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Posted on 04/30/2004 6:45:22 AM PDT by BunnySlippers
Cheney Praises Fox News Channel for Accuracy, Wash. Post Says
By Jesse Westbrook
April 30 (Bloomberg) -- Vice President Dick Cheney praised the Fox News Channel yesterday because he said its more accurate than competitors in covering events he's involved in, the Washington Post reported, citing a Bush-Cheney campaign conference call.
Cheney was responding to a question about Iraq news coverage from a woman who complained that the media fails to report on the good things happening, the newspaper said. The vice president said he shared her frustration, the paper said.
Fox News, which uses the slogan ``fair and balanced'' to describe its coverage, employs many commentators whose political philosophy is similar to that of the Bush administration, the paper said.
Yes, unlike the 'journalists' at ABCCBSNBCWASHINGTONPOSTNEWYORKTIMESLATIMES, etc, etc, et-al that all still bemoan the passing of Joesph Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot and every other commie despot that ever sucked air.
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Link and excerpt to the actual WP article:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53974-2004Apr29.html
Cheney Praises Fox News Channel
Vice President Calls Network 'More Accurate' Than OthersBy Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 30, 2004; Page A05
Vice President Cheney endorsed the Fox News Channel during a conference call last night with tens of thousands of Republicans who were gathered across the country to celebrate a National Party for the President Day organized by the Bush-Cheney campaign.
Fox News styles its coverage as "fair and balanced," but it has a heavy stable of conservative commentators that makes it a favorite around the White House. It is unusual for a president or vice president to single out a commercial enterprise for public praise.
The comment came as Cheney took questions from supporters at 5,245 parties that were held in 50 states to energize grass-roots volunteers building a precinct-by-precinct army for President Bush's campaign.
"It's easy to complain about the press -- I've been doing it for a good part of my career," Cheney said. "It's part of what goes with a free society. What I do is try to focus upon those elements of the press that I think do an effective job and try to be accurate in their portrayal of events. For example, I end up spending a lot of time watching Fox News, because they're more accurate in my experience, in those events that I'm personally involved in, than many of the other outlets."
Thank you, MeekOne. Good photo too.
My pleasure.
Washington Post on the other hand is "Big Time A- Hole's"
Thanks for the ping, Meekie!!
Thanks for the ping, Meekie!!
:^)
Here is the link to the Knight-Ridder article I used in that pic:http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/8525820.htm
Posted on Mon, Apr. 26, 2004
CHUCK KENNEDY, KRT Vice President Dick Cheney.
Democrats hope to make Cheney a political liability for Bush
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - President Bush likes to tell audiences that Dick Cheney is "the greatest vice president the country has ever had," but Democrats think the taciturn Wyoming conservative could help drag Bush down to defeat this year.
In the first of a series of attacks planned for this week, Democrats on Monday questioned Cheney's Vietnam-era draft deferments and criticized his past votes in Congress against various defense programs. Cheney fired back with a blistering critique of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's fitness to serve as commander in chief.
Democrats' decision to turn their fire on Bush's running mate instead of focusing on their top target is unusual, but Cheney is an unusual vice president. Probably no other vice president has played such a large role in shaping administration policy.
Cheney took the lead in pushing for war with Iraq and often went beyond the president in his public statements in linking Saddam Hussein to weapons of mass destruction and al-Qaida terrorists. "Plan of Attack," journalist Bob Woodward's new insider account of the run-up to war, portrays Cheney as obsessed with ousting Saddam Hussein.
The vice president also has left his mark on Bush's domestic agenda. He was the chief architect of the president's producer-friendly energy plan, now stalled in Congress, and has been a forceful advocate for tax cuts and less government regulation.
Cheney's role as the former chief executive at Halliburton, a conglomerate that has a multibillion-dollar stake in Iraq's reconstruction, makes him a convenient target for those who say the administration is wedded to corporate interests. Kerry is expected to highlight Cheney's Halliburton connection later this week.
Democrats plan another attack Tuesday, timed to coincide with a Supreme Court case involving the vice president's efforts to withhold documents from his energy policy task force from public view; and Thursday, when Bush and Cheney will go behind closed doors with the commission that's investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Polls show that Cheney's standing with voters has slipped considerably since he's been in office, although he remains popular with Republicans.
In a series of Gallup polls, more than 60 percent of voters said they had favorable opinions of the vice president during his first year in the White House. In 2002, his favorability rating averaged 56 percent. In February of this year, it fell to 45 percent, a new low.
"It has been my view that Cheney adds nothing to the Bush ticket this time around," said Mickey Carroll, the director of the nonpartisan Quinnipiac University Polling Institute in Hamden, Conn. "He's a target for all sorts of criticism."
Democrats have other reasons to go after Cheney: Vice presidents typically are assigned the attack-dog role in presidential campaigns, but Cheney is particularly adept at it. Jano Cabrera, a Democratic Party spokesman, said the planned attacks on Cheney were intended to send a message that Democrats would "fight fire with fire."
On Monday, the vice president ridiculed Kerry for once saying that foreign leaders want Bush to lose the November election. The Massachusetts senator has declined to name any of the foreign leaders who've expressed that sentiment, but when pressed on it recently, noted that it's possible to encounter foreign leaders in New York restaurants.
"Maybe next time he'll narrow it down for us a little more. Maybe the name of the restaurant, or the leader," Cheney said to laughter from his audience at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. He also criticized Kerry for opposing at least 10 major weapons systems in the mid-1980s when the Cold War still prevailed, as well as "weapons systems vital to fighting and winning the war on terror."
In a sign of the passions that Cheney arouses, after his speech, Fletcher Lamkin, the president of Westminster College, sent an e-mail to faculty and students expressing his discomfort with Cheney's partisan attacks. Lamkin, who said he had thought the speech would stick to foreign policy, said he was "surprised and disappointed that Mr. Cheney chose to step off the high ground and resort to Kerry-bashing."
Democrats responded by producing a list of weapons that Cheney opposed in the past. In a more personal attack, Democratic Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe questioned the vice president's standing to criticize Kerry.
"When John Kerry was risking his life for his country in Vietnam, Dick Cheney was getting deferments because, in his words, he had `other priorities than military service.' And he feels qualified to tell us that John Kerry won't do whatever it takes to defend America?" McAuliffe told Democratic activists in a speech at the party's Washington headquarters. "He's the last guy who should be lecturing John Kerry about how to defend America and keep the faith with those who wear the uniform."
Bush partisans shrugged off the Democrats' criticism. Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt suggested that Kerry would have a hard time finding a running mate who could match Cheney's credentials.
"There's no question that Dick Cheney, should something happen to the president, could fill the role," Holt said. "John Kerry hasn't proven yet that even he could fill the role, much less pick a vice president who could fill it."
Nice of you to fit Ch. Krauthammer in there!
Thank you. Darn right. CK deserves to be in it, imho ....
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