{"id":4409,"date":"2009-03-18T07:39:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T12:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4409"},"modified":"2009-03-18T12:13:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T17:13:48","slug":"now-if-the-media-had-a-conservative-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4409","title":{"rendered":"Now, If The Media Had A Conservative Bias…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…in the way it reported politics, you’d see congressmen<\/a> like Daniel Inouye…:<\/p>\n

“From the standpoint of the Congress, there\u2019s only so much that we can absorb and do at one time,\u201d Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), the chairman of the Appropriations Committee<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…or Evan Bayh…:<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody has to bring something to the table,\u201d said Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, a leader of a 15-member caucus of conservative and centrist Democrats. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean that you have to postpone your aspirations forever. But until we\u2019re through this crisis and growth has resumed, there\u2019s going to be some belt-tightening that\u2019s necessary.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…or Jim “Sgt. Friday” Webb…:<\/p>\n

\n

\u201cYou are going to see some [slowing of Obama’s agenda] happen naturally,\u201d said Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), explaining that some of Obama\u2019s agenda \u2014 such as climate change \u2014 may fall by the wayside because there\u2019s not enough support for it, not because it\u2019s too much to tackle.\u201cThis isn\u2019t going to be an automatic \u2018yes\u2019 vote for a lot of people,\u201d Webb added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…getting the sort of saturation coverage on the Sunday morning methane-fests that Chuck Hagel (and for that matter, John McCain, before he became a threat) got.<\/p>\n

Because, y’know, they’re the responsible <\/em>Democrats.\u00a0 The ones disregarding the party line to reach across the aisle and get things done<\/em>, whatever the cost!<\/p>\n

Let me know when you see that saturation coverage, k?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…in the way it reported politics, you’d see congressmen like Daniel Inouye…: “From the standpoint of the Congress, there\u2019s only so much that we can absorb and do at one time,\u201d Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), the chairman of the Appropriations Committee …or Evan Bayh…: \u201cEverybody has to bring something to the table,\u201d said Indiana Sen. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}