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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (736075)	4/8/2006 4:36:43 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

I understand that the onion is humor...too bad you are to dense to see that Fox news is not humor...but here is one of your style of journalist. <<Stop the Presses! Eleanor Clift is Stumping for Democrats Any faithful watcher of “The McLaughlin Group” knows that one of the most transparently biased members of the antique media over the past two decades has been Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift. Week in and week out, Eleanor rips apart every Republican on the political landscape while oozing nothing but adoration for those on the opposite side of the aisle even when they are found guilty of serious transgressions. Clift’s op-ed posted at Newsweek’s website on Friday is a fine example. After somewhat misrepresenting the seriousness of the recent allegations that have emerged from Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff I. Lewis Libby concerning unclassified information from a National Intelligence Estimate by President Bush, Clift went right into a stump speech: “The only way the American people can stop Bush’s imperial expansion of power short is to turn out in massive numbers to take back one or the other body of Congress from Republican control.” My goodness, Eleanor: You’re supposed to be a journalist. This isn’t reporting newsbusters.org

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (736075)	4/8/2006 4:42:20 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

HBO's Gumbel: Lack of Blacks Makes Olympics 'Look Like a GOP Convention' There were some eye-opening remarks from Bryant Gumbel on the most recent episode of HBO's Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel. According to a transcript posted by a television columnist named Seth Frelich, Gumbel said the following in his closing monologue last week (emphasis mine): "Finally, tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who don’t like them and won’t watch them ... Because they’re so trying, maybe over the next three weeks we should all try too. Like, try not to be incredulous when someone attempts to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of skating or skiing. So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention. Try not to point out that something’s not really a sport if a pseudo-athlete waits in what’s called a kiss-and-cry area, while some panel of subjective judges decides who won ... So if only to hasten the arrival of the day they’re done, when we can move on to March Madness — for God’s sake, let the games begin." newsbusters.org

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (736075)	4/8/2006 4:43:57 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

Unemployment Down & Jobs Up: CBS Skips the News and NBC Looks at Downside The Bush administration and all Americans got great news on the economic front Friday when the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 211,000 jobs were added in March while the unemployment rate fell to 4.7 percent, the lowest level in four-and-a-half years. Yet NBC didn't see a booming economy. “President Bush used the jobs numbers as a starting point for a new push to try to convince Americans that the economy is, in fact, on a roll,” NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams noted before adding a “but,” as in: "But as NBC News chief financial correspondent Anne Thompson tells us tonight, the economic picture is a bit more complicated." Thompson highlighted how “a new poll out today shows 59 percent of Americans disapprove of the President's handling of the economy." After relaying how Bush blames Iraq for that, Thompson ran a soundbite from an economist who blamed slow wage growth before she recited her own litany: “Also dragging down attitudes, rising health care costs and gas prices. The nation has a negative savings rate, and household debt...is at record levels and could squeeze already strapped family budgets as interest rates continue to rise.” Thompson ended her piece with a quick look at a Massachusetts computer company which is hiring. At least NBC gave its viewers the basic numbers of the day before trying to discount them. Friday's CBS Evening News didn't utter a syllable about the jobs/unemployment numbers, yet Bob Schieffer's show found time for a second night of coverage of how Bush “authorized leaking classified information” and for a piece on an orphanage in Kenya for elephants -- and that was even before two fluff “Assignment America” segments. ABC's World News Tonight allocated 25 seconds to the unemployment/jobs numbers as anchor Elizabeth Vargas pointed out the 31 consecutive months of job growth. (Transcript of NBC's story follows.) newsbusters.org

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (736075)	4/8/2006 4:47:02 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

ABC, CBS, and NBC’s Trial News Stresses Ex-Dictator’s Outbursts, Not Evidence or Victims’ Testimony Covering Saddam’s Shenanigans, Not His Crimes

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (736075)	4/8/2006 4:47:54 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

MRC Study: Amid Iraq Progress, Networks Continue to Emphasize Violence and Calls for Withdrawal No End to Media’s Defeatism on Iraq War