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
The newspapers in Chattanooga are very liberal and are always slamming Bush. I stopped reading them a long time ago. The good side is that they do not represent the majority in TN.
What news is this person watching, reading, or listening to? I've seen very little pro-Bush news.
From the fantasies in her article, I'd have to guess now it's PC to call experimenting with controlled substances "positive activities".
No barf alert?
Anyway, The Chattanooga Times-Free Press is the "normal" paper, and while it is left of center, at least it brings us John Leo, Walter Whitman, and Thomas Sowell in addition to those blathering leftists like Krugman and Dowd. The editorial pages are actually divided into left and right.
Yeah .. LOL! I loved that, and then she says, "I won't have time to read or respond".
That's the same thing as throwing a lit bomb in the window and then running away .. so typical of liberals.
I thought all of the stupid liberals were in California.
"Sooner or later, says Paul Krugman of The New York Times..."
Lady, as soon as you start quoting Paul Krugman, that is when you lose me. Truth/Krugman....an oxymoron. Krugman is the "moron" part.
"Ah, the liberal definition of dialogue."
ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!
Funny article.
Usually when I start a disjointed rant, starting sentences with phrases like "Somebody once said" my wife tactfully says "That is your last beer, right? Its getting late."
CNN is lying to help Bush???? This woman is insane. In other words, a typical hard-core liberal.
This is the only thing in this article worth bothering with .I think you MAM are a typical liberal BLABOCRAT!
Is the writer, like, a dumb college student?
"I am busy with positive activites."
Translation: I am "giving back" to the community.
Why do libs always put it like that? Doesn't anyone do "community service" any more?
Thanks for the sample copy of NYPress. Your paper is worse than I thought. I sent you an e-mail recently complaining about one word. Now I see nearly every other word in your publication is vulgar. I’m sorry that you lack the intelligence to express yourselves without resorting to such obscenities. Do you really have a following for such trash?
You will receive no further contact from me.
Mildred Perry Miller, Chattanooga, TN
The situation makes me sad. America and Tennesseeans are better than what the student body is backing. This is my last word on the matter.
Mildred P. Miller
Who in the world is this woman!?!?!?!?! Why should we care what this ignoramous has to think?!?!?!?
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