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

To: PROLIFE who wrote (614310)	8/30/2004 6:53:00 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Reuters Editor's Email 'Sad But Revealing,' Pro-Life Group Says townhall.com (CNSNews.com) - A Reuters news service editor sent an e-mail to a pro-life group last week, criticizing the group's stance on abortion as well as its support of the Bush administration. The angry email has prompted the pro-life group to question the editor's journalistic integrity. According to the National Right to Life Committee, the email came "out of the blue" from Todd Eastham, a news editor for Reuters. Eastham was responding to a press release that the National Right to Life Committee sent to hundreds of news outlets after a federal judge in New York struck down a ban on partial birth abortion. Eastham's email read as follows: "What's your plan for parenting & educating all the unwanted children you people want to bring into the world? Who will pay for policing our streets & maintaining the prisons needed to contain them when you, their parents & the system fail them? Oh, sorry. All that money has been earmarked to pay off the Bush deficit. Give me a frigging break, will you?" Douglas Johnson, the National Right to Life Committee's legislative director, called it "sad but revealing to see an editor for a major news service so casually and gratuitously express such blatant hostility to both the Bush administration and to the right to life of unborn children. "Apparently, Mr. Eastham feels strongly that abortion is necessary to prevent the birth of children who will otherwise snatch some bread from his mouth," said Johnson. "We can only wonder at how such vehement opinions may color Mr. Eastham's reporting or editing on subjects such as abortion and the Bush administration." At the bottom of Eastham's email is a statement that reads: "Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd." That "boilerplate material" invites Eastham's readers to visit the Reuters website, Johnson noted. Johnson said he did visit the website, where he found a Reuters' editorial policy, which said, "Reuters journalists do not offer their own opinions or views." The press release sent out last week by the National Right to Life Committee followed U.S. District Judge Richard C. Casey's ruling last week on the partial-birth abortion ban, which President Bush signed into law last year. Casey struck down the ban as unconstitutional, based on a 2000 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said laws banning certain types of abortions must include an exception for the health of the mother. Although Casey struck down the partial birth abortion ban, he also called the procedure "gruesome, brutal, barbaric, and uncivilized." "Future appointments to the Supreme Court will determine whether it remains legal to mostly deliver living premature infants and painfully puncture their skulls," the NRLC's Johnson said in a statement last week. "President Bush is determined to ban partial-birth abortion, but [Democratic presidential nominee] John Kerry voted against the ban and has vowed that he will appoint only justices who agree with him," he added. Johnson pointed out that Kerry voted against passing the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act "every chance he got - six times." In contrast, President Bush signed the bill on Nov. 5, 2003, saying that in partial-birth abortion "a terrible form of violence has been directed against children who are inches from birth." The Bush administration is defending the law in three separate legal challenges in three different federal courts.Federal courts in both New York and San Francisco have struck down the law, and a judge in Lincoln, Neb., has not yet issued a ruling. Send a Letter to the Editor about this article.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (614310)	8/31/2004 3:24:06 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Convention largely about giving Bush heroic image By BETH GORHAM NEW YORK (CP) - He's already been credited with the remarkable insight of Winston Churchill and the steadfast resolve of Ronald Reagan. Oh, and the hopeful vision of Abraham Lincoln, America's first Republican president. There will be a lot more of that kind of talk at the party's national convention as supporters do their part to reshape the image of President George W. Bush. And there's no doubt Bush needs some help. He's fallen far from the dizzy heights of popularity he enjoyed after he grabbed a bullhorn at Ground Zero of the Sept. 11 attack on New York City's World Trade Center nearly three years ago and promised a ruthless pursuit of terrorists. "He just doesn't represent the majority of people in America anymore," declared John Pirozze, who joined a huge protest march to demand Bush's ouster on the eve of the convention. The plan over the next three days is to emphasize Bush's war-time leadership, while portraying him as a larger-than-life national father figure who can keep Americans safer than Democratic challenger John Kerry. There will be a lot of talk about moral clarity, firm resolve and playing offence, all attempts to counter the hits Bush's credibility has suffered over Iraq and the faulty intelligence he used to determine deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat. But it won't stop there. Although many voters already see Bush as likable, good 'ol boy you could have a beer with - at least the ones who think he's smiling, not smirking, during TV appearance - twin daughters Barbara and Jenna will attend several convention events to talk about Dad as a regular guy. It's clear, too, Republicans will be attempting to present Bush anew as a compassionate conservative who cares about everyone having a piece of the American dream. That was a big theme of his 2000 election campaign that was lost during his first term when he invaded Iraq and went to war against terrorists. Bush backers, confident his conservative social policies on gays and abortion have helped lock up his right-wing Christian base, want to try to persuade independent swing voters the president is one of them and eager to improve their retirement benefits and health care. The president's wife Laura will make that case Tuesday. She's among a long list of moderates, even a couple of Democrats, lined up to portray the gentler side of Bush. California Gov. Arnold Scwartzenegger will also lend his star power to the cause. Maverick Republican Senator John McCain, who has frequently been critical of Bush, is frank about his own high-profile part. "It's obvious that it means that I have some effect on the independent voters that will play a key role in this election," he said. "It is no more complicated than that." Given Bush's uphill battle against Kerry, the party also appears cognizant of dispelling any aura of hubris clinging to Bush. Notoriously adverse to admitting mistakes, Bush said for the first time late last week in an interview with the New York Times newspaper he made a "miscalculation of what the conditions would be" in post-war Iraq. Still, there's probably not going to be too much more of that self-deprecating talk as Bush fights for his political life. Bush and Kerry are tied in opinion polls and the president's job-approval rating has fallen below the dicey 50-per-cent mark. cnews.canoe.ca