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Video: WH Communications Director Dunn Rips Fox News

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Quilly Mammoth10/12/2009 1:17:21 pm PDT

There is no un-biased media. There never has been. Back “when” you knew which party your paper supported. Simply look at the papers in the 19th century; whom they supported and how they did it caused the term Yellow Journalism to be created about the sales war between Pulitzer and Hearst. Somehow, in the 20th century, we got the idea (promoted by the media) that the media should be and strove for fairness.

Hogwash.

Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann are flip sides of the same coin. That coin is “buy my side”, with the emphasis on buy. I know some will argue that Beck is loonier…but really, after you go past a certain point it doesn’t really matter.

Hearst’s dislike for President McKinley was so intense, and so mirrored by his main columnists, that after McKinley was shot an Ambrose Bierce poem about the assassination of Gov Goebel of Kentucky was twisted to imply that Hearst’s papers had caused Leon Czolgosz to do the deed.

None of this is new. It’s been this way since the detractors of Plato and will probably be this way until the sun burns out.