How Politics is Played

Krugman nails the dirty politics of the Republicans in this posting on his NY Times blog:

A number of people in the news analysis business seem to be equating the role of liberal activists in making trouble for Republicans back in 2005, during the debate over Social Security privatization, with that of conservative activists in making trouble for Democrats over health care reform.

Indeed, activists made trouble in 2005 by asking Congressmen tough questions about policy. Activists are making trouble now by shouting Congressmen down so they can’t be heard.

It’s exactly the same thing, right?

The media is owned by big corporate interests. So the "news" is not reported objectively. As Krugman points out, 2005 protests had a completely different tenor from the 2009 protests.