17% Negative Statements abt GORE Were from Tweety

[UTUSN]

from BLUMENTHAL, p. 723:

"In July 2000, the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Committee of Concerned Journalists issued an unusual study of the 'character issue' as it had been reported thus far by the media. ....

The study found that 80 percent of the coverage of Gore concerned the manufactured issues either of his lack of truthfulness (34 percent) or of his being tainted with scandal (46 percent). Only 2 percent of the Gore-as-liar stories bothered to include an opposing point of view. Also, 'fully 17% of the statements about Gore's ties to scandal came from just one prime-time talk program, Hardball with Chris Matthews on CNBC.' Meanwhile, more than half of all Americans, 51 percent, told the Pew Research Center for People and the Presss that Gore's experience would make them more likely to vote for him."

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Does Tweety have...

Some deep-seated problems that are not generally known? I mean, an honest-to-goodness real diagnosis?

[librechik]

2. he's a freaking lunatic

mpd to the max--who is he today? let's wait for the pendulum to swing back and find out.

[KoKo]

3. I think it's a "father" complex. All that stuff about Bush's manliness...

now it's onto Schwartzenneger and his clothes and appearance and maniliness (according to the DU reports I see here, because I haven't watched him in over a year). But the reports of what he says about Bush and men he likes say to me a "father" complex or he's hiding a side of himself that he needs to get in touch with...and the name of his show "Hard Ball......says alot.......even if it's a play on baseball. I heard him say that his father had suggested the name for the show.

I have posted what I say here before....but I put it in a more humorous way. When I see the statistics on what he did to trash Al Gore....then I think it's serious. He has some masculine identity problem to be as weird as he is about other men's looks and attire.

[TacticalPeek]

4. Can't handle his 'roundness'...not quite convex, not yet concave?

"Wow, what a big gun you have; can I hold it? Is there an extra flight suit for me?"

[unfrigginreal]

5. That's exactly why Democrats should cut this loser loose!

I think he was probably right when he told Conason that he's the most Liberal talking head on TV, but big friggin deal! He still tows the right-wing line when it comes to Clinton and by association Al Gore.

Anyone in this forum that watches him because they think they're getting "our" side of the story should think again.

[Sweetpea]

6. Booze issues is what he has.

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. This is the smoking gun that Tweety

is a whore.

[Q]

8. One-sided, slanted news...

...is the results of Reagan dumping the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE in the 80s.

[onecitizen]

9. Oh now THERE'S a shock!! nt

nt

[UTUSN]

10. Most People Here Are Not Shocked

and know this just by observing him. But I had not seen actual numbers before. And Tweety has a long-lasting "savings account" of good Dems who go back to when he was actually "one of ours", some of whom bought his book Hardball when it came out in 1988, some of whom went to his book signings--------in short, who possibly have been too busy in RECENT years to check out what he's been up to and who think he's the same good Dem he used to be.

Every so often here, whenever Tweety throws ONE crumb on the Lib side, there are flurries of posts saying things like, "He's back in the Light," or "He's a whore but when he speaks on our side there's nobody better," or "He's anti-war," or whatever.

Actually, he's a political operative with the flunky mindset--------that is, gaining status from the status of his boss, worshipping SUCCESS. His metamorphosis started by his admiration for RAYGUN in whipping wimpy Dems. I think G.E. RUSSERT mentored him into "crossing over" since media exposure depends on reaching a wider span than just the original core group.

[Woodstock]

11. There's another good article about this in The Nation

this week - by Eric Alterman

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030901&s=alterman

The reaction was as swift as it was predictable. Recalling the hysterics of late Washington Post columnist Michael Kelly, who termed Gore's September 2002 antiwar speech to be "dishonest, cheap, low...hollow...wretched...vile...contemptible...a lie...a disgrace...equal parts mendacity, viciousness and smarm," Post editors accused Gore of leading his party "off a cliff" and "validat just about every conspiratorial theory of the antiwar left."

[UTUSN]

12. Great Article. Thanks. Sigh:

".... Blair faces an aggressive, independent-minded media whose members consider it their job, in the words of the BBC's head of newsgathering, Adrian Van Klaveren, 'to question governments...to hold governments to account.... This is not passive journalism. This is about trying to get information which others don't want us to know.' "