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Posted on 05/20/2004 7:44:56 PM PDT by SJackson
The more I watch the news channels on TV, the madder I get. It’s almost totally driven by a Liberal agenda to defeat President Bush in November. It seems, at times, driven by an agenda to attack America as an evil country.
Tonight’s news is a good example. Earlier in the day a 26-year-old American businessman, Nick Berg, was decapitated in Iraq by Al Qaida terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a video shown on an Islamist website. Berg screamed as the terrorist began sawing off his head, then the terrorist held up the severed head for the camera and warned America of more of the same. Berg’s headless body was later found dumped on an Iraqi street.
Outrageous? Worthy of blanket coverage on all the news networks? I thought so. But only FOX news gave it the kind of coverage it deserved. As I channel surfed the other news stations—CNN, CNN Headline News, CNN International News, MSNBC, CBS—there was only a brief mention of the horrendous murder of Berg, but there was lengthy coverage of the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. In fact, the Berg execution was linked to the prisoner abuse scandal in a subtle way as if the prisoner abuse caused Berg’s execution.
Why? Because CNN and their kind are far more interested in news they can use to attack the Bush Administration and the U.S. military. The prisoner abuse scandal fits that agenda quite nicely. Berg’s death was untimely for their purposes. It might detract from their agenda-driven news. Fox News, on the contrary, covered the Berg murder in full, interviewing congressmen and military experts who pointed out that the horrific nature of Berg’s death was important for the American people to see so they could understand the incredibly evil nature of the enemy we are fighting.
CNN and its Liberal allies did not want America to see the sadistic nature of our enemy, because it would interfere with their intention to show America the supposed sadistic nature of American military prison guards, and by inference the dereliction of duty all the way to Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush.
Let me make a prediction: This lopsided, distorted coverage by the agenda-driven Liberal news media will backfire on them and the Democrats they want so desperately to restore to power in November. I am a Libertarian who has voted for the Libertarian candidate in every presidential election for the past 32 years, up until last election when I voted for Bush because I thought Bush would embrace my Libertarian values. Bush did not, but neither will candidate John Kerry, so I had decided this November to go back to voting for the Libertarian candidate.
But the news media distortions I have been watching in recent weeks by the agenda-driven Liberal CNN, MSNBC, CBS, and the others has made me change my mind again. Instead I’m voting for Bush again, even though I fault him for passing legislation such as the PATRIOT Act, which I fervently disagree with. But Bush at least has a moral compass that guides him, and he appears to be a competent commander in chief in this war against terrorists. And he speaks well of America, not always trashing it like candidate Kerry and his CNN news media allies. And I flat out feel empathy for a President that the mass news media is piling on without mercy. I feel like they are piling on not only the President, but on me and my country—America!
And let me tell you why Bush will win in November: Americans know who they are and what is important. They know they are a good people with a few bad apples among them like the guards caught up in the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. They also know that the Berg murder is more important than the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal because it represents the truly horrific crimes our enemy is capable of committing in the name of a misguided and distorted ideology.
The videotape of Berg’s murder on that Islamist website showed Berg dressed in orange overalls sitting bound on a white plastic chair in a bare room. Berg was made to kneel on the floor with five masked terrorists behind him.
"My name is Nick Berg, my father's name is Michael... I have a brother and sister, David and Sarah," said the bound man, adding he was from Philadelphia.
One of the masked terrorists read a statement urging Muslims to seek revenge after pictures were published of Iraqi prisoners being abused by U.S. troops at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.
The terrorist then pushed the 26-year-old American to the floor and shouted "God is greatest" above his screams as one of them sawed his head off with a large knife then held it aloft for the camera.
If America’s news media can watch this murder and arbitrarily decide to push it aside in favor of more days of near nonstop reporting of the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal, then they are obviously a pack of lying, distorting agenda-driven ideologues who hate President Bush so much they will stop at nothing to try and force him from office.
Well I, Dave Duffy, am a voter who is fed up with your distortion, and you have convinced me to vote for a man I hadn’t intended to vote for—President Bush.
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The media will have their come-upins! Noticed Fox had a poll today, in which 60% said the Berg Beheading was more important as compared to 6% who said the abuse scandal was more important. Don't remember what got the other 34%.
Backwoods Home - The Mother Earth News with articles on guns and self-defense. Well, good for the founder/editor Dave Duffy. I fear his soapbox has a limited voice, but I welcome his frank honesty and, especially, his condemnation of the media. An enemy of my enemies...
All of this is Bravo Sierra to disguise what these morons are trying to implant. All of these hysterical Dims are trying their best to use subterfuge and deceit to undermine the Repub vote count. Forfeddaboutit.
Well I, Dave Duffy, am a voter who is fed up with your distortion, and you have convinced me to vote for a man I hadn’t intended to vote for—President Bush.
BRAVO, Mr. Duffy!
This guy is right up my alley... a reluctant libertarian for Bush.
Good for him!
I have to say overall too, such a policy is smart for libertarians.
Yeah, Bush isn't your favorite guy, fine. Unless you are a "libertarian" who only really cares about drug legalization Kerry will be worse in every measureable way.
Remember CNN stories need to be playable across boarders. Bashing America Stories sell in france, not stories showing the USA is better than france etc. Thus the CNN stories have to be repackable for more markets. CNN is a video wire service not a true news organization.
It is probably why canada fears Fox News. They don't want a free press, the want a free reign of the left press.
I agree it has done some good, but I am concerned about ANY expansion of federal power. This said, the Patriot Act hasn't resulted in serious abuses of police power to my knowledge (not that it wouldn't under Kerry).
The case for Bush outweighs the case for an alternative candidate.
I used to love this mag. Still check it once in a while
I could read it and daydream about my solar powered log cabin and homegrown food for hours.
Most of these types of mags are very lefty, but backwoods home has a western, libertarian, leave me the hellalone vibe.
They don't promote this back to basics lifestyle to "save the planet", they do it so people can get away from idiots and live their own lives...hehe.
I really couldn't imagine this bunch voting for Kerry to begin with.
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