[gunnedah]

The so called "Mainstream Media" is trying to elect any Democrat and they lie so much they wouldnt know the truth if it hit them in the face.
The bad part about this is so many Americans are so damned dumb they dont realize it.
The Democrats and the NEA know what they are doing when they keep dumbing our kids down. They are all in bed together and feed this country a steady diet of lies!

[cake_crumb]

"The bad part about this is so many Americans are so damned dumb they dont realize it."

Unbelievable isn't it? COULD so many Americans be so completely stupid that they can't retain information for more than 30 days? Modern, short-term memory has an expiration date?

You're right about the NEA and dumbing down of America of course. This brings me to Clinton. Clinton could talk on TV for hours - he did that during his STOU addresses - and nobody knew what he was saying. Everyone who listened to him for any period of time went mentally numb.

So all the puff pieces his supporters in the media wrote about him during that 8-year black mark in our history were completely based on interpretation, the author's interpretation of Clinton's meaning. Oh yeah, his little word bytes, later termed talking points were always faithfully quoted, but the rest was interpretation, because they didn't get what he said any more than the rest of the public.

WE the public seem to have become used to the media's creative interpretation over those past 8 years. In fact, most of us are so used to it we accept and expect it as normal journalism. Well, it may be the norm NOW, but it's neither normal for us, nor good journalism.

The press really seems confused by President Bush's straight talking style. President Bush expects you to listen closely to what he says, because he says what he means. No interpretation is necessary.

So the media's interpreting his statements. They all think the worst of him and so put the worst interpretation on what he says. From those creative interpretations have sprung such gems as 16WordGate (the sentence he didn't say but the press said he did) and the newest addition to the Gate line of media products, ImminentThreatGate.

StockpileGate is a little more complicated because it involves creative interpretation of David Kay's words as well as the president's.

[adam_az]

"The Democrats and the NEA know what they are doing when they keep dumbing our kids down. They are all in bed together and feed this country a steady diet of lies!"

2002 Landmark Complaint to the U.S. Department of Labor About the NEA

http://www.landmarklegal.org/complaints.cfm?webpage_id=503

Landmark Legal Foundation (“Landmark”) requests that the Department of Labor (“DOL”) investigate the extent to which the National Education Association (“NEA”) has failed to comply with the Labor Management Disclosure and Reporting Act, 29 U.S.C. § 431, et. seq. (“LMDRA”), which requires a labor union to disclose accurately its revenues and expenditures. The evidence set forth in this complaint demonstrates that despite dedicating millions of dollars each year to political purposes, the NEA has not disclosed to its membership or the DOL its political expenditures in the union’s annual disclosure document. Having exclusive jurisdiction to enforce the LMRDA, it is the DOL’s responsibility to investigate the allegations set forth herein, determine the extent to which the NEA has been evading legal reporting requirements, and initiate appropriate enforcement action.