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

To: greenspirit who wrote (273908)	7/12/2002 2:01:48 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

And Daschlegephardt, making one last desperate move to attack Bush, are staying well away from any bi-partisan effort to deal positively with the financial and accounting crises. First they wallowed in the WTC murders, then they rejoiced in them. Then they blocked tax justice, hoping to extend the Clinton recession, and blame it on Bush. Then they blocked judicial nominations, hoping to blame judicial chaos on Bush. Now the latest call to action for the USA: corporate and accounting reform, and they desperately try to make it a political obstruction-and blame it on Bush. The bloody and slimy fingers of James Carville, the American Josef Goebbels, are all over Daschlegephardt, and they hope the American public won't see the bloody hand marks before November...

To: greenspirit who wrote (273908)	7/12/2002 11:34:20 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Media bias, let's count the beans. Media Coverage of Harken 50 Times Greater Than Whitewater In the two weeks since President Bush's 1990 sale of Harken Energy stock became the focus of a media maelstrom, the prestige press has given the so-called scandal 50 times the coverage it gave to the Clintons' Whitewater land deal during a comparable period. In the 14 days after the New York Times broke the Whitewater story on March 8, 1992, the entire mainstream press corps gave the scandal just 14 mentions, a Lexis-Nexis search reveals. But in the two weeks since the Harken story has re-emerged, the focus of the Washington press corps has been far, far more intense. From June 28 to July 12, 2002, the media has devoted no fewer than 711 reports to the Bush stock sale, more than 50 times the coverage it gave Whitewater at a similar point in that story. In fact, throughout the entire 1992 presidential campaign (from March 8 through Election Day), when the media's interest in a potential candidate's skeleton closet should have been most intense, the press reported on Whitewater a grand total of 27 times. Contrast that with the 2000 campaign, when Harken Energy first appeared on the national media's radar screen. With precious little to indicate that then-candidate George Bush had done anything whatsoever wrong, the press still managed to squeeze out 87 reports during the same March through Election Day period - more than three times the coverage Whitewater received. A look at the broader picture reveals that Bill and Hillary Clinton received a complete media pass on Whitewater until December 1993, when the White House admitted documents possibly related to scandal had been removed from the office of deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster five months before, just hours after he was found shot to death in a Virginia park. The reports of evidence removal prompted the appointment less than a month later of Whitewater special prosecutor Robert Fiske, who was later succeeded by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. In fact, until the mad scramble by Clinton aides to remove damaging documents from Foster's office, the media considered Whitewater a virtual non-story - a point the Bush White House and its defenders have thus far inexplicably failed to make about Harken. newsmax.com