I have given up on our media ever actually researching anything.
William Chirolas -- World News Trust
March 27, 2007 -- The overriding media/GOP narrative/theme for Rudy Giuliani is: "America's Mayor," that for McCain is: "Straight Talk Express," in contrast to the narrative/theme for Democratic party candidates like John Edwards: "feminine/faggot/sleezy trial lawyer," or Hillary: castrating/shrill/phony, or Obama: Muslim/Hussein/Madrassa/untested.
This media bias extends to media "watchdog" sources that our media uses -- avoiding the truth-telling site "Media Matters," which is well documented with internet links, while they use proven liars like Brent Bozell's misleading "Media Research Center"/"Newsbusters".
CNN and Fox have both used Bozell's lies extensively, and the networks on occasion, I have given up on our media ever actually researching anything and noting that the GOP talking point of the day is a lie -- as in how hard would it have been to find this?:
AG MONDAY, MARCH 14, 2001 (202) 514-2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV TDD (202) 514-1888 WHITE HOUSE AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENT BEGIN U.S. ATTORNEY TRANSITION WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Continuing the practice of new administrations, President Bush and the Department of Justice have begun the transition process for most of the 93 United States Attorneys.
But we heard MSNBC/CNN/Fox all saying the GOP Talking point that Clinton did it. We even had the lying Wall Street Journal Editorial page screaming that Clinton replaced all those 93 attorneys to thwart an investigation of Democratic congressman Dan Rostenkowski, forgetting that the next DA obtained 17 counts from the Grand Jury and convicted Rostenkowski with a guilty plea on two counts of mail fraud.
The Wall Street Journal even forgets that the special prosecutor cleared Clinton regarding Whitewater, and all other alleged scandals, and attempts to imply that the replacement of the 93 U.S. attorneys was the reason that the local District Attorney, Paula Casey, appointed at the start of the Clinton presidency, never did bring any "big Whitewater indictments."
The Wall Street Journal mis-characterized history as: "Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter retaining holdovers and only replacing them gradually as their tenures expired." Does anyone in the media ever fact check the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal? -- might be an interesting story there.
This time round the GOP-selling lies machine used Brent Bozell's misleading "Media Research Center," the source that Brit Hume uses so often to lie on Fox Cable News, and which he used in this case, and its controlled "Newsbusters" source, to sell for weeks (and Fox continues to try to sell) the idea that Clinton's 93 beginning of term replacement of District Attorneys -- the normal replacement that is expected -- is a justification to ignore Bush's obstruction of justice reasoning behind the seven DA replacements. An excellent article on this is "The Difference Between Eight and 93," which I recommend as mandatory reading for those in the media.
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William Chirolas brings 40 years of real-world business experience in local, state, national, and international tax, pensions, and finance to the world of blogging. A graduate of MIT, he calls the Boston area home, except when visiting kids and grandkids. He can be reached at: