Good example of how the Rethugs frame the debate

http://mediamatters.org/items/200710130002?f=h_top

<snip>Nearly two years ago, I used a column by one of the leading conservative media critics to illustrate the difference in approaches taken by Media Matters and many of our counterparts on the right:

In a December 5 column, Accuracy in Media's Cliff Kincaid wrote:

I didn't need to read any transcripts of the Chris Matthews MSNBC Hardball show to know what's he's been doing. It's a safe bet he was hyping some Bush-related "scandal." The former Democratic congressional staffer does what he does best -- make Democrats into heroes and Republicans into villains.

Kincaid didn't even need to look at what Matthews said; he just knew Matthews was making "Democrats into heroes and Republicans into villains."

At Media Matters, we go the extra mile and actually read and watch the news reports we critique. It isn't quite as fast or easy as simply making things up, but we think it's worth it. And because we put in the effort, we found that -- rather than making "Democrats into heroes and Republicans into villains" -- Matthews has recently called those who dislike Bush "real whack-jobs," gushed that Bush "glimmers" with "sunny nobility," derided Democrats as "carpers and complainers," and smeared Democrats.