Posted on 10/09/2004 5:06:50 AM PDT by FlyLow
Obviously ABC News thinks Americans are stupid. First they post a story about Bush wearing a microphone to the first debate so that he could be fed responses and now they pull this stunt. You would think that after CBS they would realize that the days of treating voters like uneducated sheep are over. Evidently they are the ones who are a little slow on the uptake! Time to boycott ABC News - that is if anyone actually watches it in the first place . . .
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1239754/posts
ABCNEWS POLITICAL DIRECTOR MEMO SPARKS CONTROVERSY: BOTH SIDES NOT 'EQUALLY ACCOUNTABLE' (Drudge)
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Companion piece.
Old media is dying a slow death. They will lash out at anything and everyone that does not conform to their view.
Think that's why Gibson chose to end the debate with a question which basically said, "Mr. Bush, admit three of your mistakes, and Mr. Kerry, you also admit three of his mistakes."
Disgusting bias, obvious set-up, but Bush threw it back in charlie-boy's face.
Kerry utters distortion after distortion -- saying over and over that Bush instituted a tax cut for the rich (it was across the board), stressing only negative developments in Iraq and downplaying or ignoring positive developments, etc.
ABC 'MEMO' - ping.
As much as it amazed me, I thought that Charles Gibson did a pretty decent job. He did not hesitate to point out to John Kerry that tax breaks would not level the playing field when it comes to outsourcing - I think Kerry was actually stunned that anyone from the MSM would actually question him. Compared to the first debate, I thought this was pretty fair moderating!
I agree..the mistake question was the only really big one.
I wish it were true (that Americans aren't dummies), but in fact, many seem to be dummies. A poll yesterday showed that a huge majority of people twenty and under believed the hype about the draft being reconstituted. That was a big fat lie concocted by the Democrats--and of course we know Charlie Rangel (what party might he be in, I wonder?) actually put forth a bill to do that--and voted against it.
This is not encouraging for those of us who love freedom. If people will believe any lie put forth by mediots and politicians (provided they tell it often enough), this country is in deep trouble.
We watched the debate with some of our neighbors. One of them snorted at this question, and said, "Oh, yeah, this is the classic 'when did you stop beating your wife' question." Bush answered it very well, because it was designed to be the Sunday talk show sound bite. But the President gave them nothing. Teeth must be gnashing all over demo-lala-land.
How could anyone distort what Kerry says, in view of the fact that his own words are so often contradictory? What IS the context? Is Kerry anti-war, or for the war on terror, but only in the "right" way? What is the "right" way? And not just simply, "I would have done it differently." Differently HOW? Everything he proposed sounds just like what Bush has ALREADY done.
Back in the dark days of the New Deal, Republicans were floundering around, trying to carry their case to the voters, by offering similar but less extensive programs of their own to compete with Roosevelt's "Brain Trust", and they were promptly labled "Me Too". Kerry is reduced to the position of saying, to whatever Bush is doing, "Me too."
If you have the real thing, and it appeals to the voters, why go for the imitation?
Time to be outspoken and active against ABC
Der propagada chief has emitted.
Kerry contradicted himself within a few minutes tonight on Iraq:
At one point he said that he's always thought Saddam was a threat and has never changed that position.
A few minutes later he said the president took his eye off the ball and went after Saddam even though he wasn't a threat to us.
Funny, ABC didn't seem to catch that. LOL
Muleteam1
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It is really simple:
CBS=NBC=ABC = MSM = leftest leaning anti Republican & Bush.
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