Hey, Howard Kurtz, and others watching the Dorner case, here's why conservatives hate the press

Fox News ^ | February 12, 2013 | Erick Erickson

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The press is convinced that conservatives do not like them because of conjured up, imaginary reasons. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

This past week, the press gave us yet another example of why conservatives have legitimate reason to hate them.

Monday, one of the best media critics in America, Howard Kurtz, wrote a column at CNN.com about conservatives blaming the liberal media for the nut in California. His column included this:

Now it’s true that some on the left tried to tar Palin when Jared Loughner opened fire in a Phoenix shopping center, killing six people and wounding Gabby Giffords. Palin’s team had posted a map with crosshair targets representing Democratic lawmakers, including Giffords, that she was singling out for defeat in the 2010 midterms.

Note the use of the word “some.”

In fact, it was a wide ranging opinion expressed in the media that “tea party rhetoric” was probably to blame. Even after it became clear Jared Loughner was just a nut with no political agenda, as Kurtz himself noted, the media spent a lot of time wringing its hands over the tea party rhetoric.

ABC News noted the Palin campaign graphic dominated the debate on what happened.

Jane Fonda was out blaming Palin, Beck, and every other conservative.

Piers Morgan on CNN, months after the horrific incident, was still mad Sarah Palin hadn’t apologized...

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[Diogenesis]

"When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt,
but protects the corrupt from you -
you know your nation is doomed."
-Ayn Rand

[HiJinx]

Now it’s true that some on the left tried to tar Palin when Jared Loughner opened fire in a Phoenix shopping center,

Hey, Howard? That happened in a Tucson shopping center, not Phoenix. That's like confusing Dallas and Austin. And you wonder why we question the media today? Really?

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I don’t hate the “press corps.” They, and anyone else who thinks so, mistake the emotion. It is not hate, but contempt. A contempt so deep, the eloquence of the English Language is inadequate to express it.

[Travis McGee]

[Still Thinking]

The press is convinced that conservatives do not like them because of conjured up, imaginary reasons.

They hate and do everything they can to thwart conservative people and ideas, and they think those people are going to love them for it? I find that hard to believe, even in a liberal.