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bozovian news networks miss the point... again

Submitted by Robert Lindquist on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 1:57pm

Well - What's this? According to Jim Meyers at Newsmax.com, James Carville, Bill Clinton's one time boy genius and the fellow who coined the phrase "It's the Economy Stupid," was way ahead of ole' Rush in the "I hope he fails" department.

Actually, what he said (speaking of George W. Bush on 9/11, 2001, just prior to the terrorist attacks) was, "I hope he doesn't succeed". Seems to me that either way you put it, it's the same thing. Now, wouldn't you think that any media outlet that really prizes their responsibility to point out both sides to a story would have grasped this as an opportunity to take the Limbaugh story to the next level? I didn't know that Carville had said that, I think it makes the story far more interesting and adds a whole different spin to it. Well, apparently there's only media outlet that understands that two news stories are always better than one. Quoting from the Newsmax article—
Bill Sammon, Washington managing editor for Fox News, wrote: “Months and even years later, the mainstream media chose to never resurrect those controversial sentiments, voiced by the Democratic Party’s top strategists, that Bush should fail. The omission stands in stark contrast to the feeding frenzy that ensued when radio host Rush Limbaugh recently said he wanted President Obama to fail. The press devoted wall-to-wall coverage to the remark, suggesting that Limbaugh, and by extension conservative Republicans, were unpatriotic.”  Read the whole story.