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http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/04/01/historian-robert-caro-todays-conservative-media/193382Historian Robert Caro: Today's Conservative Media "Quite Horrible" And Venomous
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Caro, who won Pulitzer Prizes for his third Johnson book, Master of the Senate, and his 1975 book about Robert Moses, has long used newspaper and media coverage in his research about U.S. political history.
Asked by Media Matters what he thought of today's conservative media coverage given his experience with historic news accounts, Caro said there had been strong conservative news coverage of past political figures, but stressed today's approach is worse.
"I think today is something (different), the venom, the absolute venom, whatever we think is really underneath it all, it is something quite horrible," he said, later adding, "Here in New York you live in a different world. I was just giving some lectures and you know when you get out in the rest of the country you realize the depth of the anti-Obama feeling."
Caro's comments follow years of conservative media figures smearing President Obama and his family with outlandish conspiracies, regular falsehoods, trumped-up pseudoscandals, and outright attacks.
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Historian Robert Caro: Today's Conservative Media "Quite Horrible" And Venomous (Original Post)
Hissyspit
Apr 2013
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I sometimes wonder of the conservative Meme that Obama is ultra liberal is more damaging
el_bryanto
Apr 2013
#1
I have read all of Caro's LBJ books to date,warts and all,always found his opinions good
graham4anything
Apr 2013
#2
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)1. I sometimes wonder of the conservative Meme that Obama is ultra liberal is more damaging
than the more outright lies they tell. I mean anybody with any sense of political analysis knows that Obama is center left at bet (and really probably center right) - but all day long Conservatives just accept that he is like the second coming of Stalin or Chavez. Once you believe that - what aren't you willing to believe about Obama?
Bryant
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)2. I have read all of Caro's LBJ books to date,warts and all,always found his opinions good
UTUSN
(70,740 posts)3. R#3 & K for, fantastic CARO. "Master of the Senate" contains a dissertation on the (non-)workings of
the Senate. It takes somebody like LBJ, willing to start at the bottom and spend 30 yrs learning all the tricks and loopholes to make it work, MUCH farther down the road.
Btw, the deservedly maligned CHEENEE cabal (Darth Rums) did something of the same thing inside the Executive under all their jerk regimes. By the time their tool Shrub came along, they were ready.