involve distortions and taking things out of context in a way that goes beyond what Kerry has done,” Halperin writes.
Halperin’s claim that ABCNEWS will not “reflexively and artificially hold both sides ‘equally’ accountable” set off sparks in St. Louis where media players gathered to cover the second presidential debate.
Halperin states the responsibilities of the ABCNEWS staff have “become quite grave.”
In August, Halperin declared online: “This is now John Kerry’s contest to lose.”
– The Drudge Report, “ABC News Political Director Memo Sparks Controversy: Both Sides Not ‘Equally Accountable,’” October 8th, 2004.
And of course, to get a sense of what NBC thinks of the GOP, simply turn on MSNBC, a cable network that exists so that the newsreaders on its parent channel have a place where they can drop the mask and really let it all hang out.
As for the competition to all of this, Steven Hayward of Power Line asks “Is Fox Actually a Hedgehog?”
One of the wonderful things about Fox News is how it drives the Left out of their minds. Talk about having no sense of proportion: even though Fox kills CNN and MSNBC in the ratings, Fox News’s viewership is still just a fraction of audience for the nightly news broadcasts of the Big Three legacy networks, which I confess I still watch for the pure schadenfreude of seeing the unstoppable decay of these self-important media institutions. The Left openly pines for a revival of the “fairness doctrine,” initially to clamp down on Rush Limbaugh and conservative talk radio, but now the big target is clearly Fox News. It’s another great example of William F Buckley’s remark that while the Left says it is open to other points of view, it always shocks them to discover that there are other points of view.
By the way, remember when journalists informed us that violent rhetoric was the equivalent of racist hate speech, and as such, as Dickerson himself wrote at the time, was something to be eschewed, lest it cause another horrific violent act?
Dickerson’s piece at Slate is titled “Go for the Throat! Why if he wants to transform American politics, Obama must declare war on the Republican Party.”
Fortunately though, no clip art was used in the making of Dickerson’s screed, so I guess that alone gives him a pass.
Update: “Every GOP guest on Face The Nation should ask Bob Schieffer if he agrees with his political director that the GOP needs to be destroyed.” I’d settle for one GOP guest asking Schieffer tomorrow. Bueller?… Anyone?… Bueller?
The Left morphed so slowly into the Khmer Rouge I hardly noticed.
At least they are now admitting that they hate the Constitution and the very notion of democracy.
What is really needed is for it to sink in to the majority of Republican, conservative and libertarian politicians that the MSM IS part of the left and not an impartial 3rd party. That is not to say they should complain about them and/or avoid them, but to be on their guard and prepared to punch back like a guy with pockets full of cash walking thru an #occupy encampment. The only one who really seems to “get” this is Newt Gingrich. Mitt Romney’s sad failure to understand this in 2012 undoubtedly hurt his chances. It really irritates me to see conservative types get asked the same “have you stopped beating your wife yet” type questions and sit there like some dumb lump of turd and attempt to answer it. One doesn’t have to yell or scream at them or pound the table, just simply and forcefully deconstruct their loaded questions and throw them back at them. And if the media mushmouths don’t like it, too damn bad – remember, they asked you to come on their show, not the other way around. Eff them.
If it were me and they asked me one of those loaded questions at a press conference I’d just say “I can’t hear you clearly, you’ve got Obama’s c*ck in your mouth” and move on to the next reporter. They’d be stunned speechless, the reactions would be priceless and the controversy it generated would give you a nice venue to shed light on the problem. Eh, maybe I lack the restraint to run for office.
All their programs and policies are in epic failure, Medicare, SS, unemployment, debt, budget, the only thing that still works is hate. And hate can get you elected. They’ve been pretty open about hating us since we were blamed for 9/11.
As far as I’m concerned the media IS the problem. The biggest one by far. Obama and his ilk are a symptom, but not the disease itself. To make an analogy, if the nation’s political and economic state can be compared to AIDS, the MSM are the HIV causing that AIDS, and Obama is just a common cold taking advantage of the weakened immune system to become a near fatal illness. After watching the last 4 years does anybody really doubt their power and willingness to install Hillary as leader in 2016? If the Soviet Union were still around they’d send their people from Pravda over to take notes. The Republicans know the media is biased, but if they’re too timid or stupid to do something about it I can’t say they don’t deserve their inevitable fate, it’s we who don’t deserve the fate the types running the media have planned for us. The eventual bankruptcy of major cable news networks and newspapers and their replacement with web based content cannot come soon enough.
Ed,
I think that the open hatred expressed is a good thing. I much prefer that the media drop their mask so the public can see the leftist totalitarians behind today’s MSM. I believe that the hatred comes from Obama’s failure to create a popular Second New Deal social democratic republic. As the public debt and massive overspending grinds on like a huge glacier, it will consume and ultimately destroy the blue social model which the MSM promotes. Just think, they thought in 2008 that they had achieved ultimate power to remake society. By 2010, that illusion was dashed, and bit by bit, their dreams of utopia are dying despite Obama’s reelection. No realignment, no 2nd New Deal, a world full of ethnic disputes, a rejection of eco-catastrophism worldwide, and a sliding readership, number of viewers, and decreasing visibility/importance for the MSM. They have reached the peak of their generation and have no positive accomplishments to show for it.
They are raging, raging against the dying of the light. Let them to their impotent rage while we undertake the hard and tedious political work for a rebirth of liberty and freedom in 2016.