Open Left

It's Worse Than That

Throughout most of the 20th Century, the news was overwhelmingly bad for conservatives.  Their economic theories lead to the Great Depression.  Their racial superiority theories gave us the NAZIs, WWII and genocide. Their domestic politics gave us criminals like Spiro T. Agnew and Tricky Dick Nixon.  Conservative columnists provided "balance" to the well-known left-wing bias of the news.

If it weren't for the intense focus on conservative writers in the editorial pages, conservatism itself might have withered away and died.  And given the class interests of the newspaper owners, there was no way in hell they were going to let that happen.

"Senate passes expanded GI bill despite Bush, McCain opposition"

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by: Paul Rosenberg @ Fri Apr 17, 2009 at 13:26:29 PM CDT