This collection shows the scope of the very serious problem and the
extent to which the liberal media have smeared conservatives and cheered
liberals over the years. While the public increasingly abandons the
liberal media, reporters continue to be immune to the fact that their
bias is a problem. Thye should be ashamed!
1. Reviling Ronald Reagan
“In the plague years of the 1980s -- that low decade of denial,
indifference, hostility, opportunism and idiocy -- government fiddled
and medicine diddled, and the media were silent or hysterical. A
gerontocratic Ronald Reagan took this [AIDS] plague less seriously than
Gerald Ford had taken swine flu. After all, he didn’t need the ghettos
and he didn’t want the gays.”-- CBS’s John Leonard on “Sunday Morning,”
Sept. 5, 1993.
2. Damn Those Conservatives
“Corporations pay public relations firms millions of dollars to contrive
the kind of grass-roots response that [Jerry] Falwell or Pat Robertson
can galvanize in a televised sermon. Their followers are largely poor,
uneducated and easy to command.”-- Washington Post reporter Michael
Weisskopf in a Feb. 1, 1993, news story.
3. Typical Liberal Compassion
“I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early
like many black men do, of heart disease.... He is an absolutely
reprehensible person.” -- USA Today columnist and Pacifica Radio talk
show host Julianne Malveaux on Justice Clarence Thomas, Nov. 4, 1994, on
PBS’s “To the Contrary.”
4. Fawning Over Bill and Hillary
“If we could be one-hundredth as great as you and Hillary Rodham Clinton
have been in the White House, we’d take it right now and walk away
winners. . . . Tell Mrs. Clinton we respect her and we’re pulling for
her.” -- Dan Rather to Bill Clinton at a May 27, 1993, CBS affiliates
meeting, talking about anchoring with Connie Chung.
5. Three Cheers for Liberalism
“It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all
the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for
our country?” -- Charles Kuralt talking with Morley Safer on the CBS
special, “One for the Road With Charles Kuralt,” May 4, 1994.
6. Talk Radio Terrorists
“The bombing in Oklahoma City has focused renewed attention on the
rhetoric that’s been coming from the right and those who cater to angry
white men.... Right-wing talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Bob Grant,
Oliver North, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan and others take to the air
every day with basically the same format: Detail a problem, blame the
government or a group and invite invective from like-minded people....
Never do most of the radio hosts encourage outright violence, but the
extent to which their attitudes may embolden or encourage some
extremists has clearly become an issue.” -- Bryant Gumbel, co-host of
NBC’s “Today Show,” April 25, 1995.
7. Dan’s Salute to ‘Honest’ Bill
Host Bill O’Reilly: “Do you think President Clinton’s an honest man?”
Dan Rather: “Yes, I think he’s an honest man.... I think you can be an
honest person and lie about any number of things.” -- Exchange on Fox
News’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” May 15, 2001.
8. Extolling Virtues of Fidel’s Prison
“For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were
the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
The literacy rate is 96%.” -- Barbara Walters on ABC’s “20/20,” Oct. 11,
2002.
9. Apologizing for Awful America
“It wasn’t supposed to be this way. You weren’t supposed to be
graduating into an America fighting a misbegotten war in a foreign land.
You weren’t supposed to be graduating into a world where we are still
fighting for fundamental human rights, whether it’s the rights of
immigrants to start a new life or the rights of gays to marry or the
rights of women to choose. You weren’t supposed to be graduating into a
world where oil still drove policy and environmentalists have to fight
relentlessly for every gain. You weren’t, but you are. And for that, I’m
sorry.” -- From New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.’s, May
21 graduation address at the State University of New York at New Paltz,
shown on C-SPAN May 27, 2006.
10. Rosie vs. ‘Radical Christianity’
“As a result of the [9/11] attack and the killing of nearly 3,000
innocent people, we invaded two countries and killed innocent people in
their countries.... Radical Christianity is just as threatening as
radical Islam in a country like America.” -- Rosie O’Donnell on ABC’s
“The View,” Sept. 12, 2006.