What Liberal Media? Webb speech cut off by cable networks UPDATED

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Thursday November 09, 2006 · 2:41 PM PST

2006/11/09 · 14:41

One of things I'm most interested in watching since the elections is how the tone of media will be different (if at all) towards the Democrats now that the power has shifted. I think I've got my answer. This is from Wonkette

4:40: Veterans, veterans, veterans.
4:41: Allen was "very gracious."
4:42: Lunches for everybody! Allen and Webb to have lunch next week.
4:43: Now he wants to stop nasty political attacks.
4:44: Webb wants Dubya to "publicly denounce" brutal campaign tactics.
4:45: Christ, he's all serious about this stuff, isn't he?
4:46: CNN cuts him off, because he's talking shit about rich corporations vs. people with no money.
4:47: Fox cut him off, obviously.
4:48: And now Tucker Carlson cuts him off.
4:49: Real classy, Cable News Tools.
4:50: It's not on either C-SPAN channel, either.
Son of a bitch .... With Webb's win, the biggest shift in U.S. politics since 1994 -- maybe since 1980 -- just became official, and they wouldn't let the dude talk for more than six minutes? With no other news in Washington beyond Webb's victory taking the Senate from the Republicans. Nice.

I still feel like the Democrats are treated like the proverbial "redheaded stepchild" by the media. It was almost a wake-like atmosphere at the Prez's press conference yesterday. Have the right wing talking points so permeated the media that the damage is irrepairable? I know it's probably too soon to tell, but I'll be watching very closely. All I can say is thank God for Olbermann.
UPDATE From Think Progress

The 2006 election was defined by a) a repudiation of the war in Iraq and the current Iraq strategy, and b) widespread national victories for Democratic House, Senate, and gubernatorial candidates. Yet, according to a press aide, this Sunday's edition of NBC's Meet the Press will include two interviews: one with Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), an Iraq war supporter who defeated Ned Lamont (D-CT), and one with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who recently called for 20,000 additional U.S. troops to be sent to Iraq, and who was not up for reelection in 2006. In other words, the first post-election edition of Meet the Press will exclusively feature politicians who support the war in Iraq, neither of whom ran as a Democrat.

This is so depressing.

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