Monday - March 14, 2005

America Hater at Wa-Po

Frankly, I am not surprised to have read about this.  I have always known the media to be biased in ways we sometimes can not fathom.

But to take a good look at the depths of that bias, the level of hatred for America and all things that represent her, we need go no further than the managing editor of the Washington Post, Phillip Bennett.

He was in China recently and actually said the US should not be the world’s superpower!

Straight from the transcript:

Yong Tang: In such sense, do you think America should be the leader of the world?

Bennett: No, I don’t think US should be the leader of the world. My job is helping my readers trying to understand what is happening now. What is happening now is very difficult to understand. The world is very complex. There are various complex forces occurring in it. I don’t think you can imagine a world where one country or one group of people could lead everybody else. I can’t imagine that could happen. I also think it is unhealthy to have one country as the leader of the world. People in other countries don’t want to be led by foreign countries. They may want to have good relations with it or they may want to share with what is good in that country.

This Assnugget then goes on to say:

the Washington Post has a correspondent bureau in Baghdad. One of the jobs of our correspondents in Baghdad is to tell our readers what the Bush administration is trying to hide. Bush says democracy is advancing in Iraq, but our correspondents say the situation there is much more complex than that. Our job is to put that in the public domain and challenge the government and hold them accountable. We do that by having independent reporting about events, by telling our readers what the actual situation is, with as much independence, fairness and accuracy as we can.

He’s in CHINA, of all fucking places, talking about INDEPENDENCE, FAIRNESS, and ACCURACY?  Where’s the reporting about Chinese human rights abuses, asshole?  Yeah, he won’t publish those because he’ll get kicked out of the country!

I keep reading this and getting even more infuriated!  This is his response to a question about the election coverage:

Yong Tang: It seems that the influence of mainstream media in America is on the decline. One example is about the general elections last year. The Washington Post and almost all the other major newspapers in the country firmly sided with Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry but finally Bush still won the reelection by a wide margin.

Bennett: Yes, the influence of the mainstream media is on the decline, but I don’t think it is because of the reasons you said. Again it goes back to what an editorial policy of a newspaper is. Major American newspapers endorse Democratic candidates every time. I think that endorsement means nothing. I don’t think people will vote according to that endorsement. It is just an old tradition which really doesn’t have lot of meaning any more today.

Well, Mr. Bennett, if it does not have meaning then why do you do it if not to try and persuade voters?  You LYING SACK OF SHIT!!!!  And because you and your ilk are such distorters of truth and promulgators of partisan lies, your influence WILL continue to go down.  We’ve got your number, pal!

The lies continue------

Yong Tang: What is the biggest difference between today’s tabloid journalism and Yellow Journalism during the late 1800s?

Bennett: According to The Yellow Journalism, they write things that are not true. Part of the origin of Yellow Journalism is inventing things and making them up in order to capture people’s imagination. Today even the tabloids hold a standard of accuracy higher than that standard then.

Hey, Assnugget, explain to me the difference between the media NOT following up on stories about Kerry’s service, his military records, his lies, his treasonous acts, etc. and your efforts to demonize the President.  Why is it when you publish stories that are patently false, or interview people who tell outright lies, or endorse books by authors who have an axe to grind with the administration which clouds their abilities to be “honest” that you don’t call this yellow-journalism?  I see no difference.

OK, y’all go read the rest for yourselves. I am sickened by it.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 03/14/2005 at 06:54 AM   
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