The bias is blatant:
Bush bad, Kerry good; got that?
THE BIG MEDIA bias against President Bush and toward John Kerry is so blatant now that one becomes almost immune to it. Even the most outrageous examples go by with barely a stir.
Last week featured two more such cases. One came with the treatment of Clinton national security advisor Sandy Berger and his handling of classified documents. The other had to do with the ?yellowcake? uranium affair.
Big Media had seized upon a former diplomat?s charge that Bush ?lied? when he told the nation of British intelligence relative to Saddam Hussein seeking uranium in Africa. The story grew even more sinister when it was suggested, by the diplomat and others, that the diplomat?s wife had been ?outed? as a CIA agent in retaliation for the man?s criticisms of Bush.
As columnist William Safire put it last week, two exhaustive government reports have now come out showing ?that it is the President?s lionized accuser, and not Mr. Bush, who has been having trouble with the truth.?
Turns out that Joseph Wilson was wrong when he said his wife had nothing to do with the CIA sending him to Niger in Africa to investigate the British report. And it turns out that Bush?s report of Saddam?s activities relative to uranium was well-founded. As for the woman being ?outed,? if she was, it may well have been her husband?s own actions that caused the ruckus in the first place.
If you haven?t seen or heard much about this on the networks, it is because they were busy last week trying to distract attention from the investigation of Berger, who was Clinton?s national security advisor and up until last week had been advising John Kerry on such matters.
Berger is being looked at for, in his lawyer?s phrase, ?inadvertently? taking security materials from the National Archives. (He had been allowed to review them there in preparation for his testimony before the 9/11 Commission.)
But the story, if you watched ABC-TV, among others, was not that Kerry?s campaign had been embarrassed. It was ? as with the CIA-Wilson matter ? all about who might have leaked the story and how the Republicans were playing politics with it.
Indeed, a former Clinton mouthpiece now working for ABC gleefully passed on the ?report? (without any attribution at all) that perhaps Bush?s Attorney General Ashcroft had leaked the Berger story. We can scarcely imagine what the reports from Big Media are going to look like when the campaign really gets going after Labor Day.
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Bush bad, Kerry good; got that?
THE BIG MEDIA bias against President Bush and toward John Kerry is so blatant now that one becomes almost immune to it. Even the most outrageous examples go by with barely a stir.
Last week featured two more such cases. One came with the treatment of Clinton national security advisor Sandy Berger and his handling of classified documents. The other had to do with the ?yellowcake? uranium affair.
Big Media had seized upon a former diplomat?s charge that Bush ?lied? when he told the nation of British intelligence relative to Saddam Hussein seeking uranium in Africa. The story grew even more sinister when it was suggested, by the diplomat and others, that the diplomat?s wife had been ?outed? as a CIA agent in retaliation for the man?s criticisms of Bush.
As columnist William Safire put it last week, two exhaustive government reports have now come out showing ?that it is the President?s lionized accuser, and not Mr. Bush, who has been having trouble with the truth.?
Turns out that Joseph Wilson was wrong when he said his wife had nothing to do with the CIA sending him to Niger in Africa to investigate the British report. And it turns out that Bush?s report of Saddam?s activities relative to uranium was well-founded. As for the woman being ?outed,? if she was, it may well have been her husband?s own actions that caused the ruckus in the first place.
If you haven?t seen or heard much about this on the networks, it is because they were busy last week trying to distract attention from the investigation of Berger, who was Clinton?s national security advisor and up until last week had been advising John Kerry on such matters.
Berger is being looked at for, in his lawyer?s phrase, ?inadvertently? taking security materials from the National Archives. (He had been allowed to review them there in preparation for his testimony before the 9/11 Commission.)
But the story, if you watched ABC-TV, among others, was not that Kerry?s campaign had been embarrassed. It was ? as with the CIA-Wilson matter ? all about who might have leaked the story and how the Republicans were playing politics with it.
Indeed, a former Clinton mouthpiece now working for ABC gleefully passed on the ?report? (without any attribution at all) that perhaps Bush?s Attorney General Ashcroft had leaked the Berger story. We can scarcely imagine what the reports from Big Media are going to look like when the campaign really gets going after Labor Day.
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