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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!
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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
***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
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.
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.
April 17, 2004 Saturday
SECTION: NATIONAL POLITICAL NEWS
LENGTH: 760 words
HEADLINE: Bush's Week Shows the Power of Incumbency
BYLINE: JENNIFER LOVEN; Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
Relaxing at his Texas ranch, President Bush stayed out of sight while Iraq grew bloodier and Washington swirled with questions about his pre-Sept. 11 actions. Democrats began to ask where was the president at such a crucial moment. Even Republicans started to worry about Bush's absence.
Questions about Iraq and the Sept. 11 attacks could prove troublesome for Bush's re-election campaign. The president's handling of Iraq and the fight against terrorism are central themes of his campaign, and polls show that public confidence in how he has dealt with both has dropped recently.
April 13, 2004 Tuesday
SECTION: WASHINGTON DATELINE
LENGTH: 771 words
HEADLINE: Bushes, Cheneys Reaped Tax Benefits
BYLINE: JENNIFER LOVEN; Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney reaped tax benefits last year from the cuts that they pushed through Congress and that Democrats have criticized as a boon to the rich.
The government's top two executives, both wealthy men, paid smaller shares of their income in federal taxes in 2003 than in the year before, according to returns released Tuesday by the White House.
April 13, 2004, Tuesday, BC cycle
SECTION: Washington Dateline
LENGTH: 774 words
HEADLINE: Bushes, Cheneys pay smaller share of 2003 income in federal taxes than year before
BYLINE: By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
...Cheney saved $11,000, mostly because the alternative minimum tax - designed to curb tax sheltering among high-income taxpayers - took back about three-quarters of the tax-cut benefit he would have reaped, McIntyre said.
Among the cuts that were in effect in 2003 but not in effect in 2002 were further decreases in tax rates at all bracket levels, an expansion of the lowest 10 percent bracket and lower taxation of capital gains and dividends.
"What can you say? They're rich, so you'd expect them to benefit from a tax cut for the rich," McIntyre said.
Bush sees the tax cuts passed on his watch much differently. He has traveled the country touting them as the reason the economy is rebounding and likes to espouse his philosophy that cuts should go to all.
"I insisted, on the tax relief, we cut the rates on everybody who pays taxes," Bush said in El Dorado, Ark., last week. "Some of them howled up in Washington when I did that. See, my attitude is, government ought not to play favorites."
Most of the income for Bush and his wife, Laura, came from his $397,264 is presidential income and $401,803 in interest from trusts that hold their assets, plus $23,417 in dividend income.
Cheney and his wife had more varied sources of earnings, including the vice president's $198,600 government salary; the $178,437 he earned in deferred compensation from Halliburton Co., the Dallas-based energy services firm he headed until Aug. 16, 2000; capital gains of $302,602, Mrs. Cheney's income from work at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based think tank; and compensation from her service on the Reader's Digest board of directors in 2003.
Mrs. Cheney also brought in $327,643 in royalties from her books, "America: A Patriotic Primer," "A is for Abigail" and soon-to-be-out "Fifty States." The Cheneys donated almost all of those proceeds to charity. The couple also earned $627,005 in interest that was exempt from taxes.
Halliburton has been awarded as much as $6 billion in contracts in postwar Iraq but has been under scrutiny for allegedly overcharging the government. Cheney elected in 1998 to recoup over five years a fixed portion of the money he made in 1999 as the company's chief executive officer.
Cheney's office has repeatedly stated that the vice president doesn't have a financial stake in the success of Halliburton nor has had any involvement in defense contracts...
-T
April 1, 2004, Thursday, BC cycle
SECTION: State and Regional
LENGTH: 673 words
HEADLINE: Bush signs bill making it a crime to harm a fetus
BYLINE: By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
Accompanied by grieving families, President Bush on Thursday signed into law new protections for the unborn that for the first time make it a separate federal crime to harm a fetus during an assault on the mother.
"If the crime is murder and the unborn child's life ends, justice demands a full accounting under the law," Bush said before signing the measure, a major priority for many of the president's most loyal political supporters. "The suffering of two victims can never equal only one offense."
Abortion-rights proponents, meanwhile, called the measure an assault on reproductive freedom because it represents the first recognition of federal legal rights for an embryo or fetus as a person separate from the woman.
An exuberant audience of abortion foes cheered the president during his remarks...
-T
http://www.idsnews.com/profile.php?byline=Jennifer+Loven
Section: World
Published: Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Bush agreed Tuesday to do what he had insisted for weeks he would not: allow National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to testify publicly and under oath before an independent panel investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Bush appeals for tighter WMD controlSection: World
Published: Thursday, February 12, 2004
Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Bush, pointing to a black market weapons network led by the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, said Wednesday no new countries should have the ability to enrich or process nuclear material. He argued international efforts to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction have been neither broad nor effective enough and require tougher action from all nations. "The greatest threat before humanity today is the possibility of secret and sudden attack with chemical or biological or radiological or nuclear weapons," Bush said.
President got first heads-up of capture Saturday afternoonSection: World
Published: Friday, December 12, 2003
Summary: WASHINGTON -- President Bush first learned that Saddam Hussein may have been captured on Saturday afternoon, and was given confirmation of the most sought-after prize in the Iraq war early Sunday, a senior administration official said. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called the president, who was spending part of the weekend at his Camp David retreat in Maryland, around midday Saturday to deliver the news of the raid's possible success.
Bush urges a stop in financial supportSection: World
Published: Thursday, June 12, 2003
Summary: CHICAGO -- President Bush deplored Wednesday's bus bombing in Jerusalem and urged all nations to block financial assistance to the Palestinian militant group Hamas and similar organizations and "isolate those who hate so much that they are willing to kill to stop peace."
Bush builds postwar supportSection: World
Published: Friday, May 9, 2003
Summary: WASHINGTON -- A day before kicking off another U.N. battle over Iraq, President Bush tried to build support Thursday for his postwar goals, filling the White House with leaders of countries allied behind the U.S.-led military campaign.
Bush says diplomacy has only "weeks, not months"Section: World
Published: Thursday, January 30, 2003
Summary: WASHINGTON - President Bush, moving toward a decision on war with Iraq, said Thursday he will give diplomacy "weeks not months" and said the United States would welcome Saddam Hussein going into exile. "For the sake of peace, this issue must be resolved," the president said amid intensified administration efforts to increase pressure on reluctant U.S. allies to disarm Saddam.
Bush signs Iraqi war resolutionSection: World
Published: Thursday, October 17, 2002
Summary: WASHINGTON -- President Bush on Wednesday signed Congress' war-making resolution and told wary world leaders to "face up to our global responsibilities" to confront Saddam Hussein.
More corporate reforms neededSection: World
Published: Thursday, August 1, 2002
Summary: WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan chorus of critics on Wednesday questioned the extent of President Bush's support for protecting corporate whistle-blowers who expose cooked books or mislead investors.
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Jennifer Loven? Sounds like a porn actress.
bumparooski........
Just do what we all do. Ignore the biased biatch. Most people in this country obviously do haha