We don't have a "liberal media", we have a corporate media. What you hear is what Corporate America wants you to hear.

Anyone that actually believes the media has some sort of liberal agenda is out of their mind.

Brent Eldredge in his letter protecting his conservative guru, Rush Limbaugh, proves Kostecki's point about the oft-used term "drive-by media."

How do you suppose the term "drive-by" is supposed to be taken?

This is an example of how far the ultra-right has come when they try to convince each other to view news presented in this paper, on tv stations and other sources to a drive-by shooting.

This conservative tactic is EXACTLY like the book-burnings and censorship of Stalin, the Nazis and Savanarola and the poor fools don't seem to have noticed the similarities.

Saying Dan Rather or Katie Couric aren't liberal is like saying Rush and Sean are not conservative.

What liberal agenda is that? Endless war, torture, trashing the economy? Yea those liberals.

are so myopic it never occurs to them that there might be a reasonable alternative to what they accept as universal truths. Walter Williams once wrote a column pointing out that those graduating from the schools of journalism aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer. His theory was that because of this they could be easily manipulated into believing liberal theology and accepting that everyone belonged to the liberal religion. I've seen enough dumbed down reporting on subjects that I have first hand knowledge of to question everything that the media says.

Dana, reality and facts are hard to ignore. Every profession is tianted by their bias. The media are humans, in other words not perfect. The vast majority of reporters are democrats. If you think they all take their feelings out of the equation then you need to get a reality check. By the way a studied journalism and worked at a local TV station. I have seen the news being produced and I did not like it.

When a political party's spokesperson (Limbaugh) compares information presented (from newspapers, tv, radio, etc.) to a drive-by shooting - it makes you wonder just what and whose agenda is being forced "down one's throat."

So why should we listen to a bigoted, bloated, and drug-riddled people-hater* like Limbaugh?

*people-hater is how author and freedom-fighter Gerry Spence once described Limbaugh.

The consolidation of the media by a few large corporations allows whatever agenda those corporate boards deem worthy. Newscorp, Clearchannel, General Electric dictate what mass media distributes. Rush Limbaugh is less a moving force than a salesman.

I'm tired of authoritarianism. Perhaps those who wish to march in lockstep can agree to only bind each other to their restrictive rules, and leave the rest of us alone.

I dont agree that the media is "liberal", what ever that is. But even if it was some underside of liberalism in the "main stream media", does that make going to an overtly fascists blowhard make balance? Rush is full of himself, mean, and incapable of reasonable discussion.

If the media was giving us what we want to hear/see, why is it that the New York Times is LOSING subscriptions?

To thoes of you who hate Rush Limbaugh because he is constantly spouting off his opinions on the radio, and want him shut down, why do you single hime out? Why don't you say anything about Air America, the liberal media outlet?

Liberal condem Fox News, and want it off the air because it is conservative, then turn around and watch CNN because it is liberal.

Liberal claim to be accepting of anybody and any idea, but when it comes down to talk radio, it is their ideas or nothing.

"Bob" above says "the vast amount of reporters are democrats."
What a crock!
Where did he get THIS information from?
Rush Limbaugh?
Amazing how completely these types have been duped.

What we are seeing in this country is an emergence of "right is right" types.
Ever try to reason with this type?
Good luck.

People like Dana and Frank just have no clue. Frank shows it because he doesn't know what the liberal media is when there are many reports conducted that prove the media is leftist. The latest one was done by UCLA. The facts are there for you to see Frank if you desire.

Dana, go read the books by John Stossel and Bernard Goldberg and you will (well maybe) be enlightened.

As for the term Drive-by it's once again obvious that people here are commenting without ever listening to Rush. The term refers to the laziness of news organizations in that they don't do their homework and just print something without verifying the information or doing their research.

Lastly, I have to laugh at people who think Rush is mean, yet subscribe to the people at PMSNBC (Olbermann, Matthews, Shuster), AirAmerica, MoveOn.org, DailyKos, Maher, Behar, Rosie, etc. etc. as people who are civil. That's the best joke I hear each day.

Rush speaks up for conservatives because no one else will; and that INCLUDES Republicans! If Rush wasn't right, then his program would be bankrupt like Air America. Go check out the demographics of Rush's audience. Simple amazing!

Nobody "hates" Limbaugh YouGoFirst.
Just hates the way he manipulates frightened people with bogus "right is right" divisive garbage.
And now every news source but HIS is to be treated like a drive-by shooting.

Can't his stupid fans see this is all propaganda?

Sorry folks says "nobody but Rush speaks up for conservatives."

And guess where he gets THAT piece of information?

You guessed it - RUSH LIMBAUGH!

How dumb and easily swayed can some people be!
The type that can easily be hypnotized.

The Rush Limbaugh Show appeals to the same type of person that Limbaugh is.
Angry. Unhappy. Possibly obese. Possibly an addict.
Easily swayed with hate-mongering and excessive nationalism. And quick to blame their personal problems on anybody but themselves.

And to top it off -- they think they are the best kind of American.

I keep hearing this notion that the media is so liberal but have seen no evidence to back this claim. On its surface since that is all we have it does not make much sense, the news media is controlled by a very small very rich group of people. It would seem counter intuitive for them to want to give up that control by adopting a liberal bias of wider disruption of power, higher tax rates for the wealthy, governmental regulations on business and on and on. I have search up and down the dial and read as many different news sources as possible (including rush and hannity) trying to get some hint of what is happening in our world and I have to say it is about 90% about entertainment 9% chest thumbing and 1% news.

Nobody wants Limbaugh shut down at all.
That's what Limbaugh tells everybody.
Actually people want to give these far-righters all the exposure they want. Let mainstream America see what it is these GOP stooges are really about.
Limbaugh once told our troops "Democrats want you to lose."

These people are the lowest rung in America today and think they are the best.

And this always works on the stupidest of people.

anti-American commies who hate anyone who doesn't think like them. That makes just as much sense as the anti-rush-conservative dither that most of you have been spouting. I'd bet that an unbiased study of things would show that what I've said about liberals is closer to the truth than what most of you are saying about conservatives. However, neither is an accurate portrayal of liberals or conservatives.

You flamin' libs are hilarious! You just can't take the truth can you! Virtually every topic that Rush discusses on his program is backed up by audio clips and actual cited news sources---and heaven knows, you libs give him SOOO MUCH amunition! What you people are really upset about is that Rush shows us your hipocracy and you know that we are all laughing at you! We conservatives have just as much right to our opinion as you do and we are not going to sit quietly by any longer and listen to how much you all hate this great country that we love. I say it's high time someone stands up to defend Truth, Justice and the American Way! Go Fox News!! Go Rush Limbaugh!! Go Bill O'Reily!!

Here's what I'm tired of: The 10 o'clock news that consists of house fires in West Valley, cute stories about dogs, and the latest low-life stabbing another low-life over a case of beer. This is not news. Real investigation has disappeared from TV journalism -- investigations into the corrupt behavior of legislators and corporations. We won't see it because KSL, KUTV, etc., are owned and operated by the powers that be.

Bob -
a quick perusal of The Rush Limbaugh Show website will show you EXACTLY how this GOP stooge works his magic on his ignorant Neo-red disciples and works them up into a rabid frenzy.
You'll see plenty of references to "drive-bys" (his take on the media) and of course slam after slam on liberals (his all-time pet slam).
Then keep in mind his lunatic followers listen to this divisive crap for THREE STRAIGHT HOURS A DAY, FIVE DAYS A WEEK (and reruns in weekends)!
I know a disturbing mind-control trend when I see one.

just can't stand an honest debate!
The beauty of talk radio is this; callers call in, liberal or conservative, and they talk about and debate the issues with the talk show host. this is where true education comes from.
I can still remember when GWB first ran for office and all over the liberal media the cry was heard: "he has no gravitas" the news readers say they have no bias, but it is self evident.

If you were a conservative, you'd have a better understanding that there aren't that many outlets to actually hear a conservative point of view.

No one is swayed, Rush speaks of conservative values. If you don't believe me, then listen for a week, take notes and go check his comments to those that would be conservative. Then do the same for all of your nightly network news organizations and see what they promote each night. It's not hard to see when Olbermann pretty much takes his notes straight from the Huffington Post and Daily Kos. Check it out!

For those who are still clamoring that the news media isn't liberal, you truly are showing your ignorance in the matter. It's been documented for years. For whatever reason you choose to ignore it. Why is that?

The rabidness of the responses by the Anti-Rushies is phenomenal. It's the same reaction I get from my children when they know they have been caught in a lie; attack the messenger.

Another survey shows Rush's listeners to be well-educated, highly successful, and well-informed of the issues. Again, done by Pew I think.

You can continue to be in denial and lie and you're wrong!

All liberals are 9:04 - is the by-product of The Rush Limbaugh Show.
Like the witchhunts in the 50's certain types were frightened into believing there was a communist take-over occuring.
We all know what happened during those terrible times when McCarthy and his House of Un-American Activities ruined countless lives with their nasty style of politics.

It appears that with ilk like Limbaugh influencing so many Neo-reds to a feeding frenzy - we are seeing an emergence of that worst type of American.

So how do we explain the decline in Bush/Cheney/War popularity from the 90% range down to today's 20% or so? Our media at first was gung ho for the Iraqi invasion/occupation, but eventually found that they had been wrong, duped by the administration and its WMD play. Where does that leaver Limbaugh, Hannity, etc. today? With the 20% crowd pretending it's still 90%.

Just a quick study of "Utterly amazed" and "all-liberals are" shows how effective the bloated, bigot, Rush Limbaugh actuall is on those who listen to him 3 hours a day and 5 days a week.

Frightening stuff isn't it?

But like it or not, that is the type that got the last bunch elected to office.

funny how you want to call out Rush for his alleged propaganda but you fail to do the same for the nightly news people. Why is that?

We have the nightly news saying the war is lost, we are in a recession, Americans are horrible, etc etc. You don't call that propaganda? You always know a news anchor is lying when they start a question to a Republican by saying, "it's widely reported" or "many people are saying". I wish, just once, that the person being interviewed would ask the interviewer, please document those "many people" or where is it being "widely reported" before answering the question so the person has to substantiate their claim. Just once!

If it's propaganda you want just watch the nightly news, listen to Air America, read DailyKos, watch Olbermann etc. You are the ones that have been duped.

Rush has documentation for every topic he covers. Can't say that for your news sources...hence the phrase "Drive-by media"....

What's so ironic is that you don't even have a clue what it means....

I don't listen much to Rush. I don't have the time. But after reading a few of these comments I am persuaded to listen to him more.

Not one comment against Limbaugh gave any proof of anything, they just called him names and then stereo-type all of his listeners as being stupid.

It is obvious that the main stream media is liberal. I saw the UCLA study. I have seen many studies over the last dozen years that all say that national journalists vote overwhelmingly for democrats. One showed that 90% voted for Al Gore in 2000. So those of you who question the bias of the media are being fooled by that same media.

I recall Dan Rather's reaction when John Kerry lost even after he had falsified documents to try to help him win. Don't tell me that the media isn't liberal. Anyone who says that is just not credible. (They are the same ones who believe that Obama didn't know that his pastor is a racist anti-American.)

Nobody wants to shut down Rush? Are you kidding? have you not heard Reid, Pelosi, Schumer, Durbin say that on the floors of Congress?

I can't begin to tell you how happy I am to see all of these retorts. It truly shows how ignorant people are to the issues and facts of life.

Rush didn't tell anyone that! It's your liberal leadership that is telling it.

Seriously folks, I can't make this stuff up...You are actually saying it....thanks for the laughs!

Limbaugh gives the audio clips to his stupid audience then screams at them - "See! There it is again! The drive-by media!"

Then proceeds to hoodwink people with his GOP agenda that is successfully running this country into the ground.

Nobody ever said Limbaugh fans were the brightest people on earth.
Most emotional surely.
But for and deep-thinking ...
I don't think so.

Very easily swayed with the most primitive forms of excessive nationalism exactly the way the 3rd Reich pulled its magic off in just 3 years on the German people.

A quick perusal of these postings would indicate we are living in very dangerous times.

When one group can successfuly demonize another and pull it off - you can be sure of dark days ahead.

Wasn't it during the Civil War that brother turned against brother over ideological/philosophical differences?

The liberal media? Good heavens, since when is anything that isn't blindly conservative considered an "evil liberal" agenda? I think, therefore I don't listen to rush limbaugh or sean hannity.

Just to clarify for those of you who don't listen to Rush. "Drive-by media" refers to the shallow nature of the mainstream media. They spend little time on the real important issues of the day (thus, they "drive-by" report then move on too quickly). They tend to dwell on the trivial and sensational like Brittany Spears, Hanna Montana etc. I'll bet nearly everyone of you self professed liberals would even agree with his assessment there.

So let’s just assume for the sack of trying to move beyond the argument of how is the bigger idiot, that the media is conservative if you are liberal or liberal if you are a conservative. How are we suppose to move towards finding solutions while all both sides want to do is play silly school yard games and not actually talk about real issues. who cares about what restaurants a politician ate at and how that restaurants owners friend of a friends relationship is to some type or other. Enough name calling and finger pointing about how is the bad guy, lets talk about issues not personalities.

"Nobody ever said Limbaugh fans were the brightest people on earth.
Most emotional surely.
But for and deep-thinking ...
I don't think so."

Au contraire Franken-breath. Studies have shown that Limbaugh listeners are better educated, more affluent, more knowledgeable and more likely to vote that other groups.

I don't read Huffington Post and Daily Kos for the same reason I don't listen to Rush. I listened to Rush and Fox News. The lies and contradictions made them loose all credibility.

"Liberal" is a catch all word meaning things you disagree with. There is only a corporate press. Liberal press means they printed things that failed to support your beliefs.

Where do I get my copy of the liberal agenda?

Lets see how correctly Rush is about liberals.

Left Coast? This is the land of Reagan, Heston, Prop 13 and Orange County.

I'm a Left Coast liberal. I'm against gun control, I wrote my senator telling her they can keep my rebate check that we don't need more debt, I'm a veteran, I think adding Homeland Security just boated and already bloated government, I never vote for more taxes, I don't like Hillary, I believe college admission should be based on merit and I was born in Utah.

How did Rush do?

Rush did support Bush. Has Bush advanced the conservative agenda?

Democrat Don Cazayoux defeated Republican Woody Jenkins on Saturday, winning another House seat for Democrats that had been long held by Republicans.

To Worst type of American. You clearly did not read the entire posting. Neither liberals, nor conservatives, can be lumped into the broad classification that the other side is trying to make them. All liberals are not anti-American commies. All conservatives are not as evil as the liberals on this blog would have us believe.

While McCarthy clearly went over the edge. Much of what he claimed about communists turned out to be true. An "inconvenient truth" we don't hear about today.

Actually "not deep thinkers", Rush's audience is quite the opposite of what you state. They are very well-educated, highly intelligent, well-informed of the issues. There are many studies that show this.

But as it has been said before, the Anti-Rush's just show they have no intelligence because all of their information is incorrect. Facts are out there that disprove exactly what you are claiming.

Name call all you want, but facts are facts and the fact of the matter is Rush's audience is one of the brightest in the nation.

None of you who hate Rush have proved anything. You just throw it out the window and hope it sticks. However, you have the typical liberal argument points that are shallow and hollow.

to see a real deep thinker, please don't look in the mirror....

Limbaugh and his loyal disciples (I am sure they would drink Limbaugh's cool-aid recipe if asked)
are a dying breed.
They, like the John Birchers and other NeoReds, are feeling the heat, refuse to admit the group they got elected is making a mess of the world and the country, and are acting even weirder than before.

They are becoming the laughing stock of the country and even their man McCain is trying to distance himself from these nasty fools.

If nothing else, Rush Limbaugh is divisive and his audience loves it. "Rush's audience is one of the brightest in the nation"? This is truly an oxymoron, but it is moot considering the distribution of political views of many well-educated, highly intelligent, and well-informed people out there.

Considering that Limbaugh is a recovering drug-addict must say something about his perspective on the world. Also, he may have behaviors which are, at best, questionable to many. One wonders why he needed Viagra on a vacation to the Dominican Republic unless he wanted to indulge some fantasy which his listeners might find offensive.

If Limbaugh's audience needs validation of their prejudices, they have an excellent mentor in the bigotry he vents every day. Of course, it is not expected to have a reasoned exchange of ideas with this "drive-by" guru of hate because his audience will get their daily fix either from him or another wingnut surrogate of the fringe Right.

I have yet to find a liberal who can comment on this post without calling everyone who does not believe exactly as they do evil names. That is why it is tough to have a reasonable debate on the issues.

Rush's audience is a dying breed? That's funny. Rush has the largest single audience of any type; radio,tv,internet...

If Rush wasn't a conservative voice, he would wither away just like Air America and other liberal radio shows.

If Air America speaks for the liberals, "great thinkers" then why are their numbers so horrible? Why doesn't anyone listen?

You show you don't listen to the show because Rush has gone after Bush and all other Republicans who have gone spend crazy. He blasts them regularly. Please listen so you can speak with facts instead of your own hatred.

Gus, you've shown yourself to be factually inaccurate on almost every post. Once again, you have no facts.

Please present the prejudices and bigotry that Rush vents each day. Just 1 example will do.

YOU can't do it so please step aside while grown ups talk at the big boy table.

Big Al -
I have yet to find a conservative who can comment on this post without calling everyone who does not believe exactly as they do - liberals, communists, socialists, tree-huggers, kumbayas, and advocates of the drive-by media.

"Liberal agenda?"

Oh, no!

Is Rush Limbaugh still on the air?

Yo Anon -
Um, I hate to be the one to break this to you pal,
but it's well known the Rush Limbaugh's main spiel is based around his outspoken hatred for Democrats, aka Liberals, aka Commies.

I hardly think that qualifies YOU as one of the "big boys."