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10-11-2007 12:22 AM587 views
Rustee says:
21 - 101 at the source, along with brief summaries on each link. Quite a collection of deception and plagiarism. No, I didn't triple check on or even read most of these.
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10-11-2007 2:11 PM
righthand
When it comes to President Bush, the media have lied about his National Guard service, lied about his serving a plastic turkey to troops in Iraq on Thanksgiving and then made a big deal about that phony story, lied about his speeches, quoted him by removing the words he actually used, and admitted they would use a harsher standard with him than his opponent John Kerry.
To this day, they criticize his administration's handling of the Katrina crisis, which was actually one of the most successful rescue and recovery efforts in history, but barely mention their own huge and egregious mistakes in reporting on that event.
Rag
10-11-2007 4:33 PM
davboz
Rag
Display of biased, onehanded, closed-minded "ignore"-ance.
And, boy, are you ignoring an awful lot.
Media Matters Misrepresents -habitually- and this needs to be lit in neon.
By the way, thank you for STOPPING "following" me.
10-11-2007 5:45 PM
ratilfar
Katrina was one of the most successful rescue operations in history? Ok...I'll leave it at that....
10-11-2007 9:43 PM
willhelm
There are 101 media frauds a day. You can find a gross distortion or bias in just about every news story.
10-12-2007 1:32 AM
Rustee
I thought that line would get some all riled up, and frankly I did a double take at first too, but he has a point. This Popular Mechanics article is where he's coming from. How about this line from there:
The Armed Forces Press Service would later report that various branches
of the military rescued more than 14,000 people. And that doesn't count
the people picked up by local medevac and sheriff's offices and
hundreds of volunteers.
The death toll was still high by any standards, but the numbers involved in both being rescued and the rescuers was unprecedented. So I don't think it's absurd to ap...
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