Chuck Hagel a Liberal? Read this - NY TIMES

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Official Had Aide Send Data to White House
By STEPHEN LABATON
Published: June 18, 2005 - NY TIMES
WASHINGTON, June 17 - E-mail messages obtained by investigators at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting show that its chairman, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, extensively consulted a White House official shortly before she joined the corporation about creating an ombudsman's office to monitor the balance and objectivity of public television and radio programs.
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Mr. Dorgan said that Senator Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, was classified in the data as a "liberal" for an appearance on a segment of a show that questioned the Bush Administration's policies in Iraq. Mr. Hagel is considered a mainstream conservative with a maverick streak and a willingness to criticize the White House.

Another segment about financial waste at the Pentagon was classified as "anti-Defense," Mr. Dorgan said. He criticized Mr. Tomlinson for spending taxpayer money for studies to examine programs "to see if something is being said that might be critical about a president or Congress."
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entire article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/18/arts/television/18broa.html?th&emc=th

[izzybeans]

1. These reeks of Joseph McCarthy and Joseph Stalin

Everyone who asks questions is deemed an enemy of the state.

[applegrove]

2. That is total propaganda. Of course they had to jig the numbers.