It would seem that those of us who claim that there
exists, today, a very obvious bias in our state-controlled media that clearly favors
the left in this country, and who have always been told it’s just our
imagination, may have finally achieved some level of vindication. And imagine my surprise when it was brought
to my attention that that apparent vindication was to come from none other than
Barry ‘O’ himself. Frankly, I would
never have thought it possible to hear such an acknowledgement.
And so it was then, that just a little over a week
ago we had Barry experiencing something that I’m not quite sure was simply an
innocent slip of the tongue, one of those rare candid moments where he
inadvertently says something that is factually correct, or nothing more than a bit
of typical sarcasm. But whatever it was,
it was on his recent trip to Boise State that Barry revealed to those in
attendance that it is his belief that the television media in the United States
is dominated by liberals.
Barry said, as was recorded by C-SPAN and also officially
transcribed by the White House, “I mean, we have an entire industry that’s
designed to sort us out.” And then he went on to say, “Our media is all
segmented now so that instead of just watching three stations, we got 600. And
everything is market-segmented, and you got the conservative station and the
liberal stations. So everybody is only listening to what they already agree
with.” Personally, I watch those who I
feel are telling the truth.
What Barry didn’t say was whether or not there were
any unbiased stations. And while he may
consider Fox News as being his arch nemesis, and for no other reason than
because it chooses to present both sides of an issue or argument, doing so does
not mean they are biased to the right. I
think what really ticks him off is that without Fox News, he would likely be getting
away with so much more under what would be the less than watchful eye of an
essentially disinterested state-controlled media.
It was Barry, himself who once said in an interview
with The New Republic, “One of the biggest factors is going to be how the media
shapes debates.” He went on to say, “If
a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox News or by Rush Limbaugh
for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest, then you’ll see more
of them doing it.” He ignores the fact
that anytime Democrats actually do compromise with Republicans they’re accused
of kowtowing by the left’s media nuts!
So I would say that, if anything, what we have in
this country today is a media that has so obviously lost its way. Because, instead of acting as the watchdog of
the government, which was to be its original role, backed up by a
constitutional amendment, the modern day state-controlled media has morphed into
something that bears little resemblance to that watchdog, appearing more as an
entity whose purpose is to brutally attack anyone who dares to challenge the
progressive agenda.
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