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Gingrich: Media Attacks on Palin 'like watching Pravda'
Newsbusters ^ | October 23, 2008 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 10/23/2008 1:18:21 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative

As NewsBusters has been reporting since we were at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has been a strongly outspoken critic of how the mainstream media have covered Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin since she was first announced as John McCain's runningmate.

On Wednesday, appearing on Fox News's "On the Record," Gingrich called recent press reports involving the Republican vice presidential candidate "factually wrong, intellectually dishonest, totally biased, worthy of the Polish state news media attacking Lech Walesa back in the 1980s."

Moments later, he put an exclamation point on his criticism: "This is like watching Pravda. This is a one-sided, vicious, unending and dishonest campaign."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008veep; elitism; issues; liberalmedia; mediabias; newtgingrich; sarahpalin

1 posted on 10/23/2008 1:18:22 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Right on the money, Newt!!! Pravda indeed! And he’s talking Prava in the OLD Soviet days, before things opened up a bit over there in Russia.


2 posted on 10/23/2008 1:21:38 PM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Newt is right, but Americans have no experience with totalitarian propaganda machines. We’re walking right into it voluntarily, like we had walked into teaching falsified history lessons in schools. The Poles had an excuse, they were under the guns, what’s outr excuse?


3 posted on 10/23/2008 1:22:54 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Everytime they open their mouth they shoot themselves in the foot.)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Good for Newt and also for Greta for going after this stuff the past few weeks.


4 posted on 10/23/2008 1:22:58 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Bernie Goldberg, the CBS former correspondent who has written about the bias in the media, has always said that the main reason the press is so biased is because they all live in this “bubble” of liberalness and just don’t know any conservatives. This year, though, it is obvious that these media types know EXACTLY what they are doing. They purposely misquote a source to set Palin up; she doesn’t fall for it, but they try their best to make her slip up. Meanwhile, Biden is thrown softballs and he is still a constant gaffe. I’m hoping that the press, who is hated by most Americans, have over-shot themselves, but the polls are too close. As much as I don’t want Obama for obvious reasons, I would also just love to show the press that they don’t control us when McCain gets in (and so I do hope)


5 posted on 10/23/2008 1:42:39 PM PDT by t2buckeye
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Click to download a hi-res version for your use. Not responsible for violent reactions by tolerant pacifist militants.

JP
6 posted on 10/23/2008 1:44:35 PM PDT by EscapedDutch (I spent $5,000 to become a LEGAL resident of the US. If illegals get amnesty, I demand a refund!)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

yep. right on the money.


7 posted on 10/23/2008 2:07:33 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Actually, that’s unfair to Pravda, at least as it’s been post-1992.


8 posted on 10/23/2008 2:17:44 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (For real change stop electing lawyers: Fighter-Pilot/Hockey-Mom '08.)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

I blame the government schools and the unionist faculties that have been indocrinating our children in fundamental liberalism for 35 years. We have finally reached the tipping point and those people who were “educated” in that system since the NEA became a labor union are now the majority of the electorate.


9 posted on 10/23/2008 2:36:01 PM PDT by MNnice (Da ma Dakota)
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To: St. Louis Conservative
And CNN is the ringleader of this gang.
10 posted on 10/23/2008 2:41:56 PM PDT by timestax ( CNNLIES)
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To: MNnice
I blame the government schools and the unionist faculties that have been indocrinating our children in fundamental liberalism for 35 years. We have finally reached the tipping point and those people who were “educated” in that system since the NEA became a labor union are now the majority of the electorate.

Bingo.

11 posted on 10/23/2008 2:42:23 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: St. Louis Conservative
"This is like watching Pravda. This is a one-sided, vicious, unending and dishonest campaign."

Word.

12 posted on 10/23/2008 2:44:32 PM PDT by Interesting Times (For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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