Rush Limbaugh Admits the Media Is Conservative

Or, at least, not liberal, which is something indeed. From AlterNet:

Diarist JohnKWilson at DailyKos makes a great find: Rush Limbaugh making the admission that liberal voices in the news are hard to find.

The transcript from Rush's own website:

if it weren't for MSNBC we wouldn't have any liberal sound bites. I've told Cookie I'm sick of it, ban MSNBC, and we can't, 'cause there's no other place to get liberal sound bites. There isn't any other place. I mean CNN is just insane over there. They emphasize their hosts, they have guests, but just roll tape on 'em and it's so boring. It's not worth putting anything from CNN on the air.

If it weren't for MSNBC there wouldn't be any liberal sound bites. Now, that has to mean something. That has to mean that they're rare, that they're not everywhere.

More here.

So, while this is significant, it's not earth shaking news or anything. The article goes on to point out how conservatives have been admitting for many years, albeit on the down low, that "liberal media bias" doesn't really exist. And I don't think this is going to affect in any way the rank-and-file's perception that the media are liberal. I mean, it didn't make sense in the first place, so why would it make sense now? For the time being, conservatives will continue to be in lock-step in their tribal assertion that the media are liberal.

But it is nice to know better. It's especially nice to know that they know better, too.

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