"Hmm no terror attacks since 9/11 on Bushes watch huh? Oh wait there was the anthrax...then the ricin attack in my home state and now this. Its kind of funny there are no terror attacks in the United States as long as they are not directed to anyone on the left. Good Job guys." ~ sewards1
Hmmmm....you know you're right, newby! Our enemies have been attacking us non-stop right under our very noses during the GWB presidency. Some of them even have *a twinge of conscience about it from time to time, but it doesn't last long. I say we need to impose the "fairness doctrine" on THEM.
Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the press, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. -Mark Twain
* March 22, 2006
Excerpt of end of radio interview: Hugh Hewitt with guest Christopher Hitchens
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1601335/posts
HH: ...Well then, in 30 seconds, if the Democratic Party returns to power in this country, you get thirty seconds now, what happens?
CH: I'll just tell you something a very senior person at a well-known network. I know this sounds a bit odd, but I just can't tell you who he is or which network. I don't have the right to do it. But you'll have to believe me, okay?
HH: Okay.
CH: He called me the other day. This is not a guy who's in any way a conservative, and said you know, we've known each other for a bit. He said you know, I'm beginning to think you must be right, because it really worries me what we're doing, when we are giving the other side the impression that all they need to do is hang on until the end of this administration. Do people know what they're doing when they're doing this? One doesn't have to make any allegation of disloyalty, but just...if it worries him, as it really does, I think it should worry other people, too, and it certainly worries me.
HH: It certainly should. Christopher Hitchens, as always, a pleasure.
audio here http://www.radioblogger.com/images/03-22hitchens.mp3
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ABC News Listens to Viewers' Concerns About Iraq Coverage
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1601903/posts
March 23, 2006 Over the last 24 hours, ABC News has been reading hundreds of messages sent in by viewers in response to President Bush's claim that the media are undermining support for war in Iraq.
Viewer opinions ran the gamut, but the vast majority believed the media were biased in their Iraq coverage.
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Mark Halperin of ABC and his written directions to slant the news in favor of the Democrat candidate- acknowledged by ABC management.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15511
"Our job is not to give people what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."-Richard Salant, former president of CBS News
"We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage, by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with."- Richard Cohen, Senior Producer, CBS Political News
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."- Thomas Jefferson
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The Press at War http://www.opinionjournal.com/federation/feature/?id=110009203
What ever happened to patriotic reporters? BY JAMES Q. WILSON
Monday, November 6, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST
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"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague." - Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Orator --- 106-43 B.C.
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The ones which concern me are the so called conservatives with on board dates earlier than mine, who hate GW and Republicans more the Clintoons and Saddam.