Gingrich 5, Pelosi 0 (Also Hastert, Wright & Foley 0)
Newt Gingrich, who was forced out of office 11 years ago, has been on NBC’s Meet the Press five times in 2009. All other living speakers of the house? Zero. Combined. Dead speakers? Also zero.
You’d think the liberal media would do a better job at this sort of think, wouldn’t you? Wouldn’t you?
h/t Steve Benen
Tip O’Niell, NEVER????
Thank goodness for the intertubes!
So falls the myth of the “Liberal Media,” a reicht-wing fabrication of the first order.
Everybody who reads this ought to consider live streaming WAMC.ORG, public radio out of Albany, NY. They’re the only truly progressive voice I’ve encountered in present-day media, with daily contributions which speak truth to power.
This is typical of the far right bias that permeates so much of corporate media.
‘You’d think the liberal media would do a better job at this sort of think, wouldn’t you?’
Oh, Tex, you winsome, starry-eyed idealist, you.
The concept of a modern American ‘liberal media’ never existed outside of the fevered brains of conservative disinformation strategists and those looking to pin the tail of blame on a donkey, as opposed to their elephantine selves.
In the case of MTP, David Gregory is to objective journalism what Richard Nixon was to government transparency…Yet the playacting continues because those who own big media find it useful to maintain unfettered fictions as opposed to factual clarity, which may indicate in what regard they hold the intellects of their shrinking viewership.
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You have to admit, David Gregory did some fine stepping behind Karl Rove’s rap act. Whore. I just hope he cried when Stephen Colbert handed all of them their asses.
david gregory is the worst