political tides continued

If you can tell anything about the political climate from left-wing talk radio it's that there really insn't any difference between them and their right-wing predecessors. All the distortions and dirty tricks that once came from Limbaugh and Hannity will undoubtedly show up in the liberal media over the next while. And by "liberal media" I mean the liberal media, not the so-called-liberal-media. The media is not liberal, but it may very well get a bit more liberal in the near future-- after all, until recently there was no such thing as Air America, and all the lefty pundits were in the comedy clubs.

So if left-wing media take off as I expect they should, eventually we'll again reach a saturation point where it might actually be reasonable to complain about "liberal media" in some situations. Wouldn't that be nice? Unfortunately, the right has been complaining about that for so long that people actually believe it is true right now.

Another observation which falls under this same pattern: Some right-winger called in and called Randy Rhodes "hateful". Ah, I remember the days when we used to call the pundits hateful...

The world is truly upside down.