I think he might have a point where he says that a lot of the "conservative press" is more biased then the so called mainstream press, but the "mainstream press" doesn't go around calling itself liberal, and most of the biased conservative sources are sources of opinion not news. Talk Radio is more biased then the Washington Post, but it isn't supposedly and unbiased mainstream news sorce. If you just look at the news from the WSJ, Fox News, or the Washington Times, I don't see it as being any more biased then the news from The New York Times, or CNN.
The "mainstream" press might attack Democrats along with Republicans, but it does not present conservative ideas as often or as fairly as liberal ones. For example you rarely get a story about someone defending themselves or someone else with a gun, and when it does happen the gun often isn't mentioned. Apparently the "mainstream" press wouldn't want to publish news that would support any of the NRA's ideas.
And then there's Enron. Is there any doubt that if the situation were reversed, Republicans would be exploiting the scandal more aggressively? Would they have hesitated, as Democrats have, to frame Enron as a political scandal, or to bombard the White House with subpoenas? Democrats can't afford to go all wobbly, especially now."
Yes there is a lot of doubt. Besides Enron has connections to Democrats as well. Trying to pin it on Republicans really is just a partisan witch hunt. Its a scandal for Enron and Arthur Anderson, not the current administation or Republican in congress.
Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform (who, like most conservatives I spoke with, doesn't buy the idea that Republicans fight more ruthlessly than Democrats)
I agree with Norquist. The Democrats have been brutal. Its a dirty game that both sides play.
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