[jammin' jamey]

My thoughts on the "liberal news" you guys speak of.

When this story first broke I looked on CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN, and Fox News.

The ONLY station at the time that was doing any sort of coverage (and I mean discussing the matter, not just stating facts) was FOX NEWS.

That's hardly liberal media. Again, let me say, Fox News, was the only one at the time doing any coverage on the matter.

Currently, I did just see a discussion panel about it on CNN, but they all poo-poo'd it and said it's a personal matter and that's that.

So maybe I'm watching the wrong channels, but I have not heard very much discussion or coverage on this at all from the "liberal media." In fact, I have heard more discussion, coverage, and defensive arguments on CONSERVATIVE media outlets, such as Fox News and Sean Hannity's radio show - where he talked about it for a good 30 minutes - only to turn around, be a hypocrite, and say that the "liberal media" shoudn't be covering this. (Yes, I have to admit, I was driving today, and broke down and listened to Hannity's radio show...... *bleck*)


Well Sean, they're not covering it, but YOU ARE, you freakin' idiot!


IMO, it's the conservatives that are blowing this story out of the water by being overly defensive.


Sorry for the rant.


BTW, the "liberal media" did not expose this story. The McCain/Palin camp released this news in the first place.

I just know that yesterday evening this was THE story on CNN and MSNBC. FOX was also focusing on the story and as you said, they were discussing the story further, yet in my opinion (and I didn't make this clear in my earlier post) FOX was deflecting this story and supporting Palin, which took more of a focused effort. FOX was not leading with this story on Bill O'Reilly last night they first went to LA for hurricane coverage and Shepherd Smith didn't focus much time on it earlier at 7pm when I began watching the news. CNN and others were discussing this story in a different tone and treating it like it was something of critical attention in my opinion in the 7pm and 8pm hours last night at the start of primetime.

Of course Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly are going to focus on it because they have to "spin it" and deflect it. In Sean or O'Reilly's defense, they use their shows as a comeback against attacks lfrom hate websites like dailykos and huffingtonpost.

I have never said that one network has all the answers. I simply want to point out that each network has an agenda and for the most part, the television news media's agenda is supporting anything liberal.