A columnist whose columns I always read is Brent Bozell from MediaResearch.org.
Today he looks at former President Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer’s new book, “Taking Heat” (I’ll add it to our Reading Right list later), and recounts some of Ari’s anecdotes, and then Brent shoots holes in criticisms of the book from—you guessed it, the liberal media—as Brent does so well.
[…] They were even bitter just weeks after Sept. 11. On Nov. 29, 2001, Newsday’s Ken Fireman was already comparing a new Justice Department program for getting anti-terrorist tips to “what totalitarian societies like East Germany and the Soviet Union used to do.” Then there was Helen Thomas, always throwing up bitter questions from the loony left at Fleischer. Before the war, she always tried to underline Bush’s thirst for blood: “You people are acting like this is a conversion to democracy by the sword! How can you, I mean, are you going to kill all these people, to get democracy [in Iraq]?” Fleischer lists a lot of these inflammatory questions in the book to frustrate those delusional oddballs who ask: “What liberal media?”
Some on the left have lamely tried to challenge his charges. In one section, Fleischer notes that the stories he was seeing on partial-birth abortion always located “social conservatives,” but wouldn’t define Planned Parenthood or other abortion advocates as “social liberals.”
[…] So let’s go back to what Fleischer was talking about — the national media. Take a look at the most influential national media sources in Nexis and see how often they employed the label “social liberal” in the campaign year of 2004 — the year when the socially liberal cause celebre of “gay marriage” took center stage. ABC? Zero. NBC? Zero. PBS’s “NewsHour”? Zero. NPR? One, but only if you count Carol Moseley-Braun calling herself a “social liberal.” NPR reporters weren’t using it. CBS? One, but only when a reporter explained Republicans attempted to tar Kerry with the loathsome label.
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