Norman Ornstein Told The Truth And Lost Access To Sunday Talk Shows

This article reports on the consequences of truth telling.  Norman Ornstein, who is a Resident Scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute,  co-authored a book that violated one of the media's unwritten laws. He was a frequent guest on the Sunday talk because he played the bipartisan game very well.  He often made cogent analysis of political issues that did not spare either political party.  In his recent book he decided to blame the republicans for most of our political problems.  The op-ed that he wrote about his book has gone viral.  Ordinarily, that would make someone more attractive to the media.  They play a big role in creating stars, which helps them to attract an audience.  That did not happen after the publication of his book.  He has become an "untouchable" for violating the unwritten law of the media.  They are supposed to referee a game in which both parties are equally wrong about most things.  The idea that one of the parties has gone off of the rails is taboo. If the republicans say that the earth is flat, or that it is the center of the solar system, the media must pretend that those views are worthy of debate against their opponents.  If they do not play that game, Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, among a host of others faithful to the flat earth hypothesis, will tell their audience the fair and balanced truth that the earth is really flat, and that it is in the center of the solar system. How else do you think that people have come to believe in the "confidence fairy"?