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

To: PROLIFE who wrote (736124)	4/8/2006 10:55:16 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I have to give Fox credit today. They had old Tony Snow doing one of those liberal/conservative point counterpoint pieces and Linda Chavez was the conservative. Now, I always liked Linda and thought she got totally hosed back in 2001 over her housekeeper when she was up for Labor Secretary. She is very bright and an excellent communicator for the conservatives. Anyway, Tony Snow starts off on the leak issue (or declassification using anonomous White House sources - whatever it is) and he turns to Chavez and says: Bush can do this because he can declassify anything, right? And she says "It doesn't matter whether he could declassify it, it is the way it was handled. It's terrible". Then Snow says something like: "Well, like Clinton, the meaning of the terms can mean whatever he wants" and she just blasted him a new one, saying something like: " We were supposed not to do this kind of thing. Bush was supposed to be a straight shooter. This is very bad". The Liberal guy finally got a word in edgewise (condemning the leak method, of course) but Chavez had already done the damage. So poor Tony Snow interrupts Chavez and says: "Stop...I want to ask you about immigration". Couldn't get her off point fast enough. Good for Chavez. Has anyone noticed that not a single Republican senior lawmaker has come out in the last forty-eight hours to support the White House defintion of this leak/declassification business? Not Fris. Not Hastert, not Boehner. Not Allen. Not even McCain, who is usually is lockstep with old GWB these days. Why? They should be pounding the table in favor of partial/unannounced/declassification/ leaks.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (736124)	4/9/2006 1:25:49 AM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Did you read the report? They did the study based on THEIR judgement of liberal and conservative talking points, and 'scored' the news based on mentions. First, they judged what a 'liberal' and 'conservative' mention was, regardless as to the validity of the point. Then, they pushed their agenda of the 'conservative' points, since that's what they're paid to do. So, of course their score card is gonna claim that come out looking like their side got the short end of the stick. The end result - that this so-called 'fixing' of Social Security got shelved - is further proof that their plan was flawed. That is why the so-called 'liberal' points got more mentions - cause they were more valid and relevent concerns. So much for the 'proof' of liberal bias. I'm sure if we got a bunch of liberals to come up with some scoring of the news, we'd 'prove' that the MSM has a conservative bias.