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I find it almost comical that the media is all a quiver about the fact that the second in command that Nancy Pelosi wanted, Representative John Murtha, was defeated and the front runner, Representative Steny Hoyer, was elected. The New York Times wrote today, "Nancy Pelosi has managed to severely scar her leadership even before taking up the gavel as the new speaker of the House."
This is bullshit, lets us take a moment look at the fall of 1994, the Speaker Elect of the House was Newt Gingrich, and the newly elected Republicans were holding elections for the upcoming Congressional leadership posts. Newt, was throwing all his weight (And that is a lot, trust me) behind a man by the name of Robert Walker of Pennsylvania, for the position of Majority Leader. As the internal House election drew near, Newt was campaigning hard to get Robert the position, but as the votes were counted it was clear that he had failed and the position went to a rival of Newt's, Tom DeLay. Almost the exact same situation as we have today. At the time the media said nothing about how Newt was damaged goods before he even got the job, none of it.
The right wing news media is so thrown off on how to spin the Democratic landslide; they have no idea what to do. They have sold their souls to the Republicans who have then turned around and lost the election. Right now the news media is seen as culpable of the failures of this administration and its Republican protectorates. The American people see the media not as the fourth estate doing its job to keep the government in check, but as an accomplice. The media is fearful of the wrath that the Democrats have the power to unleash, like the reestablishment of the "Fairness Doctrine", or the halt to the very much desired media consolidation that the Republicans dangled in from of their faces.
You want proof of the media's crimes, look no further than this story.