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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
The confirmation rate is fine. That's got little to do with newspeeples' lust for conservative blood. And in a sideways sort of way, you're still proving my point by suggesting that the media have a hand in selecting which candidates get confirmed.
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No I didn't. The vast majority of Bush's nominations got no coverage, never mind "slash pieces". The coverage was given when there was a debate.
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The media had no choice but to cover HD and AG's screaming fits, that doesn't mean that the fits are constructs of the media.
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The media had no choice but to isolate Dean yelling "Yeah!" at a pep rally, filtering out the crowd noise? They simply couldn't help playing it repeatedly for weeks? It was beyond their ability to avoid labeling enthusiasm as lunacy? Where did the term "screaming fits" come from?