Media Puppets
I’m not very interested in the whole Michael Steele/Rush Limbaugh dustup. I’m bored by Republican party infighting, and I’m neither a Limbaugh fan or a critic. But Matthew Archbold put together a nice collection of examples in which the media has clearly been working off of Democratic talking points:
NY Times: now that Limbaugh has become something else — the face of the Republican Party, by a White House that has played him brilliantly…
Politico: “Top Democrats believe they have struck political gold by depicting Rush Limbaugh as the new face of the Republican Party…”
Reuters: President Barack Obama’s team is helping lead an effort to cast Limbaugh, a polarizing, conservative talk radio show host, as the Republican Party’s new face, using campaign-style attacks against a high profile target.
MSNBC with Jennifer Skalka, editor of the blog Hotline On Call: “Well, you kind of get the feeling that Rush Limbaugh is enjoying being the face of the Republican Party”
Eleanor Clift: “Right now, Limbaugh is the face of the Republican Party…”
Huffington Post: “There is no easier way for the administration to explain this than to simply point out that if Rush Limbaugh is the new face of the Republican Party than…”
via Creative Minority Report: Our Independent Media?.
To which I cann add one more at least from today’s Daily News, a Stanley Crouch piece that states: “In a time of this sort when a party accepts the de facto leadership of talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, things are obviously very, very bad.”
These people really are shameless in their bias. I know some of them are opinion writers, but they’re not independent voices, the are party speakers.
