Posted on 11/09/2004 12:22:12 PM PST by Ramonan
The liberal ‘news’ media have been as big an issue in this campaign as anything else. It is a fact: The media chose sides early and have acted as extensions of the Democratic National Committee and the Kerry-Edwards campaign,” said MRC President Brent Bozell.
The Ten Worst Media Distortions of Campaign 2004
1.Dan Rather’s Forgery Fiasco
2.Ignoring, Then Attacking, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
3.Pounding the Bush National Guard Story
4.Spinning a Good Economy into Bad News
5.The Networks’ Outrageous Convention Double-Standard
6.Swooning Over Edwards’ Image, Ignoring His Liberalism
7.CBS’s Byron Pitts Promotional Kerry Coverage
8.CBS Promotes Fears of a New Military Draft
9 Misrepresenting the 9/11 Commission on Iraq/al-Qaeda Links
10.Equating New Terrorism Warning to LBJ’s “Gulf of Tonkin”
Rathergate … CBS News had to appoint an outside two-member investigating committee to find out how and why a) Dan Rather aired a hatchet job on President Bush based on forged documents that CBS was warned about and b) CBS Producer Mary Mapes coordinated with senior Kerry adviser Joe Lockhart concerning the discredited source of those documents.
The Attack On The Swift Boat Vets … Last spring, over 250 Vietnam War contemporaries, including veterans who served with him when he was a Swift Boat commander and his entire chain of command, came forward to publicly challenge Kerry’s version of Vietnam and his anti-war activities. After being ignored for several weeks the media turned on these honorable men with a vengeance, rather than give them a shred of credibility.
(Excerpt) Read more at mediaresearch.org ...
--MediaResearchCenter-/cybersub.asp
...and after about a week, you'll have so much evidence you won't know what to do with it.
Makes a great gift for skeptics, too.
Good info. We'll be needing that in about 2-4 years or maybe even sooner.
I would have thought that the ABC Memo, directing the members of the ABC News organization to slant the news pro-Kerry would have made this list.
Leslie Stahl's pimping for every author with a book AGAINST the President.
Interviewing long retired military people about the Iraq war plan as though they would actually know anything about the war plan.
bttt
Ping
In the past couple of days they were suprised that we had plans for attacking North Korea with nuclear weapons. Let's see, a nuclear armed hostile nation? It would be grossly irresponsible for the military to not have war plans for them.
Thank God no one is listening to the MSM circle-jerk but other circle-jerkers like themselves.
Pushing the TONS of explosives (often referred to as ammo, weapons, etc.) story 'til it hurt.
Attempting to put Rumsfeld at the epicenter of Abu Grahib.
Claiming Tommy Franks "outsourced Afghanistan to warlords."
Such as hiring General Weasley Clark and assorted other malcontents who hate Rumsfeld for his transformation plans.
How about Kitty Kelley getting three days on the Today show to flog her lies about the Bush family, while O'Neil and Corsi were NEVER interviewed on Today about "Unfit for Command."
GGGRRRRR....I just get more angry when I think about it. I'd rather focus on the fact that W 1.
BTTT
all very good ones!
How about the NY Times and CBS trying to set Bush up for October surprise with the missing explosives BS!
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