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To: LindyBill who wrote (81774)	10/29/2004 2:55:19 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793820

LaShawn Barbour blog - Liberal Media Distortions Rathergate tops the chart at #1. From the Media Research Center: The Ten Worst Media Distortions of Campaign 2004 1. Dan Rather’s Forgery Fiasco 2. Ignoring, Then Attacking, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth 3. Pounding the Bush National Guard Story 4. Spinning a Good Economy into Bad News 5. The Networks’ Outrageous Convention Double-Standard 6. Swooning Over Edwards’ Image, Ignoring His Liberalism 7. CBS’s Byron Pitts Promotional Kerry Coverage 8. CBS Promotes Fears of a New Military Draft 9. Misrepresenting the 9/11 Commission on Iraq/al-Qaeda Links 10. Equating New Terrorism Warning to LBJ’s “Gulf of Tonkin” Rathergate … CBS News had to appoint an outside two-member investigating committee to find out how and why a) Dan Rather aired a hatchet job on President Bush based on forged documents that CBS was warned about and b) CBS Producer Mary Mapes coordinated with senior Kerry adviser Joe Lockhart concerning the discredited source of those documents. The Attack On The Swift Boat Vets … Last spring, over 250 Vietnam War contemporaries, including veterans who served with him when he was a Swift Boat commander and his entire chain of command, came forward to publicly challenge Kerry’s version of Vietnam and his anti-war activities. After being ignored for several weeks the media turned on these honorable men with a vengeance, rather than give them a shred of credibility. Good Economic Numbers = Bad News? … When Bill Clinton ran for re-election in 1996, unemployment was at 5.2 percent, inflation 3 percent, and economic growth 2.2 percent. Today, as Bush stands for re-election, unemployment is at 5.4 percent, inflation 2.7 percent and economists’ consensus forecast for economic growth this quarter is 3.7 percent. Coverage of the Clinton economic data was overwhelmingly favorable (35 positive, 6 negative stories). Under Bush, it’s literally reversed to 6 positive, 38 negative. Numbers don’t lie. Bias is the only explanation.