On his MSNBC program Countdown host Keith Olbermann got on the subject of liberal media bias while discussing Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly’s outrage at being mentioned on Law and Order: SVU. Olbermann said, “There is no liberal media. The media which is after all owned by corporations naturally leans to the right.”
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While talking about Andrew Breitbart’s new site, Olbermann said, “Let me give him two windmills to tilt at to start with. There is no liberal media. The media, which is after all owned by corporations, naturally leans to the right. Corporations by definition lean to the right, towards the status quo. If an American media outlet presents a progressive point of view, the right will exploit the media’s tendency to desperately seek balance. If the progressive says Obama was elected president last year, they will mindlessly put in a clip of somebody from the right saying no he wasn’t, it didn’t happen.”
Later Olbermann hammered his point home, “And to paraphrase something from the web from several years ago written by a fellow identifying himself as Bartcop, if Mr. Beck disagrees, or Mr. Goldberg disagrees, or Mr. O’Reilly disagrees, or Mr. Breitbart disagrees and think they are being crushed under the weight of this vast left wing conspiracy, they can go on the Orly Taitz Limbaugh show where Orly will insist that conservatives have no voice in the media, or go on the Sean Hannity show will Sean will insist that conservatives have no voice in the media, or go on Cluster Fox and Friends where Brian Kilmeade will insist that conservatives have no voice in the media, or go on Mike Huckabee’s show, where Mike will insist conservatives have no voice in the media, or go on G. Gordon Liddy’s radio show where G will insist conservatives have no voice in the media, or go on Michael Medved’s show where Michael will insist conservatives have no voice in the media, or go on Mark Levin’s high pitched radio show where Mark will insist conservatives have no high pitched voice in the media, or go on the Neal Boortz show where Neal will insist conservatives have no voice in the media…”
Olbermann goes on for a few minutes to mention every major national conservative voice in the media who will ironically enough all suggest that conservatives have no voice in the media. I don’t buy Olbermann’s claim that Beck, Limbaugh, and O’Reilly incite violence, but he did deliver the best description of why the right wing’s liberal media bias claim is total nonsense.
The whole myth of liberal media bias has been passed down in conservative circles for decades, and like anything else there could have been some truth to it way back when, but in 2009 conservatives dominate the media. One would think that the liberal media bias argument would fall apart simply based on the huge number of conservatives in the media.
However, the right wing always needs to feel persecuted, so they continue to ignore the fact that they control the media, while ranting and raving about the few liberals who left on the media landscape. Olbermann did a great job of point just how quickly this myth falls apart when facts start to be introduced.
Olbermann is clueless as usual i have no clue why he even has a show.
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I always find it interesting when someone disagrees with an empirical disposition of a factual reality, and sums it up to a lack of intelligence! Thanks for the deep Palinesque analysis.
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along with Fox is another entire network of right wing radio stations. There are right wing cable networks, right wing radio programs and entire stations – sometimes having multiple stations in a single market. And clearly there are right wing print media, both magazines and newspapers, as well as the news-like sites in the blogosphere that for some people are a supplement or even mainstay of their news coverage.
I would however disagree with Olbermann that there aren’t also more liberal or left wing and centrist media as well, including MSNBC where he appears. It is the right however, more than any other position of the political spectrum that seems to cry ‘foul’ and VICTIM more than any other, especially FOX news — all the while bashing those who oppose them or just have a different view.
Go Law and Order SVU!!!!! ROFL!!!!!
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That is all.
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I can’t believe he mentioned Bartcop. Bartcop.com has been a liberal blogger since 1996, and deserves some recognition.
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Under the guise of liberal progress we are moving toward the destruction of our economy, government and way of life. We have elected a charlatan who has communist and socialist ties, who rode in on the corrupt Chicago political machine. Say what you will about Limbaugh, Hannity and others of a Conservative inclination they are least trying to make people aware of the direction we are presently headed in the name of change and hope.
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yelling “the sky is falling, the sky is falling!” and mostly just making up stuff.
In between pushing gold with prayer. Yeah, the only prayer really taking place is prey-er, as the gold sellers who are the few advertisers remaining prey on the unsuspecting.
The dumb people who watch Fox that smart people ON Fox, like Gretchen Carlson, have to pretend to be stupid to ‘fit in’ with their populist delusions.
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About 7 years ago, they were busy making people aware of Saddam’s WMD.
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Dog Gone, just another typical liberal with his head square up his ass. The only cartoon loons are the Lefty Loons like Kieth Overbite who make shit up, is terrible at what he does and was just as bad of a sports announcer. Couldn’t stand him then and can’t stand him now.
Hey dummy, I got one for ya go look at your lefty loon sites and see how many covered the story about Flight 297 Atlanta to Houston on november 17, 2009. No huffy puffy or democrapic none. So go smoke your joint, hug a tree save a smelt then pack your freakin bags and move to denmark. They’ll love you there, but stop trying to change this country from what it was founded on asshole
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No liberal bias here. Now sit down, shut up and watch your law and order.
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I seem to have struck a crabby, conservative anonymous nerve!
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