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What media bias? This media bias … Right after President Bush’s address to the nation last night, ABC reporter Dean Reynolds went out interviewing Katrina victims. He asked Bush-bashing baiting questions, however the woman he interviewed didn’t bite on to it. Note: Around the 17 second mark you can tell Reynolds cut her off to ask her another question because he was unhappy with the result. DOWNLOAD and view video here. >>> http://thepoliticalteen.com/video/abcrey.wmv

Diebold hires top Dem for PR blitz Former party chairman make the case for voting to California By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER With a phone call and a retainer, Diebold CEO Walden O'Dell has launched former Democratic National Committee chairman Joe Andrew on a 50-state ambassadorship for electronic voting. O'Dell said he ``wanted to reframe some of the issues,'' Andrew said. His first stop: California, the nation's largest market for voting machines and the place where Diebold's fortunes as the largest supplier of electronic-voting machines in the nation could be made or broken. ``Even if you have tremendous success every...

PHILADELPHIA -- Violence between biotech protesters and police in Center City Philadelphia has turned tragic. A Philadelphia police officer has died after a scuffle in Center City on Tuesday. The officer, Paris Williams, 52, may have died from a heart attack but homicide is also investigating the case. He is a 19-year veteran. Williams collapsed near the end of a brawl between protesters and police that lasted for several minutes near 12th and Arch Streets. Some protesters were seen being taken away in handcuffs by police after the incident. The fallen officer was taken away in an ambulance. Police department...

NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Students for Saving Social Security (SSSS) is a non-partisan, grassroots campaign on college campuses across the nation advocating for Social Security reform through personal ownership. SSSS is leading the charge to inform and mobilize today's college students to advocate for personal accounts. Unlike Rock the Vote, SSSS represents the interest of the vast majority of college students who want the choice of personal accounts and no tax hikes. On Friday April 29th SSSS will be holding a nation-wide rally on 75 campuses across the nation. Students will be setting up information booths,...

Free and Honest elections are the very foundation..... Those who would work counter to this principle should be held to account and appropriate safeguards should be adopted to protect votes of all citizens.

The fledgling liberal radio talkshow network is coming to the nation’s capitol in January. And as a longtime resident of the Washington area, I say bring it on. snip Moreover, the new network (amply subsidized by left-wing moneybags) poses no threat to conservative talk radio. All it will do is drain listeners and viewers from the mainstream media. These are the folks who think Dan Rather and other TV network anchors are not blunt enough in denouncing everything conservative, Republican or pro-American. For them, the superficially high-toned style in NPR’s “All Things Beaten to Death” is weak tea. This niche...

“Dissent From Liberalism- An Ode To Our Misguided Liberal Friends” An Ode to Liberals Is now past due, They claim they’re the majority, And the Right are the few. Their distortions and lies Plaster our views With a media-blitzed cloak Of flocculent pooh. “They stole the election” Their mantras rant While their own miss-counters Stuffed chads in their pants And demanded recounts In three crooked Democrat counties. “Let every vote count” They high-handedly pushed, Unless it was overseas military Voting for Bush. “You have no compassion” They rave with conviction While buying votes with free money Is their true predilection....

Joan Vennochi said - "The day after the election, a group of women was sitting shiva in my health club locker room. Huddled together, they asked, `How could Kerry have lost? How could Americans be so stupid?' I meekly asked the most vocal if she thought everyone who voted for Bush was stupid. `Yes,' she said. `Stupid, stupid, stupid.' "I guess that makes me stupid. I'm one of those nameless people in Massachusetts with a full set of teeth and lots of education who voted for Bush and won't tell anyone. Not even my best friend who lives 2,000 miles...

AN ISSUE as urgent as the future of marriage in America deserved more than the three minutes CBS newsman Bob Schieffer allowed it during last week's debate between President Bush and Senator John Kerry. And it deserved a more thoughtful introduction than Schieffer's irrelevant question... The president explained why a constitutional amendment is the only option for those who want to preserve the timeless understanding of marriage as the union of a man and a woman. There is already a federal law on the books -- the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act -- that purports to do just that. "But...

The failure of the Bush team to produce any weapons of mass destruction (W.M.D.'s) in Iraq is becoming a big, big story. But is it the real story we should be concerned with? No. It was the wrong issue before the war, and it's the wrong issue now. Why? Because there were actually four reasons for this war: the real reason, the right reason, the moral reason and the stated reason. The "real reason" for this war, which was never stated, was that after 9/11 America needed to hit someone in the Arab-Muslim world. Afghanistan wasn't enough because a terrorism...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, deputy commander of armed forces under Saddam Hussein, was captured Sunday near Tikrit by the Iraqi national guard and U.S. troops, the Iraqi Defense Ministry said. The Pentagon had no immediate confirmation. He was the highest-level Iraqi official not yet captured. Last November, the U.S. military announced a $10 million reward for information leading to his capture. The military said al-Duri was organizing many attacks by insurgents in Iraq. Al-Duri was number six on the U.S. military's list of 55 most wanted Iraqi officials, which described him as vice chairman of Saddam's Revolutionary...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- MoveOn PAC today released a new 30-second TV spot attacking George W. Bush for failing to call on one of his major donors -- a long-time associate of Karl Rove and leading Texas Republican funder -- to stop the smear campaign on John Kerry (news - web sites)'s Vietnam service being run by a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The ads, which start running in three states and nationally Tuesday, call on the President to personally denounce the ads for their false and misleading attacks on Senator Kerry -- just as Senator...

"You mentioned un-American ... what did you mean?" McNickle asked. "I didn't say that," Heinz Kerry responded heatedly three times. Shove-It!!! Place your vote --- Was Teresa's comment Appropriate or Inappropriate GO TO THIS LINK and VOTE http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/politics/3576908/detail.html

Two recent reports allow us to revisit one of the great non-stories, and one of the great missed stories, of the Iraq war argument. The non-story is the alleged martyrdom of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wilson, supposed by many to have suffered cruel exposure for their commitment to the truth. The missed story is the increasing evidence that Niger, in West Africa, was indeed the locus of an illegal trade in uranium ore for rogue states including Iraq. The Senate's report on intelligence failures would appear to confirm that Valerie Plame did recommend her husband Joseph Wilson for the mission...

Katie Couric says that NBC will cover the conventions and presidential election based upon the input of the audience. Here is your chance to tell them what you want to see on NBC. Seems to me that we should vote for Impact of Terrorism to make sure that Katie has a lot of fun....

LAST YEAR at this time, the media were in full scandal mode over 16 words that President Bush had spoken nearly six months earlier. "The British government has learned," Bush had said in his State of the Union address in January, "that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." A furor erupted over that statement when a CIA consultant and ex-diplomat named Joseph Wilson, who had gone to Niger in 2002 to look into the matter, publicly claimed that the charge wasn't true. The White House agreed that the line shouldn't have been in Bush's speech, but...

Tom Donohue, head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has made a public vow: If John Edwards is chosen as John Kerry's running mate, the chamber will abandon its traditional stance of neutrality in the presidential race and work feverishly to defeat the Democratic ticket. "We'd get the best people and the greatest assets we can rally" to the cause, he says. Other business leaders in Washington have been less public and less precise, but no less passionate. Reviewing the candidates in the Democratic primaries earlier this year, a Fortune 100 chief executive who is active in Washington told me...

I'm Rob Reiner, and I Approve this Message Moveon.org, a political advocacy group, has enlisted the help of popular culture's most talented celebrities in the war to defeat Bush in 2004 By MATTHEW COOPER The liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org has already proved to be a force in the campaign to defeat President Bush, but it is about to get a big infusion of help from Hollywood. MoveOn's Political Action Committee, MoveOnPac, last week announced that documentary filmmaker Errol Morris (The Fog of War) will produce a series of campaign ads. The group is also about to announce that it has...

June 3, 2004 -- Excerpts from President Bush's remarks at yesterday's Air Force Academy graduation ceremony. IN some ways, this struggle we're in is unique. In other ways, it resembles the great clashes of the last century — between those who put their trust in tyrants and those who put their trust in liberty. Our goal, the goal of this generation, is the same: We will secure our nation and defend the peace through the forward march of freedom.

Posted from Union Leader ************************************ OF ALL PEOPLE, liberal New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd christened Al Gore, Howard Dean and their compatriots “the wackadoo wing of the Democratic Party.” She did this yesterday, after Gore gave a ranting, Deanesque speech denouncing George Bush on Wednesday. “John Kerry’s advisers were surprised and annoyed to hear that Mr. Gore hollered so much, he made Howard Dean look like George Pataki. They don’t want voters to be reminded of the wackadoo wing of the Democratic Party,” she wrote. “They would like Mr. Gore, who brought bad karma to Mr. Dean with his...