AIM Report: How the Liberal Media Plan to Bring Down Bush

[illbill]

This is garbage..... but here is what the other side believes:

http://www.realopinion.com/realboards/showthread.php?t=1028

[phantom power]

1. Here's a subversive idea: they could bring him down by telling the truth

[Lorien]

13. Exactly. Even one tenth of the truth

hammered like the Peterson trial, could ruin the repugs for generations.

[d_b]

17. Yea, No shit

[Skittles]

2. can't bring myself to read it

the very idea anyone thinks the media is LIBERAL and they are going to "take down" a glaringly incompetent "president" who DOESN'T EVEN QUALIFY FOR THE JOB and has been TRASHING AMERICA FOR FOUR YEARS, after he TRASHED TEXAS FOR SIX, is so, SO freaking absurd - why torment myself? Why bother?

[illbill]

4. It is depressing...

CNN has Conservative undertones, Fox is just ultimately Republican...

PBS is basically only one of the few respectable channels with news coverage (News Hour).

[blondeatlast]

20. CNN has pandered itself to capture FAUX's audience so that

they don't even seem to pretend anymore.

If it weren't for Olbermann and The Daily Show, DU would be (sadly and somewhat dangersously) the only place I got my news anymore.

[Trajan]

3. Dontcha wish it were true ? ...

We could use a liberal media about now ....

Heck: We could have used them for decades : too bad they dont exist ...

[blondeatlast]

21. I'd prefer one that strived for real objectivity.

The media was never liberal; apparently truth just favors liberalism and progressivism.

[UdoKier]

5. Air America a luaghingstock & financial fiasco?

I count 41 affiliates, plus satellite radio and RECORD numbers of people streaming over the internet.

Why is Rush's consistent 2 share in all markets (propped up by sympathetic advertisers) a "success" when AAR has gone from 3 to 41 in only 9 months? I find AAR's success quite remarkable, actually...

[Atman]

6. I think it was Al Gore who said...

about the repubicans, during his ill-fated first stolen election, "If you stop lying about the democrats, we'll stop telling the truth about you."

[papau]

8. It was Truman :-)

and we lost to Ike 4 years later

:-(

[Atman]

9. Oh well...Al must have repeated it

I guess we shouldn't repeat it again, huh? *sigh*

[papau]

12. LOL - loved the "sigh" - It is a great line that has been true all my

life - Truman's line - not my "sigh" .... :-)

It should carved over the door of the new DNC building!

:toast:

:-)

[blondeatlast]

23. Actually it was Adlai Stevenson.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/adlaieste107311.html

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

[Goldeneye]

7. I've asked this before and I'll ask it again?

If the wingers really believe there's a liberal media bias, why don't they get the fairness doctorine reinstated?:think: They have the power to do it. Anyone? :shrug:

[bunkerbuster1]

27. Thanks for asking again; I'd never thought of like that.

'cept now I'm wondering if we should be careful what we wish for.

You want Colon Bowel Jr. determinine what's fair and balanced on the air? If Fox News is what the government determines as the gold standard for objectivity in reporting, we're all well and truly Cheneyed.

[Ready4Change]

10. WHAT Liberal Media?

Seems to me liberals can't get airtime, or get it too late, or only get in it fiercely conservative venues where they mostly serve as punching bags.

Except for Air America, a station they had to buy outright in order to get a word in edgewise,

There is no liberal media.

[s-cubed]

11. THINK DUerrs: I haven't read yet but does this give you any ideas?

This is the first step in a process: they always start whining like this about the "liberal" when they know they're gonna get hit.
So, what are they expecting to get hit with & are there any ideas that we ought to use?

[bunkerbuster1]

14. This is a scream!

No, really, funny shit in there.

Fox News is a response to the overwhelming liberal media bias.

That bias, said Evan Thomas of Newsweek, was worth between five and 20 million votes for the Kerry-Edwards ticket.

ooookay. IOW, if we had a "fair and balanced" media, then we can predict with scientifical ackracy that Kerry would've only drawn,oh, between 37 and 52 million voters.

then there's

Mayer also disclosed that a secret meeting of anti-Bush billionaires was held in August, after the Democratic Party convention, and that Soros was a key participant.

But we didn't see any stories in the media about the "billionaire conspiracy" against the President.

...the FUCK? you couldn't swing a cat in the summer of 2004 without some wingnut whining about Soros!

I could go on, but I have a life.

[patdem]

15. But does he mention the 'not so secret' meetings every Wednesday

between Norquist and all THOSE BILLIONAIRES? No? Wonder why...it's that damn liberal media again! :silly:

[blondeatlast]

24. Also, many RW "pundits" are included.

It's a big, smelly machine, and it must be stopped for the good of the nation.

[OhioBlue]

16. No surprise - facts are omitted in the statements

I had to stop reading about half way through.... but this just made me roll my eyes...

-snip-
In Ohio, where the anti-homosexual measure passed with 62 percent of the vote, 16 newspapers opposed it, including the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Toledo Blade, The Cincinnati Enquirer and The Columbus Dispatch.

btw - so did both of our REPUBLICAN senators and our REPUBLICAN governor. It was a BS bill put on the ballot in a stealth kinda way to bring out the church vote.

Just goes to show - they know the Shrub is corrupt and could have a case against him that makes Watergate look like a ticket for a wide right turn and they are preparing their followers for the scapegoat of the liberal press.

Ugh - the brainwashing..........

[tom_paine]

18. Ha ha. What a pathetic Straw Man. There is no Liberal Media

if there is one it is dwarfed in size by the Bushevik Propaganda Edifice, and it is forced to still try and obey some rules, while the Busheviks can self-reinforce any damned lie they please or shout down the truth.

Like Hulk Hogan whining about how Gilligan is planning to whip his ass.

Or more accurately, the Nazis using their battered Jewish population as Scare Tactic, when in fact in Germany and most everywhere else the Jews had no power at all.

It is disgusting and frightening and enraging, watching it all happen again.

We are one LIHOP or an economic calamity away from the abyss of Totalitarian Darkness (albeit Kinder and Genlter and without boxcars of piteous victims, I think.

[imenja]

19. If only it were true

or even possible.

[bunkerbuster1]

22. My first reaction, but upon refleciton, I don't want a "liberal media"

I just want one that holds everyone's feet to the fire. Problem is, they don't.

Hell, listening to NPR this morning, there was yet another goddamned Bush-licking story about SS "reform." After presenting the reThug plan in terms that conveniently avoided mention of the trillion or so it'll cost to finance these mothercheneying private accounts, they had a guy on from DC's Urban Institute...

and I suppose he was supposed to be the "balance," but crap--he was describing this theft in the blandest, most namby-pampy manner imaginable. And of course good ol' Maura gave him slow-pitch softball followups, asking toughies like (paraphrasing) "If we were going to start SS from scratch, how many years of benefits would the typical recipient expect to see?"

Hardly an upgrade from the rest of the Rove steno pool.

[blondeatlast]

25. Exactly. One of the biggest problems with the media now is

that they are are big-time LAZY.

They let press releases function as news with nary a check into accuracy.

"The Republican Noise Machine" really opened my eyes. I knew it was happening, I just didn't know how it happened so easily.

We need to get a truly free press back before we can really hope ot accomplish anything as progressives/liberals. Not a LIBERAL press, a free, objective one. The truth just favors our side, it isn't part of it.

[susu369]

26. "Kellyanne Conway of The Polling Company "

obviously fails to note Kellyanne and her attorney husband are rabid RWer's....