Looked at Michelle Malkins' site today, and found this, this and this. In short, a bunch of media weenies accused the White House of rehearsing troops so they'd act nice on camera, a reporterette reporting on flooding sat in a canoe in water that turned out to be a few inches deep- not even enough to float the boat- and Mike Wallace of See-BS fame shows his colors. Cam Edwards caught this last one, and has both the reply he got from See-BS and his response to it, start here.
A few years ago I was listening to Limbaugh and he commented on the 'liberal media having their talking points for the day'. I can't remember what the issue in question was; I just snorted and continued on. Until later. One of the Democrat candidates for President came out with the comment on Bush not having 'gravitas'. I thought that was an interesting word to bring up. And then, damn near every newsreader/commentator/whatever repeated it. Used the word over and over, and in many cases damn near the same words. That really caught my attention, and I noticed it more over time. And it pretty much convinced me that they are, if not getting talking points from the DNC, so much in sympathy with them that they almost all used the stuff. Over and over. And it really pissed me off, especially when some of the clowns doing this then complained about bloggers having noone to keep them 'accurate' and so forth.
'Accuracy'. It's a big thing in news, and would mean more if the clowns doing the most claiming of it actually cared about it. When I had the news on today, seemed like every network said basically the same thing about the Story of the Day: White House Rehearses Soldiers, Scandal In The Press Corps, etc. It's a load of crap, especially coming from people who have a long history of planting people with questions and selectively editing interviews to give the impression they want, etc. And very especially when you can go from network to network and hear damn near the same wording on the matter.
Wallace shows one of the big pains in this stuff. I used to watch CBS evening news a lot, and 60 Minutes, until the bias just became too much to put up with. Any story about firearms would be slanted, badly, and so forth. Remember Alar? 60 Minutes took a bullshit report from a enviroweenie group and blew it up: Alar will give your kids cancer if they eat apples! Orchards went out of business, lots of people scared to death, for a report that turned out to be, as I mentioned, bullshit. And did Rather & Co. ever do a show correcting the story? Not that I ever heard of. And on and on.
And we're supposed to trust these people why?
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