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Originally posted by tabs
The Naybobs of Negativism are at it again....all they are is a bunch of efete elitist snobs.
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It's rare to see anyone quote or paraphrase Spiro Agnew, at least not for the purpose of mocking him. Those were really the good old days, huh Tabs?
I guess that I don't understand the point of the column that started this; is it that journalists should inject
more personal/editorial slant to their reporting?? 
I will actually shock some conservatives here and admit that much of the main stream press is openly contemptuous of the Bush administration, but in their defense it might be impossible not to be. When your job involves being on the ground in places like Iraq and you see first-hand the results of failed policy and political hubris, it must be hard to stay disinterested. This AM's Sunday LA Times has a particularly brutal front page story about the nightmare that is Iraq in Oct. 2005. Iraqi "security forces" that will be self-sufficient in the year 3000 at the present rate, an accellerated pace of sickening terrorist attacks on civilians that was unheard of in the region before we "liberated" them, etc., etc.....
Oh yeah, and an oil infrastructure that is now permanently damaged according to experts, ie. it will need massive rebuilding, (in places from the ground up), before production could ever reach pre-invasion levels.
******* Brilliant, these neocons!! Journalists should be bowing at their feet, like in Argentina or Chile!
The new American right wing's hatred for a free press is well documented, but still, you could try to be a little less obvious about it. Rush Limpballs referred to "the media" yesterday in regards to the Delay story, I almost drove off the road I was laughing so hard at that bag of schit! No irony necessary, (or understood), for that audience, I guess.