Posted on 09/25/2004 7:54:23 PM PDT by timbuck2
Here is a sampling of recent Loven quotes that have appeared on the AP Wire.
HEADLINE: Bush claims Kerry and congressional liberals will hurt the economy
BYLINE: By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
I like this juxtaposition to make Bush look bad.
"Kerry has proposed paying for new initiatives by rolling back taxes only on the wealthiest Americans. Bush said, 'We're not going to let them tax anybody, because we're going to win in November.'"
Why the use of the qualifier "only?" Obviously to make Kerry sound like a reasonable guy who reall yloves tax cuts as long as it is not for the dreadfully rich. The quote she uses from Bush makes him look like a rabid and irresponsible tax cutter.
What is the relevance of this odd passage which comes just a few lines later?
"In his first fund-raising appearance in more than a month, which netted $1.8 million for the Republican National Committee, Bush stumbled while reviewing his reasons for fighting terrorists abroad: "Free societies are hopeful societies, and free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat - at the drop of a hat."
Here is another interesting tidbit - is it even true? - that Loven passes along.
"The North Carolina event has Bush campaigning in the home state of Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards. The Kerry-Edwards ticket has been campaigning aggressively there in hopes of putting the state's 15 electoral votes in play, though it was last carried by a Democrat in 1976 and Bush easily won there in 2000.
Polls last month showed Bush with a narrow lead in the state."
Almost sounds like she is telling Dems to keep up the good fight in North Carolina.
Here is mention of the Bush family's vast wealth with the not-so-subtle reference to the Bush "compound."
"From North Carolina, Bush was traveling to his family's compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, where he was spending the weekend. "
I love that. Nice touch. Don't you all feel better that Bush is heading to the compound, rather than some grubby flat like the one Kerry lives in on Beaocn Hill?
Thoughts?
Thoughts? You want thoughts? How about action?
DEMAND THAT JENNIFER LOVEN OF AP BE TAKEN OFF THE PREZ CAMPAIGN (CLEAR CONFLICTS OF INTEREST)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227072/posts
Her husband is a PAID STRATEGIST for, and political contributor to, the Kerry campaign, and a former high-level environmental employee of the Clinton Administration.
Her writing shows it.
Good points all on your part.
Great idea. As long as AP and the rest of the liberal biased media think they can get away with their reporting biases and editorial opinions as news, they will continue to do so. We'll make them honest or at least try to get them to be professional.
We now have a very quick way to respond to them. Letters to the editors would just go in round files; however, now, we have a very loud voice that they have had to pay attention to and they will.
Evidenced by their having to correct/retract several recent stories.(The Navy SEAL, the Bush booing fabrication, and the changed headline.)
Many Freepers called and email AP over the fake 'Boos' article......a couple of weeks ago.
I say we keep after them to cut out the blatant bias that is so obviously anti-Bush & pro-Kerry!
Email: info@ap.org, feedback@ap.org
Phone: 212-621-1500 News Room (anytime day or night)
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Here's a shocker. Loven apparently very concerned about lack of dissenting voices on bioethics panel.
"February 28, 2004 Saturday
SECTION: WASHINGTON DATELINE
LENGTH: 712 words
HEADLINE: Bush Replaces Members of Bioethics Panel
BYLINE: JENNIFER LOVEN; Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
President Bush on Friday replaced two members of a panel that advises him on issues such as cloning and stem cell research, drawing criticism that he is stacking the bioethics group with ideologically friendly members.
Elizabeth Blackburn, a cell biologist at the University California San Francisco and former president of the American Society for Cell Biology, and William F. May, a medical ethicist and retired professor at Southern Methodist University, were dismissed from the President's Council on Bioethics.
Bush created the council in 2001, replacing a similar commission that advised President Clinton, to tackle issues including embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia and assisted reproduction. He named its 17 members to two-year terms in January 2002.
Elizabeth Marincola, executive director of the American Society for Cell Biology, a nonprofit group representing basic biomedical researchers, said Blackburn and May were often in the minority on the council as they provided dissenting views.
***Later Loven goes on to hammer home her reason for writing the piece:***
"Blackburn told The Washington Post that she believed she was let go because her political views do not match those of the council's director, University of Chicago ethicist Leon Kass.
It's not the first time the White House has been criticized for wanting to hear mostly from friendly voices.
Just last week, a private organization contended in a report that the Bush administration distorts scientific findings and seeks to manipulate experts' advice to avoid information that runs counter to its political beliefs. The Union of Concerned Scientists issued the complaint signed by a wide assorted of prominent scientists, including Nobel Prize winners and recipients of the National Medal of Science.
*** Can't you just sense her outrage at this partisan behavior? Of course, she gives ample space to left wingers (translation: serves as Dem mouthpiece) like Ted Kennedy who says:
""The American people deserve the right science, not right wing ideology, on critical issues facing their health," he said in a statement. "By firing two of the committee's most distinguished members, the administration is choosing once again the most divisive and ideological course, instead of seeking consensus."
*** Where is all this talk of consensus when Dems run the executive branch?
-T
December 17, 2003 Wednesday
SECTION: WASHINGTON DATELINE
LENGTH: 533 words
HEADLINE: Bush: U.S. to Continue Leading in Flight
***Mean Bush crushes hopes of space geeks.***
BYLINE: JENNIFER LOVEN; Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C.
BODY:
President Bush pledged on Wednesday that America will keep leading the world in flight, but he disappointed space buffs who had hoped he would announce a bold new mission for U.S. explorers.
...Bush did not provide specifics, snuffing the hopes of space buffs that he might use the anniversary to announce a new mission of exploration beyond the space shuttle and international space station.
*** Bush breaking hearts everywhere...***
Same story but better headline:
SECTION: State and Regional
LENGTH: 454 words
HEADLINE: President pledges U.S. to continue leading world in flight, but offers no new space mission
BYLINE: By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C.
***Bush is all talk and no action and thus disappoints people.
***Here is old Loven provided all sorts of info on those darn conservative judges Bush intends to nominate.***
July 25, 2003 Friday
SECTION: WASHINGTON DATELINE
LENGTH: 715 words
HEADLINE: Bush Nominates Conservatives As Judges
BYLINE: JENNIFER LOVEN; Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
President Bush on Friday nominated as federal judges a conservative California Supreme Court justice and a White House staff lawyer who helped impeach President Clinton.
Both nominations to the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia brought immediate condemnation from the liberal advocacy group People for the American Way and Sen. Charles Schumer, who is leading Democratic revolts against other Bush judicial nominations.
If approved by the Senate, California Justice Janice Rogers Brown and Brett Kavanaugh, an associate of former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, would join the court often considered second in the federal judicial hierarchy behind the Supreme Court. The 12-member court now has five Republican and four Democratic appointees.
Kavanaugh's nomination was expected. He was a deputy to White House counsel Alberto Gonzales before he recently moved into the job of White House staff secretary, in charge of overseeing all paperwork that crosses Bush's desk.
As associate counsel, Kavanaugh's portfolio included helping get Bush's judicial nominees approved by the Senate, tort reform and presidential records.
Before coming into the White House with Bush, Kavanaugh was an associate independent counsel on the staff of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. He was known as a top lawyer in the two cases that dogged the Clinton White House, the long-running Whitewater investigation and Clinton's impeachment in 1998.
Brown, who has frequently been mentioned as a possible Bush nominee for the Supreme Court, has served on the California high court for seven years and is considered among its most conservative justices.
A black woman from the segregated South, Brown supports limits on abortion rights and corporate liability, routinely votes to uphold death penalty sentences and opposes affirmative action...
*** Well, you get the idea... Later follow quotes from leftwing whack jobs like Ralph Neas, head of People for the American Way. Okay, I'll include it and as a bonus Loven puts in some classic Senate Schumer quotes. Good comdeic value.
"Ralph Neas, head of People for the American Way, said in a statement that his organization strongly opposes the two nominations. "Once again, President Bush has nominated individuals who embrace an extreme right-wing judicial philosophy," Neas said. He said Bush "has yet again chosen confrontation over bipartisan consultations."
Schumer, D-N.Y., said the nominations "are further proof, as if any were needed, that the administration has no interest in putting forth judges who are moderate representatives of mainstream America. Instead, they seem intent on filling the bench with the least mainstream and most ideological judges around."
"I'm not prejudging them, but from what I know, they both look like they're coming straight out of the ideological judicial activist factory."
-T
More great quotes from an article written on the eve of 2002 midterm elections.
October 31, 2002, Thursday, BC cycle
SECTION: Political News; Washington Dateline
LENGTH: 787 words
HEADLINE: Bush undertaking election-ending tour in search of history-making GOP wins
BYLINE: By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: SOUTH BEND, Ind..
"His final, grueling sprint, mapped out by political strategist Karl Rove, will have Bush stumping in 15 states in five days - with two visits to South Dakota - by the time he touches down at his Texas ranch after dinnertime Monday.
Aides said Bush was already complaining about the late nights expected of him, and his grumbling spilled into the open before his South Dakota audience.
"Next time you get me to come back, let's go pheasant hunting," Bush suggested to much approval. "I can't go today. I got to work. I'm traveling the country."
***Whiny, grumbler Bush. What a wuss.***
"Also Wednesday, Bush aides set up a white tent on the White House driveway, where conservative talk radio hosts opened their microphones to a stream of top administration officials who offered the president's election-season take on the issues.
Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri called it "appease-the-right-wing day" at the White House"
***Loven is so helpful in getting out the Dem talking points.***
*** Here some hope springs eternal language on the eve of elections. She cites how unlikely it is BUsh will gain seats and she notes how few seats the Dems must flip to take control. Guess that one did not work out for her...
"The party in power in the White House has lost House seats at every midterm election except three since Abraham Lincoln was president, and last gained Senate seats at a midterm election in 1982. Bush wants midterm gains that deliver full control of Congress to the GOP, knocking down Democratic roadblocks to his tax, homeland security, judicial and health care policies.
House Democrats, eight years out of power, need to gain seven seats to be assured of control. The Senate breakdown is 49 Republicans, 49 Democrats, one independent and one vacancy - created by Sen. Paul Wellstone's death in a plane crash in Minnesota."
-T
Bush not able to dispel questions
Intelligence critics just won’t go away.
By JENNIFER LOVEN Associated Press Writer
Published Monday, July 21, 2003
WASHINGTON The White House defense of President George W. Bush’s now-disavowed claim that Iraq was seeking uranium in Africa has evolved over the last two weeks: blame others, stonewall, bury questions in irrelevant information and, above all, hope it will go away.
So far, none has worked.
In question: Sixteen words in Bush’s Jan. 28 State of the Union speech: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
At issue: The credibility of the president’s allegation that Saddam was rebuilding a nuclear weapons program. The assertion that Iraq was trying to buy uranium was a key component of that claim — and a key piece of Bush’s justification for war.
The flap started on July 6, when an envoy sent by the CIA to Africa last year to investigate the uranium claim contended that the Bush administration ignored — and possibly manipulated — his findings.
In a New York Times op-ed article, Joseph Wilson, former U.S. ambassador to Gabon, said it was highly doubtful that any transaction took place.
The next day, the White House acknowledged that Bush should not have made the claim because of concerns about the intelligence behind it. The documents allegedly showing an Iraq-Niger uranium connection turned out to be forgeries. ...
Interesting, thanks.
The Loven hits just keep coming...
September 23, 2004, Thursday, BC cycle
SECTION: Washington Dateline
LENGTH: 790 words
HEADLINE: Bush hopes Allawi can reassure U.S. voters that progress being made in chaotic Iraq
BYLINE: By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
Iraq's visiting prime minister, Ayad Allawi, says he shares a hopeful view with President Bush that things are getting better in Allawi's tumultuous nation, a conviction the president is putting on full display to persuade doubting U.S. voters.
*** Some great lines***
"Allawi's visit comes as troop casualties and civilian kidnappings in Iraq have increased, large parts of the country have come under the control of insurgents and doubts have surfaced at the United Nations that democratic elections can be held in January as planned."
***Insurgents control several towns or "large part sof the country?" Anybody?
"...even some GOP senators have said there is a need for more candid talk from the White House."
"Bush continues to speak of the Iraq invasion primarily as a success story that is improving the lives of Iraqis and making the world safer, if only America does not shrink from the task.
"Freedom is finding a way in Iraq," he said in an address at the United Nations this week. "The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat, it is to prevail."
Allawi, too, has remained on message.
"It's very important for the people of the world really to know that we are winning, we are making progress in Iraq," he said in New York. "Unfortunately, the media have not been covering these significant gains."
*** Allawi, the faithful Bush campaigner stays "on message." I just love that one.
*** Here is what Loven wants to say, but cannot so she finds somebody to say it for her.
"Anthony Cordesman, a military analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, suggested that the administration should spend less time staging an attractive photo opportunity and more adopting a realistic view of the challenges ahead."
-T
Here's another I should have included above:
"And even as Allawi may prove useful to Bush, the appearance could hurt the Iraqi leader at home, where the surgeon-turned-politician is perceived as America's puppet who has no real power base because of his time in exile."
-T
***Loven hit parade! Notice the number of words below. Coincidence? I think not! LOL.
September 14, 2004, Tuesday, BC cycle
SECTION: Political News
LENGTH: 666 words
HEADLINE: Bush spends little time at White House before election
BYLINE: By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
If you're looking for President Bush, don't bother searching the White House.
Bush has not spent a full day in Washington since Aug. 2 - roaming the country rather than staying in the Oval Office as he seeks a second term.
On Wednesday, he'll break a 44-day, outside-the-Beltway streak to host a concert and reception at the White House in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. But not for long: He's back on the road the next day...
-T
September 14, 2004, Tuesday, BC cycle
SECTION: Political News
LENGTH: 666 words
HEADLINE: Bush spends little time at White House before election
BYLINE: By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
"Add to that the often-favorable local media coverage a president gets on such visits and the modern-day necessity for politicians to espouse a dislike for all things Washington, and you have a recipe for plane-hopping.
There's likely more to it as well, said Stephen Hess, a presidential scholar at George Washington University in Washington.
"Beside the obvious reasons, he does seem to enjoy it," Hess said. "This fellow, more than almost anyone I've seen, doesn't want to be fenced in."
Indeed, Bush seems to bask in the attention from the supporters-only crowds he speaks to on the road. And a venue that the Bush campaign uses frequently - the "Ask President Bush" format in which the president, mike in hand, casually and with lots of humor, interacts with his audience - plays to his strengths as a campaigner.
In a switch from earlier in the year or last year, the vast majority of Bush's trips this summer have been openly declared to be campaign-related. Previously, "official" White House appearances were arranged in key electoral states or tacked onto days that also included a campaign event. That allowed Bush - like other presidents before him - to travel at least partly at taxpayer expense."
*** Thank oyu Ms Loven for pointing out what every campaign does: "bask in the attention from the supporters-only crowds"
-T
I've proposed a site called Media Incest that lists all of these connections. Maybe MRC can compile these.
It is sickening the amount of ISP that offer her stuff as frontpage news articles. I send my ISP an email today telling them to pick their news better in the future.
*** There is something biased in virtually every article she writes.
September 5, 2004, Sunday, BC cycle
SECTION: Political News
LENGTH: 606 words
HEADLINE: Bush launches a Labor Day strike on Kerry tax proposals
BYLINE: By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: PARKERSBURG, W.Va.
BODY:
President Bush dropped in on one of the fall campaign's most contested states for the second Sunday in a row, telling cheering partisans that his economic policies are building prosperity while Democrat John Kerry "wants to tax your jobs."
...Bush contrasted Kerry's approach with his record. He cited new employment figures showing that 1.7 million jobs overall were added to the economy since last August.
"Our economic plan is working," the president said.
He did not mention that there are 900,000 fewer jobs than when he took office in January 2001, despite promises of millions being created with his tax cuts. West Virginia has shed 11,000 manufacturing jobs on Bush's watch.
August 31, 2004, Tuesday, BC cycle
SECTION: Political News
LENGTH: 677 words
HEADLINE: Bush gets a little off message on the war on terror, and Democrats pounce
BYLINE: By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: TAYLOR, Mich.
BODY:
For Republicans, this week was supposed to be about one thing: hailing President Bush's unbending leadership in the war on terror before a public that has grown more skeptical about his presidency. The president, however, may not have gotten the memo.
In the past several days, Bush has made a series of remarks that seem to undercut the image of him being broadcast from the Republican National Convention in New York - the decisive commander in chief securing America's safety and sure of the course on which he has set the nation.
In a flurry of interviews timed to coincide with this week's convention, Bush acknowledged a "miscalculation" about what the United States would encounter in postwar Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime and said the "catastrophic success" of a swift military victory there helped produce the still-potent insurgency.
Then, in an interview shown Monday on NBC, he suggested that the war on terror could not be won.
No matter that Bush's comments reflected just the kind of nuanced, deliberative thinking that Democratic challenger John Kerry has often said he is proud to display, but which has also gotten him into political hot water. Democrats wasted no time making the most of Bush's remarks.
-T
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/007958.php
Poweline is up to speed on this. The article that they analyzed was titled: "Bush Twists Kerry's Words on Iraq".
She accuses Pres Bush of the unpardonable sin of criticizing a liberal by quoting him.
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