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June 21, 2007

The Vast Left Wing Media Conspiracy

by AltHippo @ 2:18 pm. Filed under wingnuttia

I see that the usual suspects on the right are up in arms about this MSNBC article detailing political contributions from journalists. Apparently, a lot of journalists donated to Democrats. Amazing!

Not really so amazing. Journalism, per se, is about documenting events in a way that an anonymous Bush advisor once described as “reality-based”. This same advisor claimed that the Bushies had learned how to create their own reality: (ref)

“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

I have to ask, is that the kind of attitude towards reality that you’d want from a journalist?

The most interesting donation I noticed was that of Raphael Roman, a host of a television show on WNET, a PBS affiliate in NYC:

(R) PBS affiliate in New York, Thirteen/WNET, Rafael Roman, host of “New York Voices,” $250 to President Bush in July 2004, and $300 to Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota the same month.

Donating to Republicans is one thing, but Bush?

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