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To: PROLIFE who wrote (600)	4/22/2006 10:10:30 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 908

Time magazine recently named Kennedy as one of "America's 10 best senators." And leftwing, HATE-America TIME Magazine is one of America's 10 best commie rags "fit for fish wrapping and birdcage lining."

To: PROLIFE who wrote (600)	4/22/2006 11:48:19 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 908

Los Angeles Times Silent on Damaging News for Democrats - Again NewsBusters.org ^ \| 22 April 2006 \| Dave Pierre Rep. Alan B. Mollohan, a Democrat from West Virginia, resigned on Friday from the House ethics committee (that's ethics, folks) "amid accusations that he used his congressional position to funnel money to his own home-state foundations, possibly enriching himself in the process," according to the Washington Post and other news outlets. One place you won't read about this resignation, however, is today's Los Angeles Times (Saturday, April 22, 2006). (A puny 291-word story about the charges appeared back on April 9.) This continues a repeated practice at the Times of either delaying or simply ignoring news stories that are unflattering to Democrats. NewsBusters has already cataloged a number of instances of this in 2006: NY Times, LA Times Skip Charges for Illegal Democrat Raid on Steele's Personal Info (March 18, 2006) ... LA Times Silent On Al Gore's "Terrible Abuses" Remarks (Feb. 15, 2006) ... Los Angeles Times Silent on Hillary's "Plantation" Remark (Jan. 17, 2006) ... (finally (Jan. 19, 2006) ... LA Times Has No Room For Fine of Hillary's False Campaign Reports (Jan. 6, 2006) ... Less than a month ago, when an unrenowned conservative blogger named Ben Domenech was found to have committed plagiarism, the Times felt that this episode was worthy of two stories on the same day (here (section A) and here (Tim Rutten's "media" column). (And, needless to say, when charges of plagiarism against Al Franken were reported, the Times ignored this. The cited examples did not rise to the same degree of Domenech; but why the double standard?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (600)	4/23/2006 3:24:53 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 908

Who is Mary McCarthy? [The Great One, Mark Levin, weighs in...] NRO ^ \| 4/22/2006 \| Mark Levin Well, as of this morning (Saturday) most of the big media don't care. They're fixated with the weather and gas prices — and anything else that will divert the public's attention from the stunning revelation that a Sandy Berger crony has apparently been leaking top-secret information from her high post at the CIA. The media will continue to downplay this story as they cover-up their own role in exposing our nation's secrets, including the supposed existence of CIA prisons in Europe. She'll be called a "whistleblower" and praised as some kind of patriot (a patriot, in the eyes of the media, is anybody who undermines this administration and the war effort by leaking national security secrets to them). They will downplay that McCarthy was a Clintonoid who somehow managed to land a top post at the CIA, ultimately winding up in the CIA's Inspector General's Office, from where she could monitor CIA internal investigations of, well, leaks, among other things. The news spin, to the extent attention is being paid to this by the big media outlets, is that McCarthy's firing is unprecedented! Or it's Bush's fault! In one of the most absurd comments by any newsman anywhere, Newsbusters.org notes that Bob Schieffer of CBS Evening News asserted that “it is no secret that the current administration does not like its people hanging out with news reporters without permission” and he described the firing as “a first — a dubious first, to be sure.” Here. Is this guy for real? If she leaked she must be charged. I wonder what Schieffer would say then? I suppose he would urge that she receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. After all, the Washington Post's Dana Priest, who apparently served as McCarthy's stenographer, was just awarded the Pulitzer Prize. I must say, however, that the media's sickening hypocrisy knows no bounds. They came to the defense of Joe Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame, who worked behind-the-scenes to get her husband that “fact-finding” trip to Niger. They demanded an investigation into who “leaked” Plame’s identity to Bob Novak — which ensnared their own reporters. They hoped they would critically wound the president, and they failed. Clearly Plame was not undercover and the revelation of her identity was not a crime. Lewis Libby now stands accused of lying about a crime that never occurred and the media think that’s a good thing. Now comes Mary McCarthy, who apparently leaked real classified national-security secrets and the media largely dismiss it or defend it. They have no curiosity about McCarthy, the extent of her leaks, to whom she leaked (beyond Priest, did she leak to other reporters, members of Congress, other governments?), how she secured top security posts, and her ties to the Clinton administration. Surely there is every reason the government should pursue this investigation at least as vigorously as the Plame matter has been pursued. Dana Priest, among others, should have her day before a grand jury. And watch the congressional Democrats follow the media’s lead. Long ago they put party and power above victory in this war. McCarthy’s ties to Clinton threaten to take attention from their unrelenting attack on the Bush administration and their claims of incompetence in the management of the war, which they see as their ticket to majority status in 2006. Putting that aside, the discovery of McCarthy does make you wonder how many more of her ilk have squirreled themselves into the bureaucracy, from where they seek to undermine the country.