Letters to the Editor
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Hypocrisy? No problem
Nice find Glenn. However, if we've learned anything from six years of Republican rule in this country, it's that they don't worry about being inconsistent or hypocritical. That's for wimps. What they're about is maintaining power any way they can. And it appears that most of the media doesn't seem to have a problem with their hypocrisy either -- especially as it pertained to the Clinton administration.
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NeoCon hypocrisy.
Every example demonstrating the hypocrisy of NeoCon pundits is worthy. Good show on this. I don't remember the China trip at all, excellent example. I'm interested to see if and how this is addessed by the hate-Pelosi crowd.
However, Glenn, you stated Back then, the media treated Gingrich like he was the American Prime Minister
Just so i'm clear on this, are you saying the media treated Newt respectively and with kid gloves during his time as speaker?
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The Bosses' Newspapers Lean Right, Always Have
A century ago people understood that it mattered who owned the newspapers, and what their interests were.
The bosses had their newspapers. The unions had theirs. The socialists and the isolationists had theirs. Ethnic communities had theirs. All these outsold the bosses' papers. The union and socialist newspapers alone far outsold the bosses' papers.
But costs went up, and advertising meant that subscriptions became less and less important as funding, and not surprisingly, advertising all went to the bosses' papers, not the union papers, not the socialist papers.
Now, all that's left is the bosses' papers. And we act surprised year after year that somehow the bosses' papers act like the bosses' papers.
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It's catching!
Apparently this amnesia thing's contagious. Here's a quote from the Newtster himself in the WashPost article on this subject -
" Newt Gingrich (Ga.), who served as speaker after Republicans won the House in 1994, recalls that the "only time that came anywhere close" to stepping onto diplomatic territory "was I made a comment in Israel that was too strong." In a speech to the Israeli parliament he said that he considers Jerusalem "the united and eternal capital of Israel." The White House, engaged in Middle East peace talks, was furious. "I said afterward that I was wrong," he recalled.
"There's an enormous psychological difference between normal members and the speaker" -- Congress's most powerful individual, third in line to the presidency, Gingrich said. Especially abroad, he said, House speakers "have to move with exceptional care." "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040402752.html
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The "liberal bias" meme
Hankest... Just so i'm clear on this, are you saying the media treated Newt respectively and with kid gloves during his time as speaker?
It's amazing how well this rhetorical device works. You are a prime example of it's success. Claim the press has a "liberal bias" long enough and loud enough, and voila!, Fox News has no bias at all. It's just "fair and balanced".
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And Hankest...
Nah Gah Happen.
We are not gonna spend all day looking for examples of how the SCLM (so-called liberal media) is no more than an echo chamber for the current regime's talking points. It may take you months, years, to flush all the kool-aid outta your headgear, but you seem to be getting it.
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LWM
I never said the media had a liberal bias. I don't think it does.
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Hankie
"Just so i'm clear on this, are you saying the media treated Newt respectively and with kid gloves during his time as speaker?"
Just so you're clear on that - that's not what he said and you know it.
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Cheney and The Base
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/04/20070405-3.html
THE WHITE HOUSE
For Immediate Release
Office of the Vice President
April 5, 2007
Interview of the Vice President by Rush Limbaugh
Via Telephone
1:07 P.M. EDTTHE VICE PRESIDENT: "...Rush, remember Abu Musab al Zarqawi, a Jordanian terrorist, al Qaeda affiliate; ran a training camp in Afghanistan for al Qaeda, then migrated -- after we went into Afghanistan and shut him down there, he went to Baghdad, took up residence there before we ever launched into Iraq; organized the al Qaeda operations inside Iraq before we even arrived on the scene, and then, of course, led the charge for Iraq until we killed him last June. He's the guy who arranged the bombing of the Samarra Mosque that precipitated the sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni. This is al Qaeda operating in Iraq. And as I say, they were present before we invaded Iraq..."
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Q: Mr. Vice President, thanks for your time. It really is always a pleasure to talk to you. And we appreciate your candor when you come on the program, very much so. All the best, and have a great Easter weekend, you and your family.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thanks, Rush. I enjoy the show.
Q: Thank you.
END 1:22 P.M. EDT
Zarqawi didn't go to Baghdad. He went to Kurdistan.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4431601By Jim Miklaszewski
Chief Pentagon correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 7:14 p.m. ET March 2, 2004NBC News has learned that long before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself — but never pulled the trigger. In June 2002, U.S. officials say intelligence had revealed that Zarqawi and members of al-Qaida had set up a weapons lab at Kirma, in northern Iraq, producing deadly ricin and cyanide. The Pentagon quickly drafted plans to attack the camp with cruise missiles and airstrikes and sent it to the White House, where, according to U.S. government sources, the plan was debated to death in the National Security Council.
The Pentagon drew up a second strike plan, and the White House again killed it. By then the administration had set its course for war with Iraq. “People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president’s policy of preemption against terrorists,” according to terrorism expert and former National Security Council member Roger Cressey.
In January 2003, the threat turned real. Police in London arrested six terror suspects and discovered a ricin lab connected to the camp in Iraq.
The Pentagon drew up still another attack plan, and for the third time, the National Security Council killed it.
Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawi’s operation was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.
The United States did attack the camp at Kirma at the beginning of the war, but it was too late — Zarqawi and many of his followers were gone.
- - NBC News