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2004-10-09 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by ed 2004-10-09 1:28:24 AM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So add ABC to CBS on the Busted for Bias list.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-10-09 11:27:39 AM|| 2004-10-09 11:27:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 and another resume to be shopped if they have any interest in credibility

Posted by Frank G 2004-10-09 1:11:00 PM|| 2004-10-09 1:11:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Has anyone noticed this memo was typed in pica on a 1971 Smith-Corona?

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-10-09 1:14:45 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-10-09 1:14:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I had to read the whole memo five times to get an idea of what it means. When you think of it, it's a masterful achievement to write a memo of a few hundred words and say virtually nothing, but hint at so much. The guy has really mastered the gobbledygook of propaganda masquerading as responsible journalism.

So I thought I'd try to translate the memo into simple English:

These two guys both lie and fabricate, but their guy does it much better than our guy, and is using it against our guy. In fact, their guy could win if we don't support and push our guy. I know I don't have to tell you who our guy is. So go for it.

Posted by Bryan 2004-10-09 1:55:59 PM|| 2004-10-09 1:55:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Bias, my ass; this is collusion.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-10-09 2:10:31 PM|| 2004-10-09 2:10:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Bryan -- thanks for the translation. I thought it was just me who didn't understand what the hell he was saying.

This is the world we live in, though: lies in flowery language. Make it as vague as possible, so there's always the chance to go back and say, "No, this is what I really meant when I said that." Thing is, most people are smarter than what these elites think, and hopefully they'll get their comeuppance soon.

Posted by nada 2004-10-09 2:35:47 PM|| 2004-10-09 2:35:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 noticed this memo was typed in pica on a 1971 Smith-Corona?

Looks like a laptop too.

Posted by Shipman 2004-10-09 3:25:11 PM|| 2004-10-09 3:25:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Yes, hopefully they will. In the meantime someone should set up a university degree course in deciphering political propaganda and media bias.

Posted by Bryan 2004-10-09 3:26:42 PM|| 2004-10-09 3:26:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 And to have ABC Agenda Queen Charlie choose the questions, selecting the most absurd possible "Do You STILL Beat Your Wife?" item for Bush as the last question of the night. Prolly got his MSM Premium Asshole card stamped for a whole year for that one. Anyone want to guess how many drinks he'll have to buy over the next few months? Right, none.

Posted by .com 2004-10-09 9:14:49 PM|| 2004-10-09 9:14:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Holy living Christ,

Don't any of you people know how to read a single, whole page of text? What Halperin is saying is that:

1) as a strong news organization immune to intimidation, ABC should be devoted to exposing the FACTUAL truth about any and all political statements. That they shouldn't just play the "he said / he said" game that all media outlets play by having a talking head from both sides repeat their stories.

Halperin just wants his people to start being actual, INVESTIGATIVE reporters, and to REPORT on stories.

2) Bush and Kerry both lie, but Bush's lies are completey monstrous, and CENTRAL to his efforts to get re-elected.

i.e. his recent gaffe about "non-discretionary funding" rising by 15% of its total per year, and him having reduced it to 1%. That was a complete and total fabrication. There is nothing in that statement that could possibly be related to the truth. Both the NYtimes and the Washington Times examined that fact, and discovered that Bush has presided over the largest increases in "non-discretionary" military funding in the past 6 Presidents.

Before he hit office it was hoving at around 4%, and now it's up at 8.2%.

Again, to re-iterate to the illiterate:

we don't "...hold both sides "equally" accountable WHEN THE FACTS DON'T WARRANT THAT."

FACTS.

JUST THE FACTS.

Posted by Hupereger Ebbigum6422 2004-10-12 12:35:28 PM|| 2004-10-12 12:35:28 PM|| Front Page Top

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