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03-30-2007, 07:13 AM
Sunday's pseudo-Republicans::By Brent Bozell III (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=sundays_pseudo-republicans&ns=BrentBozellIII&dt=03/30/2007&page=full&comments=true)
The top Washington story on Monday, March 26 came straight from the Sunday morning chat shows: the support for embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was slipping, even among Republicans.
Which Republicans? There are conservatives who are not big fans of Gonzales, who would have preferred the president had chosen someone bolder, more confrontational, someone willing to make a case for conservatism. But none of those people were seen on ABC, CBS or NBC. Viewers saw instead the "even Republicans," the ones who specialize in ratifying the conventional liberal media wisdom, as in, "Even Republicans say Gonzales is cooked."
If the media think Gonzales is crippled and Bush is wretched, then it's not that hard for them to find Republicans who will spit that line back to them, for emphasis. They aren't Republicans. They merely play them on TV.
The tragedy is that the viewers, Republicans and Democrats alike, get a distorted view of what's really going on in Washington. Democrats out there think the Republicans are desperately on the ropes with no one to defend the executive branch. Republicans think their own politicians are all "linguini-spined" panderers, to borrow from Rush Limbaugh.
Can you blame them?
The top Washington story on Monday, March 26 came straight from the Sunday morning chat shows: the support for embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was slipping, even among Republicans.
Which Republicans? There are conservatives who are not big fans of Gonzales, who would have preferred the president had chosen someone bolder, more confrontational, someone willing to make a case for conservatism. But none of those people were seen on ABC, CBS or NBC. Viewers saw instead the "even Republicans," the ones who specialize in ratifying the conventional liberal media wisdom, as in, "Even Republicans say Gonzales is cooked."
If the media think Gonzales is crippled and Bush is wretched, then it's not that hard for them to find Republicans who will spit that line back to them, for emphasis. They aren't Republicans. They merely play them on TV.
The tragedy is that the viewers, Republicans and Democrats alike, get a distorted view of what's really going on in Washington. Democrats out there think the Republicans are desperately on the ropes with no one to defend the executive branch. Republicans think their own politicians are all "linguini-spined" panderers, to borrow from Rush Limbaugh.
Can you blame them?