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Are Media Wisely Running Away From Bogus Rush 'Phony Soldiers' Story?
By Noel Sheppard | October 2, 2007 - 11:39 ET
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/02/are-media-wisely-running-away-bogus-rush-phony-soldiers-story
On Monday, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) stepped onto the floor
of the Senate and strongly denounced talk radio host Rush Limbaugh for
what have proven to be out of context statements made by the
conservative personality on his program last Wednesday.
Yet, with the exception of a CNN segment aired Monday, and articles by
Fox News, USA Today's On Politics blog, The Hill, NewsMax, and the New
York Post, virtually no major media outlets covered Reid's statements.
Not the New York Times. Not the Washington Post. Ditto all three
broadcast network evening news programs Monday, and the Associated
Press.
This raises an important question:
Have most major press outlets correctly concluded that the leftwing
organization Media Matters did indeed cherry-pick and misrepresent
Limbaugh's statements thereby making earlier reports on the subject
erroneous?
Or, did they recognize how hypocritical it would be to castigate
Limbaugh for basically reiterating what ABC's Brian Ross and Charles
Gibson reported last Monday evening just two days before Rush made his
statements?
Of course, a more cynical view would be that the media - now that it
has been shown that Democrat presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton
admitted her connection to Media Matters - want to bury this story as
quickly as possible so as to shelter her and her husband from any
scrutiny concerning these ties.
Regardless of the reason, there's been a peculiar silence regarding
Reid's statements Monday, and, although the leftwing organization
VoteVets.org is about to run a rather disgraceful ad denouncing
Limbaugh, most media outlets appear to be running away from this story
as fast as they can.
Whether this continues is anyone's guess, as is the cause.
Stay tuned.
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Whether this continues is anyone's guess, as is the cause.
Stay tuned.
Censured by YOUTUBE, Limbaugh Phony Soldiers video
This is a remake of the Rush Limbaugh Phony Soldiers video I uploaded
to YOUTUBE that they pulled from their server. The only changes I made
were the pictures. The original film had images of the devastation of
war, on all people involved, the men, women and children caught in the
horrors of war. I don't know why YOUTUBE pulled the video but I
thought perhaps it was because of those sad pictures. We Americans get
a WHITEWASHED version of the war and maybe YOUTUBE wanted to keep it
that way...
6:17
http://videos.camaroz28.com/video/6ebe1dc3-e5e0-4a3a-bcc4-99d401031775.htm
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Limbaugh cultists are like Schlessinger's, they are organized...
They attacked Leslie Bennett's book before reading it...
http://lolita-lolita17.blogspot.com/2007/04/santa-barbaras-laura-schlessinger.html
LaPlante, who basically agreed with her about whining but made the
mistake of quoting her...
http://lolita-lolita17.blogspot.com/2007/05/whats-troubling-however-is-her-role-as.html
I know where rush Got the 2 Million Donation 10/27/2007
http://forums.scout.com/mb.aspx?S=7&F=1405&T=1296720&P=1#s=7&f=1405&t=1296720
I've heard of this one before, he's been doing it a few years. Since
he's on the boards and such you have to trust Limbaugh or you get the
snake oil, promotional aspect of this
"On Friday, Limbaugh announced his "Adopt a Soldier Program". This
involves soliciting money from listeners to pay for subscriptions to
the Limbaugh letter and Rush 24/7 that will be "given" to the
soldiers. Each listener can "adopt" as many soldiers as they wish who
will each get a subscription. The donor pays the discounted price of
$49.95 for each soldier.
The description is on Rush's web site here... Adopt a Soldier Program"
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/rush_24_7_adopt_a_soldier.guest.html
Poor Limbaugh... no wonder they say "YAWN" and no one cares... why
would a Ditto want this scrutinized. Even the shady "legal" snow jobs
they use to bilk suckers. As long as it's not their grandma, who isn't
in control of a $294 million foundation like EAR doctors darling,
Betty Casey. Butt boil therapy...
http://www.pedisurg.com/PtEduc/Pilonidal_Cyst.htm
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.showbiz.gossip/browse_frm/thread/f0b7c0bafaa64629#
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HELP Laura Bush REMEMBER HER LOST CHARITY (PR advantages ran out)
Laura Bush Carries Pet Causes to Afghans for 6 hours in 2005... that
was it
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/31/international/asia/31laura.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
The last wash of Afghan news came when, after a year of planning,
Laura Bush made it there for six hours last week to "offer support for
Afghan women in their struggle for greater rights," to meet President
Hamid Karzai, and to have a meal with American troops at Bagram Air
Base. (Headlines were of the "Laura Bush Pledges More Aid for
Afghanistan," "Laura Bush in Afghanistan to Back Women's Education,"
"First Lady Drops in on Afghanistan" variety.) Standing next to an
Afghan woman, shovel in hand, she also had her picture taken and
disseminated in the American press. The caption in my hometown paper
says she was "posing for a photograph at a women's dorm at Kabul
University and planting a tree." As a photo, nationalities aside, it
might easily have graced the pages of Soviet Life magazine and come
from a distant imperial era.
TODAY WORSE SUFFERING:
Where's Laura?
http://www.unobserver.com/layout4.php?id=3999&blz=1
American families
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j0-xUd2zhmiTGGli9hbibe8QBNpwD8SH55E00
Stop bombing us, Afghanistan president tells U.S.
http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/294482/cs/1/
broadcast biz
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.royalty/browse_frm/thread/433dcf8d82f99c1a/775bfade001678d6#775bfade001678d6
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TRANSCRIPT:
From the September 26 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush
Limbaugh Show:
LIMBAUGH: Mike in Chicago, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER 1: Hi Rush, how you doing today?
LIMBAUGH: I'm fine sir, thank you.
CALLER 1: Good. Why is it that you always just accuse the
Democrats of being against the war and suggest that there are
absolutely no Republicans that could possibly be against the war?
LIMBAUGH: Well, who are these Republicans? I can think of Chuck
Hagel, and I can think of Gordon Smith, two Republican senators, but
they don't want to lose the war like the Democrats do. I can't think
of -- who are the Republicans in the anti-war movement?
CALLER 1: I'm just -- I'm not talking about the senators. I'm
talking about the general public -- like you accuse the public of all
the Democrats of being, you know, wanting to lose, but --
LIMBAUGH: Oh, come on! Here we go again. I uttered a truth, and
you can't handle it, so you gotta call here and change the subject.
How come I'm not also hitting Republicans? I don't know a single
Republican or conservative, Mike, who wants to pull out of Iraq in
defeat. The Democrats have made the last four years about that
specifically.
CALLER 1: Well, I am a Republican, and I've listened to you for a
long time, and you're right on a lot of things, but I do believe that
we should pull out of Iraq. I don't think it's winnable. And I'm not a
Democrat, but I just -- sometimes you've got to cut the losses.
LIMBAUGH: Well, you -- you --
CALLER 1: I mean, sometimes you really gotta know when you're
wrong.
LIMBAUGH: Well, yeah, you do. I'm not wrong on this. The worst
thing that can happen is losing this, flying out of there, waving the
white flag. Do you have --
CALLER 1: Oh, I'm not saying that. I'm not saying anything like
that, but, you know --
LIMBAUGH: Well, of course you are.
CALLER 1: No, I'm not.
LIMBAUGH: Bill, the truth is -- the truth is the truth, Mike.
CALLER 1: We did what we were supposed to do, OK. We got rid of
Saddam Hussein. We got rid of a lot of the terrorists. Let them run
their country --
LIMBAUGH: Oh, good lord! Good lord.
CALLER 1: How long is it gonna -- how long do you think we're
going to have to be there for them to take care of that?
LIMBAUGH: Mike --
CALLER 1: How long -- you know -- what is it?
LIMBAUGH: Mike --
CALLER 1: What is it?
LIMBAUGH: Mike, you can't possibly be a Republican.
CALLER 1: I am.
LIMBAUGH: You are -- you are --
CALLER 1: I am definitely a Republican.
LIMBAUGH: You can't be a Republican. You are --
CALLER 1: Oh, I am definitely a Republican.
LIMBAUGH: You are tarnishing the reputation, 'cause you sound just
like a Democrat.
CALLER 1: No, but --
LIMBAUGH: The answer to your question --
CALLER 1: -- seriously, how long do we have to stay there --
LIMBAUGH: As long as it takes!
CALLER 1: -- to win it? How long?
LIMBAUGH: As long as it takes! It is very serious.
CALLER 1: And that is what?
LIMBAUGH: This is the United States of America at war with
Islamofascists. We stay as long -- just like your job. You do
everything you have to do, whatever it takes to get it done, if you
take it seriously.
CALLER 1: So then you say we need to stay there forever --
LIMBAUGH: I -- it won't --
CALLER 1: -- because that's what it'll take.
LIMBAUGH: No, Bill, or Mike -- I'm sorry. I'm confusing you with
the guy from Texas.
CALLER 1: See, I -- I've used to be military, OK? And I am a
Republican.
LIMBAUGH: Yeah. Yeah.
CALLER 1: And I do live [inaudible] but --
LIMBAUGH: Right. Right. Right, I know.
CALLER 1: -- you know, really -- I want you to be saying how long
it's gonna take.
LIMBAUGH: And I, by the way, used to walk on the moon!
CALLER 1: How long do we have to stay there?
LIMBAUGH: You're not listening to what I say. You can't possibly
be a Republican. I'm answering every question. That's not what you
want to hear, so it's not even penetrating your little wall of armor
you've got built up.
LIMBAUGH: Another Mike, this one in Olympia, Washington. Welcome
to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER 2: Hi Rush, thanks for taking my call.
LIMBAUGH: You bet.
CALLER 2: I have a retort to Mike in Chicago, because I am a
serving American military, in the Army. I've been serving for 14
years, very proudly.
LIMBAUGH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER 2: And, you know, I'm one of the few that joined the Army
to serve my country, I'm proud to say, not for the money or anything
like that. What I would like to retort to is that, if we pull -- what
these people don't understand is if we pull out of Iraq right now,
which is about impossible because of all the stuff that's over there,
it'd take us at least a year to pull everything back out of Iraq, then
Iraq itself would collapse, and we'd have to go right back over there
within a year or so. And --
LIMBAUGH: There's a lot more than that that they don't understand.
They can't even -- if -- the next guy that calls here, I'm gonna ask
him: Why should we pull -- what is the imperative for pulling out?
What's in it for the United States to pull out? They can't -- I don't
think they have an answer for that other than, "Well, we just gotta
bring the troops home."
CALLER 2: Yeah, and, you know what --
LIMBAUGH: "Save the -- keep the troops safe" or whatever. I --
it's not possible, intellectually, to follow these people.
CALLER 2: No, it's not, and what's really funny is, they never
talk to real soldiers. They like to pull these soldiers that come up
out of the blue and talk to the media.
LIMBAUGH: The phony soldiers.
CALLER 2: The phony soldiers. If you talk to a real soldier, they
are proud to serve. They want to be over in Iraq. They understand
their sacrifice, and they're willing to sacrifice for their country.
LIMBAUGH: They joined to be in Iraq. They joined --
CALLER 2: A lot of them -- the new kids, yeah.
LIMBAUGH: Well, you know where you're going these days, the last
four years, if you signed up. The odds are you're going there or
Afghanistan or somewhere.
CALLER 2: Exactly, sir.
TRANSCRIPT:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200709270010?f=h_top
This is the only transcript I could find.
PLEASE POST A LINK TO Rush Limbaugh's TRANSCRIPT. Thank you
On Oct 2, 3:22 pm, Kurt Nicklas <nickl...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
Are Media Wisely Running Away From Bogus Rush 'Phony Soldiers' Story?
By Noel Sheppard | October 2, 2007 - 11:39 ET
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/02/are-media-wisel...
On Monday, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) stepped onto the floor
of the Senate and strongly denounced talk radio host Rush Limbaugh for
what have proven to be out of context statements made by the
conservative personality on his program last Wednesday.
Yet, with the exception of a CNN segment aired Monday, and articles by
Fox News, USA Today's On Politics blog, The Hill, NewsMax, and the New
York Post, virtually no major media outlets covered Reid's statements.
Not the New York Times. Not the Washington Post. Ditto all three
broadcast network evening news programs Monday, and the Associated
Press.
This raises an important question:
Have most major press outlets correctly concluded that the leftwing
organization Media Matters did indeed cherry-pick and misrepresent
Limbaugh's statements thereby making earlier reports on the subject
erroneous?
Or, did they recognize how hypocritical it would be to castigate
Limbaugh for basically reiterating what ABC's Brian Ross and Charles
Gibson reported last Monday evening just two days before Rush made his
statements?
Of course, a more cynical view would be that the media - now that it
has been shown that Democrat presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton
admitted her connection to Media Matters - want to bury this story as
quickly as possible so as to shelter her and her husband from any
scrutiny concerning these ties.
Regardless of the reason, there's been a peculiar silence regarding
Reid's statements Monday, and, although the leftwing organization
VoteVets.org is about to run a rather disgraceful ad denouncing
Limbaugh, most media outlets appear to be running away from this story
as fast as they can.
Whether this continues is anyone's guess, as is the cause.
Stay tuned.
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29 Oct 2007 01:42:53 PM |
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On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:09:36 -0000, gc <lol777a@msn.com> wrote:
Censured by YOUTUBE, Limbaugh Phony Soldiers video
This is a remake of the Rush Limbaugh Phony Soldiers video I uploaded
to YOUTUBE that they pulled from their server. The only changes I made
were the pictures. The original film had images of the devastation of
war, on all people involved, the men, women and children caught in the
horrors of war. I don't know why YOUTUBE pulled the video but I
thought perhaps it was because of those sad pictures. We Americans get
a WHITEWASHED version of the war and maybe YOUTUBE wanted to keep it
that way...
6:17
http://videos.camaroz28.com/video/6ebe1dc3-e5e0-4a3a-bcc4-99d401031775.htm
Gone.
Let me know if you want a site to post the file on, one that won't
remove it.
--
Al at Webdingers dot com
"Never in human history have such genocide and cruelty been
witnessed. Such a genocide was never seen in the time of the pharaohs nor
of Hitler nor of Mussolini."
- Mehmet Elkatmi, head of Turkish parliament's human rights commission
on Bush's genocide in the Iraq war. 11-28-2004
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02 Oct 2007 09:13:07 PM |
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Kurt Nicklas <nicklask@bellsouth.net> allegedly said in
news:1191363732.486048.302050@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com:
Are Media Wisely Running Away From Bogus Rush 'Phony Soldiers' Story?
By Noel Sheppard | October 2, 2007 - 11:39 ET
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/02/are-media-wisely-
running-away-bogus-rush-phony-soldiers-story
BWAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH....
Wishful thinking from a reichtard blogger...
If it's so "phoney" why did the fat draft-dodging ***** EDIT the fucking
clip he sent to the AFN ???
Fucking moron....
--
AW - Head "Democrats for Larry" Campaign
<small but dangerous>
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27 Oct 2007 02:35:42 PM |
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If it's so "phoney" why did the fat draft-dodging ***** EDIT the fucking
clip he sent to the AFN ???
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Fucking moron....>
When lefties have nothing to say, they yell "racist", "sexist"
"homophobe" and/or "*****."
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27 Oct 2007 03:24:23 PM |
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On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:35:42 -0700, "bvallely@aol.com"
<bvallely@aol.com> wrote:
If it's so "phoney" why did the fat draft-dodging ***** EDIT the fucking
clip he sent to the AFN ???
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Fucking moron....>
When lefties have nothing to say, they yell "racist", "sexist"
"homophobe" and/or "*****."
And when the right has nothing to say, they get Bill Vallely to say if
for them.
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An ex-Republican.
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become. I just can’t. It just makes me sick to think all those years
of supporting this party, and this is what it has become. Even if you
don’t like the S-Chip expansion, it is hard to deny what Republicans
are- a bunch of bitter, nasty, petty, snarling, sneering, vicious
thugs, peering through people’s windows so they can make fun of their
misfortune.
I’m registering Independent tomorrow."
Putsch: leading America to asymetric warfare since 2001
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27 Oct 2007 10:04:18 PM |
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On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:35:42 -0700, "bvallely@aol.com"
<bvallely@aol.com> wrote:
If it's so "phoney" why did the fat draft-dodging ***** EDIT the fucking
clip he sent to the AFN ???
Fucking moron....>
When lefties have nothing to say, they yell "racist", "sexist"
"homophobe" and/or "*****."
But in this case there's plenty to say, so you were saying?
--
Al at Webdingers dot com
"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains
premature today."
- Isaac Asimov
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27 Oct 2007 10:34:23 AM |
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On 03 Oct 2007 02:13:07 GMT, Amanda Williams <pms@fu.com> wrote:
Kurt Nicklas <nicklask@bellsouth.net> allegedly said in
news:1191363732.486048.302050@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com:
Are Media Wisely Running Away From Bogus Rush 'Phony Soldiers' Story?
By Noel Sheppard | October 2, 2007 - 11:39 ET
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/02/are-media-wisely-
running-away-bogus-rush-phony-soldiers-story
BWAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH....
Wishful thinking from a reichtard blogger...
If it's so "phoney" why did the fat draft-dodging ***** EDIT the fucking
clip he sent to the AFN ???
Fucking moron....
Never edited anything you fucking *****, you need to pull your head out
of your yeast infection and grab some fresh air. If he was as bad as
you claimed, then Clear Channel would have fired him no matter what he
made for them each year. All you have to do is look at Rather, he
screwed up and could not prove his statements and was fired for it.
Same thing here...if Limbaugh could not have proven his statements via
recordings of the conversation, then he would have been fired.
Jeeze, maybe your mother should have aborted you and saved the human
gene pool from your idiotic taint.
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27 Oct 2007 10:40:38 AM |
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...If he was as bad as
you claimed, then Clear Channel would have fired him no matter what he
made for them each year. All you have to do is look at Rather, he
screwed up and could not prove his statements and was fired for it.
That's partly because Rather does news, not opinion...
And I suspect, from only hearing a little about the case, that Rove pulled
it off like this:
- find real evidence of Bush's draft dodging
- copy it into MS Word
- leak it to Rather
- CBS's real research confirmed the paper
- CBS puts the paper on their website
- bloggers point out it's from MS Word
So the trick was generating evidence that would stand up to professional
research, but break down before amateur research. This made CBS look
amateurish. Yet another incredible sleight-of-hand from the world's greatest
charlatan, Rove...
I have only heard rumors about this so if anyone can confirm or deny..?
I will take any reichtard screeching and whining as a confirmation, too!
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27 Oct 2007 12:54:18 PM |
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"Phlip" <phlipcpp@yahoo.com> wrote:
That's partly because Rather does news, not opinion...
Egad! You're a complete idiot. Congratulations.
And I suspect, from only hearing a little about the case, that Rove pulled
it off like this:
- find real evidence of Bush's draft dodging
- copy it into MS Word > - leak it to Rather
- CBS's real research confirmed the paper
- CBS puts the paper on their website
- bloggers point out it's from MS Word
Moron.
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27 Oct 2007 02:18:30 PM |
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On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:54:18 -0700, Well Done <WellDone@WellHoned.com>
wrote:
"Phlip" <phlipcpp@yahoo.com> wrote:
That's partly because Rather does news, not opinion...
Egad! You're a complete idiot. Congratulations.
And I suspect, from only hearing a little about the case, that Rove pulled
it off like this:
- find real evidence of Bush's draft dodging
- copy it into MS Word > - leak it to Rather
- CBS's real research confirmed the paper
- CBS puts the paper on their website
- bloggers point out it's from MS Word
Moron.
There's your confirmation, Phillip. Right(ard) on cue.
--
Al at Webdingers dot com
"I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be under-
stood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can
comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of
humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism."
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28 Oct 2007 11:30:27 AM |
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On Oct 27, 10:40 am, "Phlip" <phlip...@yahoo.com> wrote:
...If he was as bad as
you claimed, then Clear Channel would have fired him no matter what he
made for them each year. All you have to do is look at Rather, he
screwed up and could not prove his statements and was fired for it.
That's partly because Rather does news, not opinion...
And I suspect, from only hearing a little about the case, that Rove pulled
it off like this:
- find real evidence of Bush's draft dodging
- copy it into MS Word
- leak it to Rather
- CBS's real research confirmed the paper
- CBS puts the paper on their website
- bloggers point out it's from MS Word
So the trick was generating evidence that would stand up to professional
research, but break down before amateur research. This made CBS look
amateurish. Yet another incredible sleight-of-hand from the world's greatest
charlatan, Rove...
It didn't have to be complicated. It didn't even have to be true, it
was coming from the Republican Noise Machine so all it had to be was
Said. Loudly, repeatedly and without any credible opposing viewpoint
allowed. It drew attention away from Dubyas National Guard
disappearing act and turned Dan Rather into the bad guy for daring to
notice that Bush was a liar. Rove gets too much credit for crap like
that. Dubya didn't get away with everything he got away with because
of Karl Rove; he got away with it, and continues to get away with it,
because Corporatists like him have purchased almost the entire
mainstream US media and turned it into little more than an extension
of The O'Reilly Factor. The US media simply will not touch any story
that makes the Bush administration look bad or suspicious in any way.
When was the last time you turned on CNN, Fox or any other mainstream
outlet and saw a story that painted the Bush administration in
anything other than a completely flattering or excusatory light?
Chimps approval numbers have slumped into the 25% range, he has
completely fucked up everything he has touched and he's still treated
like it's his presidential honeymoon. They'll go after Barack Obama
over a lapel pin, Howard Dean for making a noise, Al Gore for flying a
private jet and Hillary Clinton for damn near anything just as soon as
she gets the Democratic nomination, but let George W Bush's personal
attorney resign in the middle of the night because he got caught co-
ordinating with the Swifboat people and, well, that's just not
something Americans need to know about. Americans don't need to know
that Dubya dumbed about a zillion Harken Energy shares while he was on
Harkens Board of Directors just before a really bad earnings report
came out but by God, that Clinton Supporter Martha Stewart just had to
be railroaded into prison because we just don't tolerate insider
transactions in this great and glorious democracy of ours. Americans
needed to know every last detail about "insider trading" that Martha
may or may not have actually committed, but the less they knew about
Chimps in-your-face insider dumping, the better.
It's not a double standard for Republicans; it's an alternate
universe.
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On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:30:27 -0700, Christopher Helms
<Chrishelms132@yahoo.com> wrote:
Chimps approval numbers have slumped into the 25% range
How much should we trust even that?
It's not a double standard for Republicans; it's an alternate
universe.
Unfortunately, a lot of us live in that universe.
--
Al at Webdingers dot com
"God is a word that describes emptiness. It is the word given to an
absence . . . of information, of comprehension, of answers. The idea
of God grows in the way a balloon grows, a membrane inflated by
ignorance."
- Phillip Adams
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28 Oct 2007 01:04:34 AM |
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On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:34:23 -0400, Tazmanian Devil <myob@biteme.com>
wrote:
On 03 Oct 2007 02:13:07 GMT, Amanda Williams <pms@fu.com> wrote:
Kurt Nicklas <nicklask@bellsouth.net> allegedly said in
news:1191363732.486048.302050@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com:
Are Media Wisely Running Away From Bogus Rush 'Phony Soldiers' Story?
By Noel Sheppard | October 2, 2007 - 11:39 ET
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/02/are-media-wisely-
running-away-bogus-rush-phony-soldiers-story
BWAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH....
Wishful thinking from a reichtard blogger...
If it's so "phoney" why did the fat draft-dodging ***** EDIT the fucking
clip he sent to the AFN ???
Fucking moron....
Never edited anything you fucking *****,
Oh look, another Rush Limpdick NeoCon liar.
http://www.mediamatters.org/items/200710220004?f=s_search
you need to pull your head out
of your yeast infection and grab some fresh air. If he was as bad as
you claimed, then Clear Channel would have fired him no matter what he
made for them each year. All you have to do is look at Rather, he
screwed up and could not prove his statements and was fired for it.
Same thing here...if Limbaugh could not have proven his statements via
recordings of the conversation, then he would have been fired.
Jeeze, maybe your mother should have aborted you and saved the human
gene pool from your idiotic taint.
--
Yang
a.a.#28
"I can hardly wait for your head to explode when the Repubs hold onto
both houses of Congress this November. And Yang can quote me on that."
-Fred Stone, 6/14/2006
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02 Oct 2007 05:23:44 PM |
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On Oct 2, 6:22 pm, Kurt Nicklas <nickl...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
Are Media Wisely Running Away From Bogus Rush 'Phony Soldiers' Story?
By Noel Sheppard | October 2, 2007 - 11:39 ET
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/02/are-media-wisel...
On Monday, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) stepped onto the floor
of the Senate and strongly denounced talk radio host Rush Limbaugh for
what have proven to be out of context statements made by the
conservative personality on his program last Wednesday.
Yet, with the exception of a CNN segment aired Monday, and articles by
Fox News, USA Today's On Politics blog, The Hill, NewsMax, and the New
York Post, virtually no major media outlets covered Reid's statements.
Not the New York Times. Not the Washington Post. Ditto all three
broadcast network evening news programs Monday, and the Associated
Press.
This raises an important question:
Have most major press outlets correctly concluded that the leftwing
organization Media Matters did indeed cherry-pick and misrepresent
Limbaugh's statements thereby making earlier reports on the subject
erroneous?
Or, did they recognize how hypocritical it would be to castigate
Limbaugh for basically reiterating what ABC's Brian Ross and Charles
Gibson reported last Monday evening just two days before Rush made his
statements?
Of course, a more cynical view would be that the media - now that it
has been shown that Democrat presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton
admitted her connection to Media Matters - want to bury this story as
quickly as possible so as to shelter her and her husband from any
scrutiny concerning these ties.
Regardless of the reason, there's been a peculiar silence regarding
Reid's statements Monday, and, although the leftwing organization
VoteVets.org is about to run a rather disgraceful ad denouncing
Limbaugh, most media outlets appear to be running away from this story
as fast as they can.
Whether this continues is anyone's guess, as is the cause.
Stay tuned.
Update 17:10 | Matthew Sheffield. A quick Google News search does seem
to suggest the media's interest in the Media Matters smear story has
continued to peter out.
There are very few MSM mentions of the story at all. The only unfair
ones were as follows:
A blog post from NBC's Mark Silva which mentions a left-wing astroturf
group's ad trying to prolong the story. No mention at all about how
Limbaugh did not say what was attributed to him by a far-left group.
This blog post from the Tribune Co.'s Washington bureau focuses on
Nevada Democratic senator Harry Reid's criticism of Limbaugh with
barely anything from the radio talker himself.
Kudos to the Kansas City Star for correcting its initial report about
the Limbaugh non-story. In a small item in today's gossipy "The Buzz"
column, the paper's Darryl Levings spoke of a "Judgment wrong to Rush
(read backward)."
Democrats, meanwhile must be getting desperate on this. Having failed
to gin up a controversy over nothing, they're clearly overreaching,
going so far as to trot out Iowa senator Tom Harkin as their attack
dog. That's odd since Harkin actually has a record of his own at being
a "phony soldier."
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