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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (4082)	6/21/2005 11:31:13 AM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

State Dems: Impeach Bush Cheney, Rumsfeld too By David Callender June 13, 2005 E-mail this story to a friend Email this story to a friend Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format Letter to the editor Tell us what you think Write a letter to the editor. Subscribe to The Capital Times Wisconsin Democrats are calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Loyalists at this weekend's state party convention in Oshkosh passed a resolution calling for Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings against the three officials for their role in the war in Iraq. The resolution contends that the administration "lied or misled" the United Nations, Congress, and the American public about the justification for the war. It cites the so-called "Downing Street memo" from British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government, as well as reports from U.N. weapons inspectors as evidence of widespread deception. "Democrats, not only in Wisconsin but throughout the U.S., have been outraged by what we believe has been a clear cover-up of why the U.S. went into Iraq," said newly elected state party Chairman Joe Wineke. Wineke said the resolution expresses the "the sense of frustration that Democrats in Wisconsin have over fighting a war for the wrong reasons." Advertisement: Wisconsin Democrats are not the first to pass such a resolution. The Nevada state party passed a similar resolution calling for Bush's ouster last year. And both the state and national Green Party, as well as former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader, have called for Bush's impeachment because of his handling of the war in Iraq. But with both houses of Congress in Republican hands, the resolution will not likely result in any congressional action, said Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "It's the sort of thing you might imagine spreads among opposition parties, but it is so far from the political reality of anything that could happen in Washington that it makes your party look a little ridiculous," he said. What's more, he added, even if the House of Representatives began impeachment proceedings against the president and vice president, "I don't think you can impeach the secretary of defense." E-mail: dcallender@madison.com

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (4082)	6/26/2005 5:23:45 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9838

MSM Ignores Durbin, Pounces on Rove Little Green Footballs I think I’m getting cynical, perish the thought, because this Washington Times account of insanely biased mainstream media reporting just seems like business as usual: <<< Press pounces on Rove’s remarks Major news outlets that largely ignored the controversial comments of the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate last week immediately reported on a fiery speech by White House adviser Karl Rove, giving the story front-page prominence and the lead of newscasts. Early yesterday morning, NBC’s “Today” show, the CBS “Morning Show,” and ABC’s “Good Morning America” all featured the Democratic outrage over Mr. Rove’s comments that after September 11 liberals “wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers” while conservatives “prepared for war.” Each network’s nightly newscasts on Thursday also ran stories on Mr. Rove’s speech, delivered Wednesday night. On June 14, Senate Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin compared the military’s interrogation techniques at the prison camp at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to that of the Nazis and other murderous regimes. Yet CBS did not broadcast a single story on the Illinois Democrat’s comments. “Today” and “Good Morning America” and those networks’ nightly news programs didn’t air anything about it until the senator apologized after a week of complaints by Republicans, the Anti-Defamation League and veterans groups. “What the networks did was zero, zero, zero, zero on Durbin, and as soon as Rove shows up, boom,” said Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the conservative Media Research Center. “To say that one deserves zero coverage and the other huge coverage is just bizarre.” Steve Lovelady, managing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review Daily, said he’s “not sure if the network morning shows even qualify as journalism these days,” describing them as “yuk-fests with periodic headline updates tossed into the mix almost as an afterthought.” But he was still puzzled about why CBS, including their evening news program, ignored the Durbin story altogether. “Nothing about Durbin ever, even after the apology,” he said. “I’d love to hear how they justify that.” >>> littlegreenfootballs.com washtimes.com