‘Liberal’ media reported remark

Regarding the Tuesday letter: “Liberal media gives him a pass”:

Mr. Obama made an inappropriate analogy, and quickly and sincerely apologized. The “liberal” media reported the incident. The writer compares this to Howard Cosell, who referred to a black football player as a “monkey” on national TV, and Don Imus, who referred to a woman’s basketball team as “nappy haired hos” on a national radio program. (The victims of these insults were, I assume, the “protected class” that the writer refers to.)

Whenever I see a reference to the “liberal” media, I always remember the quote from Molly Ivins: “I tune in regularly to listen to William F. Buckley, Mona Charen, George Will, Rush Limbaugh, John Sununu, John McLaughlin, Pat Buchanan, Gordon Liddy, James Kilpatrick, Robert Novak, Pat Robertson, Paul Harvey, and Phillis Schlafly talk about how more conservative voices are needed because of the liberal slant of the media.” Somehow, she left off the list: Bill O’Reilly, Charles Krauthammer, Jonah Goldberg, Sean Hannity, Michelle Maulkin, John Carlson, Ann Coulter, ad nauseam.

The writer finishes his letter with the ominous fear mongering of the right: “Be afraid, be very afraid.” Good grief. Be afraid of what? That the media hasn’t called for the president’s resignation?

Steven G. Haynes

Arlington