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
I'll say that a significant percentage of the attendees at the Boston thing, if hooked up to a good polygraph, could say these things w/o indicating deception. Maybe 30%. Maybe more. And they believe Moore's Beavis cartoon stuff is true, too. They are sentient beings only in the looseest sense.
Oh, yeah. Like Clintonoid Klein ('Great leaders have more interesting sexual histories') isn't one of them.
I had never even heard of The Chattanoogan until this thread but I stopped reading the Free Press two years ago because of the bias. They were always sticking the anti-Bush articles on the front page. I would occasionally find something good inside but I'm pretty sensitive to Bush bashing and finally gave it up. I don't like starting my day off mad. I'm sure it's not as bad as some of the others mentioned in here at times.
Our local paper, The Cleveland Daily Banner, is not much of a paper but they seem to be a little more balanced. You see the usual AP biased article but not as much. If a Bush-bashing editorial comes out, the locals usually bombard them with angry rebuttals. :-)
It's a constant theme over at DU. They even signed a letter en masse to CNN expressing outrage over the "bias".
Who in the world is this woman!?!?!?!?! Why should we care what this ignoramous has to think?!?!?!?
I don't know, but I couldn't find her in the phone book (not that I'd look or anything). Probably a screen name. :)
yes, Chattanooga has its share of leftists, and a bunch of them seem to write repeated letters-to-the-editor bashing the right. Its funny - the DNC talking points come out, and each week, 2 or 3 of them write very similar letters touting the same story. Most of these letters seem to be written by the same 20-30 people.
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