Yahoo News: D. C. Press Corps serve as Bush's "lapdogs"

It's been a head-scratching spectacle this week to watch Democrats in the Senate debate war resolutions that would press the administration to begin bringing troops home, and then be depicted in the press as the likely losers in the unfolding political battle. Losers because Democrats are "divided" (New York Times), "struggling for consensus" (Washington Post), and "squabbling among themselves" (Knight Ridder), as opposed to Republicans who appear unified behind Bush's 'stay the course' Iraq policy. (Democrats weak and confused, Republicans strong and resolute. Does the press ever got tired of that manufactured storyline?)....

As Media Matters noted this week, the relevant polling data has often been left out of reports on the Iraq debate, most likely because it obliterates the phony narrative that it's the Democrats who are caught in a box. (Even today when the Times finally addressed the GOP's confident, few-found embrace of an unpopular war, the paper carefully avoided including any specific polling results about Iraq.) In fact, Media Matters reported, "A CNN poll conducted June 14-15 found that 53 percent of respondents favored a timetable for withdrawal, while 41 percent opposed such a measure. Similarly, an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll conducted June 9-12 showed that 57 percent of respondents supported reducing troop levels now, compared with 35 percent who favored maintaining the current deployment."

And here's another one that goes straight to the heart of the political debate unfolding inside the nation's capitol--the NBC/WSJ survey specifically asked people if a candidate "Favors pulling all American troops out of Iraq within the next twelve months," would that make voters more likely or less likely to support that candidate. By a margin of 54-32, Americans said they were more likely to vote for a candidate (i.e. a Democrat) who wants to pull troops out of Iraq by next summer.

I realize that after six years as serving as Bush's lapdogs, the D.C. press corps often robotically assumes that Republicans can, and will, run circles around Democrats on every major issue. But it would be nice when Democrats actually have the clear majority of Americans on their side that journalists could at least acknowledge that simple fact.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20060622/cm_huffpost/023546

America. If the Republicans win in November, even with big majorities voting against them, we will see what the citizens of this country are made of. I suspect that there will be some kind of media scenario that will thinly veil (only for the stupidest of persons) the stealing of the elections in November. The Dictator cannot afford to let an adversarial party gain any kind of power or his jig is up. So, it will be necessary for the media to create some form of cover for the theft, because more citizens will be conscious of the possibility/probability...

Do you think that's out of the question?

Would that break the peoples' backs?

Will US News never again be impartial and investigative?

up is if Shrub starts dropping nukes on suspected nuclear research labs/plants in Iran, China complains of the nuclear fallout and calls in its billions of dollars of loans to the U.S. bankrupting the government and causing Wall Street to crash into a Second Great Depression and Iran retaliates by decimating our nearby fleets of warships, swiftly killing thousands of sailors and marines and sinking all of the dozens of vessels including the S.S. Ronald Reagan.

Nothing short of that seems to faze them.

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However, they seem perfectly content with helping it "seem" that the MAJORITY is in the MINORITY. Ugh.

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I am so tired of Bush managed news. I hope the press will so what all good lapdogs do. Break potty training when they are sitting on their master's knee.

"And really, is there any place better to read undiluted GOP spin passed off as analysis than in the cozy confines of The Note?"

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