Study: Sunday Talk Shows Dominated By Conservative Guests

Think Progress:

In 2006, Media Matters conducted a study on Sunday political talk shows, finding that "Republicans and conservatives have been offered more opportunities to appear on the Sunday shows -- in some cases, dramatically so." From 2001 to 2005, conservative guests outnumbered progressives "by 58 percent to 42 percent." Atrios notes that tomorrow's shows will also be dominated by conservative guests:

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[iPolitics]

The Right-wing elite media

[BowlingForRevenge]

It's RIGHT WING MEDIA ELITE

We need to use the Atwater/Rove method and quote that phrase CONSTANTLY until it becomes the catch phrase of 2009! YES WE CAN!

[iPolitics]

No. It's right-wing elite media.

That's Palin language

[Ranta]

...as was true this week. The MSM would like to think that we are more concerned with the future of the Republican party than how to fix the economic melt down.

[BlueOnBlue]

No s--- Sherlock.

[robeson]

Study: Sunday Talk Shows Dominated By Conservative Guests

Did you need a Study to know this?

[stevi]

This is nothing new. Does anyone remember when Bill Clinton was president? I couldn't find a liberal on TV to save my life. I remember that the odious Rush Limbaugh even had a TV show. That is when I began to find my news in other places and eventually on the internet, difficult at the time as I had no computer, but quickly bought one and then discovered few or no liberal sites, that has thankfully changed. I haven't watched the MSM since. Except for Keith and now Rachel. If I were to ever feel the need to be lied to and told what this or that "REALLY" means I could look at the talking heads at ABC or whatever, but I am an old person with a brain and the ability to listen and learn and I happen to have cognitive skills which allow me to understand what is going on around me without an assigned conservative interpreter, much like everyone out there! We don't need these talking heads on TV to explain anything. I even cut those fools on MSM out on election night, I watched C-span and there was no overpaid, over made-up fools telling me anything....... We don't need these guys!

[totaldisbelief]

JUMPINJEEBUS not Kristol again...who cares what that numbnuts thinks.

[boogiewoman]

So they try to tell people watching, the repubs didn't lose big time. We just lost a tiny bit. Reagan was the best President ever, and Obama is going to the center, and it's Pelosi's and Barney Frank's fault.

[YesWeDid]

Hummmph! I know how to turn the tv off when repubs start drooling their talking point drivel Sunday mornings, and so did the rest of America. Please note, our next president is !! Barack Obama !!, not mccain't and 'flain' palin.

[OneLessReason]

Liberal Media at it again!!!!!

[totaldisbelief]

Kill your TV

[MajorKong]

Must be that "liberal media" I keep hearing about.

[jnratliff]

Hey these guys are not idiots! They know that the only way you can get people to believe a lie is to repeat it enough times. Like the center right nation crap they have been throwing around since the 4th.
They reaserch with frank luntz words and phrases and when they find one that seems to work, they jump on it like crows on roadkill. When they give it to drudge, then fox, then the rest of the MSM and they say it over and over again and again. After a while the uninformed or low information voter ie; republican/believers will take it as truth because it ain't liberal !
You end up where we are right now. An economy colapsing because of greed, Two wars without end because of greed.
Point is forget about these morons, quit watching their shows, if no one watches they will soon enough go the way of the dinosaurs,mcsame/palin. Hopefully soon the republican party will be nothing more then a bad plan that turned out to be worse then it was designed to be and a historical reminder that doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons always brings about disaterous results!

[raker]

They needed a study for this? Turn on the telly. It's all Republicans delivering press releases as the network host furrows his brow and nods approvingly. How people watch this drivel and find value in it, I'll never know. Meet the Press (Meet the Preening Host is more like it) has the trappings of a news interview, but it is nothing more than a platform for launching Republican talking points.

[RadLeftVetPatriot]

I'm shocked. Who knew!?

[rubinoff]

These ones need to get over themselves, go sit down and 'think' what is best for our country.

[Bushwillresign]

Watch and see - The republicans are trying to shed the idea that they are republicans. They are pushing to be called conservatives.
So on one hand we have the "liberals" which for years we have been told, if a Democrat is a "liberal" means a wicked, terrible person. The other Democrats are okay.
On the other hand, for the last six years the republicans have not been "conservative", that's why they have been voted out.
So, watch and see, we are going to hear all about conservatives and nothing about republicans for the next 4 years.

[nikky]

it doesn't matter either way they are they ones who sat back for eight long years while the sky was falling and they were getting paid and don't doubt that now they are trying to figure out who they can tap to still get some money while they blame obama for all this mess they and bush have created

[majii]

sorry, I meant Latinos.