Posted on 08/10/2004 4:56:47 PM PDT by Libloather
News Being Manipulated In Favor Of Bush
posted August 10, 2004
At the risk of finding myself quarentined at Guantanamo or Abu Graib, I would like to ask my conservative friends to take a few minutes to consider a few points involving their candidates for President and Vice-President. I do not write this casually. I believe these salient points deserve thoughtful and truthful thinking.
Following are some of the administrations actions that to me belie the American Constitution and the American former way of life. Also will be included failures of the media to engage in accurate and truthful reporting, without which our country cannot survive.
A "Christian Science Monitor" writer said that "America's 24 hour news channels are aiding the enemy by packaging fear to gain higher ratings, which encourages political criminals to contemplate further acts of political violence. Terrorists need less attention-not more. Pouring water on a grease fire only makes it worse." Amen!
For reasons I can't fathom, CNN, Fox News, and nearly all news outlets, with few exceptions, are manipulating the news in favor of George Bush. They do not talk of wars of aggression but put their own spin on everything, and they are not supported by the US Constitution. They are not telling the unvarnished truth but interpret events to suit themselves. In other words, they lie. They do not talk of wars of aggression and how they are not condoned by the US Constitution, the UN Charter, or principles set forth by national and international agreements. They talk as if they are describing the Revolutionary War. They do not refer to false statements made to lure the Congress and the American people into a needless and unjust war based on flawed intelligence about which the Administration was warned, but missed the signals, according to the 9/11 Commission.
The media gives thumbs up to an incompetent man who has shown contempt for laws that were put into effect to protect our own soldiers, as well as our opponents. Bush gets away with this because nobody thinks they are big enough to stop him, but we have an example in recent history of a President who was stopped when the Congress and his own party got enough of his criminal activity.
The media has reached the pits in news reporting. Those whom one has previously thought to have been credible have now lost it. CNN and Fox News show very little difference. It is all because of ratings. Why don't they cover Bush as completely as they do Kerry? Why do they seem to favor vicious tales not proven? In this week's Time Magazine, Joe Klein states that "the great partisan divide is 'possibly a media-induced mirage.'" If Klein is right, we all need to clear our vision and stop "seeing through a glass darkly." The war and the economy reporting should be given intense scrutiny for actual facts and not spurious flow of words by uninformed, would-be journalists. Klein calls them, and rightly so, "BLABOCRATS." As Shakespeare put it-"sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Why don't the two Blabocrat channels, CNN and Fox, say more about the exposing of the CIA agent? Why don't they talk more about the deficits and the unfunded programs such as "No Child Left Behind Act?" Why is Senator Shelby not excoriated the same as Sandy Berger? Why do they not say more about the 9/11 Commisson report and Bush's failure to heed its warnings. Why have we not heard more about the 18 Americans killed so far this week in Iraq? CNN reports as if it were Bush's campaign headquarters. And Rumsfeld keeps saying he thinks the rights of the Iraqis are worth deaths of American soldiers. It was not the Iraqis who bombed our towers.
Someone said that "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." We should not accept reporting from CNN or Fox News as the gospel. Nor should we completely put our faith in newspapers. Sooner or later, says Paul Krugman of The New York Times, there is going to be a reckoning" and Sheila Samples, an astute news analyst, states that "CNN, through laziness and sheer incompetence, is withholding the truth from people who have a right to know - the families of those incinerated on 9/11 and the families of everyone who died on Afghanistan and Iraqi battlefields." CNN's lack of objective reporting is harming us all but they feel secure because they don't think we care. To CNN and other unfair and unbalanced news organizations, it is high time for repentance, a change of heart, and an attempt to get at the truth, which, after all is the only thing that will keep us free.
I am sure there will be those who disagree with this, but please don't let me know about it. I am very busy with positive activities and will not have time to read or respond.
Mildred Perry Miller
Millermaj@aol.com
As a fellow FReeper said today, if Al Qaida attacked us stateside again, the media wouldn't even REPORT it because it might help Bush.
Correction- misread the first name. Change address of author to "she". LOL
She lost me in the first sentence.
Condescending, I know more than you, let me help you comprehend.....
At the risk of finding myself quarantined from FR, I respectfully urge the Author to bite me.
ROFL!
Hi Mildred- I know you're peeking!
Can you add a 'Barf Alert' to the title line ? :)
This one requires a PROJECTILE VOMIT ALERT!
Not as busy as you will be when the spammers harvest the e-mail address.
If,for one moment,she believes that the media has been giving President Bush a pass and have been supporting him,she's living in an alternate universe!
Poor Milly is in a tizzy and doesn't want to pull her fat head out of the sand. What a twit.
Thank you so very much, Millie. I had completely forgotten that it was my turn to clean the toilets in the house. My Bride would have been so disappointed!
What a Giant Crock!
Well, I wish she was on crack. But the sad reality is that many of our (sober) fellow citizens believe as she does. Thus, we get eight years of Clinton and the prospect of more in the offing.
Say what you will, but there are too many really ignorant (of the ways of the world) people out there in the precincts.
Semper Fi,
"the UN Charter"
I made it all the way to there before collapsing in a fit of giggles. I ESPECIALLY like the last line, where she asks us not to disagree with her openly.
It's up to us to speak up every chance we get. You never know when you can influence someone to consider the facts.
Glad to see we're on the same page Mildred.
I didn't bother to read past your first paragraph, excepting the last paragraph. You sound like a Rachel Corrie Wanna-Be. We're suppose to listen to you, but you couldn't be bothered to listen to anyone else dissect your vapid spew.
This article has a funny headline.
I guess this is what the world looks like to a person substantially to the left of Karl Marx.
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