The Hoodwinkers Triumphed

For years, the dinosaur media scrupulously denied having any liberal bias. There was no leftward tilt when Sam Donaldson was bashing Reagan as he took the steps necessary to return the US to prosperity after Jimmy Carter's bungling and managed the impossible- defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War. The media never went out of its way to go after either of the Presidents Bush, but "a vast right wing media conspiracy" was given credence and presumed to exist because Hillary Clinton said those mean old righties were after her serial philandering, sell our national security to Red China husband. So the overwhelming liberal propaganda machine did not exist but the non-existent rightist cabal was pulling all the strings. Back as far as the ABC town hall meetings, the media was so strident in protecting the open secret of their radical tilt that Ted Koppel would take air time to allow Reed Irvine or someone from his Accuracy in Media organization to the microphone to speak at an "open forum", only to have his producers yank the mike away and suggest Accuracy in Media was an organization that had come to speak under false pretenses and was a right-wing shill group. That was twenty years ago but the dinosaur press still goes out of its way to try to show watchdogs like Brent Bozell, trying to keep the media honest, are front groups for the evil, all-powerful right as was supposedly embodied by Richard Mellon Scaife. But these radicals who really run things did not exist, did not conspire, and never sent out talking points until intrepid researchers brought out Journolist, a real left-wing cabal that helped elect Barack Hussein Obama to our highest office by spiking stories about Obama's controversial associates, particularly the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, all while literally wishing their New Media opponents dead with one Jourolist lovely waxing maniacal about watching Rush Limbaugh suffer the fatal agonies of a heart attack as she laughs. The right in media never had any anti-Clinton conspiracy sending out blue dressed sirens to make poor Bill fall from his moral pedestal but the left really has held sway over the newsroom since John Kennedy stole an election from Richard Nixon in 1960. The dinosaur media perpetuated the myth that the most radical US Senator who had ground a racial axe to advance throughout his career was a "post-racial" moderate.