The Little Goons and E.J Dionne are willfully stupid, again. The "right-leaning" mass media, which isn't at all "right-leaning", is not promoting, on purpose, the views of Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich. What the VERY LIBERAL mass media thinks it is doing is EXPOSING the "radical" views of Limbaugh and Gingrich.
The liberal mass media has the common knowledge expectation that the public is listening to their reports about what Limbaugh and Gingrich have to say while sitting there and sharing in the disgust the media thinks is appropriate. It has absolutely nothing to do with "reporting" and absolutely everything to do with attempting to poison whatever message Limbaugh and Gingrich may have.
The liberal mass media is an arrogant self-involved entity with little regard for what the public actually thinks about anything. The liberal mass media is sure the public will agree with them. In fact, they have no inclination to believe any other way.
Another grand example of this arrogance and self-involvement is the recent coverage the liberal mass media did about the late-term bullet abortion of the so-called Dr. Tiller. The liberal media took for granted the public was as horrified by the event as the liberal media was itself. There was no room to think about the reality. That reality being about 80% of the public was either shrugging its shoulders or saying, "It's about time".
