Hud found a list of ridiculous media quotes. I'm still reading them all, but my favorite so far is this one from MSNBC's Keith Olberman after Hurricane Katrina:
For many of this country’s citizens, the mantra has been, as we were taught in social studies it should always be, whether or not I voted for this President, he is still my President. I suspect anybody who had to give him that benefit of the doubt stopped doing so last week. I suspect, also, a lot of his supporters, looking ahead to ‘08, are wondering how they can distance themselves from the two words which will define his government, our government: New Orleans. For him, it is a shame, in all senses of the word. A few changes of pronouns in there and he might not have looked so much like a 21st century Marie Antoinette.
Bwahahahahaha.
Posted by Sarah at December 28, 2005 12:35 PM | TrackBackWith the mass media's general rightward tilt (most media is owned by stark conserviatives), when reporters (of whom slightly more than half have a general slant to the left) can get away with these occasional bursts of honesty, it' rather refreshing, though a lot of the examples they gave were honestly fairly dull. I get the feeling that the author must think that if a reporter isn't licking GWBs boots he is a treasonous traitor liberal. The Nina Totenberg quote was a great example of the rare reporter noticing that this president has been destroying the principles this country was once founded on.
BTW, there are a lot of really great year in review posts on the left side of the blogosphere. They have the fortune of having both a right wing media full of suckups and morons, and having DC full of starkly incompetent partisans, you should check them out. Also they have a few 'Grand Old Police Blotter' pieces since there have been so many Republicans convicted of felonies, this is a good one:
http://rogerailes.blogspot.com/2005_12_25_rogerailes_archive.html#113536731961265641
Yes, beware of those right wing media outlets like CBS, ABC, BBC, PBS, NPR, Reuters, AP, the NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Time, Newsweek, and Al Jazeera.
Posted by: Korla Pundit at December 30, 2005 05:38 AM