So a liberal notices that the media focused way more on economic hard times in the early 80’s than they are with similar unemployment now. Kevin Drum really seems baffled by why the left-wing media which hated Reagan was constantly harping on the bad economic times yet that same media is much more subdued when such a focus would seem critical to their liberal golden child. So Kevin Drum puts on his smart person glasses and tries to figure out that conundrum by meticulously analyzing employment patterns.
Makes me think of a guy who wanders into a forest and is surprised to see so many leaves on the ground. So he carefully analyzes the soil and does spectral analysis on it to see if there is some leaf producing thing that could explain the phenomenon. And you just want to grab him and shake him violently and scream, “LOOK UP IN TREES! WHY WON’T YOU JUST LOOK UP AT THE TREES?! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?! HOW HARD DO YOU HAVE TO WORK TO BE THIS THICK-HEADED?! AHHHH!” And then you shake him until the police drag you away.
So why do so many liberals have such a blind eye to the media’s left-wing bias; why is it so hard for them to acknowledge the sky is blue? My best guess is that if they admitted the media tilts heavily liberal, then that means their ideas actually get an unfair amount of positive focus and yet are still soundly rejected by the public at large, and that’s just too bitter a pill to swallow.
Because when everyone with a brain was taking Economics 101 in college, they were submersing themselves in studies of Marxism, Socialism, Progressivism and Liberalism. It’s their training that prevents them from noticing the trees.
How is it possible for people this stupid to engineer a giant conspiracy? I blame monkeys.
Because to liberals anyone who ever disagreed with them in the slightest is a right-wing extremist.
If any newspaper ever once wrote that maybe Castro isn’t the best-est world leader ever; or if any TV newsperson ever said that partial birth abortion possibly isn’t the highest achievement of the human race; or if any radio personality ever suggested that perhaps a tax rate over 50% is not the greatest economic engine in the history of society – then that proves that all of the press is part of the fascist, bible-thumping, Republican, NRA-backing, neo-con, racist conspiracy. And why wouldn’t such awful people report on the poor economy under Obama?
It’s a mystery.
I remember (old codger here) when Clinton defeated Bush I. Up to the day of the election we had the worst economy in the history of the earth. The day after the election it was all wine and roses. The journalisim schools became bastions of liberal idiology decades ago. They all come out wanting to be little Dan Rathers.
Don’t forget “gender studies”, MJDZFUN! That’s another liberal goodie. Don’t ask me what that is, my theory is that liberals are generally way too stupid to tell women from men and need some kind of a course. Given the rancid appearance and clothes worn by liberals, it’s hardly a surprise.
I think Marko’s right, it’s those @#$%&*! monkeys. Probably the same psychotic monkeys who watch “Lost.”
Wait! What?! The media is biased? I am shocked! shocked and confused! Shocked, confused and blown away!
I come in again.
You can just as easily convince a paramecium that the earth is round as you can convince a liberal that the media is biased in favor of liberals. I think it better to say “Fie!” to them and move along.
At the point when “investigative journalism” became reading a daily email from the DNC, everything not covered in that email became confusing and scary.
They’re fecking sputum drenched retards.
This is why liberals always think they’re so smart. It takes an awful lot of smart figurin’ to work out a complex way to avoid seeing the obvious.