Liberal Journalists Love Republicans–Right After They Leave Office
As someone who runs a business specializing in commercial and political web consulting, I sometimes tell people that were I to suddenly become interested in advising Democratic campaigns or liberal groups, my ability to get free media plugs for my business would probably triple overnight, just simply by virtue of the fact that I would become so much more useful to the left. The same phenomenon exists with regard to RepubIican political figures. The moment they're out of power and no longer a threat to the current Democratic powers-that-be, they begin to be regarded as statesmen and great leaders by America's media elite–particularly when compared to the extremist yobs who call themselves Republicans today. This sudden respect for the likes of Ronald Reagan or Dwight Eisenhower is quite humorous to behold, particularly because it's so laughably incorrect. The Republican party has indeed drifted in a direction but it's been leftward. After showing one of the recent media manifestations of this phenomenon in a conversation between the slavishly conventionally liberal Chris Matthews and his pal Howard Fineman, the Weekly Standard takes a knife to the absurd notion that conservative figures like Texas governor Rick Perry or former Alaska governor Sarah Palin are somehow out of the mainstream when it comes to Republicans of the past by focusing on the record of former GOP president Gerald Ford, often hailed as a casualty of nefarious conservatives on the warpath: 1.
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on August 21, 2011. Filed under