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To: abstract who wrote (60723)	2/7/2004 6:49:22 PM
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The real issue isn't what you or I think as individuals. It is what we as a country are constantly exposed to by politicians & the media. Creating false appearances that are in clear conflict with the facts is every bit as wrong as lying. The Big Lie theory works. I submit that too many liberal politicians have embraced this as a way to win hearts & minds & too many media outlets have allowed them a wide forum to mislead the public. You can ignore the irrefutable fact that most media outlets are dominated from the top down by liberals. There is no doubt that their bias is reflected in their reporting & their selective reporting. This is all well documented. Liberal politicians have been given the opportunity to use the media to tell all manner of lies & intentional deceit, yet these same outlets rarely ever challenge these lies even after they have been factually discredited. This too is well documented. When conservative politicians speak publicly, they are frequently presented in as negative a manner as possible, their every word is scrutinized & sadly, sometimes deceitfully misrepresented. If anything they say is not 100% accurate, it is reported 24/7, again in the most negative light. This too is well documented. This disparate treatment of politics is a clear disservice to this country. Our country is not given an objective, balanced reporting of the facts. It is clearly skewed to the left & too frequently the reporting stands in stark contrast with the facts. Why do you think that when I go to the source & review what was actually said verbatim on issues, when I review source documents, then compare them to what is reported in the media, there is a huge difference between what actually transpired & what has been misreported widely & frequently by the media? Again, you may dispute these facts, but it won't change the reality we all must live in. <font size=4> "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." - Joseph Goebbels "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." - Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945 “There is nothing great in the world that does not owe it's origin to the creative ability of an individual man.” - Adolf Hitler "Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets." -Napoleon, Maxims "Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen."-- Maimonides "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of the facts and evidence." -- John Adams "We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions." - JASSAMYN WEST "You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton “People only see what they are prepared to see.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson “Most people nurture the facts that confirm their world view and ignore or marginalize the ones that don't, unable to achieve enough emotional detachment from their own political passions to see the world as it really is.” - David Brooks A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. - Chinese Proverb A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me. - Thomas Carlyle Liars - past all shame so past all truth. - William Shakespeare "Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality." - Frank Herbert “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” - Abraham Lincoln

To: abstract who wrote (60723)	2/9/2004 5:32:43 AM
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Gore calls Bush a Traitor. That's what "Betrayed his Country!" means. No other explanation will cover that up. From: LindyBill <font size=4> Gore Says Bush Betrayed the U.S. by Using 9/11 as a Reason for War in Iraq <font size=3> By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE - <font size=4>NYT NASHVILLE, Feb. 8 — In a withering critique of the Bush administration, former Vice President Al Gore on Sunday accused the president of betraying the country by using the Sept. 11 attacks as a justification for the invasion of Iraq. "He betrayed this country!" Mr. Gore shouted into the microphone at a rally of Tennessee Democrats here in a stuffy hotel ballroom. "He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place." <font size=3> The speech had several hundred Democrats roaring their approval for Mr. Gore, the party's 2000 standard-bearer. Mr. Gore was one of three Tennessee Democrats, along with former Gov. Ned McWherter and former Senator James Sasser, being honored by the state party two days before the state's Democratic primary on Tuesday. The event served as a neutral platform for this season's candidates. Gen. Wesley K. Clark and Senator John Edwards addressed the crowd, but it was Mr. Gore who fired it up. While the other honorees and party officials gave a nod to all of the candidates, <font size=4>Mr. Gore, who has endorsed Howard Dean, referred to his candidate in a nonpartisan manner. He said he appreciated that Dr. Dean "spoke forthrightly" against the war in Iraq<font size=3>, brought new people into the party and inspired the grass roots over the Internet. But Mr. Gore told the crowd that at an earlier reception for Dr. Dean, who was in Maine, he had said that no matter who won Tennessee on Tuesday, "any one of these candidates is far better than George W. Bush." But his appreciation of Dr. Dean was tucked in passing into a fiery meditation on his own political history, including a recollection of the tactics used by the Republicans against his father, a longtime populist senator from Tennessee, in his last, losing election in 1970. He recalled that President Richard M. Nixon had used "the politics of fear" to make his father, Albert Gore Sr., out to be unpatriotic and an atheist. And when his father lost, Mr. Gore said, his father said: "The truth shall rise again." <font size=4> He said he recalled that defeat because "the last three years we've seen the politics of fear rear its ugly head again." Like the Nixon administration, Mr. Gore said, the Bush administration is not committed to principle but is obsessed with its re-election. "The American people recognize that there's a lot of politics going on," said Claire Buchan, a White House spokeswoman, in reference to Mr. Gore's comments. Mr. Gore said he was ready to break his silence about his disagreements with the Bush administration before the Sept. 11 attacks, but afterward he threw his speech in the trash. But then the war in Iraq came, and he felt betrayed. "It is not a minor matter to take the loyalty and deep patriotic feelings of the American people and trifle with them," he declared, adding with a shout: "The truth shall rise again." General Clark followed Mr. Gore with a notably tamer speech. But he honored Mr. Gore, saying, "The 2000 election was stolen from the Democratic Party," and that Mr. Gore "would have been and should have been a great president." <font size=3> Mr. Edwards arrived long after Mr. Gore spoke and apparently had little idea of what had occurred inside the room. He invoked his Southern roots and was greeted with cheers. Earlier, on the ABC program "This Week," he seemed to leave the door open just a crack to the possibility of being the vice-presidential nominee if he does not win the nomination. While reiterating that he was not interested in being vice president and did not see a circumstance where he would change his mind, he was less unequivocal when asked why he would not accept the nomination "if your party needs you." "You don't know what's going to happen a month, three months, six months from now," Mr. Edwards said. "As I sit here today, I intend to fight with everything I've got to be the nominee. I think I am the alternative in the Democratic Party to Senator Kerry." <font size=4> Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company