Posted on 10/09/2004 1:04:02 AM PDT by Cableguy
ABC News was under fire last night after an internal memo surfaced suggesting President Bush should be held more accountable for his statements than John Kerry.
The memo to staffers from the network's powerful political director, Marc Halperin, noted that while both campaigns are distorting the truth, Kerry's bending of the facts shouldn't be hit as hard.
"Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and mistakes all the time, but these are not central to his efforts to win," Halperin wrote.
But "the current Bush attacks on Kerry involve distortions and taking things out of context in a way that goes beyond what Kerry has done," Halperin added.
Halperin further advised the ABC staff to keep that in mind when reporting.
"We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but that doesn't mean we reflexively and artificially hold both sides 'equally' accountable when the facts don't warrant that," the memo continued.
"It's up to Kerry to defend himself, of course. But as one of the few news organizations with the skill and strength to help voters evaluate what the candidates are saying to serve the public interest, now is the time for all of us to step up and do that right."
A spokesman for ABC news insisted "we are not interested in taking sides, we are only interested in getting at the truth."
Halperin plays a mostly behind-the-scenes role at ABC, and is known as the father of "The Note," a daily political memo that is read by thousands of D.C. insiders, political players and journalists.
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Yet the media will try it's damndest to goad President Bush into admitting mistakes while remaining resolve in it's stick-to-itiveness to smear Bush with FORGED DOCUMENTS, outright distortions, and blatant lies.
Huh?!?! Kerry's central argument against the president on national security is based on four bald-faced lies: 1) Bush' "rushing us into war" when in fact we had a 15-month public debate complete with Congressional and U.N. resolutions; 2) "misleading us into war" when in fact Edwards is on record last October saying no one was mislead but rather we had faulty intelligence, coupled with Kerry recently saying that even if he knew then what we know now, he still would have voted to authorize the war; 3) "going it alone" when in fact the coalition with troops in Iraq (30 countries) is nearly twice as large as that which fought in the Korean War (16 countries); and 4) "outsourcing our national defense" at Tora Bora, when in fact Kerry not only supported the use of U.S. special force in conjunction with foreign ground troops, he said it was the "smart" thing to do (besides the fact we didn't even know for sure that bin Laden was there).
That sounds like a pretty central argument that is based on nothing but outright lies to me!
Methinks you are right!
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FRom the American College Dictionary: "Projection n. Psychol. a. the tendency to attribute to another person, or the environment, what is actually within oneself. b. Psychoanal. (usually) such an attribution relieving the ego of guilt feelings."
That is why I have changed the spelling of "liberal" to "LIEberal" in all my comments. I no longer use the word "liberal."
Oh yes, Howard Metzenbaum, now that's a blast from the past. I remember seeing him on TV in a gun-rights debate years ago. I forget who was debating against him, but he lost it, went into a jumping-up-and-down, red-faced rage, about private citizens owning firearms. That guy was a full-blown Communist.
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