Whats Left in the Media? Almost Everything

By Quin Hillyer Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas When study after study (please Google it) shows that obscenely high percentages of mainstream" journalists consistently vote for Democratic presidential candidates over Republican ones and that journalists particularly tend to hold organized religion and its values in high disdain it is no wonder that conservatives feel aggrieved.   Year in and year out the establishment media excuses some of the most vicious and/or vacuous statements or writings from the liberals who make up the vast bulk of that establishment all while accusing conservative writers of awful things we just didnt say.

It is therefore appropriate in a lets-have-fun" sort of way for the Media Research Center each year to sponsor its Best Notably Quotable" awards to highlight the malignity and the inanity that so often spews forth from the American medias self-enclosed terrarium.

For 16 or 17 years now I have been one of the dozens of judges for the mock awards. Each year the exercise becomes more enraging and depressing. Consider some of the following bits of tommyrot that did not earn my vote for worst quote of the year (although some of them earned my vote in individual categories) and in order to avoid redundancy I will omit every one of the vile or nonsensical examples from His Unhingedness himself Chris Matthews (right.)

From Charles Pierce writing about Tea Party-friendly Republicans on Esquire.coms The Politics Blog":

We have elected an ungovernable collection of snake-handlers Bible-bangers ignorami bagmen and outright frauds a collection so ungovernable that it insists the nation be ungovernable too….

We have elected a national legislature in which the true power resides in a cabal of vandals a nihilistic brigade… We looked at our great legacy of self-government and we handed ourselves over to the reign of morons."

From MSNBC host Ronan Farrow speaking get this! about disbarred-Bill and cattle-futures-Hillary Clinton:

I think that they represent a style of honesty that the public craves right now."

From Carl Bernstein intermittently reasonable Watergate hero:

Eric Cantor and his Republican Party are the most dangerous demagogic force in American politics since Joe McCarthy….

Obamas presidency must protect the national security from this dangerous demagogic element that is on the precipice of really having a kind of power thats ruinous in America and ruinous to democracy."

CNNs Piers Morgan angry about conservatives opposing gun control Tweeted that radio hosts Ben Ferguson and Dana Loesch should stand at the end of a range and Ill get 100 blind people to fire away at targets around you."

Okay the next is not from a journalist but just from a famous Hollywood Meathead but still this is apparently what passes for wisdom from actor-director Rob Reiner:

Obama right now where Obama is is right around where Reagan was right around where Nixon was. Hes no more left than those Republicans."

In the category called The Obamagasm Award" Newsweeks cover for the presidents second inauguration featured a photo of him with the sacrilegious headline The Second Coming."

On the other hand black conservatives are not beatific but hellish. MSNBC analyst Michael Eric Dyson responding to a Supreme Court ruling invalidating various misapplications of the Voting Rights Act:

Clarence Thomass actions here today though consistent though tragic to me are even more so in light of the bulk of decisions hes rendered in the name of a judicial vote on the Supreme Court: A symbolic Jew has invited a metaphoric Hitler to commit Holocaust and genocide upon his own people."

Ordinarily that hateful eruption would have won my vote for best (worst) quote of the year. It certainly was the most vicious. But if that quote was about a 98.5 on a 100-point scale of maliciousness the following was a perfect 100 on the scale of sheer and utter… well stupidity is the only possible word for it.

Here is NBC chief medical editor Nancy Snyderman not just wanting to water down Christmas to a generic holiday" but wishing away the entire reason for the season and hands down it won my vote for Quote of the Year:

I dont like the religion part. I think religion is what mucks the whole thing up….

I dont like the religion part. I think thats what makes the holidays so stressful."

Next thing you know somebody on NBC will be wishing the Super Bowl would just get rid of the football part" of the festivities because all that violence messes up an otherwise perfectly good entertainment extravaganza ………

When study after study (please Google it) shows that obscenely high percentages of mainstream" journalists consistently vote for Democratic presidential candidates over Republican ones and that journalists particularly tend to hold organized religion and its values in high disdain it is no wonder that conservatives feel aggrieved.

And in some cases it is the establishment media which proves itself not Tea Partiers to be a collection of ignorami bagmen and outright frauds."

Quin Hillyer is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF").  Prior to joining CFIF Hillyer worked for two years as Senior Editorial Writer at the was at The Washington Times. He has won mainstream journalism awards as an editorialist and columnist at local state regional & national levels.