RED Dems

Remember Commie Red? Yesterday I was listening to Tom Marr on WCBM when a caller brought up "NBC" taking the traditional Republican Blue and Democrat Red election map colors and flipping them.  His explanation was that "Democrats=Red" was just too unfortunate an association for media to swallow.  Tom Marr poo-poo'd the idea,  stating that Dems had always been blue.  Surprised me, because Marr has been around a long time.  Marr was wrong. What the caller missed however was that the flip was coordinated (there was no Fox News) on all  networks, CNN included.  This happened sometime  around  Bush41—Clinton.  I could find out by watching election videos, but I can't be bothered. What further surprised me was that it went unmentioned, in my experience, until yesterday. Hmmm. I think what we have here is a probable first palpable example  of the Democrat Media Complex in action.  Of course I can't be sure that the reason for the switch was the "Commie Red" v. "True Blue" association, but it was something.  And it was effected simultaneously across the television news spectrum.  Anyway, not two hours later I serendipitously happened across this video. PS- I have a gnawing feeling that I first wrte about this on Free Republic ca1997, so I will guess it was Clinton's doing.