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To: Eric who wrote (11884)	11/25/2009 12:52:14 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 42652

lololol and the MSM media looks the other way when a lib does something. Did they vet Obama ?? Are they looking at this Global Warming scam ?

To: Eric who wrote (11884)	11/25/2009 12:59:06 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 42652

Gore Used Fictional Video to Illustrate ‘Inconvenient Truth’ By Noel Sheppard April 22, 2008 newsbusters.org It goes without saying that climate realists around the world believe Nobel Laureate Al Gore used false information throughout his schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" in order to generate global warming hysteria. On Friday, it was revealed by ABC News that one of the famous shots of supposed Antarctic ice shelves in the film was actually a computer-generated image from the 2004 science fiction blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow."

To: Eric who wrote (11884)	11/25/2009 1:02:36 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I don't see how your response is relevant to mine. My comment is not about the existence of the free press (something which I very much support). The point is merely that the fact that someone won awards does not imply we should assume their statements are correct, or substitute their judgments for our own.

To: Eric who wrote (11884)	11/27/2009 9:46:04 AM
From: Peter Dierks	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

OT Woodward, Bernstein and "Deep Throat" brought down Nixon in the end. Actually a disgruntled FBI person found a couple rookie journalists to use to bring down Nixon. Mark Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI (No. 3 in bureau hierarchy) in May 1972, when longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover died. Upon Hoover's death, Felt was second to Clyde Tolson, the longtime deputy and close friend to Hoover who by then was in failing health himself. Days after Hoover's death, Tolson left the bureau. Felt expected to be named Hoover's successor, but Nixon passed him over, appointing L. Patrick Gray instead. In selecting Gray, Nixon was reaching outside the FBI for the first time in the 48 years since Hoover had taken over. But while Gray was formally acting director, the Senate never confirmed him, and as an outsider, he never really took effective control of the FBI. In a practical sense, Felt was in operational control of the FBI from the break-in at the Watergate in August 1972 until June 1973. ... The FBI was carrying out espionage against the president of the United States, not for any later prosecution of Nixon for a specific crime (the spying had to have been going on well before the break-in), but to increase the FBI's control over Nixon. Woodward, Bernstein and above all, Bradlee, knew what was going on. Woodward and Bernstein might have been young and naive, but Bradlee was an old Washington hand who knew exactly who Felt was, knew the FBI playbook and understood that Felt could not have played the role he did without a focused FBI operation against the president. Bradlee knew perfectly well that Woodward and Bernstein were not breaking the story, but were having it spoon-fed to them by a master. He knew that the president of the United States, guilty or not, was being destroyed by Hoover's jilted heir. This was enormously important news. The Washington Post decided not to report it. Message 25282602 .............................. Journalists search for truth prevailed. Where were the journalists during Clinton's term? Where are they now? How many pieces critical of the neophyte in the Whitehouse has your precious Frontline run? If the journalists of Clinton's term had had that kind of bent Hillary would have been behind bars and Clinton's many crimes would have come to light; we would have been spared his last minute pardoning of people like Susan McDougal who was in jail for contempt of court for refusing to testify against Clinton. Is pardoning a person for personal gain or reduction of personal legal exposure an abuse of the power? What if Nixon had pardoned himself? What if Nixon had pardoned all the Whitehouse plumbers?