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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (681384)	5/2/2005 6:06:40 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

LOL - you mean they thoroughly document the far liberal and near liberal viewpoints. As I said earlier, PBS has become less liberal over the last couple years.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (681384)	5/3/2005 10:15:08 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769667

The public seems to agree: Message 21284724

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (681384)	5/4/2005 8:16:13 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 769667

Pakistan seizes top terror suspect From CNN's Syed Mohsin Naqvi Wednesday, May 4, 2005 Posted: 8:06 AM EDT (1206 GMT) LAHORE, Pakistan (CNN) -- Alleged al Qaeda operative Abu Farraj al Libbi, wanted in two attempts to assassinate President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has been arrested along with 10 more al Qaeda suspects in Pakistan, the government has said. Al Libbi and three of the men were arrested several days ago in Wazirstan, a tribal area of Pakistan on the border of Afghanistan, the country's information minister and intelligence sources told CNN Wednesday. Al Libbi is a Libyan and has a $1 million bounty on his head. "It's a good sign and we are going in the right direction," Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told CNN. In another raid, this one Wednesday in Bajore on the northwestern frontier near the Afghan border, intelligence officials and local police told CNN seven al Qaeda members were arrested. The operation began with a raid on a house by Pakistani army commandos, security agency officers and helicopters, officials said. Three of the men arrested are Afghans, three are Pakistani and one's nationality is not yet known, the officials added. Al Libbi is suspected of being the mastermind of two suicide bomb assassination attempts on Musharraf. He is alleged to be the key member of al Qaeda operations in Pakistan. In August 2004, Pakistani intelligence officials told CNN they believed al Libbi had taken on the role of No. 3 in al Qaeda following the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Al Libbi was among six suspects identified as Pakistan's "Most Wanted Terrorists" in a poster campaign last year.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (681384)	5/6/2005 12:43:26 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"Alleged" Tilt At PBS May 4, 2005 The old news: PBS is still a liberal monstrosity transforming the hard-earned dollars of many Bush-loving taxpayers into fire-breathing Bush-loathing programming. The new development: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has plans to get serious about seeking a better balance of political views on PBS. From the sound of the New York Times front page on May 2, they must have been waving smelling salts in the face of liberal reporters. Kenneth Tomlinson, the "Republican" chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was said to be pressing aggressively to correct "what he and other conservatives consider liberal bias." The Times approach, pretending this issue is a gigantic question mark, makes about as much sense as an article taking exception to what "conservatives consider the blue color of the sky." But remember, we’re talking about the New York Times. In this story, "Republican conservative" Tomlinson was opposed by the president of PBS, Pat Mitchell, unlabeled by the Times as either a Democrat or a liberal. Nor was it fit to print her ties to liberal celebrities like Robert Redford or Ted Turner, or her role in the CNN "Cold War" documentary that was so biased conservatives have written entire books debunking it. Mitchell's first major initiative after being named PBS boss in 2002 was to give Bill Moyers an hour every week to bash conservatives. So what has Tomlinson done to deserve front-page coverage in the New York Times? He plans to have two ombudsmen look over the content. Stop the bloody presses! Bill Schulz, a longtime editor at Reader's Digest, and Ken Bode, a longtime reporter for NBC and CNN and a former host of PBS's "Washington Week," will be moonlighting in part-time positions, and won’t even screen PBS programming in advance. But this is Crisis Time for the entrenched leftists at PBS who want no scrutiny whatsoever. Schulz and Bode would have had plenty of work on the Moyers show "Now," even after the 2004 election. In November, Moyers attacked Condoleezza Rice and her successor as National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley for their "pattern of ineptness," and despaired as the president turned America's credibility in the world over to "two of the people who helped shred it. Both are known first and foremost for loyalty to the official view of reality, no matter the evidence to the contrary." Also in November, Moyers interviewed ultraliberal nun Joan Chittister about the evil American atrocities against civilians in Iraq. He asked: "Depending on the sources, Sister Joan, there have been 37,000 civilians killed in Iraq, or as many perhaps as 100,000. Why is abortion a higher moral issue with many American Christians than the invasion of Iraq and the loss of life there?" Chittister said yes, dropping bombs on civilians, including pregnant women, is "military abortion." To which Moyers added: "Somebody said to me the other day that Americans don't behead, but we do drop smart bombs that do it for us." Is there a politician anywhere in America who made that nasty a commercial last year? Equating our military’s bombing missions with terrorist beheadings of civilians? If you still don’t believe Moyers is the poster boy for liberal bias at PBS, take it from Current newspaper, the must-read publication for PBS insiders. They found in November 2004 that a six-month review of Moyers showed that "of the 75 segments over six months that treated controversial issues like the Iraq War, the state of the economy and the corrupting influence of corporate money on politics, only 13 included anyone who spoke against the thrust of the segment." That study didn’t make the New York Times story on "alleged" PBS bias. For Moyers, it is a great night of taxpayer-funded broadcasting when the conservatives get no chance to rebut his personal attacks. It should also be noted that while "Now" shrunk to a half-hour show, it continues in its liberal way, most recently with a big segment bashing the U.S. military over Abu Ghraib. Scrap any thought that Moyers has stopped his omnipresent role on PBS, since he’s now hosting a global-affairs show called "Wide Angle," where he recently ran down Pope Benedict XVI for stifling "dissenters." PBS is not now, and never has been, a conservative network. In the final analysis, Ken Tomlinson is trying to balance out the PBS image so that it will have more success getting more and more federal funding. So it’s clear that conservatives are not really getting the conservative agenda if Tomlinson succeeds in his goals. Conservatives wish every taxpayer dollar destined for public broadcasting in a 21st-century media universe was returned home to their wallets and purses, where it belongs.