Lanny Davis Resigns- he's on c-span now.

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Oh you think a Corporate media would Want a Dem for president huh?

If they wanted Kerry for president all they had to do was Debunk the Swiftvets Bull instead of reporting it as fact and NEVER doing the reporting which would have torn them to shredds .

 

[red states rule]

Oh you think a Corporate media would Want a Dem for president huh?

If they wanted Kerry for president all they had to do was Debunk the Swiftvets Bull instead of reporting it as fact and NEVER doing the reporting which would have torn them to shredds .

LOL

The liberal media did everything they could to make Kerry President

The libral media did everything they could to savage the vets who had the gall to speak out against Kerry

 

[red states rule]

Oh you think a Corporate media would Want a Dem for president huh?

If they wanted Kerry for president all they had to do was Debunk the Swiftvets Bull instead of reporting it as fact and NEVER doing the reporting which would have torn them to shredds .

'Unsubstantiated' Swift Boat Allegations Rise Again in the New York Times
Posted by Clay Waters on April 5, 2007 - 12:49.
It was a Vietnam flashback in Thursday's news pages, as New York Times reporter Jim Rutenberg deployed 2004-era Times language to attack the veracity of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the Vietnam veterans group that successfully challenged John Kerry's Vietnam war record. The story concerned Sam Fox, Bush's nominee for ambassador to Belgium, who was forced to withdraw from consideration after Sen. John Kerry made a stink that Fox donated $50,000 to the Swifties. Bush took advantage of the Congressional recess to install Fox as ambassador without waiting for Senate approval.

Rutenberg:

"President Bush used the Congressional recess on Wednesday to push through his choice to be ambassador to Belgium and to fill two domestic policy positions, provoking Democratic ire with all three appointments.

"The ambassadorship will be filled by Sam Fox, a major Republican donor who had withdrawn his name for the job in late March when it became clear that Democrats on the Foreign Relations Committee were lining up against him.

"Mr. Fox donated $50,000 to the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that opposed Senator John Kerry during his 2004 presidential campaign. The group attacked Mr. Kerry’s record in the Vietnam War with advertising that included unsubstantiated accusations that he had not earned his war medals."

Sound familiar? As Times Watch revealed in a 2004 special report "Double Standard: Times Tars Swift Boat Vets, Plugs False 'Bush AWOL' Story," the Times stuck that exact same warning label ("unsubstantiated") on the Swift Boats Veterans no less than 20 times during the campaign.

By contrast, not once did the Times describe the Democrat's false Bush-was-AWOL from the Texas National Guard charges as "unsubstantiated."

http://newsbusters.org/node/11846

 

[Truthmatters]

Why does one fucking article always mean a consensus to you?

The swift vets were lying ad it would have been a cake walk to debunk them ,Yet they never were.

WHY?

 

[red states rule]

Why does one fucking article always mean a consensus to you?

The swift vets were lying ad it would have been a cake walk to debunk them ,Yet they never were.

WHY?

One of many

You look at the print media smearing the vets who spoke up - the liberal media was outraged anyone would tell the truth about John "I served in Viet Nam" Kerry

 

[Truthmatters]

They were lying!

NO one smeared them

 

[red states rule]

They were lying!

NO one smeared them

and Dems NEVER want to raise taxes

 

[Truthmatters]

Of those who served in Kerry's boat crew, only Stephen Gardner joined SBVT. He was not present on any of the occasions when Kerry won his medals, including his Purple Hearts. Gardner appeared in two of the group's television advertisements.

All other living members of Kerry's crew supported his presidential bid, and some frequently campaigned with him as his self-described 'band of brothers'. Kerry crewmembers have disputed some of SBVT's various allegations: "pure fabrication" (Jim Rassmann), "totally false" (Drew Whitlow), "garbage" (Gene Thorson), and "a pack of lies" (Del Sandusky).

No members of SBVT were aboard Kerry's boat during any of the incidents for which he was decorated. The only member of SBVT who was present at the Silver Star incident, Rood's crewmember Larry Clayton Lee, praised Kerry's tactics and stated that he earned his Silver Star; he stated that based on discussions with other SBVT members, he came to question whether Kerry deserved other medals for incidents at which he was not present.


from wiki

 

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All other living members of Kerry's crew supported his presidential bid, and some frequently campaigned with him as his self-described 'band of brothers'. Kerry crewmembers have disputed some of SBVT's various allegations: "pure fabrication" (Jim Rassmann), "garbage" (Gene Thorson), and "a pack of lies" (Del Sandusky).


Get this !

All but one who actually served with him supported him.

The one guy who didnt was not with the crew when Kerry won all his medals.

"pure fabrication" (Jim Rassmann)

"totally false" (Drew Whitlow)

"garbage" (Gene Thorson)

a pack of lies" (Del Sandusky)

This is what the men who served with him had to say about the sift boat claims.


NOW why didnt you already know this?

Oh yeah that "liberal " media huh.

BTW some of the assholes who were in swift vets are on record Praising Kerry's efforts in Vietnam before the made money peddling swift boat lies.

Yea that "Liberal Media"

 

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“The media, I think, wants Kerry to win. … And I think they’re going to portray Kerry and Edwards – I’m talking about the establishment media, not Fox – but they’re going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and opportunistic and all. There’s going to be this glow about them … that’s going to be worth maybe 15 points.” – Newsweek Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas, “Inside Washington,” WUSA-TV, 7/10/04.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The Media Research Center today released a special report, “The Ten Worst Media Distortions of Campaign 2004,” as compiled and ranked by MRC analysts.

“The liberal ‘news’ media have been as big an issue in this campaign as anything else. It is a fact: The media chose sides early and have acted as extensions of the Democratic National Committee and the Kerry-Edwards campaign,” said MRC President Brent Bozell.

The Ten Worst Media Distortions of Campaign 2004

Dan Rather’s Forgery Fiasco

Ignoring, Then Attacking, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth

Pounding the Bush National Guard Story

Spinning a Good Economy into Bad News

The Networks’ Outrageous Convention Double-Standard

Swooning Over Edwards’ Image, Ignoring His Liberalism

CBS’s Byron Pitts Promotional Kerry Coverage

CBS Promotes Fears of a New Military Draft

Misrepresenting the 9/11 Commission on Iraq/al-Qaeda Links

Equating New Terrorism Warning to LBJ’s “Gulf of Tonkin”
Rathergate … CBS News had to appoint an outside two-member investigating committee to find out how and why a) Dan Rather aired a hatchet job on President Bush based on forged documents that CBS was warned about and b) CBS Producer Mary Mapes coordinated with senior Kerry adviser Joe Lockhart concerning the discredited source of those documents.

The Attack On The Swift Boat Vets … Last spring, over 250 Vietnam War contemporaries, including veterans who served with him when he was a Swift Boat commander and his entire chain of command, came forward to publicly challenge Kerry’s version of Vietnam and his anti-war activities. After being ignored for several weeks the media turned on these honorable men with a vengeance, rather than give them a shred of credibility.

Good Economic Numbers = Bad News? … When Bill Clinton ran for re-election in 1996, unemployment was at 5.2 percent, inflation 3 percent, and economic growth 2.2 percent. Today, as Bush stands for re-election, unemployment is at 5.4 percent, inflation 2.7 percent and economists’ consensus forecast for economic growth this quarter is 3.7 percent. Coverage of the Clinton economic data was overwhelmingly favorable (35 positive, 6 negative stories). Under Bush, it’s literally reversed to 6 positive, 38 negative. Numbers don’t lie. Bias is the only explanation.

The Networks’ Convention Double-Standard … Democratic speakers who savaged Republicans in Boston were touted by network journalists as “rock stars.” But journalists turned sour when covering the Republicans in New York. CNN’s Bill Schneider on the GOP: “This is a very angry convention, it’s a very belligerent convention.” TIME’s Joe Klein, a CNN contributor: “I’ve been doing this for a fair number of years and I don’t think I’ve seen anything as angry or as ugly as [Sen. Zell] Miller’s speech.”

CBS’s Byron Pitts, in a Pro-Kerry Class of His Own … Pitts, on the day Kerry accepted the Democratic nomination: “Tonight’s acceptance of the Democratic nomination is more than merely a day, it’s [Kerry’s] destiny.” Pitts, attacking the leader of the Swift Boat Veterans instead of addressing their charges: “Their leader, John O’Neill, was also Richard Nixon’s point man in attacks on John Kerry’s protest of the Vietnam War 30 years ago.” Pitts, on Teresa Heinz Kerry: “Both rich and reachable.”

CBS Cooks Up Fictitious Draft Story … CBS correspondent Richard Schlesinger focused this story around Beverly Cocco, portraying her as a mom “petrified about a military draft.” He never mentioned she is the activist leader of a group called “People Against the Draft.” He never mentioned that the Pentagon, the Republican Party, and the Bush campaign all oppose a new draft. Dan Rather introduced the segment this way: “A mother worries her son will be drafted. Does she have good reason?” Both Schlesinger and Producer Linda Karas cited erroneous email chatter about the draft as justification for doing an Evening News segment. Karas incredulously intoned: “The truth of the e-mails were absolutely irrelevant to the piece.”

“The major media are doing all they can to help elect Kerry, just as Newsweek’s Evan Thomas indicated,” said Bozell. “This report presents some of the worst media distortions this year, and proves beyond all doubt that the elite media are not objective or fair or balanced. They are liberal partisans who are sacrificing any remaining credibility in an effort to defeat President Bush
http://www.mediaresearch.org/press/2004/press20041028.asp

 

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Even before John Kerry used his Vietnam record to vault to victory in the Iowa Democratic caucuses, the national media frequently touted the Massachusetts liberal as a decorated, thrice-wounded war hero. But apart from interviewing the small group of Vietnam veterans who have campaigned with Kerry over the last two decades, national reporters did not seek out others to confirm or challenge the tales of Kerry’s valor and heroism. The networks' approach to questions about Kerry’s past is in stark contrast to the aggressiveness with which they pursued theories about Bush’s National Guard service (see #3).

Then on May 4, a group of more than 250 Vietnam veterans — including Kerry’s superior officers and many who served with him when he was a Swift Boat commander — launched a public challenge to Kerry’s version of Vietnam. At a press conference, they charged Kerry had greatly embellished his military record and betrayed his fellow Swift Boat veterans when he went before the Senate to make sweeping charges of American war crimes in Vietnam. Based on this record, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth declared Kerry “unfit” to serve as Commander in Chief.

Yet the national media still offered little scrutiny of either Kerry’s service or his anti-war rhetoric. The ABC and NBC evening newscasts ignored the Swift Boat veterans’ press conference, while on the May 4 CBS Evening News Byron Pitts chose to impugn their integrity: “If you think this is just a group of concerned veterans, think again.”
Instead of scrutinizing John Kerry, CBS's Byron Pitts smeared Kerry's critics.

On May 31, nearly four weeks after these veterans came forward, CNN NewsNight anchor Aaron Brown narrated a four-minute long Memorial Day account of John Kerry’s exploits in Vietnam that only quoted Kerry and the handful of veterans who had signed up for his presidential campaign. Brown’s panegyrical, event-by-event tribute to Kerry’s heroism — which could have passed as a Democratic National Committee infomercial — did not include a single syllable about the questions raised by the other Swift Boat veterans.

NBC Nightly News ignored the Swift Boat veterans for three months, until August 6. Then, after the veterans raised $150,000 for a TV ad — a tiny sum compared to what George Soros and MoveOn.org had by then spent on anti-Bush ads — NBC aired a story suggesting that the ad was the scurrilous work of anti-Kerry forces exploiting a loophole.
“The ad is paid for by Bush contributors using a loophole in the McCain-Feingold law,” reporter Andrea Mitchell complained on the NBC Nightly News, adding “some of the same players organized anonymous attack ads against John McCain four years ago.”

NBC News portrayed the ad as the scurrilous work of anti-Kerry "hit men" exploiting a loophole.

Earlier that day, on the August 6 Imus in the Morning on MSNBC, Mitchell told radio host Don Imus that the anti-Kerry vets were “grossly distorting the record, according to anybody who knows anything about Kerry’s record.” If that was true, then why didn’t Mitchell tell Nightly News viewers about Kerry’s real record, instead of merely grumbling about who paid for the TV spot?

ABC’s World News Tonight did not mention the existence of the anti-Kerry Swift vets until Kerry himself gave a speech attacking the credibility and integrity of his fellow veterans. Kerry’s speech on August 19 marked the point when the liberal media began to actively cover the story, but even then most of their scrutiny was reserved for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, not the candidate seeking the highest office in the land.

Peter Jennings, for one, was unhappy with even the puny amount of attention his network gave to the Swift Boat veterans’ charges. “The ads were demonstrably false,” he asserted at a New Yorker forum on October 2, suggesting that he and his colleagues should have been faster to exonerate Kerry: “If you look seriously at the coverage, I think you didn’t find the media quick enough to say these were demonstrably false, for the most part. And we did what we do tend to do in journalism sometimes, he said, she said, he said, she said.”

http://www.mediaresearch.org/projects/worst/welcome.asp

 

[Truthmatters]

My source was Wiki your was media research.

enough said

 

[red states rule]

My source was Wiki your was media research.

enough said

Yea, mine actually covers the bias on the liberal media and uses their own words and what they reported

What bias!!!!!!!!

 

[Truthmatters]

All but one who actually served with him supported him.

The one guy who didnt was not with the crew when Kerry won all his medals.

"pure fabrication" (Jim Rassmann)

"totally false" (Drew Whitlow)

"garbage" (Gene Thorson)

a pack of lies" (Del Sandusky)

This is what the men who served with him had to say about the sift boat claims.



These men served with him ,they were there when he was fired upon , kthey were there when his actions saved their lives.

They know ,You dont and you biased ass rupert Murdock sights are lie generators which you are so blind you cant figure it out.

I just love how cons refuse to honor a soliders service if he is a democrat or left leaning.

You have so moral backbone and should get out of your grandmas basement once in a while.

 

[red states rule]

All but one who actually served with him supported him.

The one guy who didnt was not with the crew when Kerry won all his medals.

"pure fabrication" (Jim Rassmann)

"totally false" (Drew Whitlow)

"garbage" (Gene Thorson)

a pack of lies" (Del Sandusky)

This is what the men who served with him had to say about the sift boat claims.



These men served with him ,they were there when he was fired upon , kthey were there when his actions saved their lives.

They know ,You dont and you biased ass rupert Murdock sights are lie generators which you are so blind you cant figure it out.

I just love how cons refuse to honor a soliders service if he is a democrat or left leaning.

You have so moral backbone and should get out of your grandmas basement once in a while.

The libs tried their best to slime the Swift Boat Vets amnd they fell on their asses

As the sportscaster Warner Wolf would put it:

"If you took John Kerry and 19 states - YOU LOST!"

 

[Truthmatters]

You are a toby and Im to going to waste any more of my time talking to someone who cant even recognise the differance between the information gleened from a encyclopedia and a propaganda tool.

tools for tools

 

[Truthmatters]

 

[red states rule]

Surrendering already?

 

[red states rule]

You are a toby and Im to going to waste any more of my time talking to someone who cant even recognise the differance between the information gleened from a encyclopedia and a propaganda tool.

tools for tools

Translation - I can't overcome facts and truth so allow me to dismiss you out of hand and move on