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Yes We Can Still Blame Bush

You know the so-called mainstream media is letting our democracy down when Comedy Central is constantly reporting stories and distributing facts that they will not. The latest example comes from the Daily Show's Jon Stewart, who makes the obvious case that we can still blame President Bush, because his failures were so immense, it will takes years, even decades to recover:

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Your Liberal Media at Work Again

In the latest installment of proof that the media is not liberal, but is increasingly becoming more conservative, CNN has hired RedState.com editor Erick Erickson. RedState.com is a very right-wing Web site. Erickson also has a long history of incendiary, sexist, and racially charged statements, which include asking when voters would "march down" and "beat" lawmakers "to a bloody pulp" and referring to former Supreme Court Justice David Souter as a "goat fucking child molester."

View an exhaustive list of Erickson's outrageous comments.

“If he was a Republican, we would hear a never-ending drumbeat of news stories about markets voting in favor of the president”

Let's repeat this quote again in its full context so that it can sink in:

“We’ve had a phenomenal run in asset classes across the board,” said Dan Greenhaus, chief economic strategist for Miller Tabak & Co. in New York. “If he was a Republican, we would hear a never-ending drumbeat of news stories about markets voting in favor of the president.” Link

This quote comes from an article from Bloomberg.com, which is titled "Obama Defies Pessimists as Rising Economy Converges With Stocks." The article goes on to cite some pretty impressive economic accomplishments that have occurred since President Obama took office:

One year after U.S stocks hit their post-financial-crisis low on March 9, 2009, the benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 Index has risen more than 68 percent, and it’s up more than 41 percent since Obama took office. Credit spreads have narrowed. Commodity prices have surged. Housing prices have stabilized.

The economy has also strengthened beyond expectations at the time Obama took office. The gross domestic product grew at a 5.9 percent annual pace in the fourth quarter, compared with a median forecast of 2.0 percent in a Bloomberg survey of economists a week before Obama’s Jan. 20, 2009, inauguration. The median forecast for GDP growth this year is 3.0 percent, according to Bloomberg’s February survey of economists, versus 2.1 percent for 2010 in the survey taken 13 months earlier.

What makes this article even more remarkable is that it flies in the face of two myths that continue to be perpetuated — President Obama has not done a good job handling the economy and the media has a liberal bias. If Obama was doing a poor job handling the economy, I'd be curious what a good job would look like. And if the media had a liberal bias, why doesn't anyone know about these accomplishments?

Another Example of the Myth of the Liberal Media

I'll let this post from the Booman Tribune say it all about the myth that is the so-called liberal media bias:

You can tell that the media is liberal by looking at the Sunday morning political talk show lineups. On Face the Nation, Lindsey Graham is balanced by Evan Bayh. On Meet the Press, Orrin Hatch is balanced by Harold Ford. On This Week, Mitch McConnell is balanced by no one. On Fox News Sunday, Mitt Romney is balanced by no one. On State of the Union, Tom DeLay is balanced out by Chris Van Hollen and Brian Baird. Obviously, that means there are no progressives and, aside from Van Hollen, no mainstream Democrats. It's extreme right-wingers matched up against the most 'centrist' Democrats in the business. The only person on any of these shows other than Van Hollen who will wholeheartedly defend the president's health care plan is Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. That's how they game the system against us.

The Republicans think that the media is liberal because the reporters believe in things like global warming and the value of the United Nations and the theories of evolution and plate tectonics. But, just because the media is educated and cares about world opinion doesn't mean that they are helpful to liberal causes like avoiding senseless wars or extending health care accessibility to 30 million Americans. They're not helpful. If they were, they'd have invited Raul Grijalva and Sheldon Whitehouse on their shows instead of Harold Ford and Evan Bayh. Link