I should just close every post with “Just because Rush and Sean say it, doesn’t mean it is true” in “Carthage must be destroyed” style.
I do realize that when you have an 80% Anti-Bush media constantly reporting all of the negative in Iraq instead of showing the positive things happening, you’re going to see public opinion drop.
We’re blaming the liberal media again? Remember, Judith Miller went to jail for two months to protect the identity of Scooter Libby, who had to sign a waiver before she would reveal her source. That’s not the “liberal” media, it’s responsible journalism. She tried to stop this from happening.
If Bush didn’t lie about WMDs, then where are they? Colin Powell went before the UN with satellite photos saying “Look, here they are. I’m pointing to them right now. The WMDs are right here”, and… they weren’t. Bush made his case for war based upon a false premise. War crimes?
Yanny, you also have to admit that there is too much anti-Bush media out there.
Too much? I think theres too little. The media treated Bush lightly during the election, during the Iraq War, and they aren’t being damaging enough during this current Rove/Libby situation. I think there are two types of mainstream media out there: The pussy media and the conservative media. By the pussy media I mean the mainstream newspapers, network news programs, and in some cases cable news networks. These major institutions are too unwilling to seem biasd toward either left or right, so they refuse to take a hard stance on anything. They are afraid to be too damaging to anyone, Democrat or Republican. The conservative media are your talk radio hosts for the most part. They actually build following through bias, and are very blatant about it. They also lie their asses off (“Senator George Allen, favorite for the Republican nomination for President [who is actually polling at 4%]”.)
And by the way, to all you Bush critics that think he is a war criminal, I want all you two faced liberal hipocrits to right here and right now condemn FDR and Harry Truman for their fascism for destroying two countries. One with firebombings and the other with a nuclear holocaust. Until you do that, keep your anti-Bush war criminal criticisms to yourself. I am sick and tired to listening to a bunch of hipocrits like yourselves. Freeing people is not a war crime. If it was, Clinton would be a war criminal for Kosovo!
You are really straw-manning here. We’re talking about WWII here, 40 years before I was born, and no one is denying what the war (and our bombs) did to these countries.
Clinton in Kosovo didn’t a) toture prisoners or b) instigate the war on a false premise or c) fail to get the support of everyone else in NATO.
I wish we’d drill in ANWR. We have to reduce our dependancy on Foreign oil. The Dems keep up that mantra except they prevent our own drilling in this country thanks to the tree huggers. If you want to be energy independent, we have to drillfor oil in this country!
An example of the media not informing you correctly. I don’t have a link at the moment… but delve in and you’ll find this information out. The oil located in ANWR is not pure enough for US consumption. If we were to drill it, the company who drilled it would just sell it to Japan or somewhere. Not only that, but it’ll be 10 years before a drop of oil is extracted.
The only people who would benefit are those actually drilling or being paid to drill the oil, no one else. And it sets a dangerous precedent for opening up our national parks to economic exploitation. It’s hard to find some camping space in New Jersey, and I don’t feel like my summer job/retreat in camp nobebosco being sold to a housing development.