Posted on 06/02/2005 11:49:19 AM PDT by OESY
John Kerry had a complaint: ...that voters can't hear Democrats above the roar of the GOP spin machine.
The right, he groused, is far more effective than the left at making itself heard. To peddle their ideas, Republicans and conservatives have assembled an elaborate communication network, one that relies on the likes of "Cato and Heritage and Grover Norquist"... to make sure its messages get plenty of attention....
...[The] complaint makes it clear that the paranoid style in American politics is alive and well. Thirty years ago, it was Richard Nixon who fumed at the media and compiled an enemies list. Today it is in the upper ranks of the Democratic Party that unflattering news coverage is blamed on "conspiracies" and subversive "fifth columns."
[T]here is a difference. Nixon really did a face an overwhelmingly hostile press corps. Kerry, Gore, and Clinton, by contrast, benefit from a news media that is overwhelmingly liberal, as countless surveys have shown....
What Kerry and the others object to is not that there are only conservative voices in media circles these days but that there are any such voices. The right-of-center Fox News cannot hold a candle to the combined left-of-center output of ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and PBS. Scaife, Bradley, and Olin money helps leverage Republican messages, but its impact is dwarfed by the Ford, Rockefeller, Pew, Heinz, MacArthur, Carnegie, and Soros fortunes. The Washington Times is conservative? Yes, but The Washington Post is liberal -- and its circulation is eight times as large.
But... even a few conservative outlets are too many. They grew up in the era before cable TV, talk radio, and the Internet--the age when liberal dominance was unquestioned. Now Democrats have to compete in the marketplace of ideas, and voters don't seem to be buying what they're selling....
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Who's this Kerry feller?
Was he the guy who went to Viet Nam?
Wasn't he some sorta hero in Vietnam?
I thought he said something about Cambodia.
Yeah, I think that's it. Got a medal from General Giap for his courage in Paris maybe.
You know, if he could find a guy who looks like a silky pony or a shyster lawyer maybe the two of them could run for president, for a stronger America.
That might have been Santa Claus.
It was Christmas.
The hero bedecked in French medals and a silky shyster lawyer pony as a running mate ~ that's a sure fire winning ticket.
"It was Christmas"
Hey, I think you're right. Didn't he say he got a magic hat?
Maybe it's a top hat for use in certain movie theatres.
"What Kerry and the others object to is not that there are only conservative voices in media circles these days but that there are any such voices."
That about sums it up. The demoncRATS can't stand to be confronted with their own foibles.
He's Irish..He's Jewish..Esta Latino!
John is exactly correct!
Democrats please give it to us twice as hard and twice as loud!
More taxes.
More abortions.
More gun control.
More gay marriage.
More liberal socialism/communism.
More activist "living constitution" judges.
More UN treaties that bind US to UN/French world government.
More totalitarianism - No smoking, urban sprawl, SUV's...
Please, please get the Democrat message out!
Yes, the Democrats' problem is that the voters have heard their message.
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