Posted on 10/05/2004 11:38:39 AM PDT by FlyLow
Rush Limbaugh just mentioned this on his show. This pic was up for 16 seconds.Remember the big deal that the media made when "rats" appeared for
ONE FRAME in a Bush-Cheney ad in 2000 ??
You got it right Doc.
We are the Pajamahadeen and the MS will be assimiliated...
How appropriate that this appears after he throws out the label Political Jihadists.....
Brokaw. YOU ARE INSIGNIFICANT, and congratulations on retiring at the BOTTOM of your career in the ratings.
Down, down, down, you go....
Wrong Graphic, Wrong Message, Wrong Anchor.....
next...
Regards,
Sonar5
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But Rathergate allowed NBC to get away with a worse crime than that; and that was treating Kitty Kelly as a non fiction author. Larry King turned down Kitty Kelly and he is Mr. Gossip on television. We all know what Clinton was accused of, and there was a lot of merit although no legal proof, owing to the fact those in the know either became dead or were bribed. But to say that Laura Bush dealt dope is absolutely fiction. For NBC to give Kitty Kelly the exposure they gave her tells the whole story.
To have present former Democratic operatives such as the Weasel Russert and the Blowhard Mathews as journalists gives you more idea of how biased NBC is. Those boys are just as biased as Rather but differ in style. Gunga Dan is not slick, but Russert and Mathews are so slick as to be oily.
For Mathews to berate, belittle, and loudly besmirch Michelle Malkin on something which has now been more or less admitted by Camp Kerry and for Mathews to never raise his voice to Kitty Kelly, tells you that on the journalistic food chain, Mathews is pond scum.
Graphics people get paid to pay attention to detail. Whoever did the graphics at NBC will get a wink and a nod from all the slick Clinton-Kerry scum who have proven themselves over the years, Couric, Brokaw, Russert, Mathews, et al.
 (Photo: CBS)  "Conspiracy theories abound in American politics. I don't think we need to be subliminal about prescription drugs." George W. Bush "Very disappointing and strange." Joe Lieberman on the RNC ad  |
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 CounterspinFrustrated Republicans say a New York Times story on the Bush campaign's "rats" offensive is revenge for the governor's "major league" gaffe. |
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September 12, 2000; Tuesday
Democrats Smell a 'Rat' in GOP Ad
LAURA MECKLER
WASHINGTON
The GOP ad decries bureaucrats but Democrats see something more subtle: rats.
In a Republican National Committee ad that has aired in several key states, the word ''rats'' appears on screen for a fleeting moment before the full word ''bureaucrats'' appears.
Aides to Vice President Al Gore, the Democratic presidential candidate, made the point clear by giving a copy of a slowed-down version of the 30-second ad to The New York Times, which reported on it in Tuesday editions of the newspaper.
Gore aides told the Times that a Democrat in Seattle had spotted the ad's seemingly subliminal message and contacted county Democrats, who then alerted the Gore campaign.
Gore campaign officials did not return telephone messages left by The Associated Press on Monday night.
The ad touts Republican George W. Bush's plan for adding prescription drugs to Medicare, arguing that seniors will have more control over their health care under Bush's proposal. Under the Gore plan, the ad says, the program will be run by bureaucrats.
Words flash on the screen to echo the announcer's message: ''The Gore prescription plan: Bureaucrats decide.''
As the announcer says ''Bureaucrats decide,'' the word ''rats,'' in large capital letters, flashes on and off the screen just as the phrase ''Bureaucrats decide,'' appears.
Republicans say they were not trying to send any subliminal messages.
''It's a silly charge to try and get an effective ad off the air,'' said Alex Castellanos, who made the ad for the RNC.
He said he faded the word in so it would look more visually interesting, and that it was just a coincidence that the letters appearing first spell the name of a rodent.
''It's a visual drum beat,'' he said. ''People get bored watching TV. You're trying to get them interested and involved.''
Democrats are trying to make a case out of nothing, said Terry Holt, spokesman for Victory 2000, which represents the Bush campaign at the RNC.
''The word bureaucrats ends with 'rats' just like the word Democrat,'' he said. ''It is a spot about health care. It's not a spot about rodents.''
The Bush campaign was equally dismissive.
''It sounds like happy hour at the Gore campaign lasted a little too long,'' said Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer. And, referring decades-old buzz about a Beatles song, he added: ''If you play the ad backwards, you hear the words 'Paul is dead.'''
Even if it was intentional, it isn't necessarily effective, said Bill Benoit, who studies political advertising at the University of Missouri. There's been only limited research on ''subliminal perception,'' he said.
''There's no conclusive evidence that it works,'' he said. ''Of course, that doesn't stop advertisers.''
If use of the word ''rats'' was intentional, Benoit said it might be inappropriate or questionable, though not necessarily unethical.
Still, he cautioned: ''It's awfully hard to tell whether it's intentional or not.''
The point is the MSM made a tempest in a teapot when the 'rat' showed up on the screen. Have the Republicans ever received an apology for that tempest? I'm going to point out their bias. No big deal when it's a Republican, but if it's a Democrat, we'll hear about it for days if not weeks. Sorry, I'm sick of them. I'll make a tempest just to make a point. These people need to hear from us peons in Middle American (aka the Silent Majority).
They have been feeding their kids (including her) that Bush is a 'liar' for months now and will (almost) disown her if she votes GOP.
She called my wife this p.m. asking for advice. Needless to say she is going to vote for Bush.
Not.
..... Needless to say she is going to vote for Bush.Yay! :^D
Excallent!
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If Brokaw does not come out and make a full renunciation of the 'RATS' tempest in a tea pot of four years ago -- including why the MSM media was wrong in creating it -- it will be clear that Tom Brokaw does in fact acknowledge his liberal bias as a major news maker/reporter/anchor.
More important, everyone else will acknowledge that Brokaw knows he is biased in his news reporting. Thus everyone will know that Brokaw is intentionally liberal biased as a news anchor.
Time to Freep the Hell out of NBC. Let them get a taste of being on the receiving end of the Pajamahadeen's ire.
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