Quote of the Day: Rush, on News Built on Hopes
Rush’s opening segment today was outstanding. Read it while it’s up, which will be until about 6PM on Monday.
I thought the best slices were these:
If you look at the Libby case, if you look at any element of the news, Katrina aftermath, Cindy Sheehan, it doesn’t matter. The news was reported not as it was in reality. The news took the shape of the hopes and dreams of those who were reporting it. The news became what the hoped-for outcome is, and so they simply started reporting the news as though what they hoped for has already happened.
….. What they (these stories) are is vehicles. They are opportunities to attack, to vilify, to weaken the president of the United States, to weaken George W. Bush.
