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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 04:31 PM
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Welcome To Shrub's Townhall World... Media's Wrong, Shrub's Right
Edited on Wed Mar-22-06 04:32 PM by RedEarth
Welcome To Townhall World: Where The Media Is Always Wrong And Bush Is Always Right

Sixty percent of Americans believe that the media is reporting things in Iraq either accurately or better than they really are. Just 29% approve of Bush’s handling of the Iraq war. But if you watched today’s “townhall” event with President Bush you’d never know it.

Towards the end of the event – which lasted over an hour and was extensively covered by all three cable networks — a woman launched into tirade against the media’s coverage of the Iraq war. She concluded that, if people knew the truth, they’d “never say another negative thing about this conflict again.” She recieved a standing ovation

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QUESTION: I want to let you know that every service at our church, you are by name lifted up in prayer — and you and your staff and all of our leaders. And we believe in you. We are behind you. And we cannot thank you enough for what you’ve done to shape our country. Second of all, this is my husband who has returned from a 13- month tour in Tikrit.

BUSH: Oh, yes. Thank you, buddy. Welcome back.

QUESTION: His job while serving was as a broadcast journalist. And he has brought back several DVDs full of wonderful footage of reconstruction, of medical things going on. And I ask you this from the bottom of my heart for a solution to this, because it seems that our major media networks don’t want to portray the good. They just want to focus…

BUSH: OK, hold on a second.

QUESTION: They just want to focus on another car bomb or they just want to focus on some more bloodshed or they just want to focus on how they don’t agree with you and what you’re doing, when they don’t even probably know how you’re doing what you’re doing anyway. But what can we do to get that footage on CNN, on Fox, to get it on Headline News, to get it on the local news? Because you can send it to the news people — and I’m sorry I’m rambling — like I have…

BUSH: So was I, though, for about an hour.

QUESTION: … can you use this, and it’ll just end up in a drawer because it’s good. It portrays the good. And if people could see that, if the American people could see it, there would never be another negative word about this conflict.

BUSH: Well, I appreciate that.


Watch it here......

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/22/townhall-world/
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 04:37 PM
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1. You didn't think he'd do THREE events in a row that weren't canned
Guess he had to recover from Helen's questioning with a trip to the old familiar echo chamber...
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jasmeel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 04:39 PM
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2. I hope it's at least getting harder to find these people n/t
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 04:42 PM
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3. Presidential press conferences gone wild!
So when things dont go well for Dumbya at a press conference like yesterday, he goes and does a series of staged town hall meetings to keep things "fair and balanced"? :puke:
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TexanDem Donating Member (786 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 04:45 PM
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4. I saw it --back to handpicked crowds again...
:puke: So much for Helen Thomas for the next three years...

Anybody getting perturbed at the media covering these whole things -- daily, hours on hours! Are we talking a little propaganda/brain washing here? :banghead:
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 04:52 PM
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5. A CHALLENGE: Post all that "GOOD FOOTAGE" on the net, you toady!
Then the public can begin to research it, and what it shows...
and weigh it against all the other evidence...
and then we can decide for ourselves what it's worth.

But that's not gonna happen, now is it?
Because it's only USEFUL as long as it's IMAGINARY.

Actually SEEING it wouldn't really help B*shCabal™
as much as his ass-licking sycophants want us to think,
now would it?
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