HAVE YOU WRITTEN YOUR LETTER TO THE EDITOR TODAY?
I have. I was inspired by something I read recently on Fred's site, "Truth Serum" (see links below). It takes our local paper (The Observer) a while sometimes to put letters on its website, but when the author to whom I am responding is on their site, I will either print his letter here or provide a link to it. His letter was basically a complaint about "liberal media bias" and about George Soros and Peter Lewis contributing large amounts of money to the Democrats in 04. I wrote:
To the Editor:
Regarding “Liberals Pay For PR, Too” (The Observer, 7/26), the author portrays media conservatives as victims of persecution by a “liberal media”. This is an opinion often stated by conservative media figures... who are frequently heard! Here are just a few of them:
Rush Limbaugh, Thomas Sowell, Ann Coulter, Rich Lowry, Bill O'Reilly, William Safire, Robert Novak, William F. Buckley Jr. , George Will, John Gibson, Michelle Malkin, David Brooks, Tony Snow, Brit Hume, Larry Kudlow, Sean Hannity, David Horowitz, William Kristol, Oliver North, Joe Scarborough, Pat Buchanan, John McLaughlin, Cal Thomas, Joe Klein, James Kilpatrick, Tucker Carlson, Michael Savage, Charles Krauthammer, Tammy Bruce, Bernard Goldberg, Alan Keyes, Gary Bauer, Pat Robertson, Andrew Sullivan, Neil Cavuto, Mike Rosen, Dave Kopel, Matt Drudge, Mona Charen, Linda Chavez, Lars Larson, conservative bloggers, and various writers of letters to the editor of The Observer.
Democrat donors George Soros and Peter Lewis did contribute at least $48 million in 2004, but conveniently forgotten by the author is Republican sugar daddy Richard Mellon Scaife, owner-publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Over the past four decades, “Scaife and his family's charitable entities have given at least $340 million to conservative causes and institutions – about $620 million in current dollars, adjusted for inflation” (Washington Post, 5/2/99). He was very active with his GOP contributions in the 1990’s. Scaife is a major shareholder in Newsmax Media, defenders of the Bush-administration-paid pundit Armstrong Williams. Go figure. After all, President Bush himself says:
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” - George W. Bush
Before automatically assuming that the media is “liberal”, maybe we need to consider who is telling us that, and how often they repeat it.
Snave's note: I had lots of fun writing it.
To the Editor:
Regarding “Liberals Pay For PR, Too” (The Observer, 7/26), the author portrays media conservatives as victims of persecution by a “liberal media”. This is an opinion often stated by conservative media figures... who are frequently heard! Here are just a few of them:
Rush Limbaugh, Thomas Sowell, Ann Coulter, Rich Lowry, Bill O'Reilly, William Safire, Robert Novak, William F. Buckley Jr. , George Will, John Gibson, Michelle Malkin, David Brooks, Tony Snow, Brit Hume, Larry Kudlow, Sean Hannity, David Horowitz, William Kristol, Oliver North, Joe Scarborough, Pat Buchanan, John McLaughlin, Cal Thomas, Joe Klein, James Kilpatrick, Tucker Carlson, Michael Savage, Charles Krauthammer, Tammy Bruce, Bernard Goldberg, Alan Keyes, Gary Bauer, Pat Robertson, Andrew Sullivan, Neil Cavuto, Mike Rosen, Dave Kopel, Matt Drudge, Mona Charen, Linda Chavez, Lars Larson, conservative bloggers, and various writers of letters to the editor of The Observer.
Democrat donors George Soros and Peter Lewis did contribute at least $48 million in 2004, but conveniently forgotten by the author is Republican sugar daddy Richard Mellon Scaife, owner-publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Over the past four decades, “Scaife and his family's charitable entities have given at least $340 million to conservative causes and institutions – about $620 million in current dollars, adjusted for inflation” (Washington Post, 5/2/99). He was very active with his GOP contributions in the 1990’s. Scaife is a major shareholder in Newsmax Media, defenders of the Bush-administration-paid pundit Armstrong Williams. Go figure. After all, President Bush himself says:
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” - George W. Bush
Before automatically assuming that the media is “liberal”, maybe we need to consider who is telling us that, and how often they repeat it.
Snave's note: I had lots of fun writing it.
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