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Eyes Are Opening – Is it too late?
Longtime democrat writer, Phil Mushnik, is having an epiphany.
As a registered but less-than-loyal Democrat, I long scoffed at the long-held notion that the news media have a left-leaning, anti-Republican bias.
I didn’t believe it, primarily because I chose not to believe it. Plus, the media confirmed for me that mine was the noble side. Heck, there was no other side.
But I now know — and have for some time — that I was pulling my own leg. The notion of such a bias is not merely a notion; it’s true.
Early this month a spectacular story was given tiny attention, and none, as far as I watched, on nightly national newscasts.
In December 2010, David Plouffe, soon to be reappointed a senior adviser to President Obama, gave two speeches in the desperately poor country of Nigeria.
Speeches for which he was paid a total of $100,000.
Holy moly! What did he have to say in Nigeria that was worth 100 grand? He must have revealed the cure for a country ranked 158th among 177 in economic development, a country in which an estimated 70% of humanity live — barely, and not for long — in severe poverty and in the mortally unhealthy conditions that accompany nothingness.
But, no, that wasn’t it.
Plouffe was invited and paid by MTN, Africa’s largest wireless-phone operator — and a company that does business with nuclear weapons-headed, radical-Islamized Iran.
Anonymous
August 20th, 2012
I hope he was paid with Nigerian money.
scribble
August 20th, 2012
The above photo epitomizes the interest obama has in doing his job.
Anonymous
August 20th, 2012
Is he stoned?
Claudia
August 20th, 2012
Hey, what’s that coming out of o’s head?
(I know, I know; it’s a branch … work with me here)
It must be steam leaking out his ear from his melting brain!
Snowball the Sourpuss
August 20th, 2012
So the dude gets drunk on the libtard kool-aide and then bitches about the hangover?
Well, welcome to the party, pal! Glad to see you come to your senses.
Xavier
August 20th, 2012
That stinking steamy pant-load of poop was one of the worst examples of stream-of-consciousness inner-dialog writing I’ve ever read.
You’d think that a columnist watching the slow death of the NYT would have the awareness to start writing polished articles to build his résumé, which he should be frantically mailing out to every online publication that exists.
And in comparison to the blatant injustices promulgated by the administration, if this relatively minor indiscretion by Plouffe was what ruffled Mushnik’s feathers, what does it say for his journalistic perception and ability?
You can be damn certain Mushnik has approved of and supported liberal media bias all along. He’s just another rat jumping ship and trying to ride the growing right wing wave; he’ll turn on us faster than that ungrateful POS Juan Williams.
chico escuela
August 20th, 2012
Yeah, it’s too late.
AbigailAdams
August 20th, 2012
How many more of these BS true confessions do we have to read/listen to from the asshattery in the media. It’s nauseating to hear from these jerks who think they are so “well-educated” admitting at the same time that they have absolutely NO critical thinking skills — NONE!
Xavier said it best. This is just another bald-faced liar twisting himself into a pretzel logic in order to engender what? Sympathy?! A strange sense of brotherhood with us who have been the target of his asshattery?! What?! What the Hell does he expect? My God!
AbigailAdams
August 20th, 2012
Oh! And Juan Williams? Fox shoulda canned his a$$ a long time ago. For MONTHS after the lying lie about a tp person spitting on a black congressman, Juan Williams ended every single sentence declaring that the tp is racist because they spit on a black congressman. Liar!
(I’m livid after having just listened to the Lying Liar preezy at his “unprecedented, historic, ABFAB” peformance before the WH Press.)
Mahtomedi
August 20th, 2012
Xavier nailed it: the rats are just jumpin’ ship.
scr_north
August 20th, 2012
Actually, I think while he got the media bias right he hit the wrong nail. I think he meant to comment that Dems are all whores and will do anything for a buck.
Team TEA
August 20th, 2012
Answer: No, it’s not too late to see the light and vote against Obama. Guess we’ll see what the author of that piece does on Nov. 6 to see if he’s really serious.
Carlos The Jackal
August 20th, 2012
I don’t know what is worse: Their stubborn clinging to an UNSUSTAINABLE political ideology, or when they have an “epiphany” and won’t STFU about it.
Yeah, yeah, we know. It’s what we’ve been telling you for eons.
Robert Fine
August 21st, 2012
Hopefully they’ll track him down and take it back.