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

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (263190)	6/12/2002 12:05:05 AM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 769667

I just watched a little of the show last night. He was talking about how the missionary that got killed has done more in his death than he ever could do while alive, because of all the new interest in being a missionary. While I got the point, and think it swell that instead of sending guns we send more missionaries, I somehow think Pat goes to far sometimes. But, comparing him and Falwell to Hitler, is a monstrous joke, and only serves to embarrass the idiot who is making the comparison. I am sure you agree with me there, flap.

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (263190)	6/12/2002 12:20:33 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Today's Oliphant - CONAN THE REPUBLICAN GETS AN IDEA ucomics.com

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (263190)	6/12/2002 3:22:04 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 769667

German Agency Warns of Al Qaeda Attack on Aircraft June 12, 2002 10:57 AM ET BERLIN (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network may be planning to use model airplanes to attack passenger aircraft worldwide, a German security source said on Wednesday. The security source said the warning had come from Germany's BND intelligence agency and was based on information from the United States. The source said the agency had warned that al Qaeda guerrillas could strike at passenger aircraft using radio-controlled model airplanes or small rockets. "The information came from the United States. It could happen anywhere in the world," the source told Reuters, adding that the threat was being taken seriously despite its unspecific nature. "The information should be treated with caution," he added. The FBI warned law enforcement agencies in the United States in May that al Qaeda may possess shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles. Germany's mass-circulation Bild newspaper, citing a BND document based on intercepted radio messages, reported earlier Wednesday that the BND warning focused on an attack on aircraft at Frankfurt or another major German city. However, the German criminal agency LKA in the federal state of Hessen, where Frankfurt is located, said the BND warning was not specific. There was no concrete evidence of any forthcoming attack, an LKA spokesman said. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Tuesday the government too had no evidence of an immediate threat of attacks by al Qaeda on Germany. Germany has played a central part in the investigation into the September 11 suicide plane attacks on U.S. cities, which Washington blames on al Qaeda. Three of the four suspected hijackers, including Mohammed Atta, their alleged ringleader, lived for years in the German port city of Hamburg

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (263190)	6/12/2002 3:24:11 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 769667

Bernard Goldberg: "Ever Notice Liberal Bias?" [Dan Rather] online.wsj.com Andy Rooney, who usually ruminates on such weighty matters as why people collect string or how we're getting fewer cornflakes for our money these days, actually said something important the other night on "Larry King Live" -- and nobody in the major media even noticed. Mr. Rooney was on the show speaking about all sorts of things when Larry asked him about my book, "Bias": "What did you make of Bernard Goldberg's book, critical of television liberal bias and especially harsh on some of your folks at CBS?" "I thought he made some very good points," Mr. Rooney said. That such a big media star would acknowledge that I was onto something in "Bias," and that he would acknowledge it in such a public arena is interesting, but this wasn't the bulletin. The juicy stuff was just over the horizon. "There is no question," Mr. Rooney went on, "that I, among others, have a liberal bias." That's not the big news, either. Andy Rooney's not a reporter; he's a commentator. It doesn't matter how liberal he is. But then he dropped the bombshell. "I think Dan is transparently liberal. Now he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too. But I think he should be more careful." Dan, in case you've spent the last 25 years on Pluto, would be Dan Rather. The same Dan Rather who was all over me like a hound on a hare, as he might put it, when I wrote in 1996, on this very page, that "The old argument that the networks and other 'media elites' have a liberal bias is so blatantly true that it's hardly worth discussing anymore." I was a correspondent at CBS News at the time and the op-ed started the TV version of World War III. I was taken off the air for several months; there was even talk that CBS News might fire me for uttering such blasphemy. Several of my colleagues went public with their displeasure. Bob Schieffer told the Washington Post that for me to say there was liberal bias at the networks was "a wacky charge." Andrew Heyward, the president of CBS News, also spoke to the Post, calling me a "misguided missile." But now we have Andy Rooney, a very big name in the world of television news, publicly saying that "Bias" was filled with "some very true things" -- and it's like a tree falling in the forest. The silence, as they say, is deafening. Here's Mr. Rooney saying what right-wingers have been yelling about for years -- that Dan Rather is "transparently liberal" (even I never said that!) -- and not a peep outside the Internet. So what gives? Why was it such a big deal when I said we have a problem with liberal bias in the news and today, when Mr. Rooney says it, it's not even a blip on the radar screen? Is it because no one takes comments made on TV seriously? Is it because no one takes comments made on "Larry King Live" seriously? Is it because no one takes anything Andy Rooney says seriously? Or could it be that the media elites think if they say nothing, maybe Mr. Rooney's words will simply float into space -- like most of the other junk on television -- and that will be the end of it? Are they keeping quiet about this because a discussion on bias in the news is the last thing they want? After all, this is pretty big news, isn't it? A major TV news star from "60 Minutes" goes on national television and says there's too much liberal bias in the news -- even at the highest levels of his own network. Sooner or later, the media elites who have been ignoring the story will have to deal with it, if for no other reason than they're hemorrhaging viewers. By ignoring the subject of media bias, they're thumbing their noses at their own customers -- their viewers, past and present -- who think it's a pretty important subject. Oh, there's one more thing. After saying how right he thought I was in "Bias," Andy added: "He [Goldberg] has a great knack for being a jerk." I probably didn't say anything here to change his mind about that.