If you read the article carefully, the above is not what Gore said.
I'll have to respectfully disagree...
You can respectively do whatever but you are reading into Gore's position with the help of the writer.
"But Mr. Gore has a bone to pick with his critics: namely, he says, that a systematically orchestrated bias in the media makes it impossible for him and his fellow Democrats to get a fair shake. "Something will start at the Republican National Committee, inside the building, and it will explode the next day on the right-wing talk-show network and on Fox News and in the newspapers that play this game, The Washington Times and the others."
For an example, you are putting quotes around the conclusions reached by the writer and not just the words spoken by Gore. The writer's words are the spin he puts on Gore's words. If you read what Gore said, you will realize that what he was suggesting is that the conservative press promotes Rep. initiatives, and then, tries to manipulate the mainstream press into following suit.
And I agree with his suggestion......this attempted manipulation and at times, the efforts to humiliate into agreement are so new that its still surprising to me. Besides, I know that's what Gore meant because I was listening to him when he spoke those words. He did not have a bone to pick with critics nor did he accuse the mainstream press of having a conservative bias as the rightwing writer would have us believe. Adding insult to injury, you take his words one step further in your post.
The way I see it.......eventually, conservative paranoia coupled with its hypersensitivity and hypercriticism will kill the current right wing movement........much like Haider's movement in Austria is dying a slow death.
Utter nonsense. Compare FOX's "Hannity & Colmes" with CNN's "Crossfire". Colmes makes a reasonable articulation of the liberal position, and is a reasonable offset for Hannity. But Crossfire matches up the two most important liberal mouthpieces (Carville & Begalla) against Carlson, a near-liberal himself, and Novak -- a conservative, but inarticulate.
Who cares......none of those people are mainstream.
Compare Bruce Morton's commentary with that of Bill O'Reilly. O'Reilly OFTEN takes a position against the Republican line; Morton ALWAYS takes the extreme liberal position.
You have ABC's Jennings reporting news under the guise of being balanced, when in fact the news is reported, insidiously, with an extreme liberal bias. Rather is as bad or worse, and Brokow is almost as bad.
No one said the mainstream media is not liberal.
The NY Times has taken to out and out lying -- apparently, with no shame whatsoever. The lies have been pointed out time and time again (in some instances, even by liberals), and when pointed out the paper takes no steps to correct the lies.
The Times does not lie......your biases are so firmly in place they have become truths to you. They are not.
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