Just as the once mighty CNN now competes with FOXNews (GOP-TV) for Red State viewers, the once might New York Times is competing with Drudge and Insight Magazine for radical, rightwingers.

There is one possible exception. Though court was held mostly in the blogs, but Katherine Harris' putty-like make up was hard not to notice during the recount and subsequent congressional run.

I know that there are exceptions and some exceptional journalists out there (including within the AP), but the MSM has beomce a complete farce.

Ponder for a moment, where the fall of "journalism" (vs. actual journalism) would be without blogs holding them accountable.

The House Minority Leader's MAKE-UP? Give me a break. Just for the hell of it, I did a google search using "Ronald Reagan's make-up." You'd think with Ronny's Hollywood hair and pancake make-up throughout his administration there would have been at least a handful of such mentions in the first 20 hits - but no. It resulted in such things as "men make up 70% of Republicans"...blah, blah, blah. The only hit among the top 20 regarding his make-up linked to a Saturday Night Live sketch about his nap time and his make-up. Well, I guess it's no surprise since now that we actually have Bonzo sitting in the office of the president it's back to the worst excesses of the 1950's double-standards for male v. female candidates.

I. Give. Up. (:>

"Washington Post is creating the image of Hillary as the polarizing figure, without offering proof of that assertion..."

I'm sorry to burst your balloon. Hillary IS a polarizing figure, and more. (Do you want proof that gravity exists?) She is the worst possible choice as Democratic candidate. Not to mention that she is a calculating, pandering politician.

I am saying this as one who believes this country is in need of a woman president. But not Hillary Clinton.

Evcen worse than Kerry was, in fact.

Libby, the point is that the Post offered no facts in evidence, and totally glossed over their own poll's findings that she and their wet dream McCain have virtually the same favorability ratings.

How many of those stories falsely claiming that Abramoff bribes "equally" went to Democrats named individual Republicans. If memory serves, most of the stories (later debunked) managed to included the name(s) of a Democrat or two but no specific Republican names; just the generic party ID.
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Future coverage and fact checks should name specific Repubs.
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I have no way of knowing whether there is anything factual behind this, but the folks on Matthews' Sunday show (Gloria Borger, Jonathan Alter, and I can't remember the other two) all said the NYTimes story was a message (or series of messages) sent to Hillary by (1) friends who wanted to get the issue out now knowing it would come up later; (2) not-friends who wanted to let her know how rough a time she would have if she ran; (3) friends who want her to confront Bill now about his public philandering and (4) people from other campaigns trying to make her seem unelectable.

Of course there is a double standard, and none of the other candidates get this treatment. But none of the other candidates has Bill Clinton for a spouse. She is polarizing, for better or worse. So is Bush, even more so.

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It's news to you that the media is sexist? Ask any woman.

please.....the Media is controlled by the GOP. That is why George W. Bush is still out of jail. They will shill for this Administration until they are run out of the country, and this bunch of crooks and liars will fight without conscience to retain power. This is just the beginning of a horrible sequence of events orchestrated to keep power. They have absolutely no intention of giving up the control. The Senate, they will allow to go 50-50 because they have Cheney. The House..they will find the closest race needed to retain the majority and cheat to win it by 1.5 %. Wait and see. Control of the Media Message is the key, and they have that in the bag.....as we'll all re-realize over the next four months....Unless the Dems find and support a Leader with a powerful message and delivery that can galvanize the miserable failure of the Bush Admin into a national cause that will overwhelm the Big Lie/Big Media.

Bendito, you and I actually agree on something.

Stop the presses.

The Dem leadership is the best thing the Republicans got going for them.

Keep the meme going for the 36%...uhhh, 33%...uhhh, 31%...uhhh, 29%...uhhh

"It’s hard to tell from this whether or not the Times and the Post are being sexist towards Democratic women in positions of power, or are simply giving us a sneak peak of the anti-Democrat and double standard-laden coverage from the last two elections that will return in the 2008 campaign."



Can't it be both?

Why are so many ' progressive's' prepared to die in the ditch for a bitch who wants to throw you under a dirty great bus?
I mean if your masochists could you find a less damaging way to indulge your fetish please?
We need Hellanery Clintorus like a fresh Lewinsky arsehole leaking rich oil.

Are all of you Clinton bashers nuts?

A frelling rutabaga in a burlap sack is better than Putsch. I'm not too big of a fan of Hitlery either - but I'm still in her camp (and voting for her) if she gets the Dem nomination. And you should be too, if that's the only choice other than four more years of Repugnicants running the country into the ground.

Also, does anyone else wish that Ben Ditto had a web site of his very own, so that we could go there and lob pithy one liners that have no bearing on the topic at hand, the way he does over here? Maybe it's just me...

Wonderful posts from all of y'all! Hitlery? How cute is that? The media is running the country. Advertisers show food in commercials, people watch it, go out and buy it, and get FAT with it. Then they flop on sofas and watch TV. All fucking day long. I know because I sell furniture. Everybody says to me: "I want a comfy sofa so I can watch TV." I want to tell them: "You can't lose that extra two hundred pounds if you watch TV all goddamned day long." But I don't, commission is too good. The TV they watch ain't art movies. It's Fox News and Headline News and everything else. These people get their news from TV, propaganda TV; they can't move away from their TV because they're too fat from being hypnotized by food commercials.....on and on....etc.

Corporations rule America and everyone should go along with that. Voting is a joke in this country. How can anyone vote for anyone who has given money to, accepted money from, associated with someone on the Hill who advocates torture as US policy?

Steve, I have noticed the same thing about John Solomon at AP. I clicked on a story last week headlined "Democrats fear" something or another, and the body of the article said the exact opposite of the headline. I think he'd fit right in at Pravda.

Nice frame up. I hadn't quite grasped the overall pattern. I naively thought the Hillary stories were to preemptively balance some of the first (and worst) couple's coverage. The timing and breadth does imply a coordinated effort. Although, every one of these pushbacks get crushed by the next news cycle development.

Not sure it's worth the response except for the hypocrisy angle that you have made clear. Good work.