They want a war, they'll get one, and for every lie and obfuscation, you're right .. we can report and send on their dirty linen to Hannity, Michelle Malkin, Rush, Mark, Glenn, etc. That door swings both ways.
We need to marshall OUR side to dilute the evil they do, those marxist, Soros puppets, America-hating sobs.
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"Democrats will be joined in the fray by much of the press.
For Republicans, this will seem like familiar ground, since generations of conservatives have complained that the so-called mainstream media have been biased against them.
Well, get ready, Republicans, for déjà vu all over again. The coverage through November likely will highlight the most extreme attacks on the President and his law and spotlight stories of real Americans whose lives have been improved by access to health care (pushed, no doubt, by Democrats from every competitive congressional district and state).
The louder Republicans yell, the more they will be characterized and caricatured as sore losers infuriated by the first major delivery of candidate Obama’s promise of “change.”
The focus on the weekend’s alleged racial and gay-bashing verbal attacks by opponents of the Democrats’ plan should be a caution to Republican strategists trying to figure out how to manage the media this year."
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I'll begin:
The author of that press prediction piece is Mark Halperin.
He was sounding fairly reasonable on his book tour interviews, but due to that sanity, (perhaps that position was calculated to appear reasonable to sell the book), the lefty bloggers have been dissing and mocking him. I can't tell if he's inferring he's part of the press herd who'll behave this way, or if he's reporting what he knows THEY'LL be doing.
Gotta give him kudos, however, for this .. sounds earnest
Halperin at Politico/USC conf.: 'extreme pro-Obama' press bias
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 11/22/08 3:15 PM EST
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Media bias was more intense in the 2008 election than in any other national campaign in recent history, Time magazine's Mark Halperin said Friday at the Politico/USC conference on the 2008 election.
"It's the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war," Halperin said at a panel of media analysts. "It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage."
Halperin, who maintains Time's political site "The Page," cited two New York Times articles as examples of the divergent coverage of the two candidates.
"The example that I use, at the end of the campaign, was the two profiles that The New York Times ran of the potential first ladies," Halperin said.
"The story about Cindy McCain was vicious. It looked for every negative thing they could find about her and it case her in an extraordinarily negative light. It didn't talk about her work, for instance, as a mother for her children, and they cherry-picked every negative thing that's ever been written about her."
Nevertheless, take it all with the knowledge that he's someone steeped in a VERY liberal and activist heritage.
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"Mark E. Halperin (born January 11, 1965), is an American political analyst for Time magazine and Time.com. He is the co-author (with John Heilemann) of Game Change as well as a board member of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College. The book Game Change has held the number one spot as both the #1 bestseller in books on Amazon.com and #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List (nonfiction).
Mark Halperin is the son of Morton Halperin and Ina Young. He grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, where he attended Walt Whitman High School. After learning the Japanese language for two years there, he spent the summer of 1982 living with a family in Japan under the auspices of Youth for Understanding. After graduating high school in 1983, he earned an A.B. degree from Harvard University in 1987."
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Morton H. Halperin (born June 13, 1938) is an American expert on foreign policy and civil liberties. He served in the Johnson, Nixon and Clinton administrations and in a number of roles with think tanks, universities and other organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations and Harvard University.
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Halperin served in the Department of Defense in the 1960s as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, and was dovish on the Vietnam War, calling for a halt to bombing Vietnam. When Nixon became president in 1969, Henry Kissinger, his new National Security Advisor announced Halperin would join the staff of the National Security Council.
The appointment of Halperin, a colleague of Kissinger's at Harvard University in the 1960s, was immediately criticized by General Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; FBI director J. Edgar Hoover; and Senator Barry Goldwater.
Kissinger soon lost faith in Halperin. A front page story in The New York Times on May 9, 1969, stated the United States had been bombing Cambodia, a neutral country. Kissinger immediately called Hoover to find out who might have leaked this information to the press. Hoover suggested Halperin and Kissinger agreed that was likely.
That very day, the FBI began tapping Halperin's phones at Kissinger's direction. (Kissinger says nothing of this in his memoirs and mentions Halperin in passing about four times.) Halperin left the NSC in September 1969 after only nine months but the tapping continued until February 1971. Halperin was also placed on Nixon's Enemies List.
He was a friend of Daniel Ellsberg. When Ellsberg was investigated in connection with the Pentagon Papers, suspicion fell on Halperin, who some Nixon aides believed had kept classified documents when he left government service. John Dean claimed that Jack Caulfield had told him of a plan to fire-bomb the Brookings Institution, Halperin's employer, to destroy Halperin's files.
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Morton H. Halperin is Senior Advisor for the (((SOROS)Open Society Institute. Halperin created the OSI DC office and oversaw all policy advocacy on U.S. and international issues, including promotion of human rights and support for open societies abroad.
In 2008, after controversy concerning his support of new surveillance powers and immunity under the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, his status was changed to that of a consultant in order to in his words "leave myself free to speak out more freely on the substance of these issues".[1] He became a full time employee of the Open Society Institute in May 2009.
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Self-Determination In The New World Order
Morton H. Halperin and David J. Scheffer with Patricia Small Reviewed by Andrew J. Pierre - Winter 1992/93
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"Fishbowl DC reported this morning that Time's Mark Halperin "has a filthy, dirty mouth," quoting from his interview yesterday with Sirius Radio's Bill Geddie:
BILL GEDDIE: Haven't we heard all along that [John Edwards] doesn't like [Hillary Clinton], haven't we heard this?
MARK HALPERIN: Yes, that's right. And I can tell you, he's really skeptical of her ability to be the kind of president he wants. But, he kinda thinks Obama is..he thinks Obama is kind of a p***y.He has real questions about Obama's toughness, his readiness for the office.he has real doubts about Obama, not just as a president, but as a general election candidate.
This afternoon, Halperin issued a very vague apology on Time.com's The Page:
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**Start keeping a list of those commentators, journalists, political analysts, etc. whom you note are employing these scurrilous practices, and especially those who don't counter the lies they know are lies in interviews, and post a vanity and ping a few of us so we can take action. We fight on!