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To: LindyBill who wrote (65637)	8/30/2004 7:03:53 PM
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Media Research - Brokaw Warns GOP Playing "Con Game" in Its Showcased Speakers In a likely preview of a media obsession this week, Tom Brokaw ended Sunday's NBC Nightly News by complaining that the decision to feature three "middle of the road" speakers, in contrast to the party's "hard right" positions, may be seen by "streetwise New Yorkers" as "the political equivalent of a popular con game in this tough town, three-card monty." But, Brokaw lamented, "that's a game in which the dealer almost always wins." Five weeks ago, on the Sunday before the opening of the Democratic convention, Brokaw did not anchor the NBC Nightly News -- Brian Williams handled that duty from Boston -- and so did not offer any warnings about Democrats trying to disguise their "hard left" views. In the NBC News booth overlooking an empty Madison Square Garden, Brokaw concluded the August 29 NBC Nightly News with these cautionary words: "New York and the Republicans are like that old Jack Klugman-Tony Randall television show, The Odd Couple. This city may elect Republicans as Mayors, but otherwise its cultural and political sensibilities are well to the left of the ideology defining the leading Republican power brokers. The President's team knows that it can't get back to the White House by taking only hard right turns, so it has, as three of its featured speakers, Republicans who have been successful by navigating the middle of the road as well the right hand side: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rudy Giuliani and Senator John McCain who often calls himself John Kerry's best friend in the U.S. Senate. Streetwise New Yorkers may call that the political equivalent of a popular con game in this tough town, three-card monty. But then that's a game in which the dealer almost always wins." Nets Hype Pro-Kerry Witnesses, But Only NBC Notes Schachte Some swift boat witnesses more newsworthy than others. When CBS News saw on Saturday, August 21 that the Chicago Tribune Web site had posted its Sunday print edition story by one of its editors, William Rood, a swift boat commander, who defended John Kerry's version of events in shooting a Viet Cong, CBS Evening News anchor Sharyl Attkisson trumpeted it: "Breaking the silence. A swift boat commander who fought with John Kerry speaks out for the first time." The other networks soon touted Rood's account. But when six days later Chicago' other newspaper, the Sun-Times, published the first on the record interview with a retired Rear Admiral, who said he was on the boat with Kerry when Kerry suffered the wound for which he earned his first purple heart, but knows it was self-inflicted and thus should not have qualified for the medal, CBS remained silent all weekend. So did ABC. Friday's NBC Nightly News, however, also relayed the recollections of William Schachte as Lisa Myers counter-balanced him with another man on the boat who maintains Schachte was not present. 5. NPR's Nina Totenberg: Swift Boat Ad "Nothing More Than a Lie" Despite support for much of what the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth charged in their first TV ad, about how Kerry misstated what he did in incidents for which we got medals, NPR reporter Nina Totenberg asserted on Inside Washington over the weekend that the "allegations made in that first ad are nothing more than a lie." She also regretted how the "lie" has "not caught up until now and it has done significant damage to the Kerry campaign."