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Killarney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 08:41 AM
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American Prospect: Kerry Coverage: Conservative Bias?
This is from CBSNews online but it's from the American Prospect.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/23/opinion/main637900.shtml?cmp=EM8705
You'd think a press corps that has now officially acknowledged that it was had by this administration on the pre-Iraq war propaganda would think twice before letting itself get used one more time.

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But what the story actually proves is that a bunch of liars who have in the past contradicted their own current statements can, if their lies are outrageous enough and if they have enough money, control the media agenda and get even the most respected media outlets in the country to focus on picayune "truths" while missing the larger story.

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And the larger story here is clear: John Kerry volunteered for the Navy, volunteered to go to Vietnam, and then, when he was sitting around Cam Ranh Bay bored with nothing to do, requested the most dangerous duty a Naval officer could be given. He saved a man's life. He risked his own every time he went up into the Mekong Delta. He did more than his country asked. In fact he didn't even wait for his country to ask.
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ClintonTyree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 08:53 AM
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1. Haha......................
"You'd think a press corps that has now officially acknowledged that it was had by this administration on the pre-Iraq war propaganda would think twice before letting itself get used one more time."

They're not being used, they're a bought and paid for branch of the CONServative propaganda machine. They MUST protect those tax cuts at any cost. The truth be damned, the sheeple will swallow anything they're told (repeatedly).
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