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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KLP who wrote (49939)	12/24/2005 1:47:43 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Media Madness May Murder Many” ............................................................... The Media—Pro-America or Pro-Terrorists? chronwatch.com Copyright © 2005 ChronWatch. Written by Lee Ellis December 23, 2005 The New York Times keeps printing “news” that aids and abets those who hate the USA. The most recent example of this is the recent propaganda using a misleading story written by James Risen and Eric Lichtblau which reads in part, “Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying.” This has proven to be wrong, and is taken from a book to be released next week by a Viacom publisher. Viacom also owns CBS so one might well suspect that this will also be promoted on “60 Minutes.” President Bush has explained his war-time powers, had alerted intelligence committee members of Congress and had also followed up with F.I.S.A. court warrants. These phone calls were NOT domestic, but rather were calls from the Middle East to America. It was revealed by NewsMax that Pelosi and Reid finally confessed that they had been informed by President Bush about these NSA wiretaps and had said nothing back then. Also revealed is that President Clinton had done many similar taps via a program called Echelon. Where were the leaks then to the leftist press? This New York Times “news” was the talk of Congress as the members discussed the renewal of the Patriot Act. Thus a filibuster against the Act renewal was started in Congress by Democrats and a few centrist Republicans If the Patriot Act is not renewed in its entirety, our government will go back to the days prior to 9/11 when a policy wall kept our law enforcement agents from sharing information that might have prevented the attacks on America causing the deaths of 3,000 innocent American civilians. This New York Times article has also warned the terrorists who have kept in touch by telephone with their sleeper cell agents in America, that they are being overheard. They must now switch to a safer way of telling their agents when to set off bombs in our subways, buildings, or other public places. Our ability to know about a terror act in advance so that we may help save the life of someone in our family has been denied. This is not the first time that our media has purposely warned our enemies that they might be caught. In 1988, according to Ron Kessler formerly of the NSA, we were monitoring all of bin Laden’s phone calls until the Washington Post blew our cover on this one. Thus, bin Laden was able to switch to a different manner of communicating with his people. As a result, we lost all contact with him. If an agent of the FBI, CIA, or NSA happens to learn that Zarqawi or one of his commanders is trying to reach an American here in the USA, do you really want this agent unable to listen in on this conversation until he can find some judge somewhere who can grant a warrant, knowing that this delay could cause us to miss hearing the orders being transmitted to a sleeper cell here in the USA? Do you really think that it better to allow this “civil liberty” to an American traitor rather than do what is necessary to save hundreds of innocent lives of men, women, and children? And if your answer is “I don’t want an agent listening to my phone calls,” what makes you think that any agent would waste his or her time listening to your boring calls? The only people who should worry about their calls or library visits being monitored are terrorists intent on killing Americans! In other words, if the leftist Democrats and centrist Republicans have their way, our national security agencies will not be allowed to protect us until AFTER the terrorists have blown up the bus, train, or plane in which we and our family are riding, or the school to which our children are in daily with their teachers. Perhaps it is a theater, an arena for a sports event, or our church or temple that is shattered by bombs or gas or machine gun fire. Only then can anyone who is still alive investigate? This is NOT a military war like the past wars between countries where we fought a nation’s uniformed soldiers who respect POWs under the Geneva Accords. These are thugs who actually get pleasure from killing or maiming innocent women, men, and their babies or children. If anyone really thinks that he or she has already lost a liberty or two due to the Patriot Act, (I cannot think of one that I have personally lost) then these people had better be prepared to live under Islamic rule, because this may well happen if we do NOT renew this important law and if the media keep aiding and abetting our enemies with propaganda labeled as news! The old adage, “United we stand; Divided, we fall” is still true as is the World War II saying, “Loose Lips Sink Ships.” May I add, “Media Madness May Murder Many”? About the Writer: Lee Ellis is a retired journalist and a former vice president of both CBS and Gannett. He resides in Indio, California, where he writes op-eds that appear in several local newspapers. Lee receives e-mail at indiolee@dc.rr.com.

To: KLP who wrote (49939)	12/24/2005 2:22:59 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

The Fitzgerald investigation already proved you wrong... You simply made another RW trash remark without substance...

To: KLP who wrote (49939)	12/24/2005 2:51:52 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 93284

You find the actual links You can't find what isn't there, can you. TP

To: KLP who wrote (49939)	12/24/2005 7:05:08 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

The Media’s Shabbiest Moments by L. Brent Bozell III December 20, 2005 mediaresearch.org The year 2005 is ending as it began, with another successful election in Iraq and a liberal media still flapping around trying to find other controversies to submerge it. It does not matter to them that a Gallup poll found that 74 percent of Americans express confidence in their military, but only 28 percent express confidence in their newspapers or TV news outlets. The “mainstream” media excels in excoriating the performance of nearly everyone else, but acts as if nothing they do should be held up as ineffective, inaccurate, or just plain absurd. That’s why the Media Research Center and a panel of more than 50 judges have compiled an annual “Best Notable Quotables,” a collection of the media’s greatest stinkers in the past 12 months. The utterances speak volumes about our supposedly ideologically detached press corps. In August, NBC’s “Today” show was in Iraq, and Specialist Steven Chitterer told co-host Matt Lauer that "Morale is always high. Soldiers know they have a mission. They like taking on new objectives and taking on the new challenges." Lauer won the “Good Morning Morons Award” for interjecting: “Don’t get me wrong here, I think you are probably telling me the truth, but a lot of people at home are wondering how that could be possible with the conditions you’re facing and with the attacks you’re facing. What would you say to those people who are doubtful that morale can be that high?” Captain Sherman Powell unloaded a quote for the ages: "Sir, if I got my news from the newspapers also, I’d be pretty depressed as well." The networks specialize in moral equivalence that we in America need to be held to the highest standard, but what that really meant in 2005 was that our leaders and our troops were to be constantly presented as nearly identical to terrorists. The more extreme example of this came from NBC anchor Brian Williams, who won the “Slam Uncle Sam Award.” He tried to dismiss concerns that new the radical Muslim leader of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, might have been a holder of American hostages in Iran in 1979-80 thusly: "What would it all matter if proven true? Someone brought up today the first several U.S. Presidents were certainly revolutionaries and might have been called terrorists at the time by the British Crown, after all." The father of our country, a terrorist? Why yes, said Williams, according to some. Some quotes were shorter and yet even dumber. The “Politics of Meaninglessness Award for the Silliest Analysis” went to CNN weekend anchor Carol Lin. She was so politically correct she couldn’t be factually correct. Riots in Paris centered on the deaths of two black French citizens of Tunisian heritage. What did she report on national television? “It’s been 11 days since two African-American teenagers were killed, electrocuted during a police chase, which prompted all of this.” Some of the awards were predictable. David Gergen of U.S. News won the “Media Hero Award” for sucking up to someone who might be the next president, oozing on CNN that uber-feminist Hillary Clinton has “always had strong religious faith. She’s been a strong Methodist. She does have conservative social values on many issues." Speaking of journalistic apple-polishers, the “Crazy Chris Award for Matthews’ Left-Wing Lunacy” was a real contest. He swooned over Jane Fonda’s Vietnam views. But the winning quote came on the night Matthews fawned over Cindy Sheehan for being so bright she should run for Congress: “I have to tell you, you sound more informed than most U.S. Congresspeople, so maybe you should run.” But the media’s biggest losers continue to be the die-hards who went down on the “60 Minutes 2" ship that tried to destroy President Bush with phony National Guard documents. Dan Rather remained “Captain Dan the Forgery Man” by boasting to old colleague Marvin Kalb on C-SPAN that “To this day no one has proven whether it was what it purported to be or not....You know, I didn’t give up on my people, our people. I didn’t and I won’t." Kalb replied: “I believe you just said that you think the story is accurate." Rather affirmed: “The story is accurate.” He’s still clueless. And so is his comrade in concoction, former CBS producer Mary Mapes, who won “Quote of the Year” honors for her interview with ABC’s Brian Ross. Ross was stunned when Mapes claimed she would retract her story if anyone could disprove it. "But isn’t it the other way around? Don’t you have to prove they’re authentic?...Isn’t that really what journalists do?" Replied Mapes: “No, I don’t think that’s the standard." And they wonder why only one in four Americans trust their work

To: KLP who wrote (49939)	12/24/2005 7:11:57 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Did You Know? (Collection of Unreported Good News From Iraq) 12-24-05 Did you know that 47 countries have reestablished their embassies in Iraq? Did you know that the Iraqi government currently employs 1.2 million Iraqi people? Did you know that 3100 schools have been renovated, 364 schools are under rehabilitation, 263 schools are now under construction and 38 new schools have been built in Iraq? Did you know that Iraq's higher educational structure consists of 20 Universities, 46 Institutes or colleges and 4 research centers, all currently operating? Did you know that 25 Iraq students departed for the United States in January 2005 for the re-established Fulbright program? Did you know that the Iraqi Navy is operational?! They have 5-100-foot patrol craft, 34 smaller vessels and a naval infantry regiment. Did you know that Iraq's Air Force consists of three operational squadrons, which includes 9 reconnaissance and 3 US C-130 transport aircraft (under Iraqi operational control) which operate day and night, and will soon add 16 UH-1 helicopters and 4 Bell Jet Rangers? Did you know that Iraq has a counter-terrorist unit and a Commando Battalion? Did you know that the Iraqi Police Service has over 55,000 fully trained and equipped police officers? Did you know that there are 5 Police Academies in Iraq that produce over 3500 new officers each 8 weeks? Did you know there are more than 1100 building projects going on in Iraq? They include 364 schools, 67 public clinics, 15 hospitals, 83 railroad stations, 22 oil facilities, 93 water facilities and 69 electrical facilities. Did you know that 96% of Iraqi children under the age of 5 havereceived the first 2 series of polio vaccinations? Did you know that 4.3 million Iraqi children were enrolled in primary school by mid October? Did you know that there are 1,192,000 cell phone subscribers in Iraq and phone use has gone up 158%? Did you know that Iraq has an independent media that consists of 75 radio stations, 180 newspapers and 10 television stations? Did you know that the Baghdad Stock Exchange opened in June of 2004? Did you know that 2 candidates in the Iraqi presidential election had a televised debate recently? OF COURSE WE DIDN'T KNOW! WHY DIDN'T WE KNOW? OUR MEDIA WOULDN'T TELL US! Instead of reflecting our love for our country, we get photos of flag burning incidents at Abu Ghraib and people throwing snowballs at the presidential motorcades. The lack of accentuating the positive in Iraq serves two purposes. It is intended to undermine the world's perception of the United States thus minimizing consequent support, and it is intended to discourage American citizens.