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Gossip, entertainment, lifestyle outlets join mainstream media smearing rights.
by Matt Philbin & Erin R. Brown, Culture and Media Institute
It was no less depressing for being predictable. News of the horrendous Jan. 8 shooting of Democratic Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 17 others had just broken when some on the left were exploiting it to malign conservatives.
Yet the left has blamed the \”vitriolic\” rhetoric of conservatives and the Tea Parties as inciting violence. The mainstream media has enabled and even joined liberals in tarring the right with inciting political violence, right down to the gossip, entertainment and \”lifestyle\” outlets.
Whether it’s \”TMZ\” polling readers with a leading questionnaire, \”The
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