A Watershed Moment: Media Use Coulter to Suggest Blogs Are Impotent: "A Watershed Moment: Media Use Coulter to Suggest Blogs Are Impotent
Anybody who watched Ann Coulter's June 14th appearance on the Tonight Show had to realize that it was a watershed moment in the war between the establishment media and the progressive netroots, a community fresh off the successful YearlyKos convention. It was also a signal to Democrats that liberal ideology can be denigrated with impunity. Had the words 'Jew' or 'Christian' or 'Conservative' been substituted for 'Liberal' we'd be waking up to a national scandal.
Never mind that Jay Leno and George Carlin sat like trembling lambs while Coulter spewed gutter-level invective at millions of Americans - we've already seen the same obsequiousness from Larry King, Matt Lauer (who ended his faux-debate with Coulter by saying 'always fun to have you') and others. The larger issue here is that despite an uproar from the progressive netroots, NBC saw fit to give Coulter a platform to continue her liberal-scapegoating and to slander women who lost their husbands on 9/11. (For the record, many rightwing bloggers denounced Coulter and several Democrats attacked her, but their focus was the substance of Coulter's words, not a criticism of the media outlets who continue to provide her a national forum.). . ."
You think maybe we need an "Open Letter to Jay Leno" blog to take this issue on? (Read the rest of the post to get the gist of the idea that the issue is the media, not the message)
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