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November 16, 2002
Daily Howler
Thank heaven for The Daily Howler. I'd call it virtually essential reading for anyone regularly exposed to the distorted world of the American news media.
Howler regularly shows why many of the points repeated ad nauseam by conservative talk-radio hosts, pundits, and columnists are only loosely based on facts, and frequently omit important details and take things horrifically out of context. They then feed out their distorted version of events, further enraging their conservative audience against the nefarious (and exaggerated) goings-on of the evil Left.
The Muslim students widely slammed for joking about Sept. 11 weren't even talking about Sept. 11 - they were discussing "bringing down" a CAR to Florida!! And it isn't quite true that Paul Wellstone's funeral turned into a political rally - there were only a few scattered boos of Republicans, and ONE partisan speaker, after several nonpartisan ones, and rounds of applause for Republicans among them. Yet even among liberal columnists, we hear words of condemnation for 20,000 Democrats shamelessly exploiting the senator's passing.
After the Washington snipers were arrested, the Right crowed about how they were Muslims, and started blathering about how everyone had assumed the sniper had been a white male extremist. The hitch is that hardly anyone actually made such an assumption; they only listed it as one of many possibilities. But, again, the right-wing audience is told what it wants to hear; that the so-called "liberal media" is wrong again. Actually, it's the Right that is wrong. Again.
Daily Howler. Kudos to its author, Bob Somerby. Keep reading it and let the truth shine through!
Posted by Tyrone at November 16, 2002 09:03 AM