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September 23, 2004

Shocker: Public Confidence in Media Reaches 30 Year Low

I'd like to claim that bloggers and internet newshounds had something to do with that.

The truth, however, is that they did it to themselves.

To extend the Watergate analogy-- a gift that just keeps on giving -- they gave us the sword with which to stab them, and we all collectively drove it home with relish.

I have come not to praise the liberal media, but to bury it.

At some point the mainstream media is going to have to twig on to the fact that it actually isn't so very "mainstream" at all. They are entitled to their opinions; but they're not entitled to continue insisting they speak for a nation which increasingly looks at them like some sort of pot-smokin', hot-tubbin', wife-swappin' tick on the national underbelly.

Is it wrong to allege that an entire class of professionals engages in pot-smokin' and wife-swappin'?

Well-- I have "unimpeachable sources" who've passed me vigorously-authenticated documents which "raise serious questions" about the media's preference for tokin' ganj and gettin' the occasional dose of a little strange.

PS: Obviously, I'm really hoping for that appearance on Paula Zahn. Fingers crossed!

posted by Ace at 03:25 PM

Comments

And we would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling blogger kids.

Posted by: Eric Pobirs on September 23, 2004 03:31 PM

Hah! All along the man posing as the Legendary Unimpeachable Source of Baird Texas was...

Mr. Burkett?!?!

So, all along Mr. Burkett was peddling forgeries in order to trick Old Man Bush out of his amusement park.

I've seen it a thousand times before. Oldest story in the book.

Posted by: ace on September 23, 2004 03:41 PM

From kerryspot...

At an 11:00am press event Sept. 8 (9 hours before the infamous 60 minutes report) Terry McAwful said, 'George W. Bush's cover story on his National Guard service is rapidly unraveling. ... George W. Bush needs to answer why he regularly misled the American people about his time in the Guard and who applied political pressure on his behalf to have his performance reviews 'sugarcoated.'

Posted by: Harlan Pepper on September 23, 2004 03:44 PM

A story that (tangentially) involves Rather and the words "a little strange."

Struck me as funny.

Posted by: Birkel on September 23, 2004 03:56 PM

Read down to the poll details. the percentage of people expressing a great deal of trust and confidence in the mass media is down to SINGLE DIGITS! 9 %.

And make sure you read question 32.

Posted by: Phil on September 23, 2004 04:09 PM

And by an "appearance on Paula Zahn" what you really me is "gettin' a lil strange". Right?

Posted by: Senator PhilABuster on September 23, 2004 04:47 PM

Want simple proof of MSM liberal bias? Mr. Bush (the draft dodger) long ago signed a form DD-180 which opened up his entire military case file to the world. Mr. Kerry (the war hero) has refused to do the same thing. But when have you heard anyone in the MSM demand that Kerry allow full access to all of his records? Nuff said.

Posted by: The Old Coot on September 23, 2004 07:44 PM

Hey, don't equate -- or even correlate -- smoking the kind with wife-swapping or liberalism. There are plenty of libertarians and even conservatives who happen to prefer grass to alcohol. Of course, they can't come "out" any more than homosexuals could in the 1930s. When the sh*t is legalized you'll all be amazed to learn who's been smoking all along.

Posted by: akmdave on September 23, 2004 07:57 PM

Paula Zahn - maybe not terribly bright, but yummy!

She's MILFy as all get out!

Posted by: blaster on September 23, 2004 10:08 PM

OK, you said it- I gots ta naw-
(yes, I am ignant to this type of thing)
WTF is MILF?

Posted by: lauraw on September 23, 2004 10:55 PM

Moms I'd Like to..."Fool-around-with"

Refers to attractive women over 30.

Posted by: Desert Cat on September 24, 2004 03:01 AM

Ace, as a connoisseur of rantsmanship you’re going to appreciate this; VDH gives ‘em Zell…

http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200409240826.asp

Posted by: Lastango on September 24, 2004 12:41 PM

So Ace,

You're saying you'd like to appear on tv on top of Paula Zahn? Well, I must say I wouldn't hate that myself.

Posted by: thebastidge on September 25, 2004 06:30 AM