An important message for those who think the media is too liberal

There is a great deal of talk these days about whether the U.S. media is too liberal. As editorial director of tomdryden.com, one of our nation’s most widely respected media properties, I’m here to tell you there is little if any bias in the vast majority of print, broadcast or online journalism.

All this controversy, which no intelligent person should pay attention to, is propagated by those weasels at Fox (Faux) News, fascist commentators like Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin, and by the editors of the National Review. These paid pimps for the party that brought you Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon and Sarah/Bristol Palin, hate our president because he is an African-American who dared venture into their white bread world. The fact that their party has nominated for president a member of a church that, until 1978, wouldn’t ordain African-American men as priests, proves it.

The venom these so-called “journalists” spewed during the 2010 election cycle in which the GOP seized control of the House of Representatives is the reason we lost the most effective Speaker of the House in American history – a woman who, unlike the current Speaker, has never spent as much as one minute in a tanning booth.

These bullies push for the continuation of tax breaks for the rich. They wrongfully assert that raising taxes on them will only pay a few days worth of interest on our national debt (thanks to George W. for that and I ain't talking about George Washington!) while undermining the recovery, a term they persist in using when everyone knows it took place several years ago. Why, those rich fat cats who outsourced union jobs to faraway countries wouldn’t even miss the trillions of incremental tax dollars they would be forced to fork over as their fair share for living in a land that made it possible for them to profit at the expense of the proletariat. OK, perhaps they would suffer a wee bit … if your idea of suffering is having to put regular gas in your Rolls or take the ferry to Nantucket instead of your corporate jet. A small price to pay to right our ship of state.

Those of whom I speak support the racist, expansionist state of Israel, claiming  (falsely) that it is our only ally in the Middle East. (What about Pennsylvania, which has stood by America in every struggle since 1776? Hello!) They fought against the affordable health care act, because they don’t want the poor, who tend to vote Democratic, to have access to life saving medicines. They want them to die when they get sick.

I’m not the only journalist who feels that all this hype about the media being too “liberal” is, as Harry Truman used to say, “hooey.”  I recently shared the dais at a forum held to discuss this very topic, sponsored by the Huffington Post, with Chris Matthews and the Rev. Al Sharpton of MSNBC, George Stephanopoulos of ABC News and Maureen Dowd of The New York Times, and these highly respected members of my profession concur with my assessment.

With the upcoming election – the most important in history -- at stake, I urge you not to listen to the numbling nabobs of negativism who are trying to paint a biased, racist picture of America for their own nefarious purposes. American journalism has never been more credible. Rest assured you can continue to believe everything you hear and read from the vast majority of print, broadcast and online media outlets (excluding the ones mentioned above which will hopefully be shut down once we win the election) including, as always, tomdryden.com.