News Focus
News Focus
icon url

pat34lee

04/07/01 5:47 PM

#1828 RE: smart_sassy #1822

Liberal Media Bias

"For those who think that media bias is not real, answer this: How often have you heard the term 'spy plane' in the last week? Until Bush's presidency, this propeller-driven plane would have been called a reconnaissance aircraft."

< LOL. It took you 5 days to come up with that lame example? Puh-leeze. >

No, it took hearing it on about 30 different tv and radio programs.

icon url

pat34lee

04/09/01 6:16 PM

#1854 RE: smart_sassy #1822

Liberal Media Bias

http://www.mrc.org/news/nq/2001/nq20010401.html

"Once again, Republicans and big-money interests are out to kill your legislation with a minefield of killer amendments. What do you think motivates them to mangle reform efforts this way? Do they just hate progress?"
"Did you think long and hard about adding provisions that might have prevented the outrageous smears the Bush campaign used against you last year in the South Carolina primary?"
"When will you begin campaigning for President again, put a new tank of gas in the old ‘Straight Talk Express?’ Diane says she’ll spring for the donuts."

- Jack Ford’s questions to John McCain on ABC’s Good Morning America, April 1

"Dan, President Bush today signaled he’d be willing to front load some of his massive tax cut in order to stimulate the economy, but he won’t budge on what many analysts warn is a huge giveaway to the rich. Robert McIntyre of the non-partisan Citizens for Tax Justice today predicted that if Bush gets his way Texas oil tycoons will get back more money in one year than the other 99 percent of Americans will over the next century."
- John Roberts on the CBS Evening News, April 1

"The real worry out there, John, is that history is repeating itself. With the current stock market slide many are wondering if we are headed for a ‘Second Bush Recession.’ You know, it took a Clinton to get us out of that mess back in ‘92 and, who knows, it may take a Clinton to get us out of an even worse mess in ‘04. Hillary, are you listening?"
- Eleanor Clift in exchange with John McLaughlin on The McLaughlin Group, April 1

"An editor’s note: You may have noticed correspondents on this broadcast refer to ‘President Bush.’ That should not be interpreted in any way as an endorsement of the Supreme Court decision last December that effectively selected George W. Bush as the winner of last year’s election."
- Dan Rather, following a story on a White House ceremony honoring veterans, CBS Evening News, April 1

"Calvin Coolidge said the business of America is business, and to some corporations, the poisoning of America is business. Armed with the best lawyers and lobbyists money can buy, they might continue to get away with it. Perhaps the only hope is that good people watching public television will see the light, and realize that these major corporations have no story worth hearing. That’s why we've just spent 90 minutes ignoring their arguments completely. The Bible says the truth shall set you free, and there’s nothing more liberating than allowing only the truth to be told about these chemical criminals."
- PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers concluding his documentary Trade Secrets, April 1

"In his final days in office, Bill Clinton negotiated a plea bargain for himself, pardoned his donors on the Most Wanted list and packed up the moving vans with the White House furniture. Couldn’t those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character?"
- Bryant Gumbel to David Maraniss, Early Show, April 1

"Come on, Bob. The only thing Katherine Harris can teach us now about proper voting procedures is that even the most gauche women can be forced to cut back on the Maybelline on election day."
- Time’s Margaret Carlson on CNN’s Capital Gang, April 1