Congressman takes credit for Rocky Mountain News closing

Kind of sounds like what the Republicans were saying not too long ago.

 

Won't happen. RL's influence with the public has always far outreached his influence with the party. In turn, the Republican party has in the past and, if it's smart, always will take whatever steps are necessary to prevent RL from being cast by the left as the face of the party. Herein lies one of the rubs of this thread --- the general failure of many people to recognize both the differences between Dems and Libs, as well as the difference between conservatives and the GOP. They're not in lockstep all the time. That said, the gap between Republicans and conservatives at this point in time is undoubtedly greater than the gap between Democrats and liberals.

 

I agree with Waylon. But I think this is a bigger problem for us, because we are not as healthy as ESPN ... everytime something bad happens where I work (which is quite a bit lately, as in most newspaper offices), there's a story on our Web site that immediately gets umpty-zillion comments from people whose crackpot ideologies are being "validated" -- we are being "punished" for our "sins."
The fact that this feeling crosses the entire political spectrum is profoundly disturbing to me. "Mainstream media" has become a toxic, no-win, dead-end term, like "liberal" in the Reagan years. And the reasoning behind this scapegoating is just as spurious.
Liberalism (or, to Hannityites, "socialism") is making a comeback in these troubled times. I wish the same could be said for newspapers.

 

The media has always been unpopular. We're not in this to be popular; that's why the First Amendment was created. Unfortunately, the people who own the presses now think they have to make big profits. That's where the trouble starts.

 

Trying isn't the same as succeeding, yes? Isn't that sort of my point?

For that matter, the fact that someone Limbaugh clearly has no respect for can be elected RNC chairman pokes some holes in the theory that the 'pubs are marching in lockstep to his orders, right?

 

Before they sunk the economy for a generation? Or during?

 

Sign this prick up for every BigTitties.com site out there.

 

Well, before. That's my point. I've seen this happen all too often before, where one party thinks it has some divine mandate to power that can never be shaken. That party always -- always, always, always -- gets overconfident, oversteps its bounds, and eventually gets thrown out on its ass.

It's the way this stuff works. Maybe this batch of Democrats will be the one that bucks history, though. That would be great, because it would almost certainly mean they've fixed the economy. Somehow, I doubt it, though.

 

The economy had its four jetliners crashed into it by the Republicans... The 53 percent who voted for Obama knows it.

 

Of course, you could easily make the case that the economy started its slide when the Democrats took over in Congress, just as you can make the case that the explosive growth in the '90s began after '94 when the Republicans gained control.

While there is considerable truth in both statements, it's not as simple as that. I personally didn't like anyone running last year because all they did was blame the other side -- that's all Obama's commercials were about -- and neither presented anything that looked like a workable solution.

 

Or, you know, think they ought not to lose $1 million a week.

Your argument was spot on five, six, seven years ago. Today? I don't think very many papers are making any profit at all.

 

Colorado media letting him have it.

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