The PATHETIC Liberal Media!
Today marks the Wisconsin primary, the coronation of John Kerry as the
Democratic presidential nominee, and the completion of the destruction
of the dreams of America's Deanie Babies. As of tomorrow Howard Dean
has no campaign strategy, no campaign airplane, no campaign schedule
and no campaign manager. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
Will today also mark the end of this absurd story about Bush's service
in the National Guard? Hopefully ... but probably not.
Did you folks know that about one week ago U.S. intelligence operatives
uncovered a memo from a leading terrorist bemoaning the level of
American success in Iraq? The memo was from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, one
of the world's most wanted Islamic terrorists today. Al-Zarqawi was
exhorting Al Qaeda to promote a Sunni - Shiite civil war in Iraq, the
only way he sees to turn around the American success in Iraq.
We're winning! That's news, isn't it? A leading Islamic terrorist
says that the United States is "suffocating" the jihad in the Middle
East! Isn't that just what we went over there to do? Don't you think
that's news?
Apparently it's not.
Columnist Diana West searched the transcripts of the White House media
briefings for last week and found that there was only one question
about the memo. Only one. The enemy admits it's losing, and this gets
only one question. But what about President Bush's service in the
National Guard? Well, that issue brought over 100 questions. We're
fighting a war on terror in the middle east. The enemy is bemoaning
our successes, and questions about Vietnam rather than the war on
terror overwhelm White House press
briefings by a factor of over 100 to 1.
I think that former ABC news correspondent Peter Collins pretty well
sums things up. He says that there is a working template that the
mainstream Washington and DC press corps is using to formulate its
coverage of both the war on terror and the presidential campaign. That
template is summed up in four words: "Democrats good. Bush bad." If
there is a news story out there that can make George Bush look bad, the
media is going to pursue that story to the end. If there's a story
that makes Democrats look good, the media will go for it.
The National Guard story had the potential (though unfulfilled) to make
Bush look bad ... so the press rode it for all it was worth. The
al-Zaqawi memo had the potential of making Bush look good. It was
ignored.
Let's not leave this discussion without addressing John Kerry's little
bimbo eruption last week. This is a story that was largely ignored by
the mainstream political press. Let's turn the clock back to 1992.
The Drudge Report contains this summary of media reaction to a rumor of
an affair George H.W. Bush, who was running for reelection. A book hit
the newsstands with a quote contained in a footnote. The quote was
from a long-dead ambassador. The ambassador said that he had arranged
a little afternoon delight for George Bush 38 back in 1984. The media
jumped on this like a crow on a June Bug. A CNN reporter confronted
Bush with the allegation as he was hosting the Israeli Prime Minister
in his office.
Drudge compiled this brilliant flashback into how the media grilled
George H.W. Bush over claims of infidelity in 1992. Now, contrast that
flashback from Drudge to this story in which a reporter from the
Washington Post says they wouldn't run the story about a Kerry affair
even if someone produced photographs. So, you have to ask yourself
whether or not the media has a different standard for Republicans and
Democrats. Duh! And here's a good wrap-up from World Net Daily.
A brief sidestep here .... what of the Kerry infidelity story? Isn't
it a bit odd how the father of Alex Polier changed his story over the
course of a few days? In this story the father of Alex Polier is
quoted as saying that he thinks that John Kerry is a "sleazeball."
Terry Polier said "He's not the sort of guy I would choose to be with
my daughter." Then, yesterday Terry Polier issues another statement.
This time saying that he intends to vote for him for president of the
United States.
Let's just take one example here. Joe Conason wrote a story in Salon
last week about the alleged Kerry affair. Conason wrote "But the kind
of proof usually required by national news organizations isn't what
Drudge needs in order to put innuendo into circulation."
So .. Joe Conason pursues a high standard before he puts innuendo into
circulation? Back to the 1992 rumors about Bush 38. Back then Drudge
reveals that Conason wrote a magazine article entitled "1,000 Reasons
Not to Vote for George Bush." Reason number one was "He cheats on his
wife."
You get the picture here, don't you? For more you can Just read
Drudge's summary to see the extent to which the media went to pursue
the 1992 Bush rumor, and to ignore the 2004 Kerry rumor.
Most of you are unaware of a little gem that appeared on an ABC News
website last week. It was written by ABC News Political Director Mark
Halpern. Halpern wrote:
"The Washington and political press corps are biased. There's a
universal sense that liberal political positions on social issues like
gun control, homosexuality, abortion and religion are the norm. That
there's a belief that government is a mechanism to solve the nation's
problems. That more taxes on corporations and the wealthy are good,
and the press does not accept President Bush's justifications for the
Iraqi war."
Know this. Over 90% of the people who bring you your news every
morning in The New York Times, USA Today and your local newspaper will
vote for John Kerry in this year's presidential election. Most of
these people will be using that "Democrats good; Bush bad" template for
their coverage.
The vast majority of the mainstream media believes that George Bush is
bad and must be replaced. They will be doing everything they can in
their "objective" coverage of this campaign to see to it that this
comes to pass.
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Left-wing liberals are EVERYTHING they accuse the right of being. They
are mean, vicious, hateful, greedy, cold-hearted, closed-minded,
selfish, intolerant, bigoted and racist.
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