Guests for the Sunday TV News Shows – NYTimes.com
So the media is “biased” against Republicans? Here are the guests for the talk shows this morning. I took it one step further than Media Matters.
Republican Guests =10
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican
Sen. Richard Shelby, Republican
Gov. Bobby Jindal, Republican
Marsha Blackburn, Republican
Sen. Jon Kyl, Republican
Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Republican
Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, Republican
Newt Gingrich, Republican
Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez – Associated with Republican administrations
T. Boone Pickens – One of the engineers and financial supporters of the Swiftboat campaign against John Kerry in 2004. You tell me.
Democrat Guests = 5
Rep. Barney Frank, Democrat
Sen. Carl Levin, Democrat
Reps. Charles Rangel, Democrat
Byron Dorgan, Democrat
Ted Turner, Associated with Democratic causes and donates heavily to Democratic party
(Shelby? I’m not sure who this is.)
I have a question for people who think the media is left-biased – If this is so, why wouldn’t Republicans want the Fairness Doctrine on public airwaves act back? Seriously. Simple logic says that that they should be all over it if the media was dominated by left wing journalists, pundits, reporters, and thinkers. But they aren’t. They are dead set against it.
Left leaning media is a myth. Republican guests are willing to shout down opponents and state issues in a socially impolite manner, therefore they make television and radio more dramatic than guests from the Democratic party.
It’s pretty simple. Most Republican guests are In Yer Face Reality TV and Democrats are C-Span.
