[quote=Arraya]The “liberal” NY Times was instrumental in drumming up support for the wars[/quote]

Exactly. In fact, they and many of the other so-called “liberal media” kept the Clinton-Lewinsky thing going on for months and months, and jumped on every Clinton administration “scandal” that popped up during his administration. For the first several years of GWB’s tenure, they rarely questioned his decisions and actions. They watched without comment while a largely Republican Congress (with the aid of an only-too-happy-to-help Democratic faction) blew through the budget surplus left from Clinton, and proceeded to pile up another huge deficit (and that didn’t include the war costs, which were intentionally omitted from the budget).

In fact, the press were asleep at the wheel for 8 or 10 years at least, and didn’t stir until Hurricane Katrina made it impossible for them to look away. IMHO they were trying to prove that they weren’t liberal and biased, and went overboard in the process. What they fail to realize is that those that truly believe that Fox is fair and balanced are never, ever going to believe that the NYT or WaPo or any other outlet not owned by Rupert Murdoch is unbiased. So they need to forget about reaching that part of the population, and get back to actually doing their jobs. When they start doing that, maybe comedians won’t feel that they have to bring the shortcomings of our lawmakers to our attention, or have to organize rallys where people who are shocked and dismayed by the vitriol being spewed by the wingnuts can get together and realize that they are far from being alone in their concern for our nation’s future.

You know, I’ve been hearing a lot of unsupported figures and dubious claims thrown out by the far right recently, among them pronouncements that 80 percent of the country feels as they do. With the amount of air time and column space that their theatrics earn them, who would believe that those figures weren’t accurate. Well, perhaps the driving force behind the organizing of Saturday’s rally was the desire to show Washington that these claims and numbers are far from accurate. I’d have to say that the attendance figures appear to support that hypothesis.