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jayfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 08:26 AM
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Conservative Media Bias: Bush Officials Outnumber Obama 6 to 1 On Sunday Shows
http://www.politicususa.com/en/obama-conservative-media-bias

Do you notice anything odd about that guest list? The Sunday morning talk shows are going to feature, Bush’s former, Sec. of Homeland Security (Chertoff), Bush’s former CIA director (Hayden), Bush’s former vice president (Cheney), Sec. of Defense (Rumsfeld), Bush’s former Sec of State (Rice), and former Deputy Asst. Sec of State (Liz Cheney). Other Republicans on the shows will be Tom Davis, Rudy Giuliani, and Dick Luger.

The current members of the Obama administration featured on the Sunday morning shows total one Obama’s National Security Advisor Tom Donilon. Anita Dunn and John Kerry are the only two other Democrats that will be featured.

There will be more authors on the Sunday morning talk shows (2, Ricks and Wright) than there will be Obama administration officials (1, Donilon).

What do Democrats have to do to get booked on the Sunday morning talk shows? A Democratic president got Osama Bin Laden, and the media spends Sunday morning talking with six members of the previous administration that failed to get the job done. These are the same people who gave up looking for Bin Laden, and let him live in luxury in Pakistan. Yet the mainstream media has decided to mark the occasion by hosting Dick Cheney and a roster full of Bush administration officials.

Why?


In case you were wondering.
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JoePhilly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 08:30 AM
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1. Rewriting history as fast as they can.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 05:42 AM
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33. They cannot hope to; they hope only to confuse the child-like minds of Americans who actually lived
through the events, yet have already forgotten them.

What protest marches around the world?
What is a "Hans Blix"?
Colin Powell recanted what?
What's a "Presidential Daily Briefing"?

Etc.
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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 08:30 AM
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2. Not that I watch these shows but
it's better to have them on the defense, rather than our guys.

They forget just how good President Obama. He doesn't get distracted.
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jayfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 08:32 AM
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3. Well, if MTP is any indication;...
not a single question was asked that would have put them on the defensive. Pure garbage!
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 08:37 AM
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7. Gregory (R) is a particularly problematic propaganda puppet
because the show once had a reputation for balance and integrity. He thus was handed a seemingly reputable platform upon which he can twist perception toward RepubliCorp talking points.
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 08:41 AM
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9. The GOP did the same thing to NPR...quietly put Republicans in charge.
People still think NPR is a liberal haven, yet nothing could be further from the truth.
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doubleplusgood Donating Member (810 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 11:39 PM
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26. when I saw their guest lineup
I switched channels.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 08:33 AM
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4. it's a ton of horseshit, ain't it
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 08:34 AM
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5. Corporate Media (R) just hates fairness and balance
what a pathetic pack O' propaganda pimps they are.

Not even a faint hint of integrity or honor or service to the truth.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 08:51 AM
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10. They are also trying to re-sell their bad product - W
This is what they meant by "History will determine...." about the Bush Presidency. Not only do they have a cadre of writers who they promoted to relevance with bulkbuys but they have the news networks, all of them, to retell their story of how they sold a defective and lethal product.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:39 AM
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37. To be fair, I have heard them say
"No one from the administration made themselves available".. If that is untrue, it should be easily enough addressed in the briefings..but it has not been addressed..

I think they flubbed the roll-out (even after having EIGHT MONTHS to do some pre-planning), and then retreated, to let the republicans do all the talking.. They are ALWAYS ready for their close ups..:grr:
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:42 AM
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38. Yes, but more than ever in history,
the media promotes a specific agenda. Take the drive to cut social security and medicare for example. We simply do not hear any MSM contrary argument to the old, "We have to cut entitlements because they are causing the deficit." This is obviously a coordinated effort.
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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 08:34 AM
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6. But all anybody will be talking about tomorrow will be his 60 minutes Interview
Thats the power of the office
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 08:38 AM
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8. And CON-di Rice still lying her ass off on This Week.
"Well, saying OBL was living in a cave was metaphorical." A metaphor for what? Bush's stupidity? This woman makes my skin crawl nearly as much as the Cheneys.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:48 AM
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40. Because it is so obvious that she is lying?
I get that impression from Condi.
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CanonRay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 09:06 AM
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11. Don't watch
that's what I do. I gave up on the Sunday talk shows several years ago.
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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 10:02 PM
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24. Drop your cable subscription. Watch MSNBC online.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 09:12 AM
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12. The administration against "terra".
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 09:29 AM
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13. Back when this sort of discrepancy was first documented...
...back durig the Reagan/Bush administration, the excuse was that the Republicans were the ones in power (and thus the policy makers) so naturally there'd be a bias toward having them on (to ask them "tough questions"), and during a Democratic administration the bias would shift the other way.

It's never really panned out that way.

Are You on the Nightline Guest List? (1989) http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2008
Propaganda from the Middle of the Road (1989) http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1492
All the Usual Suspects: MacNeil/Lehrer and Nightline (1990) http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2007
Study Aftermath: FAIR Debates MacNeil/Lehrer (1990) http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1531
TV's Imposters (1990) http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1566
New Survey on Think Tanks(1996) http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1391
Power Sources (2002)http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1109
Are You on the NewsHour’s Guestlist? (2006) http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2967
Sidebar: FAIR’s Original 1990 NewsHour Study (2206) http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2968
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OnyxCollie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 11:51 PM
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27. Thanks for the links. nt
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rbrnmw Donating Member (789 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 07:05 AM
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44. Liberal Media
My :kick:
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66 dmhlt Donating Member (935 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 08:25 AM
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51. To Update your Links from MediaMatters & Fair:
If It's Sunday, It's Conservative: An analysis from 1997-2005 of the Sunday talk show guests on ABC, CBS, and NBC
http://mediamatters.org/reports/200602140002

Right-Wing Tilt on Sunday Morning
Sept., 2010
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4148
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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 10:13 AM
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14. Imagine if they gave a talk show & no Democrats ever showed up...
just completely stopped & used other means to get the message out.
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 11:28 AM
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15. They'd say the Democrats were "afraid to come on their show".
It's happened before.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:51 AM
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41. That would work.
It would completely discredit these fake programs. But what is the reality? Not only won't Democrats boycott these fake Sunday news programs Obama even went on Fox News lending them credibility. It sucks!
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Blue Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 02:42 PM
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16. Someone tell Rush the drive-by media is at it again
n/t
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 02:47 PM
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17. these shows are a washington d.c. circle jerk....nobody watches that shit anymore
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 03:52 PM
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18. What liberal media? Oh wait - it doesn't exist!
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 09:27 PM
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19. Interesting side note...
Until right now I didn't know who Obama's national security advisor was. I think the big difference is, Bush was using Condi Rice and Colin Powell to prove how non-racist he supposedly was--the real work was done behind the scenes by PNAC maniacs like Wolfowitz--while Obama is using his national security advisor for trivial things like killing Osama bin Laden.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:53 AM
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42. Exactly...........nt
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lunasun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 09:39 PM
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20. Glad it was mothers day too busy to get tempted to watch this crap
would have ruined my perfect day......not that I can stomach any of those shows very long anymore anyway...Cheney = WTF
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singingbiscuit Donating Member (103 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 09:54 PM
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21. Maybe BO's staff are too busy actually WORKING? n/t
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 09:57 PM
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22. How did the notion of "liberal media" ever get started anyway? And more important, how did it catch
on?

It is such a pile of HORSESHIT. Has there ever been a liberal bias in the media?
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cameozalaznick Donating Member (624 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 12:01 AM
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28. It's called working the refs...
It was a coordinated effort by the RW echo chamber which created the idea. And the news media has over-compensated to make sure there is no accusation of bias. It's a false equivalency, because sometimes FACTS have a liberal bias. It simply can't be helped. Tax cuts create deficits - Fact. But in order to appear "balanced," they'll haul out the idea that it's the entitlements that are the problem.

It's rather a brilliant, if evil, strategy when you think about it.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 07:11 AM
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45. It's a brilliant, if evil, strategy alright.
It is as if the whole U.S.A. was transformed into some 1960s comic book where we face diabolical ultra criminals in control of the media, our lives and everything else.
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 09:58 PM
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23. jumping in front of any camera they can find to complain about Obama being too public about this
:rofl:
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 11:02 PM
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25. What was Liz Cheney doing out there on Mother's Day?
Lying, of course. She was out there lying through her teeth.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 05:44 AM
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34. Would YOU want to be with Lynne?
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 10:05 AM
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53. Babies always love their mom. What can be done?
The therapy will come years later.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 12:04 AM
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29. Who watches those shows anyway? Just diehard rich Republicans, right? nt
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 04:35 AM
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30. It's been similar for 20+ years now
Republics dominate the guest lists on the Sunday talk shows. And, when Democrats are on the air, they're far more likely to have a Republic on opposite them as an immediate counter-point.
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stillwaiting Donating Member (591 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:47 AM
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39. In addition, I can't tell you how many times that the "Democrat" is someone like Joe Lieberman.
In other words, the ratio of actual liberals to conservatives is appallingly low on the Sunday morning circuit.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 07:19 AM
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47. Bingo!
And just watch C-Span. They operate the very same way. They will have on Charles Krauthammer then some right wing Democrat that agrees with everything Krauthammer says. It is basic unfairness. And it SUCKS!
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cprise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 11:07 AM
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55. From another perspective, its quite fair.
One side of the debate primarily identifies itself as conservative, the other side as Democratic (hence you get rivalries like "Free Republic" vs "Democratic Underground"). The latter side ("our" side) has adopted a specific political party as their main identity. But a political party can have any sort of principles and habits that it chooses year-to-year and while "liberal" has been abandoned as a pejorative word, "progressive" remains only a tentative label that the Democratic Party and its corporate media masters avoid using.

The other reason why the bias is "fair" is that the media are 99% corporate conglomerates. By law, corporations run on greed and they are traded through the stock market, so informing the public is secondary to their goal of making Wall Street as rich and powerful as possible. Expecting them to broadcast stuff that's counter to their interests is unrealistic especially when they've been deregulated. They're not going to reflect the public's values any more than Exxon or BP.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 07:14 AM
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46. And when Democrats get on
they are the type that will generally support right wing ideas.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 08:23 AM
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50. True - how often is the "Democrat"
somebody like Max Baucus, Kent Conrad or Ben Nelson? They certainly get more air time than Barbara Boxer, Sheldon Whitehouse, Sherrod Brown or Bernie Sanders.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 08:43 AM
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52. It is blatant.
We aren't supposed to notice. I suppose the average viewer doesn't notice or they believe Democrat means Democrat.
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dorksied Donating Member (205 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 05:03 AM
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31. When you shout a lie, over and over,
eventually someone will believe it.

Republican 101

They're just spinning the truth into lies, its very typical.
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mwb970 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 05:38 AM
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32. This is why I never watch those shows any more.
No matter what happens, the only people they have on are republicans. I don't turn on my television to see republicans.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 05:45 AM
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35. Likewise. My Sunday a.m. = "Law and Order" marathons! At least THEY catch the criminals!
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:35 AM
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36. I quit watching a while ago.
The Sunday programs were so obviously slanted that it was no longer possible to watch. But the same can be said for the rest of the media.

Right now I have C-Span's Washington Journal on. It is also one sided. The host always quotes a right wing think tank or the Wall Street Journal. They do this while they insist they are unbiased. They are simply lying. Every article they quote supports the right wing perspective.
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:53 AM
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43. ugh.
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nonperson Donating Member (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 08:07 AM
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48. Bush administration officials who should all be highlighted in perp walks
Edited on Mon May-09-11 08:07 AM by nonperson
Are instead spreading their same lies, re-writing history, rehabilitating themselves, and once again duping an American public that has to be one of the most brain dead stupid herds of cattle ever to exist.

But we're looking forward, not backward. Yeah. Right. :puke:
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yellowwood Donating Member (550 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 08:18 AM
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49. John McCain
John McCain seems to have a lot of time to appear on Sunday morning talk shows.
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Johonny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 10:31 AM
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54. Ever notice how Bushes people got so much air time they're house hold names
and people in Obama's White House aren't.
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