Bill Schneider Al Qaeda controversy at CNN

[dennis4868]

Bill Schneider Al Qaeda controversy at CNN

http://mediamatters.org/items/200409230007

Bill Schneider Al Qaeda controversy at CNN
• E-mail CNN; tell Schneider to come clean about his right-wing affiliations, stop spreading false rumors, and keep his opinions to himself
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• MoveOn asks Media Corps to email CNN
• CNN's Schneider claimed: "Osama bin Laden, the Al Qaeda network ... would very much like to defeat President Bush" in upcoming election
• CJR: Dick Cheney, Dennis Hastert, Bill Schneider - Three Peas in a Pod?
• Statement by Bill Schneider on Al Qaeda comments

[Cha]

1. Thanks!

[Tamyrlin79]

2. What is this controversy?

Not a big cable news watcher these days... what are you talking about?

[Dangerman]

5. This...

CNN's Schneider claimed: "Osama bin Laden, the Al Qaeda network ... would very much like to defeat President Bush" in upcoming election

[Cha]

7. Bullshit, schneider!

They've already said they want bush..who wouldn't ..he's a veritible..recruiting poster boy!

[calimary]

3. YES!!! Give CNN hell about this!

PLEASE DO IT.

1 (404) 827 - 0234.

That's their viewer comment line. You can press 8 when you connect, to bypass the long recorded intro message. PLEASE, guys!

JUST DO IT.

[bookman]

8. Thanks for the number

Done.

I can't stand Schneider (sp?) and appreciated the opportunity to let CNN know.

My final comment...

Hire a real analyst.

[blondeatlast]

4. I need more info, can you link to something that explains this?

All I've seen is what I've seen at DU.

[calimary]

6. He's a senior fellow at the AEI, which is a WELL-known, and long-

established conservative think-tank.

They NEVER, EVER have intro'ed him on the air or referred to him in any way that would offer any full-disclosure on this, the way MSNBC does, and fairly frequently, whenever they have that schmuck Frank Luntz on. He's a republi-CON pollster and they call him that. But on CNN, bill schneider is allowed to fly under the radar at ALL times.

I remember one REALLY glaring example awhile back, when the national polls showed Kerry with a lead just about everywhere (I think this was shortly after he'd picked Edwards as his running mate). All the polls showed this, including the ones that schneider likes to refer to. And on what, pray tell, did he spend 99.98 percent of his segment, that evening? He devoted his ENTIRE report to the polling results in North Carolina, wherein he gleefully carried on (again, for the ENTIRE SEGMENT) about how Edwards' choice wasn't helping Kerry in Edwards' home state (the numbers favored bush - and that was, at that time, one of the few states that showed such a thing). Then, after he'd stopped crunching the numbers and embellishing on the graphics, he came back with a one-line throw-away closer before throwing it back to Judy Woodruff - in which he said something to the effect of "but the rest of the states in our survey showed Edwards helping the ticket." ONE LINE. That was IT. Once again, there I was, screaming at the TV...

He focused the ENTIRE report on the ONE state where Edwards didn't have a positive impact on Kerry.

That's just one example off the top of my head.

But if you watch at any length, be SURE to notice his facial expressions. When the news is good, or upbeat, about Kerry, he's VERY sober. His face has a look on it that's as serious as that of an undertaker. When it's good for bush, schneider will just be bee-bopping along like a happy camper, and he will look every inch the part. It's ridiculously transparent. BTW, Frank Luntz behaves that way, too. You should have seen him trying to spin the numbers on the night when Kerry gave his acceptance speech at the Dem convention, and had clearly reached - AND impressed - more than a few of the folks in Luntz's "undecided" focus group. Luntz was as sober as a judge throughout that segment. It was CLEAR that these were results he was NOT comfortable or pleased with. Both he and schneider are the same: their facial expressions give them away every time. Watch and see (assuming, of course, that you can stomach it).

[kokomo]

15. AEI includes Lynne Cheney, Robert Bork, Newt Gingrich, Irving Kristol, ..

Jeanne Kirkpatrick, David Frum, Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle,....and CNN never states that their Bill Schneider is assoicated with this group of right-wing neocons?
http://www.aei.org/scholars/filter./scholar_byname.asp

[liveoaktx]

9. CNN needs to always LABEL his affiliation on screen

I emailed them

[dennis4868]

10. thanks.....

so did I!

[PCIntern]

11. you know what folks...

maybe Schneider is a member of al Quaeda AND HE KNOWS WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT. After all, perhaps he was at a meeting with Osama and he personally told him that. How the hell else would he be privy to that kind of information?

Ashcroft ought to take a look at him.

Meanwhile, I'm calling CNN as well...

[against all enemies]

12. I actually was viewing when he made the comment.

I was pissed, even though I hated that asshole, I didn't know he was an active member in a conservative think tank. Thanks for the info. Email sent.

[Oddman]

13. Done

Schneider is a boob . . .


George Bush our MASTERdeBATER

What on earth is my hand doing? Bad hand - bad!

[David Zephyr]

14. CNN Must Fire Bill Schneider.

Don't complain.

Demand that he be terminated from his position of influencing the election.

[realFedUp]

16. Osama's gotten everything he wanted from Bush Inc.

money, more enlistees, greater support
on the Arab street, revenge, breakdown in Constitutional
law and procedures, fear, huge
deficits and world disrespect of American
government.

Yeah, of course bin Laden wants the Bushies
to stay four more years.

[AuntPatsy]

17. He is still running free, don't forget that major point in Bush's

favor..

[realFedUp]

18. indeed.

of course we're all wondering if he's
in a timeshare funded by the Bushies....