So Connolly confirms that the so-called "liberal media" no longer even considers news a "he said, she said," but would prefer the much easier "Republicans said." Nice.

Boo-fucking-hoo! A reporter being pestered by facts, what a horror.

The fourth estate is and has been dead for a good twenty years now. So why are we surprised at the trash oozing daily from the MSM ?

More false equivalencies -- Republicans spew angry lies so the reporter feels she has to find something wrong with Democrats.

Reporter: Oh! I know! Democrats are politcal hacks! There, all done.

Next up -- what to balance against GOP town hall thuggery? Let's see . . .

This is the classic GOP tactic of "working the refs," a name taken from the basketball trick of complaining so loudly about any fouls called against your own team that the referees start making questionable calls against the opponent to "balance" the officiating and mollify the complainer. The MSM always falls for it.

If republicans flew airplanes over New York city and dropped shit bombs all over the media would report it but also point out that democrats take shits as well.

May we have Katie Connolly's email address, so we can fill her 'box' with more strident political hachery? I'm sure her 'box' is not filled often enough with good 'posts'.

The GOP is just yelling and causing a fuss over something - it will be another crappy thing tomorrow. The Dems need to chill make a good case to tyr and thwart the latests attack with facts as they did about this czars junk.

Call out Newsweek on their dumb ass statements. The media needs to be held accountable for fostering these baseless crappy lies. If Newsweek is not telling the facts right then in a news conference call them out on it. The same goes with pointing out this crap in the daily briefings where possible. Then drop it and just say whenever this comes up "are you still on that dumb lie and story....move on".

As long as Bush did something, it's OK for Obama to do it.

As long as Bush did something, it's OK for Obama to do it.

am, you dishonest tool, presidents from FDR on forward have appointed so-called "czars," and Republicans never made this kind of fuss until now.

So, yes, it's okay for Obama to continue a non-controversial prerogative of Presidential delegation. It isn't okay for Republicans to dishonestly pretend outrage, especially when their conspicuous silence about Bush's czars reveals their fauxtrage as partisan hackery. Which you, after all, are intimately familiar with.

Jackass.

Wait a second! Communists execute czars! So if Obama is a communist...OMG!!!!!

Gandalf:

The question is: Did the Democrats increase the number of shits since they took power? Are these shits, by definition, more nefarious than the ROTM GOP variety?

If the MSM wants to stop this all they have to do is stop treating things like the 'czar' 'debate' as if it actually matters.

Steve, you actually read the e-mails. Katie Conolly, maybe not.

No matter who commits it, the media should be there to call bullshit on it if it is bullshit! By divying up the he said/Republicans said circumstance the MSM is helping the Republicans to continue spewing sophistry upon the ignorant - thereby massaging confusion, resentment, and conflict.

Oh what it takes to sell a product these days! -Kevo

If the comments to that post are typical of their readership, I'm not sure it matters what she says or doesn't--they don't actually understand anything anyway.

The term "czar" is a nickname !!! There is no official title of "czar" in any government office. It would be nice if journalists were held to a standard of accuracy as a job standard. If we demonstrated the same level of incompetence at work, I think most of us would have been fired. Journalists just throw crap out there and get an opinion column.

Forget the Beck blasts on Fox. The Washington Post prints a thoroughly debunked op-ed by Rep. Cantor then follows up with an off-the-wall op-ed by Sen. Hutchinson. Today they print a "news" item on CzarGate and we can expect an "measured" editorial. Who needs Drudge?

We should all be aware, by now, of the means and methods of Republican politicians in communicating w/ their supporters. The use of "code" or "buzz" words is SOP for them. "Czar" conjures up things Russian like Communism or Socialism. This feed their fringe who ,at night,go to bed w/a and gun and fear there may be a communist under there. They are like Pavlov's dogs.

"The MSM always falls for it."
Posted by: bloglogger on September 17, 2009 at 2:35 PM |

The MSM is not "falling for" anything.
They are doing exactly what they want to do in pursuing their own aims: furthering the concentration of wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands, and removing from Americans any means of creating obstacles to that end.
in a globalized world, the Fortune 500 no longer need a thriving American middle class to serve as their marketplace. They have the burgeoning middle classes of the entire developing world from whom to make their money.
If you were a global enterprise, with whom would you rather deal: an American middle class of ~100 million -- whom you must pay with real money if they're to afford your goods and services, and on whose revenue you might have to pay a bit of tax (or spend money avoiding doing so) -- or a rapidly growing South and East Asian middle class of ~1 billion, paid by your overseas subsidiaries at a tiny fraction of what you'd have to pay Americans, and with your repatriated and reinvested profits subject to little to no tax bite over there or over here?

(Why, yes, that is indeed what they call a "rhetorical question.")