The very day that Saddam's sons met their end, a big piece of news came out of California. So called progressive Democrats in the state assembly planned a way to get a tax increase past. Their plan? Since they needed a 2/3 vote to get the increase passed, they'd prolong, even worsen, the states budget crisis. The Republicans would then get blamed and the Democrats would be able to change the state constitution so that they could get through a hike without a supermajority.
How'd we find out? The Democrats didn't know that everyone in the building could hear because there was a recording device in the room they were discussing this.
What was the media's coverage of this? Slim to none. In some papers, it was given a small blurb. And the leftists controlling the media want to know why talk radio is so popular...
In Bernie Goldberg's book, Bias, he describes how one reporter showed an open bias toward the idea of a flat tax, in the middle of the 1996 Republican primaries. It wasn't just a rejection of the idea, which would be bad enough. It was a mockery of Lamar Alexander and his policies.
Back in December, when the controversy over Trent Lott commending Strom Thurmond was in full force, Democrats chose the opportunity to paint the party of Lincoln as racist. The media had every opportunity to point out that the Democrats themselves were not guiltless. They could have put together on reports on Robert Byrd's KKK past. Or they could have brought up the fact that it was Fritz Hollings who put the confederate flag above the state house in South Carolina. They could have at least pointed out that Al Gore's father voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a bill that Pres. Johnson needed Republicans to pass. Did they? No. They let these hypocrites attack Lott and force him out.
A favorite thing for liberals to say is that Fox News has a conservative bias. After all, if a conservative can actually be heard an not shouted down by an obnoxious bald guy, that's a bias, right. I'm flattered that liberals think that conservatism is so superior that any time a conservative voice is actually heard, it's automatically a bias. But the fact is that liberals are given equal time on Fox. In fact, if you take a count of both liberals and conservatives on the air, it will come out about equal.
The only way a conservative is hired on MSNBC, CBS, CNN, ABC (which fired George Will in order to ostensibly focus on news on their Sunday Morning program), or NBC is if they keep it quiet, are yelled down by a liberal (so the network can claim fair coverage), or if they reinforce a liberal stereotype of conservatives. Case in point of the last one is MSNBC's The Savage Nation, hosted by San Francisco radio talk show host Michael Savage. Anyone who has listened to Savage "knows" that he is an extremist. If you don't know what he is talking about, you are instantly turned off by his outrageous personality, and therefore turned off to his ideas. You can't tell me that's not by design.
Furthermore, left- wing media hero Walter Cronkite admitted that most reporters are liberals.
