Power Line calls it bias.
With Dan Rather and Mary Mapes doing their best to unseat Bush, CNN keeping Carville and Begala on the air, and now ABC News’ Political Director Mark Halperin rallying the troops around Kerry, it is far more than simple bias.
It is power.
We’ve already seen how frightened they are over a bunch of folks sitting around their living rooms dissecting every report MSM
I just read this after your post on voting in Afghanistan.
It is a shame that some abuse what others have struggled for, at great cost and look to us as an example.
ABC news should be ashamed of themselves.
Comment by Alex — October 9, 2004 @ 9:06 am
On the other hand, Halperin is simply keeping the faith, albeit a little more explicitly than most, in a text-book application of the principles first outlined in the 1960s by Herbert Marcuse. As cute a justification for the suppression of free speech by your enemies as you will find can be found in his essay on Repressive Tolerance at:
http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/books/repressivetolerance1965.htm
Mark
Comment by Mark — October 9, 2004 @ 1:59 pm
Marcuse is one of the “heroes” of Intellectual Morons, so I guess that makes sense.
Comment by Bunker — October 9, 2004 @ 3:52 pm