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

To: tonto who wrote (5586)	11/22/2005 2:20:36 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

To be fair, I have family over there and they are not nearly as optimistic as the writer of that letter.

To: tonto who wrote (5586)	12/5/2005 12:20:30 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

Just what we need about as much as a hole in our heads: France to enter TV news fray From Reuters France's government gave the green light Wednesday for an international TV news channel to start broadcasting in French by the end of next year, with the aim of spreading the country's vision to the world. The brainchild of President Jacques Chirac, the 24-hour news channel is expected to beam into homes, hotels and newsrooms in much the same way as U.S.-based CNN, Britain's BBC World and Qatar's Arabic-language al-Jazeera. "France must … be on the front line in the global battle of TV pictures," a spokesman quoted Chirac as telling the cabinet, which approved the establishment of a company to run the French International News Channel. The channel, which has been approved by the European Commission, is intended to broadcast initially to Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and aims to expand later to Asia, the U.S. and South America. calendarlive.com

To: tonto who wrote (5586)	12/7/2005 8:52:48 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9838

Democrats self-inflicted wounds (Joe Scarborough) God help the Democrats. What a clueless party packed with clueless leaders. It really doesn’t matter how stupid Republicans are because Democrats always seem to find a way to become even more disconnected from Middle America. Even after Iraq, Katrina, Big Oil, global warming, Harriet Miers, Tom DeLay and CIA leaks, the Democrats always seem to one up the GOP when it comes to self-inflicted wounds. This week the head of the Democratic National Committee said the United States was doomed to failure in Iraq. While Howard Dean’s rants may thrill the base in Manhattan and Beverly Hills, it tears the Party away from the very people it needs to reach in the political middle. As if that weren’t enough to Re-McGovernize the Democrats for the week, there was John Kerry on Face the Nation this weekend suggesting that American troops were committing acts of terror against innocent Iraqis. Here is Kerry’s clueless quote: “There is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the—of—of—of—historical customs, religious customs, whether you like it or not.” The Senator and his staff can spin it anyway they want but use of the word “terrorizing” in conjunction with our troops is not the way to win votes in Ohio or any other swing state. Add to that statements made earlier this year by Dick Durbin, the number two Democrat in the Senate, comparing US troops to Stalinist thugs, Nazis and members of the Khmer Rouge and you begin to see a troubling pattern. Is there no grownup running today’s Democratic Party that can tell these blowhards to shut their mouths? Oh wait. These are the people who will be running the Democratic Party as they head into the 2006 elections. Not good news if you are a Democrat or one who prefers a two-party system.