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Nomorelies
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 Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:44 pm Post subject: Wash. Times asks the questions other media will not |
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In the run-up to this election the mainstream media blindly staked its reputation, credibility and fortunes on a man who has proven that he has no sense of loyalty to anyone or anything. John Kerry has not held a single press conference or television interview where he has been asked a single tough question. Even during the debates when tough questions were asked of him (although not many) he proved himself to be the artful dodger by avoiding the question altogether and deflecting to another subject upon which he could attack the President. John Kerry has not answered the questions because no one has asked them. And, the masses of gullible voters don't even get it. They blindly confuse campaign rhetoric with truth. A campaign platform built on vitriolic hate of President Bush and empty, unchallenged "plans" is all he has to offer. To this end, Diana West has written this excellent article:
THE MEDIA FOR KERRY
| Quote: | .....Indeed, does Mr. Kerry still believe North Vietnam "liberated" South Vietnam, and that the conflict itself was not a front in the Cold War? We saw valedictory comments from Mr. Kerry on Ronald Reagan's death, but we have no idea whether he still reviles the Reagan years as a "moral blackness." We don't know because no one in the MSM has asked him. This glaring failure makes a mockery of the media. It leaves us gasping for facts. It also explains the volcanic eruption of alternative sources of campaign information like the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the newsies of the blogosphere, and a slew of independent ads and documentaries, including "Stolen Honor." Such activity has injected vital blasts of oxygen into otherwise stilted coverage.
But in the land of the free and the free press, we shouldn't have to rely on the unique gumption of, say, a John O'Neill, the Swiftee spokesman who went so far as to write a best-selling book about John Kerry ("Unfit for Command") to publicize crucial information the MSM ignored. I remember well the veritable news blackout on the Swift Boat vets when they first assembled last spring in downtown Washington. The Associated Press didn't even send a correspondent, calling the group's press conference "old news"before it happened. |
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20041021-100643-8508r.htm
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Truegrit
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:05 pm Post subject: Right on |
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The Washington Times (not WaPo) has it right: the MSM failed in their duty to serve as a watchdog for the public. They failed to give Kerry's background the scrutiny it richly deserved.
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Rdtf
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| yep -big difference between the 2 papers, unfotunately. The Washington Times is very conservative and is considered a tabloid paper by some -because they see articles in it not seen in other papers or on the news. |
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Anker-Klanker
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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That is one d___ fine article. I captures a lot of the frustration I've had over the last few months. The author, Diana West, is not one of us, is she?
Sinclair Broadcasting and the Washington Times are my heroes in this whole sordid mess we've been seeing. Just wish I lived in an area where I could support them more... |
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Dimsdale
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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The MSM is a joke. This quote from West's article sums it up nicely:
| Quote: | | The fact is, never before have mainstream media (MSM) organizations, and I mean the hunters and gatherers of news, not its cooks and consumers, sunk so deep in the tank for a Democratic ticket. The election is days away, but vital questions about Mr. Kerry remain not just unanswered in MSM outlets, but unasked. This is evidence of the efficiency with which the only-selectively adversarial media have embraced the role of Democratic star-maker, not newsmaker. |
Nothing exemplifies this liberal bias more than this election cycle. Never have I seen such blatant and egregious examples of outright partisanship in the MSM, and all in the direction of the liberals and Kerry.
This lesson cannot be lost after the election, because from this point on, every citizen of this country must be taught to view the "news" that the MSM reports through the prism of their unapologetic leftist slant. Everyone has to realize that they are only getting HALF of the news, and the left half at that.
Anyone hear anything about the Rather forgery story lately? How about the lies of Joe Wilson? Richard Clarke? Sandy Berger? The Halperin memo? The "I LIE" next to President Bush's head in an NBC chiron? More inportantly, the charges of the Swiftees?
No you haven't. Because the MSM is infested with liberals with no journalistic integrity. Maybe conservative journalists aren't much better, but the ones that survive the conservative culling effect in the liberally oriented J-schools are clearly the cream of the crop. Brit Hume is a superb example of a finely honed conservative reporter, while the likes of Juan Williams exemplifies the liberal hack reporter. Rather got caught breaking every rule of ethical journalism, and still has a job, the same job he had before the scandal. In the meantime, a Fox reporter almost loses his job because a parody story about Kerry as a metrosexual mistakenly got on the FoxNews webpage. What a difference.
For the hardcore Kerryites, liberals, socialists (is there a difference?) and Democrats, this liberal bias is a clear plus. It is the people with open minds, and better, functioning computers, that we have to constantly teach remind. It is too easy and commonplace for a viewer or reader to assume that "it must be true if they can report on it." Nothing could be further from the truth. Both the halftruths of what they do report, and what the omit, can completely tilt a story in the direction they like.
I used to be an independent, but after watching what they did to the Swiftees, I think it is time to change my affiliation to Republican. It won't change the political tint in Massachusetts, but it is a start.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:17 pm Post subject: NOV. 3, 2004 NEW YORK TIMES, |
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AS YOU KNOW WE HAVE BEEN EXPOSING THE PROBLEMS WITH KERRY
FROM THE TIME HE ENTERED THE RACE, THIS VOTE OF THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE SHOWS WE WERE CORRECT.
WE WERE RIGHT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY MADE A HUGE MISTAKE IN
THIS NOMINATION, THEY HAD BETTER LISTEN TO US NEXT TIME.
AND THE BAND WILL PLAY ON.
NEWS DESK DICTIONARY AT NEW YUCK TIMES
"plagir-lie-some" to use and pass off as one's own ideas and writings
on those who's ideas and writings are baised on
John Kerrys lies and ideas.
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coldwarvet
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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The MSM has earned a big F during this election cycle.
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Rdtf
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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I just took the time to read the article - excellent . If she is not one of us, she has certainly read our thoughts. My hat's off to you, Diana West.
She points out the most obvious thing about this election and Kerry - the media is covering up for him, making sure that the important questions are not asked and answered. It would seemthat the average American would figure that out. But we have been conditioned to believe what the MSM says, that is why half of America is falling for it. Sinister, scary, troubling, to say the least. |
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leeinwv
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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| great article |
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helpmycountry
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| Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 2:05 am Post subject: Reagan said he saw BOOGY BEARS |
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I have old newspaper articles with Reagan saying Kerry saw Boogy bears in other countries that other people did not see .The newspaper writer said that he must have learned of them in rich prep school debates
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| Anker-Klanker wrote: | That is one d___ fine article. I captures a lot of the frustration I've had over the last few months. The author, Diana West, is not one of us, is she?
Sinclair Broadcasting and the Washington Times are my heroes in this whole sordid mess we've been seeing. Just wish I lived in an area where I could support them more... |
Scratch Sinclair from this list, after they crumbled to the threats and turned their "airing" of Stolen Honor into "the Biggest Nothing" of the week. |
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Anker-Klanker
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| Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Scratch Sinclair from this list |
Roger that! |
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