The Self-Loathing "Liberal" Media

[kentuck]

And my question is why? Just before the November elections, do they hire these right-wingers?



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/the-self-loathing-liberal_b_98419.html

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I've been thinking some more about CNN hiring Tony Snow as a commentator.

Coming in the wake of Newsweek's hiring of Karl Rove, and the New York Times' hiring of Bill Kristol, the mainstream media's embrace of these unabashed propagandists has revealed a self-loathing streak a mile wide.

What is it with these media outlets? Have they been so cowed by the Right's relentless branding of them as "liberal" that they feel compelled to show they're not sleeping with the enemy? And make no mistake, Rove, Kristol, and Snow are the enemies -- of honesty, truth, facts, reality, and the public's right to know. Anything.

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[DJ13]

1. What is it with these media outlets?

In all honesty I think its little more than early hiring of conservatives due to an expected Democratic administration being sworn in next January.

Controversy and counter party opinion sells.

Lets just say that the MSM isnt planning on giving a Democratic President any honeymoon period after they're sworn in.

[tularetom]

3. If that was true there would have been Dem pundits everywhere for

the past 7 years.

I agree they want to stir up some shit with a Democratic administration.

But if they love controversy so much they should have had plenty to stir up within the current admin.

They've been surprisingly silent.

[underpants]

2. So they can throw up their hands and say "Where did people ever get THAT IDEA?!?!?"

and the corporations are all happen