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
O'Reilly needs to see this -- http://youtube.com/watch?v=PC1L03CFlrw
This is the first time in six years I have seen Democrats with real smiles on their faces. The Republicans can learn from this if they truly care. This piece of advice is free,John McCain cannot be elected President. No if,but or and.
Look, perky Katie has no ratings.
They'll be so gleeful as Pelosi destroys
our country but they're playing to the
minority nut balls.
John McCain's presidential campaign will suffer the same fate as Bob Dole's. McCain will be cut to pieces by the main stream media!
The Clinton's have their big knives out and ready to slice him into little pieces!
Fortunately something happened. People voted issues. Which means the Democrats have two years to present real issues to the American people.
Or else they will go back to voting for the Republican. This time however, that Republican opponent may be more Conservative then what the Dems wanted.
What is the saying about "don't ask for something, you may just get it?"
Hey, I'm sorry she won, but she won.
It's like the teacher's pet coming to school and saying, " the dog ate my homework", and the teacher believing it - for the 40th time. I'm tired of hearing "why" dems get better treatment. I don't care why - and I don't believe the "why" answers anyhow.
Dems get better treatment because they're the teacher's pets. Period.
What planet are you from?
The RAT controlled Congress will receive a total pass from the MSM, PERIOD! Everything bad will be blamed on Bush.
Stop watching and reading. Many have. I used to subscribe to the New York Times though I don't live in NY. A few years ago I quit, but kept up my subscription to their Book Review.
Next month the Book Review subscription runs out. After more than twenty years, I'm not renewing.
I will have nothing further to do with the MSM.
Maybe I'm being too optimistic, but when last the Dems had control of Congress (and the Oval Oriface), the internet was not a factor. Now it is, and it could be a useful tool in exposing the Left's worst tendencies in the next two years - IF conservatives are organized enough, that is.
bizzaro.
The interviewers did everything but ask her where she has for breakfast. Of course, they were just as sycophantic with Newt when he became speaker.
Problem is anything written in the NYSlimes is repeated all across the country as fact! Their reporting is considered gospel everywhere.
Planet Grownup. How're things on Planet Sore Loser?
Big Media is being nice to Pelosi? Gee, what a shock. Every article I've read about far-leftist pols like Pelosi after the election has fairly brimmed with enthusiasm for these "wonderful" pols.
U B WONG
Hope I don't die while waiting......
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