Watched Mr. Cooper on 360 last night.....I don't know how many times he said it, but it felt like every other sentence! He said that liberals and conservatives are both equally guilty of posting half-truths and of being so ideologically blind that they try to destroy anyone who disagrees with them!
HUH????
He was of course reporting on the Fox News/Breitbart smear job of Shirley Sherrod. And his big story was that liberals and conservatives are both as guilty of blind ideology and of trying to destroy the other side. Are you kidding me? How can we fight this thing. Cooper is sooo careful to make himself sound even handed that his reporting is bullshit!
Can anyone tell me where on the left is the equivalent of Fox News and/or Andrew Breitbart? Where is the left wing conspiracy crowd that sets up to destroy conservatives through lies, deceptions and false reporting?
When Bush was in office, nobody could even criticize him without news people like Cooper calling it hate speech! We were unpatriotic, didn't support our president in a time of war, they said. The loudmouths on the right drown out other voices. Their destruction machine is concentrated on taking out Obama, and fomenting hate. They did the same thing during the Clinton years, but this time around, they have race-baiting as a nice new tool.
I was listening to NPR's All Things Considered the other and their story on the Sherrod smear concentrated not on Fox News' and Breitbart's lies, but on the firing of Sherrod, and the fairness of that. Boy, did they get letters on that misfire. Yesterday, they read three letters, all of which slammed them for not reporting on the big story: the hateful right-wing lies of Fox News and Brietbart.
I think I'll write to Cooper today.....will it do any good? No, but at least I'll get it off my chest.