Reply #34: Ha! You're right! Bush turned out to be a goddamn abomination, Nadin... [View All]

[alanquatermass]

-- but even BEFORE he took office and mired us in two unpopular wars and tanked the American economy, didn't most U.S. newspapers still support Al Gore in '00? Pretty sure they did.

In fact, a quick search of the internet turned up this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_United_States_presidential_elections

Now granted, this table was found on Wikipedia, but I suspect its compilation of Presidential endorsements over the last three election cycles is still pretty accurate, and -- as you can see -- the ratio of Democratic to Republican endorsements by the major U.S. newspapers seems to be roughly 4:1.

I take great comfort in this, because politics tends to flow downstream from culture, and the moment we lose the MSM we're fucked.

(And again, I am allowing for the possibility of being very, VERY wrong here -- as I often am!)