ABC will "work hard these two weeks to regain the trust of conservatives"

[kurth]

ABC To Screw Dems, Note's Halperin Tells O'Reilly
by Big Tent Democrat
Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 09:07:48 PM PDT

I just heard the most remarkable bullshit on O'Reilly (Video now available here, and a The Note post O'Reilly got excited about), which is saying something when it involves O'Reilly and the Note's Mark Halperin, ABC's political director. Halperin told O'Reilly that the Right was correct in distrusting the Liberal Media who conspire for ways to make Republicans look bad. Halperin, one of the leading GOP bootlickers in all of the Media has the gall to say that. And of course O'Reilly ate it up. O'Reilly was shocked that someone theoretically sane agreed with his insane conspiracy theory. O`Reilly said, roughly, "So you're saying the liberal Media, like ABC, CBS and the New York Times all work to denigrate Republicans?" And Halperin answers roughly, `we've documented it in our book and we the Media have to work hard these two weeks to regain the trust of conservatives.' Understand what he is saying. The Right will be pleased with ABC's coverage. Which means Dems will be screwed. Unfreakingbelievable.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/10/25/0748/6332

[SouthernBelle82]

1. So much for

journalism being the truth. Propoganda all the way.

[redqueen]

2. Seriously, is anyone here surprised?

Corporations love repukes. It's just a fact. And they own the media. If we the people had any significant amount of representation anymore, there'd be some kind of regulating what kind of crap these people spew on the people's airwaves... but there's not anymore.

That's why it's not only important to elect Democrats, but to try to control them so they don't get all DLC on us and throw us crumbs while kowtowing to corporate interests.

Yeah, I've got high hopes. :)

[madfloridian]

3. Is he the one who wrote that book called Way to Win..

that some here were praising? He and Harris?

[wtmusic]

4. If you haven't already cast ABC onto the FOX heap

now would be a good time.

[Initech]

5. Any conservative who says ABC has a liberal bias is a lying asshole.

[lumberjack_jeff]

6. "Balance" is: tell lies about us and only reveal 1/4 of their misdeeds. n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

7. KO would like that story!

EDIT...K&R

[frankly_fedup2]

8. Well, we sure haven't had to "strive" too hard because they look like

a bunch of racist idiots all the time and I do believe it is without any help from the left. Blame, blame, blame. No responsibility for anything.

[Warpy]

9. A hard shift to the right put CBS's ratings right into the toilet

and it will do the same to ABC.

People were willing to give Couric a chance, but the constant flow of propaganda from the first two weeks of hard right ranters on the inaptly named "Free Speech" segments drove their moderate viewers away.

These empty suits at the top don't get it, do they? Hard core right wingers will never watch them. They watch CBN and Pox News, exclusively.

[Selatius]

10. Has Couric been cancelled yet? n/t

[grasswire]

11. what???????!!!!!!!!!

Halperin has spent his life over at least the past ten years screwing over Democrats.

From Lewinsky to now, his work product has been skewed in favor of the GOP.

I hope Media Matters takes on this smarmy windbag. I'm furious. What a load of BS.

[SAXMAR]

12. ABC Censors website postings

Nothing ABC does surprises me any more. They censor postings on their "This Week with George S." website. Their is a lot of rambling allowed from red state folks. But god forbid anything controversial or anti- Disney/ABC stays very long.

A posting this morning about postings disappearing, you guessed it,disdappeared.


"You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts." D.P. Moynihan

[Richard Steele]

13. I'm sure ABC knows who to blame for that.