Conservatives Should Stop 'Intimidating' the Media, Newsweek Editor Says

CNSNEWS.com ^ | 10/01/04 | Marc Morano

[DustyMoment]

"I think conservatives ought to quit trying to intimidate the rest of the media," said Eleanor Clift

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha


. . . . . . . . (catching breath) . . . . . . . . This twit doesn't realize that she just admitted that we're winning and they're WHINING!!!!!

[sweetliberty]

I love it! I snatched it.

[wolicy_ponk]

CNN senior political analyst Jeff Greenfield called Schieffer "about as straight a shooter I know...He is just the gold standard when it comes to a straight up honest reporter," Greenfield told CNSNews.com. Greenfield acknowledged that CBS News "took a hit" on the Bush National Guard documents, but he insisted that all major media outlets have had similar incidents. "We have all been through this. It's embarrassing. They have to figure out how it happened," Greenfield said.

Translation:
We have the right to slant stories and ^lie most of the time, we're trained professionals...

We will now work dilligently to slander and discredit those who caught us.

[Osage Orange]

"I think conservatives ought to quit trying to intimidate the rest of the media," said Eleanor Clift, a contributing editor to Newsweek, in an interview with CNSNews.com following Thursday night's presidential debate at the University of Miami.

Usually I just put this woman on mute, or just surf on by.

Generally she comes across as this old tired loud whiney mean extreme leftist marxist....who appears like she always has a hairball stuck in her craw.

FRegards,

[crushelits]

Where's the Outrage? As Republicans seek an investigation into the inner workings of CBS, pessimistic reports about Iraq receive scant attention WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY By Eleanor Clift Newsweek Updated: 6:04 p.m. ET Sept. 24, 2004 Sept. 17 - It's like that television ad, "Another loan lost to Ditech." From the Kerry campaign's perspective, this was another week lost to the Republicans. George W. Bush's proven failure to fulfill his National Guard duties was widely reported, but because of CBS's flawed journalism, the GOP was able to shift the story away from Bush's credibility to Dan Rather's.

"Score it as a loss for [John] Kerry and as a loss for the liberal news media," says pollster John Zogby. "It's amazing how Fox is the tail that wags the dog. Fox, [cybergossip Matt] Drudge and [Rush] Limbaugh are in the driver's seat." Zogby attributes much of Kerry's slide in the polls to discouraged Democrats moving into the undecided column. "I've never seen a situation where a candidate has de-energized his own base," says Zogby. "He's not saying anything his own base needs to hear."

Republican lapdogs on Capitol Hill rushed to cash in on "Rathergate." Rep. Chris Cox, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, urged the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications to investigate CBS's use of potentially falsified documents. This is a party that launches investigations into Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction—and now this—while ignoring the intelligence lapses that led the country into an unnecessary war in Iraq, and covering for Bush when he exaggerates the progress in that nation’s development.

The National Intelligence Estimate prepared for the president in late July, and reported Thursday by The New York Times, describes Iraq in far more pessimistic terms than Bush does on the campaign trail, with civil war a likely outcome.

[tiki]

I agree, we need to stop intimidating the media. As soon as they start telling the truth as it is and not how they want it to be. As soon as they stop obviously choosing sides.

It's not like the thing with Rather and the forged docs was some kind of 1st time mistake it's just the first time we've had the tools to call them on it. How many other times have we known that there was something fishy going on and we were powerless to do anything about it? Well, no more. They need to be held to standards and they don't deserve a pass when they lie to the American people.

[grey_whiskers]

"...an arm of the Democratic National Committee

An arm? More like a shriveled old claw...

[grey_whiskers]

Hilarious. Simply hilarious.

No, just Hillary-ous.

[grey_whiskers]

Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe also defended CBS News. "I don't think CBS has comprised anything," McAuliffe said.

Astonishing.

[MSM Sarcasm Torpedo ARMED. FIRE!]

What is astonishing is the translation: We're still going ahead with our 'real' October surprise...

"As these recently obtained forged douments show..." (choose one)

a) Bush is a lesbian;

b) Bush does cocaine, PCP, and / or heroin;

c) Bush personally ordered or participated in the atrocities in Beslan;

d) Bush has close links to the Gambino crime family.

[jimt]

Eleanor Clift wants to be able to tell poisonous lies unopposed. What else is new ?

[grey_whiskers]

ROFLOL, kinda like the rattle snake praising the cobra.

Yeah, the rattler has haemotoxic venom (destroys tissue); the cobra has neurotoxic venom (paralyzes breathing). Some choice!

[Lawgvr1955]

...list of key words that when used in a report automatically show that this is the reporters opinion being heard.

Excellent idea!

[mewzilla]

This is pretty rich coming from the rag that employs Spikey Isikoff...

[BookaT]

I broke the tie! BUSH 686 Kerry 684

Hey My vote actually does count!

[E.G.C.]

Here are my thoughts on the subject.

Ms. Clift can bitch and grip all she wants but whether she and anybody else likes it or not the whistleblowing on the mSM is going to continue.

It's time for Clift and her kind to get back into the real world and accept the reality thatthis is not a progressive majority nation or even a divided nation. This is a conservative majority nation and anybody that says otherwise is a bald faced pathological liar and the MSM are all bald faced pathological liars.

Regards.

[Darksheare]

Newsweek: "Stop making us accountable for our fabrications!"

[Poohbah]

Hey, Eleanor, better put some ice on that!

[ForGod'sSake]

Glad you like it. BTW, I'm trying to make some Freeper merchandise; mugs, t-thirts, whatever available with the graphic. Hope it works out.

FGS

[inquest]

Reminds me of 2000 when the conservative demonstrators demanding a stop to the recounts were "intimidating" election officials (despite the fact that they were well dressed and groomed and being completely orderly).

The Left can dress like ghouls, carry signs with the most offensive language and shout hateful slogans, go on rampages through the city, and more, and all they're doing is "expressing their views". But when conservatives do anything at all to stand up for their beliefs, no matter how respectably they conduct themselves, it's automatically "intimidation".

[John O]

That's a great idea. Unfortunately I can't help as I don't read any left stream media.

My rule of thumb is this: Until proven otherwise and verifed by independant sources (usually FreeRepublic), all published news reports are to be treated as DNC press releases.

Any time the report states ANYTHING other than facts (Such and such happened today. three killed in fighting at.. So and so elected by ...) they are lying. Any time reporters add adjectives to their reports. (suspected, so-called, etc) they are lying. Any time reporters neglect to give all the details they are lying. In short, reporters lie about 98 (+2-1) percent of the time.

Of course there are some outlets that have higher credibility, 700 club, fox news etc. But even these have to be checked.