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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: A. Borealis who wrote (28440)	8/8/2000 10:45:11 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769667

Basically, I think it will be too close to call after the Dem. convention with heavy skirmishing and lots of ugly stuff right up to election day. Bascially, I see Bush counterpunching (as far as ugliness goes) and I believe he wins the election unless he flubs up really bad in any debate forums. Those forums do not usually produce a clear winner/loser so I see that as unlikely. If we don't see any tightening after the Dem convention, then Gore is toast. JLA

To: A. Borealis who wrote (28440)	8/9/2000 9:09:50 AM
From: Scarecrow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

More documented evidence of media bias from Brent Baker: Dan Rather is consistent, if consistently biased in only highlighting the Democratic attacks on the Republican team. The night of the official announcement of Dick Cheney as George Bush's VP Rather relayed the derisive and negative Democratic spin against the GOP ticket. Exactly two weeks later on the night of the official unveiling of Joe Lieberman as Al Gore's number two, Rather relayed not Republican criticism of the new Democratic team but the Democratic ticket's boasts about themselves which included a sly dig at Bush-Cheney. Compare the two quotes below. Bias doesn't get much more obvious or easy to see than this: -- Here's Rather on the July 25 CBS Evening News introducing that night's story on the Bush-Cheney debut: "In the presidential campaign, the official announcement and first photo-op today of Republican George Bush and his running mate Richard Cheney. Democrats were quick to portray the ticket as quote ‘two Texas oilmen' because Cheney was chief of a big Dallas- based oil supply conglomerate. They also blast Cheney's voting record in Congress as again quote, ‘outside the American mainstream' because of Cheney's votes against the Equal Rights for Women Amendment, against a woman's right to choose abortion -- against abortion as Cheney prefers to put it -- and Cheney's votes against gun control. Republicans see it all differently, most of them hailing Bush's choice and Cheney's experience." -- Rather introducing the August 8 CBS Evening News piece on the Gore-Lieberman announcement event: "Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore officially introduced his history-making running mate today, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. History-making because Lieberman is of Jewish heritage and faith. The two started running right away. In their first joint appearance they gave a preview of the Gore- Lieberman fight-back, come-back strategy. Their message: They represent the future, not the past, and they are the ticket of high moral standards most in tune with real mainstream America." As I said, evidence of liberal bias doesn't get much better than that.