The spin of presidential politics

[George_S]

The spin of presidential politics
Sunday, Oct 10, 2004

By Dennis Byrd

For the record, I don't regularly listen to Rush Limbaugh. Yes, I've heard his program, or pieces of it, here and there over the years - enough to know he's an entertainer and a salesman, not a journalist, who plays on people's emotions. He's also a political hack who never lets the truth get in his way. That's part of his schtick.

But, I wave it off as entertainment and sometimes wonder aloud how people can buy into his rhetoric as the political gospel. Of course, as long as he's making an obscene amount of money he doesn't care what those of the "liberal mainstream media" think about him.

We could argue about the political leanings of the so-called mainstream media all day, but my experience has been that there is no political bias in the news pages of the vast majority of newspapers, and editorial pages lean right as often as left - perhaps more so - in much of the country.

The other day I made a trip across town during the noon hour and my radio was still set to the news station I had listened to on my morning commute. Limbaugh was carrying on about the first presidential debate and how the Democrats were so well organized that they had people all over the country on Web sites to sway the polls in Kerry's favor. He droned on about how distasteful and unethical it was and how desperate Democrats obviously are to stoop so low.

http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2004/10/10/DennisByrd/299690.html

[Inland]

1. Organization, turnout bad when Dems do it

and lying, cheating and stealing A-OK when pubs do it. Its just part and parcel of the pubbie morality, where everything they do is sanctified by God and everything we do is Devil's work.