The so-called “news” media frequently demonize conservative radio talk show hosts as mean-spirited, divisive or a menace to civil discourse. But these same journalists are silent about the vile and vicious rhetoric that spews from the Left’s leading radio talk show hosts. This special report exposes the Left's hatefulness, fully documented with audio and video clips.
Surveys over the past 30 years have consistently found top journalists are much more liberal than the rest of America. At the same time, public opinion polls show Americans see the media as politically biased, inaccurate and an obstacle to solving society’s problems.
On August 1, longtime CNN international correspondent Christiane Amanpour took over as the host of ABC's Washington, DC-based This Week. A quick perusal through the MRC's Notable Quotables archive confirms her standard liberal outlook on the world.
Journalists salute Barack Obama for his handling of the Ground Zero mosque while slamming mosque opponents like Newt Gingrich (a “demented, anger-infused doofus”) and scorning the public’s opposition as “ignorance” and/or “bigotry.” Plus, Newsweek declares America to be only the 11th best country in the world (and blames our problems on George W. Bush), while Time's Joe Klein commits the mother of all flip-flops regarding Bush's 2003 aircraft carrier landing after the end of major combat operations in Iraq. Those, plus 18 more quotes in this edition of Notable Quotables.
How aggressively have the TV networks have demonstrated their dislike of Arizona’s state law “cracking down on illegal immigrants,” allegedly pitting “neighbor against neighbor?” An MRC review of all 120 immigration stories on the ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news programs from April 23 to July 25 an astonishing ten-to-one tilt against the Arizona law.
