Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Are You Or Have You Ever Been a Negro, Dr. King?

This (via) is fascinating. Thanks to FAIR for posting it on their blog.

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The full program is divided up into segments, so if you can, click on the second one where there is some very intelligent discussion. What particularly struck me about the excerpts from Meet the Press in 1960 and 1965 is that in a just world they'd put an end to certain liberals' yammering about the bygone days when the media spoke truth to power, and were adversary, dammit! They were objective instead of putting their opinions into everything! As you can see, Meet the Press was adversary in those days, all right -- but not to the powerful.