[anita]

Thanks AB & Good Morning to EveryOne! I am giving my two cents today so I will be away.

Here 's this sunday's Media Nuggets

###### How low can they go! - First MSM, John Kerry & now Jack Carter[Jimmy Carter's son] trying to manipulate the Mom[democrat] of an Young Fallen Soldier and Fails Miserably. God Bless Those Heroes & their Families!

###### Michael. J. Fox should be ashamed!

###### Dee Dee Myers' husband & former NYTimer Todd Purdum writes a cover story on the architect, Karl Rove. Meanwhile, current "star" of NYTimes Fried his brain on RDS[happens when circulation & ad.revenue of his paper gets fried fast].

###### Chris Mathews of MSNBC Unfit to conduct Florida Gubernatorial debate? -> Another Florida paper Agrees.

###### NYTimes doctored Classified Iraq Document?

###### MSNBC's Washington D.C. VP & Hardball producer Tammy Haddad is on her way out as big bosses at GE are angry. CNN's election night sponsor is retirees group AARP[didn't they run the don't vote ad?]. Fox Re-considering Wesley Clark's military analyst-ship after his appearance on dem.antiwar ad [& lots of viewer outrage].

###### BDS backlash! - Air America Blacklisted by Advertisers! Soros people unhappy.

###### Rummy slaps Bill Kristol on Radio. Best Defense Secretary Ever -> Gateway Pundit

###### NYTimes fake-polling for dems Bull Dog Pundit expose!

###### Leading Newspapers Bleeding to death!

###### NY Post - Future of U.S. Newspapers! -> "Serious" newspapers like the NYTimes and the WashPost are seeing circulation declines, NYPost increases it's sales.

###### Fox News is showing serious signs of aging, led by steep audience declines - Media Life says. Nope. Because it 's become the Puppet of the MSM.

###### USA Today's "fake, but accurate" front pager.

###### Federal Judge Claude Hilton effectively places NYTimes in contempt of court saying it has no special previleges than an ordinary citizen.

[Laverne]

As always Anita, thanks for your tidbits. I concur wholeheartedly with your take on FNC. They have started to align themselves more and more with old media, and have lost me as a viewer on quite a few shows. Brit is still the best, but they need to wake up and smell the coffee; I hope they do so soon.

[Bahbah]

Fox News is showing serious signs of aging, led by steep audience declines

Fox has become the very thing that I turned off the alphabets for. They have very pretty girls, including Shep Smith, who chirp and smile inappropriately. They have "fun" segments that make me grind my teeth. They bring on highly partisan people for their "balance" rather that thoughtful people with different points of view. They should call Rush Limbaugh and ask him for a critique of how you keep the most informed audience on the planet. Right now, for example, the ladies are giggling about Saddam's death sentence.

[rodguy911]

Great stuff Anita, lots of good links there!Your nuggets are always fantastic!
Here is another piece on J f'in Kerry that I really liked over at Powerline entitled "Piling On"
http://powerlineblog.com/
At the Army/ Air Force football game,a few days ago, a huge banner was held up. It said; "We support those not as smart as John Kerry" Cadets on both sides cheered wildly! John Kerry--the gift that keeps on giving.
There is a link to Austin Bay that refers to an article by ass kicker Christopher Hitchens(one of my favs). Here's a few worthwhile quotes of Hitchens as he dissects,fillets, and soccer kicks J.F ing' Kerry all around the turf.
"US military is the new 3rd rail of American politics, Service Men and women won't accept the insults,...now in addition we have talk radio, Internet to counter attack,..what nailed Kerry last week is individual Riposte from men and women vets, not GW or Tony Snow but the the troops themselves. John Kerry is simply not ready for the U Tube world."
Great stuff by Hitchens. The Austin bay link is at

http://austinbay.net/blog/P=1513

[snugs]

Question is it normal for your Secretary of Defense to stay out of politics.

I know that this is Rummy's stock answer that the President has asked him not to get involved in politics but is this normal?

As a Brit where our Secretary of Defence is an elected MP this seem rather strange to me.

[Barset]

Excellent nuggets, anita. I stopped to read them; the Rumsfeld interview is a must-read as is the Bulldog pundit's tracking of the NYT's latest poll of no-shows at the real polling place and how the Times uses it to make news.

The NYT "doctored Iraq documents" may seem tedious to some but should be read. The Iraqi documents were translated by a Freeper and the translator and Free Republic are duly credited at http://www.captainsquartersblog.com.

Have been noticing other blogs, Tom Maguire's http://www.justoneminute.typepad.com particularly, giving credit to Free Republic for its impeccable research done by informed, intelligent and dedicated Free Republic members.

I have always found the research here to be miles ahead of anything at the other blogs and kilometers ahead of the dinosaur media, which, quite frankly, seems utterly bereft of honesty in their presentation of shoddily prepared and agenda driven non-news.

Oh, the disgust of the Florida papers with that "windbag" Chris Matthews not moderating the Florida governor debate, but using it as a "promotional opportunity for his own show" shows a growing lack of patience with people like Matthews for whom politics is a giddy game, when in today's reality, it is a matter of life and death.

Thanks again for pulling this together and handing it to us every week; the nuggets are a much appreciated gift.

[daisyscarlett]

Fox Re-considering Wesley Clark's military analyst-ship after his appearance on dem.antiwar ad [& lots of viewer outrage].

Always look forward to your "Nuggets"...was particularly heartened to read about Weasley Clarke...that ad is despicable and Fox should fire him...