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[Tyrone Slothrop]

How else do you explain why FoxNews (which you characterize as right-slanted) is the only conservative news network, yet its ratings dwarf the competition.

Because the competition is CNN, which was invented the market niche and -- like other companies before it in that position -- forgot that someone else might come along to eat its lunch. Unlike FOX, the other media feign objectivity. FOX has made a lot of money getting rid of that vestige of professionalism.

If this was truly a free market, don't you think that the other news networks would move toward the consumers?


You're suggesting that it's not an efficient market, not that it's not a free one. What you're not suggesting is that it's not like a market, which was my point. Your argument is like saying that the fact that American car companies couldn't compete with the Japanese for years proves that the auto industry wasn't a free market. Dadgummit, I guess we were living in a planned economy and no one knew.


And are you really arguing that the print media is not left-slanted, even though the country is, at best 50-50 left?

I'm pointing out that your assertion that the media has been out to destroy Bush's presidency is a load of steaming crap. There's been a lot of bad news lately because a lot of bad shit has been happening. The liberal media didn't ambush contractors in Fallujah and hang their bodies from a bridge. A certain wacko conservative here attacked the liberal media here for not running those pictures enough, which just proves that you can always blame everything on the liberal media.

Why do you think this?

I thought you were backing off your loony suggestion that the media is on a jihad to destroy the Bush Presidency because the statement I was responding to sounded more modulated than your original remarks.

I'm going to assume for this that Myers actually said that. What you fail to include is the "slam dunk" line, and I'm not sure why, because that is pretty damn telling to me. Or did that happen later in time? Either way, I suspect it wasn't the first assurance Bush had received.


I'm keeping it simple. The "slam dunk" line is in the book, but later. Bush hadn't heard it when he was talking to journalists. It's hard to say what Bush was thinking a lot of the time because we don't know what he'd been told. The nice thing about the events of early September, as related, is that the chronology is very specific. Myers tells Bush what he says on Friday, September 7 (I think it was the 7th -- my earlier post had it right). Bush talks to the journalists two days later.

1&2 - this is the DEM party line. There is no middle ground.

On 1, guilty as charged. On 2, I told you that I don't support most AA.

4&5. DEMS may have split at the time of the vote, but they are not split now. These are items 1 and 2 of the talking points.

So I was split from most Dems then, and they have changed their mind and are agreeing with me now. This is not exactly evidence that I am toeing a party line, my friend.

6. Ty Kerry anyone?

If you mean that Kerry would listen to what economists say is the best policy instead of endorsing policies out of ideological pre-conceptions, sign me up. Jesus.