Posted on 04/19/2005 8:47:16 PM PDT by Coastal
For years now, liberals have snidely suggested that watching Fox News Channel makes dumb conservatives even dumber. They've even produced trumped-up studies trying to prove it. This is in marked contrast to the enlightened viewers of the fusty old news networks, the ones upholding the standards of seriously weighty journalism, you see.
How vague and uninformative can these tired Old Media types be? Take the issue of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. From the vantage point of these news networks, it's unimportant to debate the substance of liberal attacks on DeLay. The charges don't even have to be explained. No, the only thing that's important is to build a vague impression of staggering momentum: DeLay has to go. On Monday morning, April 18, CBS and NBC morning shows picked up the story. Let's look at the basic elements used to sing the "Hallelujah, Republicans in Trouble" chorus:
1. Set a dark and spooky tone. NBC's Matt Lauer introduced the story: "Storm clouds are gathering on Capitol Hill, and at the center of the storm is the House Majority Leader, Texas Congressman Tom DeLay."
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalledger.com ...
Seeing as how The Houston Comical let slip an internal memo in 2002 about how they would savage Tom DeLay in news articles as payback for his opposition to federal funding of rail in Houston, the current witchhunt is not surprising.
Liberal media is abusing power; omitting real news items and printing "news" of trumped up charges to smear opponents names.
The past two days have been an indicator that the dems are losing ground on this more and more.
Roy Blunt went on the Sunday talk shows and explained the actual facts of how Delay had not been found in violation of any laws or rules.
And word started moving. MSNBC did some back pedal moves...
The stuff on the morning shows is a last ditch effort to get some yardage out of it.
http://www.dailywav.com/0999/patton.wav
Republicans need to play this wav every day.
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Front Page Magazine has this great piece by Michael Reagan that pretty well hammers the Rats....(excerpts)
(snip)
"That’s not what we are witnessing now. House Democrats have mounted an attack on Majority Leader Tom DeLay, accusing him of having his wife and daughter on his campaign payroll. They don’t bother to tell you that Sen. Joe Lieberman’s son Matthew received about $34,000 and daughter Rebecca about $36,000 for working on his 2004 presidential campaign, or that California Democrat Rep. Fortney "Pete" Stark’s wife Deborah earns $2,400 a month for serving as campaign consultant, or that Rep. Bart Stupak’s wife Laurie earned about $36,000 annually the past two years as the finance director for her husband's campaign.
They attack DeLay for going on junkets, but remain mum when it comes to Democrats. Take liberal Democrat Maurice Hinchey, who according to the New York Daily News took 27 trips costing private groups $157,000 over the past five years. He traveled in style; luxuriating at resorts like the Four Seasons in Punta Mita and other sumptuous retreats in Morocco, Madrid, Budapest, Helsinki, Tunisia, Cancun, Italy, Vancouver, Shanghai and Grand Cayman Island.
Democratic Rep. Elliot Engel, according to the Daily News, "has whisked his wife to first-class resorts in San Juan and Las Vegas, Wyoming and Florida - and barely spent a nickel." He took a $5,300 junket to New Orleans for his daughter and took his teenage son to Seattle and London and Jerusalem, gratis. Charlie Rangel junketed to the Dominican Republic three times in recent years, courtesy of the Punta Cana Beach Resort in 2001, American Airlines in 2002 and the Dominican/American Roundtable in 2003. Democrat Gregory Meeks took 37 trips in the last five years - 30 privately funded and seven government-paid. He went to Jamaica, Barbados, St. Lucia, Antigua, Venezuela and Honolulu at a total cost of $150,000. Jerrold Nadler took his wife Joyce on a pair of trips costing $5,500 and $6,600, respectively - courtesy of the Association of American Railroads, while serving on the House Railroad Subcommittee.
Democrat Anthony Weiner took the longest and most expensive taxpayer-paid trip in the New York delegation - a fact-finding expedition to Antarctica. The Daily News said taxpayers wound up shelling out more than $350,000 for the nine-day, 12,500-mile marathon two years ago - with Weiner traveling as part of the 13-member Science Committee. Joseph Crowley took the New York delegation's longest trip on record, a 13-day, $8,900 getaway to India and Bangladesh sponsored by an Indian trade group. Crowley has also taken his wife, Kasey, on freebies to India, New Orleans and the Dominican Republic.
What’s that old saying? People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones?" (snip)
For the entire article:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17726
I called his Washington Office today giving support, talked a minute or two with a nice guy that answered the telephone..
1-202-225-5951
JUNKETS JUNKETS JUNKETS
Has everybody forgotten the JUNKET KING ?
The departed (silenced?) Ron Brown who ran JUNKET AIR
selling seats for the Clinton campaign chest.
Not to mention selling technology to the Chinese.
Karl Rove gave a speech at a liberal arts college on problems with the media. Link here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2519-2005Apr19.html
Granted, the author took a couple obligatory slams at Bush, but the more interesting parts are the direct quotations of Rove, which are, in my opinion, right on the money. Rove is a smart, smart guy.
Geez, somehow I don't remember Matt Lauer or any other MSM type noting the "storm clouds gathering" over Hillary Clinton based upon the sworn testimony of a former ally that Her Hineyness under-reported campaign donations (in-kind) to the tune of some $694,000. Or that Nancy Pelosi has just been fined $21,000 for intentionally violating campaign laws. Oh, yeah, I forgot that McCain-Feingold remedied all that.
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