Don't look now, folks, but the left-wing mainstream media are at it again, with one exception.
On Thursday morning the media started a firestorm, blasting President Bush's TV campaign spot that includes a few seconds of images from Ground Zero. They immediately flocked to a small group of 9/11 families that accused the president of exploiting the tragedy for political gain.
The New York Daily News went so far as to print a photo of President Bush standing at Ground Zero, bullhorn in hand and arm around a former firefighter, in its story. It gives one the impression that the image is in his TV ad. It is not.
In addition, some of the family members who lost loved ones on 9/11 are members of a group called September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. Their stated mission is to promote an end to terrorism through nonviolent means. That includes opposing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
That position puts them on the extreme left fringe of the political spectrum and ideologically opposed to George W. Bush.
We are now into day two of the nonstop Bush-bashing all over the networks and in the papers. But before day one had ended, MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews" broke some major news that has for the most part gone totally ignored.
"Hardball" reporter David Schuster did a report which included part of a John Kerry ad that aired in New Hampshire and Iowa last year. In it the announcer says that John Kerry is a senator who "sounded the alarm against terrorism years before 9/11."
Really? What alarm was that? Could it be his vote against the death penalty for terrorists who kill Americans? If the ad wasn't exploitation enough, it was released just two days prior to the second anniversary of the attack, Sept. 9, 2003!
Last night on my WABC Radio program I played the Kerry sound bite over and over again. So far the media have given John Kerry a pass on this one, except for "Hardball" and me.
They also have given him a pass on his 1971 testimony to the United States Senate, where he called his "Band of Brothers" a bunch of war criminals. All of the networks should have that video, but I haven't seen it or heard it.
Let's hope the Bush campaign sees this and gets hold of the Kerry spots from 9/9/03. The voting public needs to see what real exploitation is.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/3/5/132542.shtml
On Thursday morning the media started a firestorm, blasting President Bush's TV campaign spot that includes a few seconds of images from Ground Zero. They immediately flocked to a small group of 9/11 families that accused the president of exploiting the tragedy for political gain.
The New York Daily News went so far as to print a photo of President Bush standing at Ground Zero, bullhorn in hand and arm around a former firefighter, in its story. It gives one the impression that the image is in his TV ad. It is not.
In addition, some of the family members who lost loved ones on 9/11 are members of a group called September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. Their stated mission is to promote an end to terrorism through nonviolent means. That includes opposing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
That position puts them on the extreme left fringe of the political spectrum and ideologically opposed to George W. Bush.
We are now into day two of the nonstop Bush-bashing all over the networks and in the papers. But before day one had ended, MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews" broke some major news that has for the most part gone totally ignored.
"Hardball" reporter David Schuster did a report which included part of a John Kerry ad that aired in New Hampshire and Iowa last year. In it the announcer says that John Kerry is a senator who "sounded the alarm against terrorism years before 9/11."
Really? What alarm was that? Could it be his vote against the death penalty for terrorists who kill Americans? If the ad wasn't exploitation enough, it was released just two days prior to the second anniversary of the attack, Sept. 9, 2003!
Last night on my WABC Radio program I played the Kerry sound bite over and over again. So far the media have given John Kerry a pass on this one, except for "Hardball" and me.
They also have given him a pass on his 1971 testimony to the United States Senate, where he called his "Band of Brothers" a bunch of war criminals. All of the networks should have that video, but I haven't seen it or heard it.
Let's hope the Bush campaign sees this and gets hold of the Kerry spots from 9/9/03. The voting public needs to see what real exploitation is.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/3/5/132542.shtml
