Cheney FREE to SLANDER Democratic voters, as long as he does it often enough!
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In one article, they have DOCUMENTED the monstrous disparity, the cruel hypocrisy, of media bias in America:
When Democrats or "liberals" or even entertainers make even a momentary gaff, IT IS FRONT PAGE NEWS.
Yet when the Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney, comes out and publicly avows that Ned Lamont is the candidate that "AL QAIDA TYPES" would WANT to be a US senator, the media - the MSM, or main-stream-media, goes AWOL, and REFUSES to give Cheney the FRONT PAGE COVERAGE his comments and smears warrant.
And even more glaring example would be THE BUSH DEFICITS. Can anyone imagine, if Al Gore, John Kerry, or Bill Clinton were president, that the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, FOX, ABC, GE/nbc, CBS, and ALL the other major papers and networks WOULD NOT BE PUTTING THOSE DEFICIT NUMBERS in bold headlines, on the FRONT PAGE, at least two or three times a week?
We've collected headlines and front-pages from years past, and can guarantee that any time the crime rates, job rates, savings rates, or DEFICITS went up or down, IT WOULD BE FRONT PAGE NEWS.
But under the Bush-Cheney administration, the "Major Media" EFFECTIVELY CENSORS the US budget DEFICIT FIGURES almost continually. When those figures are commented on, they are toned down, and relegated to deep in the business or A-section.
In short, the Bush administration truly has only 3 or 4 talents: #1. getting HUGE contributions from Big Business, slush-fund KICKBACKS in exchange for future BILLION DOLLAR TAX CUTS that must be borne by the American middle-class and working-class taxpayer public; #2. using those billion-dollar tax cuts and regulation power to CREATE A SUBMISSIVE and SUBSERVIENT media climate, aka "Corporate Media apologists," #3. using that money to COW and INTIMIDATE political opposition, including Republican opposition (John McCain's 2000 primary, Lincoln Chaffee's 2006 re-election campaign, etc) but ESPECIALLY geared to COWING and INTIMIDATING the Democratic Party "opposition."
That is why, SIX full years after the heartbreaking loss of Florida in the 2000 election, Democrats ARE AFRAID to bring up Diebold vote fraud and systematic disenfranchisement of Democratic voters by Republican officials.
Here is Media Matter's capture of just one facet of the "Major Media's" glaring DOUBLE STANDARD for outrageous comments from the dark soul of Vice President Dick Cheney.
Summary: When asked in an online discussion why Vice President Dick Cheney "saying basically that people who exercised their constitutional right to vote for change (ie: Conn. primary) are helping terrorists" was "not the headline of a story," Washington Post staff writer Jonathan Weisman responded: "The vice president also said the insurgency in Iraq is in its death throes, and that U.S. troops would be greeted as liberators. I'm afraid to say his utterances are losing their news value."
Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/items/200608110005
Fri, Aug 11, 2006 2:59pm ESTSend to a friend Print Version
Wash. Post's Weisman: Cheney "utterances are losing their news value"
Summary: When asked in an online discussion why Vice President Dick Cheney "saying basically that people who exercised their constitutional right to vote for change (ie: Conn. primary) are helping terrorists" was "not the headline of a story," Washington Post staff writer Jonathan Weisman responded: "The vice president also said the insurgency in Iraq is in its death throes, and that U.S. troops would be greeted as liberators. I'm afraid to say his utterances are losing their news value."
In an August 11 online discussion atwashingtonpost.com, Washington Post staff writer Jonathan Weisman -- when asked why Vice President Dick Cheney "saying basically that people who exercised their constitutional right to vote for change (ie: Conn. primary) are helping terrorists" was "not the headline of a story" -- responded: "The vice president also said the insurgency in Iraq is in its death throes, and that U.S. troops would be greeted as liberators. I'm afraid to say his utterances are losing their news value." Therefore, according to Weisman's reasoning, the vice president of the United States -- reputedly the most powerful vice president in history -- can get away with saying false and outrageous things, as long as he says them often enough.
Thereader was likely referring to Cheney's August 9 conference call with reporters, in which he responded to Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont's victory over Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman in the Connecticut primary. Cheney said:
"The thing that's partly disturbing about it is the fact that, the standpoint of our adversaries, if you will, in this conflict, and the Al Qaeda types, they clearly are betting on the proposition that ultimately they can break the will of the American people in terms of our ability to stay in the fight and complete the task. And when we see the Democratic Party reject one of its own, a man they selected to be their vice presidential nominee just a few short years ago, it would seem to say a lot about the state the party is in today if that's becoming the dominant view of the Democratic Party, the basic, fundamental notion that somehow we can retreat behind our oceans and not be actively engaged in this conflict and be safe here at home, which clearly we know we won't -- we can't be. So we have to be actively engaged not only in Afghanistan and Iraq, but on a global basis if we're going to succeed in prevailing in this long-term conflict.
So it's an unfortunate development, I think, from the standpoint of the Democratic Party to see a man like Lieberman pushed aside because of his willingness to support an aggressive posture in terms of our national security strategy.
Weisman's dismissal of Cheney's comments echoes the broader media coverage of the Bush administration's falsehoods and manipulation of intelligence in the lead-up to the Iraqwar. As Media Matters for America documented, as more and more evidence of distortions and misleading claims have surfaced, the media have responded with a collective shrug, explaining that the public was already aware that the Bush administration had repeatedly made false statements about Iraq, terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and it was therefore old news. And notwithstanding the media's assertions about what public knows, recent polling indicated that the share of Americans who believed Saddam Hussein possessed WMD at the time of the U.S. invasion increased 14 percent from 2005 to 2006.
From the August 11 "Post Politics Hour" online discussion:
Medford, Mass.: Exactly how is it that our sitting Vice President can get away with saying basically that people who exercised their constitutional right to vote for change (ie: Conn. primary) are helping terrorists? How is this not the headline of a story, instead of a footnote?
Jonathan Weisman: The vice president also said the insurgency in Iraq is in its death throes, and that U.S. troops would be greeted as liberators. I'm afraid to say his utterances are losing their news value.
—S.S.M.
In one article, they have DOCUMENTED the monstrous disparity, the cruel hypocrisy, of media bias in America:
When Democrats or "liberals" or even entertainers make even a momentary gaff, IT IS FRONT PAGE NEWS.
Yet when the Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney, comes out and publicly avows that Ned Lamont is the candidate that "AL QAIDA TYPES" would WANT to be a US senator, the media - the MSM, or main-stream-media, goes AWOL, and REFUSES to give Cheney the FRONT PAGE COVERAGE his comments and smears warrant.
And even more glaring example would be THE BUSH DEFICITS. Can anyone imagine, if Al Gore, John Kerry, or Bill Clinton were president, that the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, FOX, ABC, GE/nbc, CBS, and ALL the other major papers and networks WOULD NOT BE PUTTING THOSE DEFICIT NUMBERS in bold headlines, on the FRONT PAGE, at least two or three times a week?
We've collected headlines and front-pages from years past, and can guarantee that any time the crime rates, job rates, savings rates, or DEFICITS went up or down, IT WOULD BE FRONT PAGE NEWS.
But under the Bush-Cheney administration, the "Major Media" EFFECTIVELY CENSORS the US budget DEFICIT FIGURES almost continually. When those figures are commented on, they are toned down, and relegated to deep in the business or A-section.
In short, the Bush administration truly has only 3 or 4 talents: #1. getting HUGE contributions from Big Business, slush-fund KICKBACKS in exchange for future BILLION DOLLAR TAX CUTS that must be borne by the American middle-class and working-class taxpayer public; #2. using those billion-dollar tax cuts and regulation power to CREATE A SUBMISSIVE and SUBSERVIENT media climate, aka "Corporate Media apologists," #3. using that money to COW and INTIMIDATE political opposition, including Republican opposition (John McCain's 2000 primary, Lincoln Chaffee's 2006 re-election campaign, etc) but ESPECIALLY geared to COWING and INTIMIDATING the Democratic Party "opposition."
That is why, SIX full years after the heartbreaking loss of Florida in the 2000 election, Democrats ARE AFRAID to bring up Diebold vote fraud and systematic disenfranchisement of Democratic voters by Republican officials.
Here is Media Matter's capture of just one facet of the "Major Media's" glaring DOUBLE STANDARD for outrageous comments from the dark soul of Vice President Dick Cheney.
Summary: When asked in an online discussion why Vice President Dick Cheney "saying basically that people who exercised their constitutional right to vote for change (ie: Conn. primary) are helping terrorists" was "not the headline of a story," Washington Post staff writer Jonathan Weisman responded: "The vice president also said the insurgency in Iraq is in its death throes, and that U.S. troops would be greeted as liberators. I'm afraid to say his utterances are losing their news value."
Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/items/200608110005
Fri, Aug 11, 2006 2:59pm ESTSend to a friend Print Version
Wash. Post's Weisman: Cheney "utterances are losing their news value"
Summary: When asked in an online discussion why Vice President Dick Cheney "saying basically that people who exercised their constitutional right to vote for change (ie: Conn. primary) are helping terrorists" was "not the headline of a story," Washington Post staff writer Jonathan Weisman responded: "The vice president also said the insurgency in Iraq is in its death throes, and that U.S. troops would be greeted as liberators. I'm afraid to say his utterances are losing their news value."
In an August 11 online discussion atwashingtonpost.com, Washington Post staff writer Jonathan Weisman -- when asked why Vice President Dick Cheney "saying basically that people who exercised their constitutional right to vote for change (ie: Conn. primary) are helping terrorists" was "not the headline of a story" -- responded: "The vice president also said the insurgency in Iraq is in its death throes, and that U.S. troops would be greeted as liberators. I'm afraid to say his utterances are losing their news value." Therefore, according to Weisman's reasoning, the vice president of the United States -- reputedly the most powerful vice president in history -- can get away with saying false and outrageous things, as long as he says them often enough.
Thereader was likely referring to Cheney's August 9 conference call with reporters, in which he responded to Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont's victory over Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman in the Connecticut primary. Cheney said:
"The thing that's partly disturbing about it is the fact that, the standpoint of our adversaries, if you will, in this conflict, and the Al Qaeda types, they clearly are betting on the proposition that ultimately they can break the will of the American people in terms of our ability to stay in the fight and complete the task. And when we see the Democratic Party reject one of its own, a man they selected to be their vice presidential nominee just a few short years ago, it would seem to say a lot about the state the party is in today if that's becoming the dominant view of the Democratic Party, the basic, fundamental notion that somehow we can retreat behind our oceans and not be actively engaged in this conflict and be safe here at home, which clearly we know we won't -- we can't be. So we have to be actively engaged not only in Afghanistan and Iraq, but on a global basis if we're going to succeed in prevailing in this long-term conflict.
So it's an unfortunate development, I think, from the standpoint of the Democratic Party to see a man like Lieberman pushed aside because of his willingness to support an aggressive posture in terms of our national security strategy.
Weisman's dismissal of Cheney's comments echoes the broader media coverage of the Bush administration's falsehoods and manipulation of intelligence in the lead-up to the Iraqwar. As Media Matters for America documented, as more and more evidence of distortions and misleading claims have surfaced, the media have responded with a collective shrug, explaining that the public was already aware that the Bush administration had repeatedly made false statements about Iraq, terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and it was therefore old news. And notwithstanding the media's assertions about what public knows, recent polling indicated that the share of Americans who believed Saddam Hussein possessed WMD at the time of the U.S. invasion increased 14 percent from 2005 to 2006.
From the August 11 "Post Politics Hour" online discussion:
Medford, Mass.: Exactly how is it that our sitting Vice President can get away with saying basically that people who exercised their constitutional right to vote for change (ie: Conn. primary) are helping terrorists? How is this not the headline of a story, instead of a footnote?
Jonathan Weisman: The vice president also said the insurgency in Iraq is in its death throes, and that U.S. troops would be greeted as liberators. I'm afraid to say his utterances are losing their news value.
—S.S.M.
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