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News Being Manipulated In Favor Of Bush
The Chattanoogan ^
| 8/10/04
| Mildred Perry Miller
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
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: being; bush; delusionunparalleled; drivingmissdaisy; favor; idiot; manipulated; mediabias; news
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To: LibertyGirl77
You know, you make an excellent point. She thinks she is free to air her opinions, yet is not interested in anyone disagreeing with her.
Well, Mildred, guess what? If you allow inane drivel to be published, then you had best be prepared to take the consequences. Oh wait, I forgot, in liberal land, there are no consequences for actions.
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posted on
08/10/2004 5:20:33 PM PDT
by
stylin_geek
(Koffi: 0, G.W. Bush: (I lost count))
To: Libloather
At the risk of finding myself quarentined at Guantanamo or Abu Graib.... I will continue to read this only if I am paid for it. There's no other plausible motivation.
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posted on
08/10/2004 5:22:15 PM PDT
by
ScottFromSpokane
(Re-elect President Bush: http://spokanegop.org/bush.html)
To: All
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posted on
08/10/2004 5:25:18 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(-30-)
To: Libloather
You know I have the same frustrations with the media. By the way what happen to Sandra Bergler? Seems that stealing secret documents that could pose a security risk is top news. Oh, wait wasn't he Bill's boy, let's hold off on that one.
How's the news on the oil for food program scam going? Oh, wait, France may have had a part in that. Let's hold off on that since Kerry likes France.
You get the picture. I feel your frustration.
Let me help you understand better, with my boot.
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posted on
08/10/2004 5:26:12 PM PDT
by
Zyke
To: Libloather
to: Millermaj@aol.com
subject: Way to tell it like it is!
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
Not. You are a moron. I suggest in the future that if you don't want to recieve emails like this, don't publish your email. You have now been added to every spam list on the planet.
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posted on
08/10/2004 5:26:51 PM PDT
by
counterpunch
(The CouNTeRPuNcH Collection - www.counterpunch.us)
To: Libloather
"
CNN and Fox news show very little difference."
BWHAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
This needs a barf alert.
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posted on
08/10/2004 5:27:43 PM PDT
by
fly_so_free
(Never underestimate the treachery of the democrat party- Save USA,-Vote a Dem out of office)
To: Libloather
Ah, Mildred, we wish the news favored Bush - but for the sake of argument it would be good if you could give some examples instead of simply making allegations.
Terrorists need less attention? Excuse me if I celebrate the fact that YOU aren't in charge of this country's defense.
Pre-emptive war(s) will likely save even your life, Mildred. Sorry if you prefer to call them wars of agression, but we just need to get it done, if it isn't done with the style points you would prefer - too bad.
And then after dropping your linguistic turds, you skip off, warning the readers not to react as you are too busy to respond or even read. Smart move, Mildred - you're in way over your head.
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posted on
08/10/2004 5:27:58 PM PDT
by
Let's Roll
(Kerry is a self-confessed unindicted war criminal or ... a traitor to his country in a time of war)
To: Libloather
How far left do you have to be to think that CNN is on Bush's side?????
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posted on
08/10/2004 5:28:37 PM PDT
by
sd-joe
(Bush has power, while Kerry has only ambition)
To: Dont Mention the War
I quit when and where you said... Upon seeing the disclaimers and the you might not agree with me's; I know I'm in for another in a long, long line of liberal lectures... I don't have the time nor the need for it...
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posted on
08/10/2004 5:28:44 PM PDT
by
gatorgriz
("The world is full of bastards - the number ever increasing the further one gets from Missoula, MT")
To: Libloather
Why don't the two Blabocrat channels, CNN and Fox, say more about the exposing of the CIA agent?
Because it wasn't done by the Bush administration, it was done by the lefty NY Times. Sheesh!
Why don't they talk more about the deficits and the unfunded programs such as "No Child Left Behind Act?"
'Cause they think that going on endlessly about Abu Ghariab is far more damaging.
Why is Senator Shelby not excoriated the same as Sandy Berger?
Uhm, they've gone on and on about how Sandy Berger is NOT at fault and he just made honest mistakes completely unaware of what he was doing.
Why do they not say more about the 9/11 Commisson report and Bush's failure to heed its warnings.
Because they actually read the report and it wasn't nearly as damaging to Bush as they thought.
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posted on
08/10/2004 5:31:41 PM PDT
by
Nataku X
(Your average liberal FEELS that Bush must be a liar... therefore it's an undeniable fact!)
To: Libloather
I'm not sure what unconstitutional activity Fox and CNN are engaged in. Here is an obscure tidbit I found while looking through the Constitution one day:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
To: Libloather
Will somebody please ship this nut off to Guantanamo?
To: All
This newspaper employee typed in statements of the type I've seen in newspapers' ombudmans' columns. Readers were livid because, for example, the newspaper didn't remind readers often enough that Reagan caused the AIDS problem.
All the items listed have been covered and covered pretty well. The problem is the newspaper's employee wants more vitriol. None of this President Bush stuff, Liar Bush is what the employee wants. Not U.S. forces, but criminal U.S. forces.
The employee misses the days of the big three networks -- there "truth" was as the employee wants, in many cases.
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posted on
08/10/2004 5:45:02 PM PDT
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(Benedict Arnold was a hero for both sides in the same war, too!)
To: Libloather
She is out of luck. I sent her a point-by-point refutation anyway. (What better way to invite endless scathing e-mails then to say you don't want a response?)
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posted on
08/10/2004 5:45:21 PM PDT
by
Zhangliqun
(War IS the answer -- when the alternative is even worse...)
To: swilhelm73
Given the obvious spelling problem ("quarentined" isn't a word, according to
my collection of dictionaries and your abiding fear of being imprisoned as a terrorist, I will assume that you are Abu Musab al-Zarqawi writing under a pseudonym. Based upon this assumption, I do hereby declare the contents of this article to be consistent with enemy propaganda. Too bad (for the terrorists) that its incoherence renders this propaganda piece entirely pointless.
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posted on
08/10/2004 5:46:48 PM PDT
by
dufekin
(John Forbes Kerry: thirty years of experience in treason and sedition against America.)
To: Dont Mention the War
When you can tell from an article's very first sentence fragment that the author is a lying gasbag, why continue any further?
2 posted on 08/10/2004 4:59:31 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War (
My sentiments also!
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posted on
08/10/2004 5:47:30 PM PDT
by
sport
To: mabelkitty
She lost me in the first sentence. Don't worry, there was nothing to find in her entire rant. Except non-sensical ranting, Bush hatred and liberal whining.
Prairie
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posted on
08/10/2004 5:48:41 PM PDT
by
prairiebreeze
(God bless our coaltion troops.)
To: Libloather
News Being Manipulated In Favor Of Bush
Yes, but only on Bizarro World, where everything am backwards!
To: EggsAckley
I think it comes as a complete surprise to the liberal left that WE, on the right, ARE the revolutionaries. Politics has been tied to their failed 60's utopian ideals for too long! These are real times for real people!
Whew...did I say that?
Bush/Cheney '04
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posted on
08/10/2004 5:52:16 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Watch out for AP trolls :o)
To: Libloather
Why do they not say more about the 9/11 Commisson report and Bush's failure to heed its warningsEven granting the universe to be infinite, I still don't there there'd be anywhere this sentence would make sense.
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