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To: JohnM who wrote (37)	4/30/2003 11:48:21 AM
From: dvdw©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793926

Lol..to suggest I should provide a nickel of my money to eric alterman...that is beyond reality. The great unwashed middle is people like me. We are in total disrespect of everything on the left, but you may only see this in hind sight. The lefts top down metrics for planning everyone elses future is caught in the reality of a backlash that started with the shifting of communism to the milder socialism, this path once begun will not end until all that is left is the ism at the end. Prognostication skills are on trial here. As to the fact that there is an upswell of right ring media, I would suggest that any movement away from the hegemony of the left, which has been in place for most of my life time, is welcome. We'll find our bearings where your sides not looking, that much you can count on.

To: JohnM who wrote (37)	4/30/2003 12:39:25 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793926

From your Amazon link amazon.com Fact Checking Stops On Page One, April 24, 2003 Reviewer: lesjl (see more about me) from Alexandria, VA USA It says: "Dwight David Eisenhower received one of the biggest ovations of his life when, at the 1952 Republican convention, he derided the 'sensation-seeking columnists and commentators' who sought to undermine the Republican Party's efforts to improve the nation." As K.E. Grubbs Jr. pointed out for The American Spectator, this event occurred at the 1964 GOP convention, when Barry Goldwater was the nominee. There was a world of difference between 1952 and 1964. Not only that, but Alterman doesn't know that Eisenhower's complaint was justified. In May 1964 Walter Cronkike attempted to get Eisenhower to denounce Goldwater. Eisenhower refused. It's a reliable sign of bias when a TV news anchorman lobbies a retired president in order to change the outcome of a political campaign that he is covering. Alterman would have benefited by doing his homework. One can only hope that he isn't representative of the news media as a whole. The publisher needs to get a fact-checker for the next edition. Elsewhere in the book Alterman provides arguments refuting his own thesis. This book is only good for connoisseurs of unintentional humor.