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In re Dick Morris: I am happy that he has finally seen the light and is letting the gang-who-could't-lie-straight have it with both barrels.

But every now and then Morris slips into War Room mode. His article the other day about Hitlery wanting to keep prescription drugs as a political football (because she voted against a Kennedy-Daschle-backed compromise) was great except for one thing: his preamble included complete baked wind and fiddle-faddle about UOx42's 'historic' achievements on Medicare reform, balanced budget, ad nauseum -- and never mentioned the fact that those initiatives were only made possible after the GOP painted Der Schlickmeister into a corner, not because he 'compromised so well.'

BTW, I would also love to hear your opinion on the Dem-Media connection, and particularly with respect to PBS and Voice of America -- two semi-good ideas which were first highjacked by the leftist media and now perverted beyond recognition.

(Also, BTW: The only documentary I ever saw on PBS that was worth the public funds expended on it was a Frontline report on how UOx42 had to be SUED by children's advocacy group in Arkansas to spend budget money on children's programs!!! This documentary did a great set-up, showing Hitlery in action touting her Children's Defense Fund work on the campaign trail, followed by UOx42's lip-biting testimonials about how everything they did was 'for the children' who, 'after all, are our future.' HA!!! I never saw anything like that on netowrk or cable...)

Well, BW, you are far ahead of me when it comes to the democrat controlled media. All I know is that I would make a blanket statement that it IS controlled by the leftist movement and it will do whatever it takes to get democrat back into power, including undercutting Pesident Bush AT ALL COSTS, including losing the War on Terror, which if that would help them regain power, they would do regardless of anything else.

I thought the Clinton years exposed for all the nexus between big media and the Dems.Media treated politics like entertainment, and used their power brazenly to set the acceptable parameters of debate on most issuses, CNN most notably with their silly show Inside Politics.Clinton allowed them to drop their biases and be full throated advocates for their progressive agenda...Slick made it possible for them to nod and wink at abuses of power as long as the greater liberal agenda was being served.That's got to be heady stuff, being no longer constrained by fair mindedness, ethics and honesty.How can they ever go back to straight reporting? It is even worse in Canada and the UK with their state run broadcasters who act like de facto arbiters of public policy.

I mentioned to my mother this week about the Iraq children's prison story and she was aghast that she had never read or heard about on cable news or in the papers.How could such a huge story go unnoticed? Just goes to show that news is what editors and producers decide it will be.I first got a flavour of that in the first year of Reagan's term, when he'd tell the truth about the Soviets yet the media acted like it was inflammatory, hysterical nonsense.We all knew the Soviets cheated and lied, just from watching the Olympics, yet the media said it wasn't so.

Now, I just regard these people as any other group that wants my money or time.Are they good at what they do?Would you hire them? Do they have any notable expertise? NOPE!