With a President defined by his reckless and criminal invasion of Iraq, his enablers can come up with one simple argument:
It's all the Liberal media's fault.
The Liberal media hates President Bush.
The Liberal media doesn't want us to win in Iraq.
The Liberal media undermines America's traditonal values.
The Liberal media hates America.
The Liberal media this...
The Liberal media that...
To be fair it's an effective marketing strategy. And to prove my point, let's look at another tragic mistake in American history.
The Vietnam War was a product of warmongers who couldn't keep their lust in check. It was their reckless policymaking that led us to a humiliating defeat that still rings to this day. But don't tell that to Conservatives.
Their reasons behind the Vietnam loss was a "Liberal media" that underminded the war effort. To Conservatives, we didn't lose to North Vietnamese forces. We lost to treasonous and unpatriotic Liberal reporters.
The "Liberal media" myth has been a valuable marketing tool for Conservatives seeking power. Yet it has caused the "Mainstream media" to lose it's effectiveness when covering complex issues. Namely the buildup to the war in Iraq.
With the United States headed for another humiliating defeat, it's up to Conservative pundits like Bill O'Reilly to pump up the base with a healthy dose of "blame the Liberal media."
Bill "culture warrior" O'Reilly would like nothing more than to see members of the press check their ethics and morals at the door to give unconditional loyalty to a President who continues to contradict the reasons why we went to war with Iraq.
Bill O'Reilly has become a joke.
He tried to bully Andrea Mitchell into making her confess that NBC was a Liberal think tank.
He claims that NBC doesn't have one Conservative on its roster (I can name three...Tucker Carlson, Joe Scarborough, and Pat "Nixon Apologist" Buchanan)
And he claims that Chris Matthews is a Liberal because he worked for Tip O'Neill (Clearly Bill hasn't watched "Hardball" because Matthews' head is so far up John McCain's ass that he knows what he had for breakfast the other day)
But bullying Andrea Mitchell wasn't enough. O'Reilly carried his Liberal obsession into contacting a body language expert to analyze the movements of various NBC commentators. The conclusion on O'Reilly's part was that NBC didn't show the unconditional loyalty to President Bush that he does.
The Bill O'Reilly "Liberal media obsession" is equal to Joe McCarthy's communist witchhunt. And if Bill doesn't cool it down, he might meet the same fate that McCarthy met. Dying as a pathetic shell of your former self.
Bill O'Reilly is the Conservatives' spokesperson for blaming the "Liberal media" for the Iraq disaster.
However, blaming the media for problems in Iraq gives the reckless policymakers a pass.
The President and members of his administration have given the American people nothing but contradictions, lies and false hope.
There's no need to trust them at this point, except to make more lies and hand out false hope.
Journalists have done an exceptional job covering the actual war itself and that scares Conservatives because it exposes the country to their policies that have a grotesque effect on anything that it touches.
Conservatives love to talk about accountability and personal responsibility. But blaming others for a reckless war with your name on it doesn't make you honest.
The "liberal media" myth has worked in the past. It's very important that it doesn't work ever again.