Great info for the unenlightened

(Some of many) Ignored items:

- Tuskeegee Experiment
- The Business Plot
- Support of the Contras
- Smuggling weapons to Iran, a country which at the time held US citizens hostage with the purpose of continuing banned support for the Contras covertly.
- The real story of Native American genocide
- Wars we didn't win, like The Korean War
Etc. Etc.

derive from???

Reagan brought it to the forefront of wrong wing memes... "they own the mikes" etc..

... they were nattering about "liberal bias" when the Civil Rights movement started gaining traction. Spiro Agnew, though, was really instrumental in spreading it around.

-- Mal

I am only 48, but I really remember the word "liberal" being used as a negative back in the Reagan/ Bush the smarter years.

even the crazy wing will be surprised when the internet moves to turtle speed with content pre-judged.

Where we are is so far from where we should be, in terms of how the public is informed, is beyond laughable....

Ronald Reagan is the one that started the ball rolling with the roll-out of "downsizing." I know. My husband was downsized. Twice.

fairly sure more people would be angry Republicans waste time defunding Acorn which doesn't exist...

Bill Moyers, Greg Palast, Jeremy Scahill, Matt Tiabbi and Glen Greenwald... I'm sure there are a couple others, people who do more then act as a stenographer for the government.

Prison, and especially blacks in prison is not a common topic in GD.

There have been way more threads on Woody Allen and Justin Bieber than on the prison industrial complex in the last five years.

GD, in fact, tends to follow the M$M's issue du jour, or at best might follow M$NBC's topics.

And this blogger seems kinda uniformed about taxes

"12. Tax cuts primarily benefit the wealthy. A progressive tax program is designed to tax people very little as they are starting out and progressively increase their rates as they do better.

Republican plans seem designed to do exactly the opposite: shift the tax burden off of the wealthy and onto working people."

He/she slides over the fact that DEMOCRATIC tax plans have heavily favored the wealthy these days. That it was Democrats who voted to make most of the Bush tax cuts permanent.

And then the fool embraces the accursed payroll tax cut.

"It also explains why Republicans were so willing to let the payroll tax cut expire. The payroll tax cut benefited people who were getting paid, not those issuing the paychecks. How much fight did you see to save this tax cut?"

Uhm, as I tried to yell from my tiny soapbox, the accursed payroll tax cut gave far more to the richest 10% than it did to the poorest 40%. By 27% to 12%. http://journals.democraticunderground.com/hfojvt/160

Blogger might wanna ask why DEMOCRATS were so willing to let the "making work pay" credit expire and to embrace the accursed payroll tax cut instead.

Unfortunately even liberal media, like Mother Jones, and pseudo-liberal media, like Rachel Maddow, were embracing and promoting the accursed payroll tax cut.

system and the most recent stuff was 2006 and 2010. These were reports and not from the media.

and a liberal Government.

We need to reflect on this. We should consider just how unfair our circumstances have become and raise hell about it. They did not do away with the Fairness Doctrine with good intentions in mind.

This needs to be pointed out at much as possible when cons bring up the 'liberal media'.

without DU. Agreed. I am just glad to have this board available to me, and I make sure that as many people as I can reach hear about these things.

Thanks for posting this. It is great to have one place where I can access all these issues.

Is people shitting on actual indie outlets. That is what I find absolutely hilarious. To the point we no longer bother with DU. Have at it cnn