Posted by
Desert Blue on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 2:59:49 PM
I am just livid over NBC’s “fact-checking” of McCain’s
“account” of “his time” (torture) in the Hanoi Hilton. Obscene is the best word for it.
However, this is just a symptom of a larger problem. Liberals have long claimed that the media has
a conservative bias because corporations own them, and could not possibly allow
news contrary to their class interests. This Marxist trope has become a reflex, to the point that I’ve heard it
from my own mother. However, NBC’s
shameless support of Obama seems to refute this.
NBC reflects the political bias of not only its own
management, but of the acknowledged politics of the chairman of GE, NBC’s
“corporate master.” Doubtless they
giggle over cries of bias, because, according to the trope, this is the first
time anyone in the press can possibly ever have taken such a position. They might say, “It’s only fair after so long.
After all, the Republicans do it.”
This beautifully illustrates the larger point: Democrats
always say that, or something like that, to justify their dirty tactics. Nobody on the Republican side ever says
anything like that, because they simply don’t think that way. Psychologically speaking, this is called
projection. Democrats seem to look in the
mirror and fail to see themselves. Rather, they dissociate themselves from their
own racism, sexism, and religious intolerance: “Oh, that’s horribly ugly. It must be Republican.”
So whenever the Democrats or mainstream media assume that
the Republicans must be “fact-checked,” remember that this is a necessary
psychological maneuver to justify blatant bias or outright lying. After all, the Republicans are out to get
them, so they can’t possibly be paranoid.