My new Sweetheart

Soledad O'Brien, I think I love you after this exchange.

This is what journalists are supposed to do in a republic. The fourth estate has so long cowered in fear under the charge of "liberal media" that the rule is stenography, not active pursuit of truth.

And in this exchange, we get a glimpse of what sociopathic conservatives mean by "liberal media." It is not, as sunnunu says, "Democrat analysis" or "slap an Obama sticker on your forehead when you say this" but the possibility that independent analysis can exist at all. That there can be truth and validity outside of conservative control.

Perhaps if journalists did their jobs more often, politicians would not have such an easy time lying. Of course, they would try. Republicans have had such success bullying the media into laying down for their propaganda, that you can see sunnunu was visibly suprised by O'Brien's refusal to simply accept his "talking points." Or "the lie of the day" as it should more accurately be defined.