The American Spectator

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Mr. Babbin is 100% correct in his assessment of the role of the MSM. His methods to counter same also make sense. One big problem.

p>The President has given up any attempt at leadership (how about that dynamite choice for the Supreme Court?), and coupled with the less than courageous Republican House and Senate (I am being too nice here), the door is wide open for the Dems, lefties, and MSM to feed on the corpse of conservatism like carrion in the veldt. br> — T. A. O’Reilly br> South Portland, Maine /p> p> It is possible that the MSM have reached the high water mark in their criticism of all things Bush and DeLay. Even avowed liberals of my acquaintance are coming to the conclusion that the MSM cannot be taken at face value. The fairy tale coverage of Hurricane Katrina, the oppressively bad news out of Iraq day after day after day, and the neurotic blaming of President Bush for virtually every negative thing that happens in the world have taxed the gullibility of even the staunchest compassionate liberal. As a teacher for many years, I have met about every stripe of liberal in existence. Even many of them have had to grudgingly admit that the MSM has gone overboard in its coloration of events and its pursuit of Bush, the Father of All That Is Evil. That is not to say that the most rabid of them don’t still blame President Bush for thunderstorms and volcanic eruptions. However, we cannot worry about those folks, as they the ability of cognitive thought. These liberal marionettes will think what they think until God comes on a cloud. In fact, even then, they will probably argue that the end of the world was a Republican plot hatched by Karl Rove, and carried out by George Bush. br> — Joseph Baum br> Garrettsville, Ohio (Yes, I have moved!) /p> p> Mr. Babbin is indeed correct about the ascendancy of the MSM to political party status. He however comes to this realization way too late. Perhaps if he read TAS