The ABC's of Media Bias (Halperin's father associated with Soros)

FrontPage Magazine ^ | October 14, 2004 | Lowell Ponte

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IS THE ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA BIASED against conservatives? Dan Rather remains in the anchor chair at the CBS Evening News despite his involvement in recent news stories based on dishonest reporting, fabricated documents and even Internet gossip falsely alleging that President George W. Bush secretly intends to begin the military conscription of students. These stories were obviously designed to damage Mr. Bush in the final weeks before a national election.

And now ABC News has left in place its Political Director Mark Halperin. ABC has done this despite the network’s acknowledgement that Halperin wrote a memo that to many seems to direct ABC reporters, anchors and producers to slant its coverage by downplaying the misstatements of Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry and by viewing negatively any misstatements by Republican candidate Bush.

Halperin’s directive reached ABC people on October 8, the very day that ABC “Good Morning America” co-host Charlie Gibson would be selecting questions for and moderating the second presidential debate between Bush and Kerry. Did Halperin intend to influence Gibson’s decisions in this debate?

Who is Mark Halperin, and does his memo reflect leftwing bias in his shaping of the news at ABC? To find answers to these questions, we need to consider the details of this memo-gate controversy in the light of Halperin’s past and of the famous radical left-wing father who shaped his political values. As we shall discover, Halperin has veered Left and crossed the line of ethical journalism many times.

[Siobhan]

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[Siobhan]

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[Calpernia]

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[Calpernia]

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[Siobhan]

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[TownhallMeetup]

Some of us are out for blood on this one. Thanks for the heads up. There is a way to take a shot at ABC but it would take a lot of us getting the word out like this: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1245234/posts

[Jack Black]

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[talleyman]

Mega-B^ump! This needs to be posted & pinged daily.

[eastsider]

Soros is Exhibit A why the Constitution should never be amended to allow naturalized citizens to run for President.

Good hearing from you, Siobhan. Be well.

[Allosaurs_r_us]

When told that during an already-scheduled interview with Bill O’Reilly of Fox News Channel he would asked about his statements about liberal bias in the establishment media, Mark Halperin cancelled the interview.

This is absolutely the lefts way of playing dirty pool. If you read this entire article you are left with the undeniable fact that these people, from Halperin and his father all the way up to and including the Clintons, are Communist Sympathizers! there is no other conclusion possible if the facts in this essay are true.

Now the question is, how do we educate the portion of the population who are Democrat, but patriotic Americans, to the fact that the leaders of their party are leading them down the path to communism? To have this guy in a top position at a major news outlet explains a heck of a lot about the MSM.

I realize that our conservative views clash a great deal with the democrats but I know from my own expeience most are not commies. The problem lies in the dems I know will never believe this even if I drop it in their lap.

We need to stop calling them Liberals and call them what they really are Traitors!

[DaveTesla]

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[DaveTesla]

Lookie here....
During President Lyndon Johnson’s administration Halperin had been in charge of compiling a classified history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. As David Horowitz and Richard Poe reported: This secret history later emerged [in June 1971] into
public view as the so-called “Pentagon Papers.” Halperin
and his deputy Leslie Gelb assigned much of the writing to
leftwing opponents of the war, such as Daniel Ellsberg
who, despite his background as a former Marine and a
military analyst for the Rand Corporation, was already
evolving into a New Left radical…With Halperin’s tacit
encouragement – and perhaps active collusion – Ellsberg
stole the secret history and released it to The New York
Times…Not surprisingly, “The Pentagon Papers” echoed
Halperin’s long-standing position that the Vietnam War was
unwinnable, and ridiculed Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
for stubbornly refusing to heed those of their advisors
who shared this opinion.

[DaveTesla]

It gets worse....

Morton Halperin during the mid-1970s befriended Philip
Agee, a former-CIA-agent-turned-Communist who publicly
identified hundreds of purported American Central
Intelligence Agency agents. At least one of these agents,
Athens station chief Richard Welch, was murdered shortly
thereafter. Halperin flew to Europe to help Agee find safe
haven after Great Britain expelled him. In the U.S.,
Halperin opposed legislation to punish the outing of U.S.
undercover agents as Agee had done. Halperin has described
the CIA as “the subverter of everybody else’s freedom.”

[DaveTesla]

Halperin, as Director of the Washington, D.C. office of
the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), in this era
also defended the right of The Progressive magazine to
publish secret details it had obtained of how to make an
atomic bomb.

[PGalt]

More on Soros / Halperin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1242249/posts

[ladyinred]

My God these people are evil.

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