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To: MisterRepublican
A quick look at this article does not reveal any specifics as to the "lies" that Conservatives are so willing to tell. The closest Brock comes to citing an example seems to be John Kerry's experience in Vietnam -- Brock says that the questionable behavior was on the part of the SwiftVets who raised "doubts" about Kerry.

If I want to list Democrat lies, I could rattle them off quite quickly: Clinton and Lewinksy, Kerry and Vietnam, Bush and the National Guard, Bush reinstating the Draft, no Social Security Crisis, worst economy since Hoover.

And one further lie from the Democrats: "Conservatives are willing to lie in order to influence the media."

25 posted on 02/15/2005 9:31:25 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: ClearCase_guy; wolfpat; MisterRepublican
Brock explained how conservatives can generate the news they desire. "Things can develop on rather obscure conservative websites that you may never even have heard of and then given a life," Brock said.

Fox News Channel "uses these conservative websites as kind of tip sheets to fill their content, their time on the air. The wall between that type of media and the mainstream media is just so porous today that you often see that it seeps through," he added.

Not only does he fail to cite any "lies," but I think this shows the real problem he has. These internet sites, among other sources, are letting out news that hasn't been vetted by mainstream media (like Dan Rather and, no doubt, Mr. Brock himself, at least in his own opinion). What really has him upset is the idea that the mainstream media is losing their role as gatekeeper. Funny... the liberals are all for free speech when it comes to pornography, but not when it comes to news? What Mr. Brock fails to realize is often what is "seeping" through is the truth.

67 posted on 02/15/2005 11:22:17 AM PST by GraceCoolidge
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