Quote of the day

By Lee Russ

Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 05:37 PM

How many hours has CNN given Cindy Sheehan and her ilk in the guise of news? How many hours did ABC devote to the Abu Ghraib Prison fiasco while barely mentioning the bravery of posthumous Medal of Honor winner Corporal Jason Dunham, who threw his body on a live grenade saving the lives of perhaps a dozen of his fellow Marines? I could go on with many more examples....

Paul Weyrich, leading religious right politico, attempting to prove that mainstream media are, in effect, organs of "liberals," as part of his reasoning on why it would be a bad thing to resurrect the "fairness doctrine" for media.