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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (247844)	8/28/2005 9:54:10 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 1584437

Journalistic malpractice: ...................................................... Thursday, August 25, 2005 hoystory.blogspot.com New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller has been doing hard work following President Bush from place to place on his monthlong "vacation." I haven't spent a whole lot of time analyzing the Times' news coverage. But as I scanned the wires briefly before heading home last night, I was surprised to see this paragraph in the Times' story on President Bush: Mr. Bush met Ms. Sheehan in a similar setting in June 2004, but she has said he acted as if he was at a party, did not know her son's name and was disrespectful to her, calling her "Mom" throughout the session. It would be one thing to be completely ignorant of the fact that Cindy Sheehan told an entirely different story when the event occurred, but this is old news. If Bumiller still doesn't know about Sheehan's changing stories, then she hasn't been doing her job -- a reporter has to know what's going on on their beat. If, as is almost certain, Bumiller does know about the differing accounts and continues to only peddle the new one, then bias is probably the nicest thing she is guilty of. I was shocked when I read Bumiller's story. I honestly wasn't prepared to see such blatant, biased, one-sided reporting. You might think that maybe this just slipped past an editor or two unwittingly on the way into the paper. I might believe that two, if I hadn't found out that this was the fourth time in the past few days that Bumiller's done this.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (247844)	8/28/2005 11:11:13 AM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1584437

An example of the liberal press.... msnbc.msn.com They interviewed Jerry Lewis and Lewis said NO to any Dean Martin questions so the liberal just kept asking about DeanO.... Idiots...

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (247844)	8/28/2005 3:30:01 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584437

Ted, I said criticized Sheehan's right to protest. I never said arrest her. I haven't heard anyone ask for her arrest........not yet. The poll was all about having the "freedom" to protest. Criticizing a protester is not denying that protester their 1st amendment rights. Unless, of course, you think anyone who does exercise their right to protest should be "free" from criticism or offense. Look you can move the argument ever so slightly in one direction or another as you are wont to do in your attempts to make and secure your point. However, let me tell you now.........its a wasted effort. The truth is that for the past three years, freedom of expression in this country has been sorely limited by the right......mostly not by threats of attack and/or imprisonment but rather by intimidation. In response, you might say that that's the problem of those who were intimidated.........and you would be right to a degree. However, the intimidation was not your normal intimidation......it took the form of questioning one's patriotism and loyalty to one's country. That's huge in a conservative country like the US. First, the argument was carefully set up and put into place by the right, and then exploited whenever someone objected to GOP policy and objectives. It was a very effective maneuver...........its very hard to refute an accusation of unAmericanism when the country has been attacked and the recipient of the accusation is criticizing the policies of the people purportedly going after the perpetrator of the attack. Consequently, this administration has had a free ride for a long time. Eventually, some people gave up and stopped criticizing......the public embarrassment was not worth the effort......particularly, since Americans did not seem to comprehend the magnitude of the malignancy that was taking place in this country, and so the accusations would end up flying over their heads. But then a change occurred earlier this year.......if you were listening, there was an accompanying snapping sound to that change. The American public finally got what a mess you all have created for this country. And with that realization has come the pent up anger finally finding a voice of legitimacy and getting a chance to be released. Sheehan currently is the spokesperson for that pent up anger. That won't last long......already many people are starting to add their voices to her's. And its just the beginning.....we are seeing only the tip of the iceberg. The anger will turn to rage. And it will continue to grow and when its done, I expect some heads will be rolling. Hell have no wrath like Americans scorned! ;~) ted