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No More Nil Nisi Bonum? Countdown's Cheap Shots at Cap Weinberger
Countdown/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 03/28/2006 5:47:38 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

by Mark Finkelstein

March 28, 2006

Keith Olbermann might be on vacation, but that doesn't mean MSNBC's mean-spiritedness took a day off. If guest host Alison Stewart was auditioning for the Olbermann seat, she might well have ingratiated herself with her MSNBC bosses by the nastiness she doled out on the day of Caspar Weinberger's death.

Weinberger passed away today at age 88. He had served as President Reagan's Secretary of Defense. As Bloomberg News put it:

"Weinberger . . . oversaw the U.S. military buildup under President Ronald Reagan that helped hasten the Soviet Union's collapse."

Stewart managed to turn that historic accomplishment, one that led to freedom for hundreds of millions while eliminating the possiblity of mutual assured destruction for the forseeable future, into a negative. Here's how she spun it:

"Ironically, the man who slashed budgets could spend with the best of them. As President Reagan's Defense Secretary, he presided over the biggest military budget increase in U.S. peacetime history."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: alisonstewart; countdown; enemedia; mediabias; msnbc; nilnisbonum; olbermann; weinberger
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Every time you think the MSM can't sink any lower . . .
1 posted on 03/28/2006 5:47:42 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Countdown/NewsBusters MSM-hits-new-low ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 03/28/2006 5:48:27 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The MSM is a Hate Group.


3 posted on 03/28/2006 5:50:38 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Olbermann's target audience is the DU. Nobody else can stand him. The DU thinks he's a big hero.


4 posted on 03/28/2006 5:51:12 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The MSNBC people are so tacky. One is forced to hope the Westboro Baptist Church attends their own funerals when that happy day arrives.


5 posted on 03/28/2006 5:53:21 PM PST by muawiyah (-)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I caught the same thing at the 5 PM news of the NBC affiliate here in Seattle. They led off with Weinberger being indicted for the Iran-Contra mess and being pardoned by the Elder Bush. No mention of anything else. It's as if he did nothing else in his life.


6 posted on 03/28/2006 5:53:53 PM PST by Publius
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

She's mean-spirited, but probably even more stupid than mean-spirited....


7 posted on 03/28/2006 5:58:08 PM PST by clintonh8r (If you don't support the mission you don't support the troops. Period.)
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To: popdonnelly
That's really sad.

Olberman was a mediocre sportscaster at best -- it's impossible to imagine anyone taking him seriously as a hard news commentator.
8 posted on 03/28/2006 5:58:36 PM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I don't understand what makes a person speak ill of the dead. What possible reason could they have for doing it.

Before President Reagan was interred, moonbats were maligning him in columns, on TV and in letters to the editor.

Caspar Weinberger was a good man and on the day of his passing the assassination of him has already started.
9 posted on 03/28/2006 5:58:54 PM PST by jazusamo (Excuse me Helen, I'm answering your first accusation. - President Bush)
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To: BenLurkin; popdonnelly
Olberman was a mediocre sportscaster at best -- it's impossible to imagine anyone taking him seriously as a hard news commentator.

Maybe his boyfriend does?

10 posted on 03/28/2006 6:05:02 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It gives you pause to think that the first resource for historians 200 years from now will be the newspaper accounts of the day. When you realize how distorted most of the coverage is, and the smear campaigns they have orchestrated against very decent men, it makes you realize that probably much of what we "know" about our own history is a caricature.


11 posted on 03/28/2006 6:08:38 PM PST by marron
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Thanks again for being the eyes and ears that nobody else wants to be when it comes to those stations "down the dial". I never heard of this Alison Stewart - - is she somebody? (I bet she's working her way up the food chain at MSNBC the way the reporterettes at CBS do - - on their knees. Is she decent looking?)


12 posted on 03/28/2006 6:10:08 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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Good point. As is said, journalism is the first draft of history. And thanks to the distortions of the MSM, historians will have to work hard to uncover the truth of our age.


13 posted on 03/28/2006 6:10:38 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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I virtually never watch Countdown but for whatever reason flipped over tonight. I'm unfamilar with Stewart. Here she is - certainly a nice-looking lady:


14 posted on 03/28/2006 6:13:58 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I believe she is a graduate from "MTV News". Some pedigree.


15 posted on 03/28/2006 6:17:20 PM PST by JacksonCalhoun
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Now, now, now this news-twinkie is just reading off the tele-prompter. After all, we can't expect her to have conjured up all the big words out of her own head; no doubt her dialogue was concocted by some behind-the-scenes ghostdork.


16 posted on 03/28/2006 6:20:00 PM PST by Rockpile
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To: JacksonCalhoun; Lancey Howard

Bingo. I've now looked into it. Not merely, MTV, but their "Choose or Lose" program, the ill-disguised DNC GOTV effort among young people. She also hosted PBS' "Act Against Racism" campaign.

Impeccable left-wing credentials.


17 posted on 03/28/2006 6:22:22 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Banned from funerals, they'll get 'em in the obits.


18 posted on 03/28/2006 6:23:19 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: sageb1

Well put!


19 posted on 03/28/2006 6:24:17 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

She's like Soledad O'Brien. Very pretty to look at --- until she opens her mouth....


20 posted on 03/28/2006 6:25:09 PM PST by mhking ("I make my livin' on the evening news...")
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