PJ O'Rouke has a column up about a recent appearence by John Kerry at the JFK Museum to accept an award. O'Rouke is always worth the read but I found this quote from Kerry particularly interesting:
"A lot of the mainstream media were very responsible during the campaign. They tried to put out a balanced view, and they did show what they thought to be the truth in certain situations of attack. . . . But it never penetrated. And when you look at the statistics and understand that about 80 percent of America gets 100 percent of its news from television, and a great deal of that news comes from either MTV, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Jay Leno, David Letterman, you begin to see the size of the challenge."Now it should be noted that this quote was in response to a question from the audience. I wish I was there to ask a follow up question. I mean how can a person like Kerry fault people for getting their news from Leno when the only two live interviews the Democratic candidate for President made during the last three months of the campaign were with Jon Stewart and Don Imus?
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