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Woo HOOOOOOO!!! My husband, son and I just got back from our caucus at Cimmaron Memorial High School in northwest Las Vegas. Here's the count from Precinct 2455: Fred Thompson - 4 Mitt Romney - 3 Ron Paul - 2 Mike Huckabee - 1 McCain, Giuliani, Hunter - 0 votes each My favorite memory of this caucus: When the votes were being tallied up, a Ron Paul guy gasped in amazement, "Thompson!" More good news: I'm going to be a county delegate! [insert earpiercing shriek of Republican joy] more...

We are six percent or less of the world's population, yet we give almost half. We are a very small number of people, relatively speaking, and we carry the weight of a dozen countries. Secondly, we maintain a military structure that keeps the peace of the world...Who is in the Indian Ocean with the aircraft carriers, helicopters, skilled personal? No one has the infrastructure in the world, we spend almost half a trillion dollars a year on our military structure, which is essentially the fire department of the planet and it is always at the disposal of people hit in...

RatherBiased.com reports that a huge debate is raging within CBS: Should the entire Memogate report be released or just an editted 'public' version? WOW!!! How outrageous is it that they even consider turning loose anything less than the full and complete report? What does this indicate? The Memogate report is thorough and truthful.A certain highly-insulated group at CBS still thinks they are above accountability. What to watch for: CBS will claim they had no choice but to edit out certain portions of the report because of 'personnel policies' protecting the 'privacy of employees'.Release of an editted Memogate report will result...

12/1/04 Anybody watch the special 2-hour Tom Brokaw Retrospective this past Friday night? Me neither. But today we celebrate the reason for the big deal: the retirement of Tom Brokaw after 20 years anchoring NBC Nightly News. Tonight's broadcast will be his last sit-down at the anchor desk! Brokaw saw himself has unbiased: "The idea that we would set out, consciously or unconsciously, to put some kind of ideological framework over what we are doing is nonsense." (on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, 5/25/01) While it is true that Brokaw may have spent less time in the crosshairs of media bias activists...

Fairpress.org, the public web site of the Citizens Coalition for Responsible Media, is once again experiencing regular updates. Everyone is invited to check it out! On the Front Page, we now have the Action Corner which features media bias activism projects. Old favorites like Say What?! and Media Bias 101 continue as before. Our Media Rolodex has been recently updated for your freeping pleasure. Use it in good health. Media Bias News has moved from the Front Page to its own blog page and is updated daily with links to media bias and related news stories. Another new blog, Media...

Propaganda Pete03/31/2003 Poetic justice played out today when foreign correspondent Peter Arnett, recently of NBC and National Geographic, managed to hang himself with his own noose - metaphorically speaking. Working from Baghdad, on Sunday, 03/30/03, he gave an interview to Iraqi TV that amounted to a heaping helping of propaganda. Here are some snippets. Judge for yourself: "The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces." The above statement is especially egregious because it could only serve to...

April Fools! Peter Jennings Burns the ABC Affiliate Stations Crusade Against "Arrogant" ABC World News Tonight - Part 2 Pity the ABC local stations in fly-over country - day after day forced to carry the most negative, the most anti-American, pro-evil tyrant news coverage of any U.S. broadcasting network. This doesn't sit well with the viewers. They switch to CBS or NBC or perhaps even Fox News Channel to receive a more balanced presentation. Not surprisingly, ABC World News Tonight is the lowest rated evening news broadcast. The affiliates find themselves the victims of a very nasty April Fools prank!...

Call to Action:FReep Arrogant Propagandists at ABC News On March 17, the Media Research Center released an extensive study of ABC World News Tonight's reporting practices. They reviewed 234 stories from January 1 through March 7. Their findings offer disturbing evidence of an anti-American undercurrent that pervades their news broadcasts. As the MRC states in their report, ABC News "failed its promise to serve the American people as an independent and objective observer, offering straight facts and letting the people decide. Instead, ABC employed a dangerous double standard - harshly criticizing the Bush administration and its policies, but failing to...

Peter Jennings Blames the U.S. for Saddam Hussein's Cruelty03/24/2003 Last week, the Media Research Center released a report demonstrating that Peter Jennings has offered the most consistently anti-American, pro-evil dictator reporting of any U.S. news broadcast. Not surprisingly, he continues unabated. Friday night, March 21, at approximately 10:45pm EST, ABC presented a taped interview of four Iraqi women by Barbara Walters. These women, now living in the United States, told horrifying tales of Saddam Hussein's cruelty. Walters finished the interview with agreement by all the women that Iraqi citizens will be "rejoicing when the Americans arrive." Following the taped interview,...

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Bill Moyers Takes Back the Flag03/17/2003 Following the tragedy of September 11, 2001, Americans took pride and comfort in displaying our flag. It was a symbol of our unified grief and our unified resolve. It symbolized our love of freedom - a love that binds together a diverse nation. How odd, then, that Bill Moyers feels the need now to 'take' the flag 'back'. Here are his words as he ended his February 28 show, Now, on PBS: "I decided to put on my flag pin tonight. First time. Until now I haven't thought it necessary to display a little...

Then and Now: A Study in Hypocrisy at ABC News01/20/2003 The left wing propagandists at ABC News are promoting a "public service" advertisement that implies that President Bush is taking an extremely dangerous path in his approach to disarming Saddam Hussein. Here is how they described it on the Thursday's ABC World News Tonight, 01/16/2003. Peter Jennings: "An anti-war group called 'MoveOn.org' that's organized primarily over the Internet, today started airing a television commercial opposing war against Saddam Hussein. The ad remakes one of the most notorious political attack ads ever, and it is supposedly airing in 12 cities, though...

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The Paycheck Reduction Club01/13/2003 The liberal chant against President Bush's proposed tax cuts began before the details were even announced. Here are the comments on the story by the three broadcast networks. Monday Evening, 01/06/2003: It's Just Bad, Bad, Bad! [Key words & phrases: criticism, skepticism, epic battle, controversial, heavily weighted, wealthiest, wartime, blame, class warfare, throwing a bone to the rich, spend money to make money, real drag, difficult year, spending, more expensive, defensive, skewed to benefit the rich.] Tom Brokaw, NBC Nightly News: "Good evening. What's the best way to help the American economy? When Congress reconvenes tomorrow...

The Problem with Helen 11/18/2002 I will risk being acused of being mean to old people now: Helen Thomas has become a doddering idiot. She has lost all good sense if she ever had any. And look out, she's getting crazier! Check out her recent comments at MIT: "I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'" What a lovely thought! Imagine a conservative pundit saying such a thing! Yet she goes on: "I have never covered a president who actually wanted to go to war....

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Did Voters Have a Message for the Mainstream Media? 11/11/2002 As a conservative voter, I was thrilled by the outcome of last week's elections. Living in the Pacific Time zone, it was incredible to watch the Republican onslaught roll westward. In the aftermath, political junkies have spent a lot of time examining the message voters sent to Washington. As a media bias activist, I began to ponder if there was a message hidden within the vote for the mainstream media. It is well known that a majority of reporters and TV anchors are of the Democratic persuasion. The fact that...

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The Propaganda Ministry Sticks To The Comfortable FactsThe Other Side of the Coin10/28/2002 Early Thursday morning, two suspects were arrested in the Beltway Sniper serial murder case. These individuals turned out to be a U.S. citizen in his forties with a past military career and known ties to the Nation of Islam and a teenage illegal alien from Jamaica. This flew directly in the face of "common knowledge" expounded by media pundits and profilers: the perpetrators of these heinous murders were most likely white southern males - hunters, NRA members and politically conservative. What are media propagandists to do under...