Media Matters tells the tale of two covers:
By on Nov 13th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
Media Matters tells the tale of two covers:
Time’s ‘94 postelection cover touted “G.O.P. Stampede,” while its ‘06 cover asserts “the center is the new place to be.”
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No respect I tell ya, just can’t get no respect…..
November 13th, 2006 at 2:46 pmAh, the liberal media at work again.
November 13th, 2006 at 2:47 pmMaybe it was just hard to draw a charging donkey that wouldn’t have been humorous.
I think that they meant that the moderate left is the center, so the far left is closer to the center than the far right, so Time magazine DOES have a liberal bias, darn communists.
November 13th, 2006 at 2:50 pmHa! The rightard media.
It’s kind of amusing, I suppose.
Incidentally, this is an interesting story:
http://www.givemeliberty.org/RTP2/UPDATES/Update2006-11-11.htm
An attempt to present the baby killers in the White House with indictments.
November 13th, 2006 at 2:55 pmWhat the f**k?! Thanks “liberal” media for distorting the elections. It wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that the corporate media is beholden to the GOP, would it?
November 13th, 2006 at 2:59 pmDonkeys don’t charge, they kick you squarely in the face. So, all you see is ass before you see black.
November 13th, 2006 at 3:00 pmDonkeys don’t charge, they kick you squarely in the face. So, all you see is ass before you see black.
See, thats what I mean about being forced to do a cover that would be viewed as humorous, so you guys would rather have a donkey’s rear on the cover? Then there would be complaints about how the magazine is mocking the Dem’s instead.
Maybe have a picture of Teddy K. eating an elephant…..
November 13th, 2006 at 3:04 pmtypical Reich-Wing Bullshit Distortions
November 13th, 2006 at 3:05 pmWow, what a compelling cover… zzzzzzzzzzzzz… sorry, must have nodded off. Let’s see, what was I reading? Oh yeah, that really exciting… zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
November 13th, 2006 at 3:11 pmWhy is TP making a big deal out of this, really compared to other comparable countries, Amerika is “right leaning”. Buncha stupid redneck, Budweiser drinkin, suv driving, gun toting, god loving idiots.
The 33% hardcore “righties” who are no better than those who wage Jihad against America.
TP stop wasting time on the media, we first need to get GOVT back in the power of the PEOPLE. Until then you will fight a useless battle against media leaning right.
November 13th, 2006 at 3:13 pmLame. The entire MSM response to the Dem victory is very telling. The corporate news owners don’t want us to think that the Dems are somehow in power or anything.
November 13th, 2006 at 3:15 pmLook, if they want to say that all of these newly elected Democrats are now “the center”, I think that’s just great.
For years the term “liberal” has been so demonized that folks don’t even understand what it really means anymore. The result is that now we have all of these Democrats proposing reasonable ideas and values that are shared by a majority of Americans, and people can’t bring themselves to link those values with the term “liberal”.
So if the media now wants to say that Democratic positions are now “the center”, far be it from me to argue.
November 13th, 2006 at 3:25 pmLet us not forget that it was Time Magazine that gave a 3000 word glowing report on Ann Colter! That says it all.
November 13th, 2006 at 3:25 pmWait till the ‘08 elections when they’ll all be painted as “Kennedy liberals”.
November 13th, 2006 at 3:26 pmhttp://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-42,GGLJ:en&q=chad+castagana
I see that they arrested a rightard terrorist for the fake anthrax letters he mailed. Chad Castagana is still searchable by Google though I suspect that the web pages will be removed fairly quickly as rightards try to disown yet another of their own.
November 13th, 2006 at 3:26 pmoff topic – crooks and liars is covering this with a couple of threads…
FBI Nabs Suspect in Olbermann’s Fake Anthrax Letter Case
Free Republic’s very own Chad Castagana sent the White Powder to Olbermann
http://www.crooksandliars.com/
November 13th, 2006 at 3:31 pmCenter = mainstream, Democrats taking Congress = center, therefore Democrats = mainstream. Works for me.
November 13th, 2006 at 3:35 pmFree Republic’s very own Chad Castagana sent the White Powder to Olbermann
Ok, the only stuff I found that puts him as a Freeper, is a similar post to one of Chad’s comments to a Sci-Fi magazine, and that the Freeper apparently lives in the same city, and posted happy comments about the different celeb’s getting the fake anthrax, sorta weak to claim their the same person.
November 13th, 2006 at 3:40 pmhere squegeeboo, try this link
November 13th, 2006 at 3:43 pmhttp://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Fake_anthrax_hoax_by_conservative_blogger_1113.html
You’re welcome
and don’t forget, Kerry just barely lost to Bush… that’s a stampede? that was a small victory, whereas ‘06 was a rout… or, what they call in baseball, a “shutout”
November 13th, 2006 at 3:47 pmPete, the elephant cover is from ‘94, not ‘04.
November 13th, 2006 at 3:48 pmDRxJ,
yah I saw that one already, it’s got basically nothing:
A stolen and paraphrased quote
physical proximty
shared hatred for major people on the left.
If this is all they got, then once anyone on the right gets targeted with a similar stupid prank or worse, I’m going to claim everyone at the DU and Kos who lives in the same area as that prankster are responsible, cause you’ll find the same ‘coincidences’ from them as your seeing here.
Then again, maybe they are the same guy, but it’s way to early, with way to little evidence to start saying they are.
November 13th, 2006 at 3:52 pmThe usual rightward slant of media reporting typically works against liberal causes, but I’m not sure how it matters in this instance.
November 13th, 2006 at 4:04 pmIt’s important to try to hold the media accountable for accuracy in reporting of facts, but it’s not necessary to fret if they don’t represent Democrats as bullies running roughshod over their opposition, as they depicted Republicans doing in 1994.
Isn’t it possible that a Democratic-controlled Congress might reach more liberal goals without alarming the cultists and the sheeple with the message that everything is going to be different?
Let’s hope for all progressive change possible, but results count more than bragging rights.
Yes, the Donkey’s ass being shown to all the republicans to take a gander at. Before they get kicked in the face with reality.
November 13th, 2006 at 4:05 pmNow, I thought the democrats were the party of hate and the republicans were the party of compassion.
November 13th, 2006 at 4:06 pmWow, I hate to say that I told you so, but I told you so. The msm is behind Hill’reh and the Clintonistas, and are trying to dismiss all of you out of hand. Hope you enjoyed working so hard for them to take power – suckers …
November 13th, 2006 at 4:08 pmdid Jason M Hendler just post something?
November 13th, 2006 at 4:14 pmYep, that loser is happy that some Democrats won. What a moron.
November 13th, 2006 at 4:21 pmNeo-Con: The Democrats took the full Congress from us. Its a mandate of conservatism. Our plan is working.
/cue cuckoo clock
November 13th, 2006 at 4:32 pmIt amazes me that when the GOP wins, it’s declared by the right to be a mandate for one-party-rule, but when the DEMS win, the watchword floated by the right is “bipartisan.”
November 13th, 2006 at 4:36 pmHere’s my comment on the matter. No. Friggin. Way. Bitchez.
I agree with #12. It’s great if the Democratic party becomes associated with moderate, reasonable positions for pragmatic use of government power in negotiating solutions to problems. What’s wrong with that?
The 35% radical right will always vote Republican. The 35% radical left will always vote Democratic. It’s the remaining non-radical 30% who tip elections one way or the other. If there is a mandate here, it is the mandate of the middle, who have spoken against runaway government waste, bald-faced corruption, destructive foreign policy, and general ineptitude.
If the Democrats are smart, they will sieze the opportunity to keep the center in their camp. If they are stupid, they will do what the Republicans did: govern from the extreme, and cede the center to the other side.
Let’s try not to be stupid for a change.
November 13th, 2006 at 4:38 pmdid Jason M Hendler just post something?
Comment by DRxJ — November 13, 2006 @ 4:14 pm
Nothing worth reading, as usual.
November 13th, 2006 at 4:40 pmGive the “conservatives” Liebermann and every single Dem that ran as a conservative and you wouldn’t be in charge of either part of congress. Of course we would have to give you all the Lib Repugs. Repugs lost because they weren’t acting like conservatives. Dems won because most all of them ran as conservatives. Damn sad actually because neither side gets what they want.
November 13th, 2006 at 4:44 pmdid Jason M Hendler just post something? Comment by DRxJ
I did find something dead in the thread and had to steer around it. I thought it was just one of the many road kills, a neocon body thrown under the bus. It might have been Ivy League Troll, though.
November 13th, 2006 at 4:45 pmYou can call them liberal.
November 13th, 2006 at 4:50 pmYou can call them progressive.
You can call them a Democrat.
You can call them moderate.
You can call them a United States Congressman or Senator, who will
restore checks and balances and the Constitutional foundation of
our country.
Someone needs to fill me in on this Hendler hate, generally speaking trolls aren’t treated that bad in here.
I should know, I get a response now and again :)
November 13th, 2006 at 4:53 pmSo much for the liberal media.
November 13th, 2006 at 4:57 pmAh the ego of the media. Well of course the media stays relevant by dividing and conquering. How utterly brilliant for the winners to become so just by leaning towards the losers pole. The media also found out what’s it’s like to pick sides. Fox news is the real loser in all of this. People finally got tired of total bullshit trashing of real people. Someone has to run this country, not just a bunch of canned principles.
November 13th, 2006 at 4:58 pmSquegeeboo, do you remember I-R-I? Jason is just more polite.
November 13th, 2006 at 5:11 pmOf course, Newsweek is living a world of illusion if they also think that Daddy Bush will save Chimpy’s skin. If they think so, then, they too, like Time, are full of shit.
Rollling Stone, The Nation and Mother Jones will tell the truth, thank you.
November 13th, 2006 at 5:20 pmBy the way, isn’t Richard Parsons, the head of Time/Warner, a republican? If that’s so, was he behind this sorry piece of shit that’s on the cover?
November 13th, 2006 at 5:22 pmRmbgh… Sorry, I just threw up a little… in my mouth.
November 13th, 2006 at 5:26 pm‘Night, Squeege!
November 13th, 2006 at 5:35 pmRogerRoger: “Give the “conservatives†Liebermann and every single Dem that ran as a conservative and you wouldn’t be in charge of either part of congress.”
As usual, long on feelings, short on facts. All 27 Democrats who beat out Repubs support increasing the minimum wage, universal health care, stem cell funding and getting out of Iraq one way or another. Four of them call themselves “pro-life” but are “liberal” on most other issues. And, Roger, I know you’re challenged on the facts because of the news outlets you use, but not one incumbent Demo lost his or her job so the revulsion was NOT bipartisan.
November 13th, 2006 at 5:37 pmNot a big surprise there. Joe Klein has his lips firmly placed on Karl Rove’s tiny little nutsack.
November 13th, 2006 at 6:02 pm#49 bluedog
I agree, however this is not proof that they won because of their “liberal” positions. That may be the case, but it is equally or more plausible that the centrists voted Democratic for entirely other reasons – to restore checks and balances, to eliminate extremest neocon and christofascists control, disgust over the handling of the war, and as punishment for the Republican fiscal failure.
In my view, it was: vote for the Democrat or vote for the continuing incompetance, corruption, and failure. None of that has to do with liberal vs conservative.
Democrats should push some key agenda items, I agree, but they will be making a grievous error to assume that the majority of the electorate will go for some quasi-socialist agenda. Other than universal health care, there is nothing intrinsically liberal about the items you list: long-overdue improvement in the minimum wage, supporting stem cell research, doing something less brain-dead about the situation in Iraq – these are all centrist-friendly notions. Universal health care has a shot, but only if it’s presented in some pragmatic fashion that will appeal to the 30% in the middle.
November 13th, 2006 at 6:14 pm#23 – excellent point!
November 13th, 2006 at 6:38 pmOf course we would have to give you all the Lib Repugs. Repugs lost because they weren’t acting like conservatives. Dems won because most all of them ran as conservatives.—- Roger_roger
The repugs lost because they were acting like common criminal thugs and were hypocritical in following their own talking points and “family values”.
BTW, after 12 years, how are those promises made in the “Contract with America” working out? Not well, huh?
Thats why America followed Newt’s words and threw them out.
What do you call a republican that makes a promise?
November 13th, 2006 at 7:03 pmAnswer —– a liar.
It’s so hard for the MSM to see how wrong they have been; they can’t bring themselves to say the Dems won.
November 13th, 2006 at 7:12 pmMSM editors are spineless, carefully avoiding any confrontation with their corporate owners.
[...] Then there’s TIME’s interpretation: that the 2006 election is best represented by two equally sized circles representing American’s neutral rejection of both parties equally. How else to interpret it? I mean, the democrats only took the house, senate, and majority of governorships and state legislatures. Let’s call it even. Actually, since Americans didn’t rise up and violently overthrow all conservative judges, it was actually something of a Republican win. [...]
November 13th, 2006 at 7:27 pmNo Democratic incumbents lost their seats. To our liberal mainstream media, this shows an obvious bipartisan revulsion.
November 13th, 2006 at 7:41 pmThe New Global Media: It’s a Small World of Big Conglomerates
November 13th, 2006 at 11:28 pmgeez, they couldn’t even spring for a decent illustrator.
November 13th, 2006 at 11:29 pmAs it stands, six companies own 90 percent of the media holdings in the United States:
Viacom, which owns Paramount, CBS, MTV Networks, and DreamWorks; Disney, whose subsidiaries include ABC, Miramax, Pixar, Touchstone, Walt Disney Studios, and Walt Disney Theatrical; Time Warner, parent company of Warner Bros., HBO, half of the CW (co-owned with CBS Corp.), CNN, and AOL; General Electric, which owns NBC Universal; Bertelsmann, whose holdings include Sony and BMG Music Publishing; and News Corp., owner of 20th Century Fox, Fox Broadcasting, MyNetworkTV, FX Networks, and MySpace. The men at the helm of those corporations are, respectively, Sumner Redstone, Robert Iger, Richard Parsons, Jeffrey R. Immelt, Carl Bertelsmann, and Rupert Murdoch.
November 13th, 2006 at 11:34 pm…that’s what I’ve been arguing all along…dems were corrupt/imbedded, which is why the reps won in 1994…it’s the role, just reversed.
It PISSES ME OFF that they question or brush off that the Dems won control…They won. Period.
November 14th, 2006 at 3:15 amThat doesn’t look like anti-Democrat bias to me. Rather, it looks like scary rampaging mad Republican elephants on the left, ready to destroy the country, and when the Democrats win on the right it’s an example of the country righting (lefting?) itself with a shift to the center. Ahhh… peace…
Or are you the kind of people who prefer rampaging mad elephants to peaceful intersecting circles?
November 16th, 2006 at 2:42 am