Posted on 12/31/2005 4:05:09 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
December 31, 2005 - 18:56
I can now confirm what I've long suspected: Neal Gabler and I inhabit different planets.
I inhabit the one in which the MSM coverage of the Iraqi war is a virtually-uninterrupted drumbeat of the negative. From headline coverage of every IED that goes off, to the beatification of Cindy Sheehan, the liberal media's treatment of the war has been decidedly downbeat.
Neal Gabler, on this evening's Fox Media Watch, looked at the same coverage and complained that the MSM . . . has not been negative enough. He began his plaint with a bizarre and distasteful analogy, suggesting that if the media had covered JFK's assassination in the same manner they cover Iraq, they would have reported "President Kennedy dead; everyone else OK."
Gabler's evidence in support of his media-as-Pollyanna charge? An article by liberal's liberal James Fallows in the Atlantic magazine asking why the Iraqi army hasn't been trained more quickly, his own question as to why there aren't more oil revenues, and a wringing of hands at the prospect of democracy in Iraq bringing a theocracy to power. As if, Fallows and Gabler aside, we haven't been barraged daily by Iraqi doom-and-gloom courtesy the NY Times/NBC-ABC-CBS/CNN etc. ad nauseum?
When does the New Year arrive on Jupiter, Neal? And does it usher in 2006, or the Age of Aquarius?
If JFK was President there would be only be positive war coverage.
Well, Gabler doesn't know his history either. Connolly wasn't "OK". Yeah, better off than JFK, but still...
Gabler's an annoying twit.
Good historical point on Connolly!
Fox Media Watch ping to the Today show ping list.
And a Happy and Healthy New Year to All!
The whole bunch on that program are elitist snobs, except possibly for Pinkerton who occasionally opens his mouth -- and out comes some incoherent rambling, followed by his shy chuckle.
I gave up watching it a couple of years ago due to a stomach condition -- they caused mine to turn.
Gabler is, from my experience watching him, intellectually vacuous, a follower who lucks out repeatedly enough to make a buck being vacuous. Best ignored, he is aggravating.
That's right, and neither was the cop who Oswald killed that day.
And all the best in the new year to you!
The weekend is a bad time to watch Fox News they have nothing but mealy mouth liberals and nattering nabobs!
Another good point. And things didn't turn out that well for Oswald himself, in short order, not to mention Ruby, before long.
Cal Thomas must have the patience of a saint not to have slapped him silly by now. I know I certainly would have.
"A few weeks ago [Gabler] called O'Reilly, Gibson and Hannity demagogues for their supposed war on Christmas."
Exactly. Here's my NewsBusters report on that incident:
http://newsbusters.org/node/3061
Right. A nation convulsed. We don't like our presidents assasinated, regardless of their party. Everyone else okay? No, not at all. Gabler is a fool. Are there no intelligent liberals?
Thanks for the link, I hadn't read that. It seems to cover that ugly incident pretty well.
I know what Gabler's talking about.
Way back, immediately after 9-11, President Bush got sympathetic, even solitious coverage by the MSM. At that same moment in time, elected democrats dared not speak a word of dissent for they knew the country was fully behind that magnificent man with the bullhorn.
The media didn't criticize Bush. I remember after Bush's State of the Union speech, as he walked from the podium, a tearful, emotional Tom Daschle almost collapsed in President Bush's arms as he passed. (I'd give anything to find a photo of this.)
But it was just that.. a moment in time, before Tom Daschle, the democrats, and the MSM viciously turned on the president/commander in chief, and during wartime. They've been at it ever since, with a vile hatred for President Bush that supercedes everything, even decency. I have no doubt there are dems, libs, and MSM ghouls who anxiously wait for bad news from Iraq.
God, how I hate the Neal Gablers! He knows he's distorting the truth, he's trying to make people believe what he says implies the MSM was overly fair and balanced. What a crock!
"I'll tell you this, there is no bigger idiot on the face of the earth than me!"
I completely disagree. Incoherent ramblings always come out of his mouth.
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