Gosh, isn't it amazing that Democrats complain about the "Right-Wing" press and then CNN comes in and edits their comments to make them sound better?

The Democrats are just upset that the media is generally liberal, and so they become fixated on the few examples of conservative journalism as "proof" that they're still the underdogs fighting the establishment (the left hates being percieved as dominant in any area). They're nostaligic for earlier times when they could always take the mantle of the oppressed.

But it's a child's tactic -- "No I'm not, you are!" You respond to the accusation by repeating its opposite, hoping that it will muddle the issue enough to where the nonaligned will begin believing that nobody's right. Kids do it with their parents, the Democrats do it with the American people.

Ironic, that the most conservative Dem ever to hold onto public office is saying this. Bill Clinton, media darling himself, might as well be writing those conservative articles. And yes, the press does slant right, if you haven't noticed.

The Rust One, what have you been smoking??? The press in this country slants so far left, it's a wonder it hasn't fallen over. There are a couple of conservative newspapers...and one tv news station that's very slightly right of center (compared to how far left the rest of tv news leans, it appears ultra right-leaning).

Give us one example of how the press, as a whole, slants right....

Outside of a little bit of token opposition, there has been very little questioning in the mainstream media of the President's policies, from tax cuts, to environmental issues, to the war or War. See: Fox News, NBC.

I remember Bill Clinton (even though he's not really a liberal) being repeatedly bashed and questioned for 8 years about everything. Though he did deserve 90% of it.

The tax bill was routinely presented as "tax cuts for the rich" on NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, NPR, PBS, the liberal commentators on FOX, and most newspapers. The line was always how much of the cut was going to "the rich", completely ignoring: that the top bracket cuts were occurring late in the package; that "the rich" paid a higher percentage in taxes than they were getting in the tax cut; that "the rich" now pay an ever greater share of taxes than they had before the cuts.

Silence on environmental policies? Since when? Bush has been thoroughly excoriated for refusing to ratify Kyoto (which he was right to do), for proposing that we can abate huge forest fires by cutting down some trees, etc.

Every one of Bush's policies has been met with immediate criticism from all quarters of the mainstream media. That's not token opposition. Clinton got a free pass from the press on a whole lot of issues.

To say that the American press leans right is just ridiculous.

Boy that Rupert Murdoch is one crazy liberal waco.Lets face it the conservatives have been crying for years about a liberal press anytime they receive the slightest amount of critisim.Corporate intersts run this country and it's media and have for some time ( I know thats not what your guru Rush tells you to think, but I believe he's proven what a hypocrite he really is ) Try turning the dial once in awhile try the BBC or check out the SPINSANITY web site and try to get a little of both sides instead of the rantings of the extreme right