The Right's ability to control the media is absolute.

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We really have nothing at all to match the near totalitarian ability of the Right to concoct a propaganda message and disseminate it widely throughout the media, which is then accepted and reported without question or challenge.

Case in point, the evolution, overnight(!) of the filibuster "nuclear option", from an Republican plan to eliminate filibusters to Democratic retaliatory move.

The pollsters have determined the public doesn't like the term, so the Rovians pin it on Democrats.


http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_04_24.php#005515

Chip Reid's double-self-bamboozle-backflip on Imus this morning.

Let's go to the tape (emphasis added) ...

What it is all about is this so-called Nuclear Option, it's complicated, but basically the Republicans are threatening to change the rules in the Senate, so that the Democrats can no longer bloc these seven or so very conservative Bush Federal Court nominees. Democrats are saying 'If you're going to do that than we are going to pull the trigger on what we call the Nuclear Option, meaning we are going to shut this place down. We're going to turn the Senate into a legislative wasteland', which some people say it already is, but they are going to block everything they can.


You see there on the slo-mo he goes in for the GOP hoodwink and then tumbles into a full self-bamboozle mistaking the 'nuclear option' for what the Dems want to do in response to the nuclear option.

[Psephos]

1. It's funny, the wingnuts are absolutely certain that the left runs the MSM

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2. it is the 'empire' that controls the media....

i think that assigning it to left or right is no longer valid. It is corporations driven by profit and influence, with an ever expanding reach, and as many pieces of the pie as they can grab.