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Posted on 11/12/2006 10:58:49 AM PST by Kaslin
On Thursday's O'Reilly Factor on FNC, Bill O'Reilly raised, with former CBS News reporter Bernard Goldberg and Fox Newswatch panelist Jane Hall, "all the softball interviews of Nancy Pelosi" which aired Wednesday night. O'Reilly cautioned that "I'm not saying you should go after her throat, but surely when you have the person second in line for the presidency and she's the most liberal Speaker of the House in the history of the country, surely you might want to get into a little bit about how she formed her point of view -- or am I crazy?" Goldberg assured O'Reilly, "no, you're not crazy," and proposed: "Do you think Newt Gingrich would have gotten the same treatment as Nancy Pelosi got? Look, I mean, the bias is never blatant, but they like Nancy Pelosi, they like the fact the Democrats won and she's a woman, the first woman who's going to be Speaker of the House, so they treat her with a certain respect, which they should, that they wouldn't treat a conservative Republican."
Indeed, as the MRC documented back in 1994, the mainstream media greeted Gingrich's victory with hostility. Days before the election, CBS's Eric Engberg treated as newsworthy how the "bombastic and ruthless" Gingrich "was attacked for McCarthyism" and has "a record filled with contradictions: the family values candidate who divorced his ailing first wife, the avowed enemy of dirty politics who bounced 22 checks at the House Bank..." Time magazine snidely declared: "His ideas, which don't often come to grips with the particulars of policymaking, may be less important than his signature mood of righteous belligerence." ABC's Sam Donaldson confronted Gingrich: "A lot of people are afraid of you, they think you're a bomb thrower. Worse, you're an intolerant bigot."
To put it mildly, that isn't the tone with which the mainstream media have greeted Pelosi's victory. A Thursday CyberAlert item, "Nets Champion Pelosi for 'Making History' as First Female Speaker," recounted how NBC anchor Brian Williams gushed to Pelosi about how "I know history was riding along with you as you watched the results last night" and a glowing Katie Couric wondered: "A lot has been made of the fact that you, if elected, and it appears that you will be, that you will be the first woman Speaker of the House and the highest ranking woman in the United States government. What does that mean to you?" For the full rundown: www.mrc.org
Are you wilfuly ignoring something? Why didn't they let Gingrich go a winner's lap in 1994?
BTW, did you see the opening sketch for SNL last night...? It was hilarious. They gave it to her pretty good.
That was my voice. No, I missed SNL.
We are going to have to shame the MSM into reporting.
Seriously. I am beyond being sick and tired of hearing how biased the left-wing wacko news media is.
Those dinosaurs are losing viewers, readers and listeners in droves. Why do people like O'Really, Limbaugh, Ingraham, Hannity, etc. spend so damn much time complaining about it?
Just make fun of them. Lefties have no sense of humor. Especially when it comes at their own expense.
End of rant. Carry on.
Ummmm...because they're biased.
Look, I'm not saying she should never feel the heat. I'm saying that jumping on someone's neck in the immediate aftermath of a win is the kind of uncivil, childish behavior that makes people in the middle turn off politics. And, like it or not, it's the people in the middle that win and lose elections these days.
I realize the media isn't ever going to hound Pelosi, but we shouldn't do it yet. Not until there's something real to fight about. There's nothing at all to be gained by acting like sulky sore losers.
They won. Do you want them to know how much that hurts? Because they'll just love that.
Ok, I just wanted you to admit that, because at first it sounded like you were disputing that.
They won. Do you want them to know how much that hurts? Because they'll just love that.
I agree. In fact, Bush has been classy in his "concession", calling it a thumping, so that the MSM has to actually keep quoting his description.
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Jane hall is so frigging stupid it's painful to watch her. She claims never to have seen an example of liberal bias in the MSM.
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