We have to give 60 Minutes lots of credit for their anti-Bush attitude

[missedherniceguy]

They have really assisted to get Dem authors and their books out to the public. Several episodes have dedicated the entire hours to anti-Bush books and it looks like Dan Rather is going to get an hour with the big dog and he rated his book a 5 on a scale from 1 to 5.

[Cat Atomic]

1. Seems more like an attempt at balance to me.

The rest of the media is still sucking Bush's dick, so maybe 60 Minutes looks liberal by comparison.

[thebigidea]

2. then again, they did spend several years doing absolutely nothing

they had one pathetic piece on Halliburton that recieved a paltry followup.

This administration would've been a goldmine for them: the WMD, Enron, etc.

Where was this "anti-Bush attitude" you speak of?

[alonso_quijano]

3. Not really

I give them credit for recognizing newsworthy books.

I give them credit for telling the truth, which they are generally better at than the rest of the GOP-dominated media.

I give them credit for being responsible and fair.

But an "anti-Bush attitude"? No way. First of all, they don't have one; second, it's far better to do the journalism right (which naturally appears like Bush bashing) than just to have an anti-whatever attitude, like the Rush/O'Reilly/Hannity/Coulter/Snow/Hume axis of evil has mastered.

[DrWeird]

4. Give credit for doing their job?

The media should have been anti Bush from the moment he stole the election.

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[DrWeird]

6. Yeah, and the whole...

"biased media" bullshit.

But benefit of the doubt...

at least until he does something extra stupid.

[BeachBuckeye]

8. Yup, it smells.

You don't think.......nooooo, they wouldn't do that.

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[NormanConquest]

11. Yep, check it out:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1797087#1801432

[DrWeird]

15. Wow, two birds with one stone.

Really now, who are they trying to kid?

[DWolper]

16. Than i am in trouble too?

I have a very low post count too. I just began posting and it hadn't crossed my mind, until I read your post, that a low post count might mean something. Didn't YOU have a low post count once? I don't see anything in the posters message about 60 minutes that should make you worry about a Freeper. It makes ME afraid to post anything too because I have a low post count. It's not a very friendly welcome if you think about it. DU is a great place but people just joining shouldn't be made to feel like they're bad until proven good. IMO.
on edit: This person might be a freep based on some other posts. But I still hate that a low post count, in and of itself, raises suspicions with so many.

[DrWeird]

18. Post all you want.

Just don't post freeperish, disruptive flame-bait, or trolling threads, otherwise expect people to think you're a freeper.

[thebigidea]

19. Bonus tip: try not to say rich Democrats spend all their money on botox

Also, it helps if you don't try to say environmentalism is a religion.

[DrWeird]

21. Yeah, that's the thing about freepers.

They're ridiculously stupid. So if somebody posts something ridiculously stupid chances are they're a freeper. It's only circumstancial evidence... but nine times out of ten...

[cestmoi]

23. Where do you see any statement that the accusations of

trolling relates to post count? Personally I regard the original post as very suspicious given the sweeping claim that 60 Minutes is anti-Bush. If it were so they wouldn't have bounced the Edmonds story.

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[judge_smales]

7. I was thinking that they were just picking low-hanging fruit.

There is just so much dirt around that it's easy to do the stories that they're doing.

[bahrbearian]

10. Low- hanging , I love that one, so you think they're lazy ?

[SiouxJ]

12. More like we have to give Shrub credit

for the growing anti-Shrub attitude. All he has to do is open his mouth and it grows.

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[Albert Einstein]

14. Are we watching two different shows? They also support Bush.

Interviewing popular authors about their books is not anti-Bush. Have they interviewed Michael Moore yet?

[RamboLiberal]

17. BTW tonight they are covering the Stop Loss in Military

eom

[Bridget Burke]

20. No surprise....

Aren't they part of that Liberal Media we keep hearing about?

[fob]

24. May I suggest that a better marketing would be to refer to their

pro-America attitude!

anti-bush* IS pro-America!!

[gulliver]

25. Can't wait until Bush's stem cell position breaks hard.

Bush turned stem cell research into a political football. Now people are starting to realize what a jerk he is. Stem cell research has nothing to do with abortion. It has everything to do with sparing people from Alzheimers, Parkinsons, spinal cord injury, etc. People are starting to realize that Bush played dirty politics with something that could have spared them or their loved ones an incurable disease -- for no reason.

It is now generally agreed that Bush's statement that there were 78 stem cell lines was a scientifically ignorant (and politically convenient) major exaggeration. There ended up being around 11.

America is falling behind in critical research for no good reason. When the cures for these major diseases are found, they will be found by foreign countries, not American researchers.

Bush played dirty politics with stem cell research.

He's toast when mainstream Americans figure it out.

[maggrwaggr]

26. "Anti-Bush?" It's more like PRO-TRUTH

Things have gotten so fucked up that even somebody on DU confuses the two????????????

Good God things are worse than I thought ....

[GreenPartyVoter]

27. Welcome to DU :^)

[TexasSissy]

30. I don't think it's anti-Bush.

They just gave time to the new hit books that came out. There happened to be a rash of anti-Bush or even balanced (Woodward's two books) books out in the last few months.

It didn't hurt them that their publishing house published some of those books, either.

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