Treating The Kos Ites As Mainstream - Road to the Middle Class

BACK DURING the Vietnam War the liberal media treated the anti-war movement as mainstream and presented activists like John Kerry as responsible critics of the war.

But they weren’t. The anti-war movement was a left-wing group that, had it been on the right, would have been presented as a bunch of dangerous kooks.

Now we have another war, and now we have another anti-war movement. And nobody can tell to what extent this new movement is aided by the terror masters, just as nobody knew in the Vietnam era whether the John Kerrys were coordinating their activities with the North Vietnamese.

Day after day, week after week, the mainstream media treats the left-wing kooks as mainstream activists. So Newsweek’s Jonathan Darman does a piece on Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and presents him as a intimate of the powerful. “Maureen Dowd and Tim Russert [ask him] what the Democrats ought to do to win.” Moulitsas “chats with Senate leadership aides several times a week and has brainstormed with Democratic operatives about the fall campaign.”

Well, it’s a free country. But you can imagine what the MSM would be writing if the Kos-ites were a right-wing group that was raging away at the Republicans. Actually, you don’t have to imagine. You just have to remember the drumbeat of media hate against Pat Buchanan in 1992.

How would you rate Buchanan on a kook scale of 1 to 10? Maybe a 5? But you’d have to put the Kos-ites at 8 or 9.

Back in the 1970s the MSM used the anti-war movement as a catspaw to scratch the hated Richard Nixon. Now they are using the Kos-ites as a catspaw to scratch George W. Bush.

But what if the Kos-ites only draw blood on moderate Democrats like Joe Lieberman, and drive the rest of America into the Republican Party?

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Christopher Chantrill blogs at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.