Limbaugh yells "Nazi" (and the press yawns) - Eric Boehlert - EXCELLENT!

[Vinnie From Indy]

Boehlert at mediamatters.com writes an excellent expose of the naked bias of our modern mainstream media. The transparency and scale of the hypocrisy and dishonesty is an awesome thing to behold. The article lays out in vivid detail the huge difference in media stories and number of outlets reporting on MoveOn vs Limbaugh in regard to calling the President a NAZI.

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"The Houston Chronicle editorial page wanted to be absolutely clear: References to Adolf Hitler or Nazis in American politics had no place in the "discourse of the nation," and the crude analogies were "beyond the pale." The practice was "absurd and dangerous." The editorial page was disgusted by the rhetoric and firmly believed that dredging up the Nazi comparisons desensitized people to the pain and violence that actual Nazis unleashed in the 20th century.

The condemnation was fitting, given the fact that the country's most-listened-to talk radio host, Rush Limbaugh, last week unfurled shocking rhetoric in which he compared the Obama White House to a Nazi organization and even likened Obama to Hitler. ("Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate.") The outlandish attacks seemed to be a case of Limbaugh playing catch-up to Fox News' Glenn Beck (Limbaugh = Beck Lite?), who had been pounding the noxious Nazi angle for weeks.

Of course it's depressing to watch Limbaugh drive politics into the gutter, but at least watchdogs at big-city dailies like the Houston Chronicle are calling out the really reprehensible stuff, right?

I wish. Because here's the catch: That Chronicle editorial I mentioned above wasn't in response to Limbaugh's latest misguided hate maneuver. The scathing editorial was published on January 7, 2004, and came in response to news that two videos submitted to a MoveOn.org advertisement contest had included Hitler imagery in their 30-second attacks on President Bush.

The rest of this great article...
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200908110005

[BridgeTheGap]

1. Maybe it was a confession? He is one himself. nt

[redqueen]

2. K&R

How anyone hasn't caught on to the M$M's bias by now, I'll never understand.

[Buzz Clik]

3. They were right in the first instance, and lax in the second.

References to Adolf Hitler or Nazis in American politics have no place in the discourse of the nation. Period.

They should be consistent in their condemnations, as should we here at the Democratic Underground.

[boobooday]

4. They treated the MoveOn thing like the end of the world

Even one of the Freepers pointed out the other day that anyone packing a gun anywhere near a Bush appearance would have been immediately "dealt with."

[Papa Boule]

5. And yet the myth of a "liberal media" will live on and on. n/t