Media Bias Outrage of the Week - ABC's Terry Moran, Character Assassin

Citizens Coalition for Responsible Media (CCRM) ^ | 05/08/2002 | Peacerose

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ABC's Terry Moran:
Character Assassin

05/06/2002
Here is the ultimate example of twisting words! ABC's Terry Moran has made House Majority Leader Dick Armey into the equivalent of Slobodan Milosevic! Wednesday evening, 05/01/2002, on MSNBC's Hardball, Rep. Armey made the statement that "there are many Arab nations that have many hundreds of thousands of acres of land and soil and property and opportunity to create a Palestinian state." He further explained:

"I am content to have Israel occupy that land that it now occupies and to have those people who have been aggressors against Israel retire to some other arena and I would be happy to have them make a home. I would be happy to have all of these Arab nations that have been so Hell-bent to drive Israel out of the Middle East, to get together, find some land and make a home for the Palestinians. I think it can be done."

As I read it, this is simply Dick Armey's opinion, an idea tossed out on the table. Yet look what this idea becomes in the liberal mind of Terry Moran. At the White House briefing Thursday, 05/02//2002, he initiated the following exchange with Ari Fleischer:

Moran: "One more on a different subject, the House Majority Leader, Mr. Armey, suggested on an appearance on Hardball that it would be preferable for Israel to keep the West Bank and for the Palestinian people there to be transferred, ethnically cleansed. What does the President think of this? He [Armey] didn't use those words."
Fleischer: "Yeah. Did the Majority Leader use those words?" Moran: "He said that they should leave."
Fleischer, answering his own question: "He did not."
Moran: "That's the way Milosevic said it, he never said ethnic cleansing either. And I wondered what the President felt about this high official of the United States government calling for the forcible transfer of -"
Fleischer: "Well, Terry, given your characterization of it I think it's only fair to go back and read the words with precision before I would give you a comment on something based on the way you've asked the question."

We all know what kind of ethnic cleansing Milosevic practiced! Certainly Rep. Armey was not suggesting the mass murder of the Palestinian people. And it seems unlikely his idea would ever get off the ground. Perhaps it is most accurately described as an expression of frustration with the so-called "Middle East peace process" and the lack of positive involvement from Islamic countries that claim to care.

Yet common sense will never deter a reporter from ABC News from attempting to place a Republican, a conservative, in a bad light. Even so, the Milosevic comparison is truly an outrageous stretch. As NewsMax.com asked, "How about a forcible transfer of Terry Moran from the White House?" You could call it "Ethical cleansing."

If you would like to express your disgust with Moran's distortion, the contact information is below:

ABC News
77 West 66th Street
New York, New York 10023
Phone 212-456-7777
FAX 212-456-4292

World News Tonight e-mail contact page

Read more here:

MRC CyberAlert, 05/03/2002
NewsMax.com: ABC's Terry Moran Distorts Armey's Remarks

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[Bahbah]

Thanks for the ping. I will share my reactions with Mr. Moran.

[Dales]

So which is it- are you Terry Moran, or did both of you get your talking points from the same DNC mailing?

[Nathan _in_Arkansas]

I just wrote the bastards at ABC. I let 'em know what I thought, in a polite but firm manner.

[farmfriend]

I love sharing my opinion.

[nothingnew]

Who's Terry Maroon?

FMCDH

[E.G.C.]

And a "moderate risk of servere weather here in Southwest Oklahoma watching it very closely" bump to you and the good folks at CCRM. Thanks for the bump and the article.

Please support CCRM, everybody. Let's continue to hold these news organizations feet to the fire.
Regards.

[BufordP]

Terry "The Moron"

[Diddle E. Squat]

Terry 'the law is basically a white-man's concept of control' Moron?

[Landru]

Sorry; I never heard of the fish-lipped Socialist sycophant DNC shill Terry Moron before you mentioned It here.
I highly doubt many others of any consequence ever heard of the imbecile, either; let alone sat-up & took notice to anything coming outa his piehole aside from the gobs spittle & drool.

Besides; sounds like Fletcher dusted 'em off like the *tick* he is, anyway.
And quite painlessly, most effortlessly at that.

~eh?
What'chu doing watchin' that seedy peep-show @ PMSNBC, anyway?

...go this *instant* (!!) & wash yo' eyes out with soap!!

;^)

[TheGrimReaper]

Of course you've never heard of this buffoon.... ABC hasn't had a decent "journalist" since... uh.... well, uh.....
OK - Never mind.

[glock rocks]

I would be happy to have all of these Arab nations that have been
so Hell-bent to drive Israel out of the Middle East, to get together, find
some land and make a home for the Palestinians. I think it can be done.

might i suggest france? properly done, as a package deal,
throw in abc, little peter, and moron. hell, give em cbs.

top it off with a few marxist actors, singers and yak-show hosts,
throw in some cheap wine, cheese... sweet deal.

[Landru]

"Of course you've never heard of this buffoon...ABC hasn't had a decent 'journalist' since...uh....well, uh... OK - Never mind."

HA!!
There; all *fixed*.
Might not be grammatically correct; but, what the hell.
It's more accurate! {g}

...hope you don't my taking an *indecent* liberty with your rant. :o)

[Snow Bunny]

BUMP for stopping anti American UN American Media Bias!!!!

[TheGrimReaper]

...hope you don't [mind] my taking an *indecent* liberty with your rant

Not at all.
As long as I can **rant**, you are free to do what you will.

Hey! Do you remember when Walter Cronkite was a good journalist???

Naaaaaah..... me neither.

[ForGod'sSake]

Well, if Terry Maroon were in the print media; nothing more than Creative Writing 101. More and more it seems these people are over the edge. I would recommend counseling for the whole lot. It's my humble opinion they have all fallen off the reality wagon; fiction would be more their cup o' tea, but I suspect they can't sit still long enough to put more than a couple of sentences together.

Hiyer Snow Bunny.....

FGS

[Snow Bunny]

Hi my friend. Good post.

[Deathmonger]

So which is it- are you Terry Moran, or did both of you get your talking points from the same DNC mailing?

Neither, but Ari sure is a genius at dodging questions!

Armey said that he supported the mass transfer of Palis from their present homes to somewhere else. Whatever you want to call it--ethnic cleansing, job relocation, Israeli peace concession--that's what he said. I don't know what all the screeching regarding Moran is about--it seemed like a reasonable question to ask whether the President agrees with Armey or not.