Media bias?

[Alden]

Janeane Garofalo: 'It Wasn't Hip' to Protest Clinton's Wars

Comedienne-turned-peace activist Janeane Garofalo offered a stunning admission on Sunday, explaining that she and her fellow anti-war protesters didn't stage huge demonstrations when President Clinton launched attacks on Iraq, Bosnia, Afghanistan and the Sudan because "it wasn't very hip" to protest the former president.

Asked by "Fox News Sunday's" Tony Snow why peace protesters like herself didn't object to Clinton's wars, Garofalo explained:

"I absolutely did. I did not support Operation Desert Fox. It's just that you didn't know me very well back then. Nobody really was interested in listening to me back then."

Then she added, by way of explaining why the anti-Clinton protests never gelled, "It wasn't very hip."

Garofalo went on to claim that Hollywood actors Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins led protests against Clinton's 1998 Iraq attack, saying that "there was a lot of protest, just as there was against the first Gulf War."

A Lexis-Nexis search for Dec. 1998, the month Clinton bombed the daylights out of Baghdad, failed to turn up a single report that mentioned either Sarandon or Robbins protesting the attacks.

A similar search for the month of Feb. 2003 turned up 124 reports on Sarandon protesting President Bush's Iraq policy.
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/2/23/151110
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This is an interesting story in light of the recent massive protests. As the article states, we didn't hear much protest during the Clinton years. Are the current protests due to Bush's "poor leadership," or is thier media visibility due to anti-Conservative bias? Or is it somewhere in the middle?

[Socrates]

Definitely. See the book Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by self-confessed liberal Bernard Goldberg. His main thesis is that the media people are not consciously biased, but are so lefty-liberal that they think that their beliefs are normal and the conservatives are beyond the pale. Beware of those who claim to be 𔃈unbiased” — they are blind to their own biases!

One example he gave was homelessness. The media bashed Republicans for all the homelessness, esp. under Reagan. But when Wilhelm Klinton, liberal darling for his support of sodomy and pre-natal baby butchery, came to office, the media suddenly didn't care about the homeless any more, and anyone would think that the problem had disappeared when of course it hadn't. Goldberg says:


I could be wrong, but I think homelessness ended the day Bill Clinton was sworn in as president. Which is one of those incredible coincidences, since it pretty much began the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president.Naturally the establishment liberals vilified Goldberg, showing that there's no one as illiberal as a liberal in power!

[brother vinny]

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