There is a special place in Hell reserved for ABC radio(post-speech dirty ambush)

lying sorry bastards at abc radio news division | 9/7/03 | Angry American sick of journalistic lies

[Diddle E. Squat]

Immediately after the President's speech on Iraq, ABC radio went to its damage control and counterattack segment(under the guise of analysis). First up was a foreign policy 'expert', which they loudly trumpeted as working for the Reagan, Bush, and (suddenly mumbled) Clinton administrations, implying that he was oh so impartial. He immediately began to attack Bush's credibility, focusing on how there was no connection between Al Queada and Iraq. Said Bush wants badly to imply such a connection, while being careful not to actual state any proof, since "clearly there is absolutely no connection between Iraq and Al Quaeda." I guess this supposed 'expert' had never heard of Salman Pak, never heard of the top Al Quaeda leader travelling to Iraq both before AND after 9/11, never heard of the Al Quaeda members captured in the north mountains of Iraq(Kurd territory) even while the war was taking place? Even leaving out the disputed meeting with Atta in Prague(which the Czech and other intelligence agencies stand by) how can one state that there is 'clearly' no connection if one has even halfway followed the Iraq situation the last 2 years? Either he is an ignorant buffoon(which is near impossible, given how long he served) or a flat out liar smearing Bush for political gain. Same goes for ABC news, which, and this does seem pretty clear, seems to have chosen this expert because he could be counted on to criticize Bush.

Next came Howard Dean. He rattled off the expected baloney. No problem there, good journalism would present the other side of the political argument. Except that their preceding guest had already presented that, under the false pretense of an objective analyst.

Then came former Clinton staff member George Stephanopolous. More baloney, and clearly piling on. This was a planned ambush by ABC radio from the get go. At this point I am practically screaming at all the lies streaming from the radio, so they turned it off before I ran us off the road! But it was almost the top of the hour, and I am nearly certain that there was no other guest brought on to present the GOP side. So Bush, then 3 liberals, and no rebuttal of the liberal lies. Nice job ABC, as usual.

And they will get away with it. What can one do? E-mail's will do nothing, it would be no different than e-mailing Hillary's office. There has been a clear agenda at ABC news for several years, no other network(not even CNN) comes close to their increasing level of bias and slant. Boycott would be nice(considering how ABC entertainment has publicly proclaimed for several years that they were trying to 'push the envelope', what they have done to Disney, and the questionable ethics/morals/innuendo that they have even infected the ABC Family Channel with), but it would never work, being too hard to formulate a simple grassroots message explaining the need for such.

But there is comfort knowing that if not in this life, they will get what is coming afterwards. Sorry, some may disagree, but I think some of the worst elements of the media do have real negative impacts, does influence major policy and political decisions, decisions that do produce major and long-lasting damage. How many lives were lost because a Clinton failed to act, while a George H.W.Bush or Dole might have changed the course of history? The myth of the 'worst economy of the last 50 years' did influence enough persons for a while to change history, and change it for the worse. There are blood on the hands of the accomplices. My thread title is somewhat in humor, yet I also believe it to be quite true for some people who advance evil.

[zerosix]

Fortunately for me, I never have to endure such pap since discovering FOX News.

As to our local ABC radio affiliate, they have been pretty much *itch-slapped into having local guys and gals read from the wires instead of giving us the national feed.

[Let's Roll]

PING!

You aren't the only one who detests ABC radio.

[Libertina]

Channel 5(nbc) actually had a couple of democrats praise the president and say they supported Mr. Bush (becasue he was going to the UN) Biden and some other guy. Better than I expected, but wish I had FOX :(

[Timesink]

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[Timesink]

As soon as I heard the ABC Radio Anti-Bush diatribe, I switched stations to the Tennessee/Oakland game.

Which is being broadcast by ABC/ESPN/Disney. You can't win for losing.

[ladyinred]

t Bush saying the heavy fighting was over, "more have died since", etc., etc. Every hour, for months, I listened to that drivel BUT I haven't heard it since.

I heard that exact same quote on CBS radio this very day!

[Timesink]

I know it's small comfort, but the only people getting their Bush speech analysis from ABCNEWS radio at 9 pm on a Sunday evening are truckers (who are pretty conservative as a group and didn't believe a word of the lies ABC was saying) and people driving home from weekend trips.

[blam]

Who's ABC?

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...I just loved it tonight when Friend of HILLARY ..PETER JENNINGS tried to tell us on ABC-TV after BUSH's outstanding Speech...

...that the President's call for $84 Million in Iraq was for Military Expenses only ...excluding any monies for the rebuilding of Iraq...

...only to have his own White House Correspondent tell him on the air that it was mostly monies ...FOR the rebuilding of Iraq...!!!

...JENNINGS then promptly said, "Goodnight, CHET"

T'was WAY COOL.

[I still care]

I don't know about ABC Radio (isn't Hannity on that?) but there was a large article last week that all the major news networks are losing major market share, especially CBS and ABC. CNN was actually beaten by the cartoon network at least once.

NBC fares a little better, and it was conveniently glossed over that for some reason only FOX seems to be growing. It is KILLING the elite liberal media and their cronies that people are just so darn uneducated that they don't recognize rightwing propaganda when they see it from that disgusting tabloid news channel, FOX.

I mean, Shepherd Smith actually called the Iraqis the "enemy" and referred to the troops as "us". Can you imagine any news network SO unobjective?

[OldFriend]

Heard the WABC radio news during the night. They had a few snippets of the President's speech and then five lefties giving their negative spin on it all.

And they criticize 'fair and balanced' reporting on FNC!!!!!!!!!

[NutCrackerBoy]

E-mail's will do nothing, it would be no different than e-mailing Hillary's office. There has been a clear agenda at ABC news for several years, no other network(not even CNN) comes close to their increasing level of bias and slant.

Cannot hurt to e-mail. I have been e-mailing the Boston Globe ombudsman about misleading headlines, to no apparent result. Suddenly one day she replied and said I had a point!

[irgbar-man]

"More have died since." Hmmmm. How many American civilians died in 2 hours on the morning of 9/11/01?

God bless our military.

[mvpel]

I just finished reading Ann Coulter's "Slander," and it's very interesting to watch all this transpire in light of her observations from two years ago. She really nailed it.

[GOPJ]

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