WAPO notes Bush lied about "Kerry gut Intel budget in 95" but media still

[papau]

runs "news" of the Bush comments with no analysis that says what the Washington Post notes below from the Kerry response - that Bush is using a partial truth to construct a lie, and that the Kerry Bill was superceded by the Senator Arlene Spector bill that passed. CNN/MSNBC/NBC are running the Bush free ad with no comments about how the Wash Post has already published a Kerry response that has shown it to be a lie!

Damn media whores.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40564-2004Mar8.html

Bush: "His (Kerry's) bill was so deeply irresponsible that he didn't have a single co-sponsor in the United States Senate," Bush told the luncheon gathering. "Once again, Senator Kerry is trying to have it both ways. He's for good intelligence, yet he was willing to gut the intelligence services. And that is no way to lead a nation in a time of war."

In reply, the Massachusetts senator's campaign headquarters issued a statement saying Kerry had sought to cut out a huge unspent "slush fund" in the intelligence budget that was intended to benefit defense contractors. The statement said that the same day Kerry introduced his bill, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) introduced a similar bill that passed by a bipartisan voice vote. The statement said the bill sponsored by Specter and Kerrey "sought to strip the intelligence budget of its pet projects and pork, and shift our intelligence from the Cold War to the threat of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction."

[displacedtexan]

1. fair.org has a great piece on media whores distorting JK's votes

MEDIA ADVISORY:
GOP Rhetoric on Kerry's Voting Record Goes Unchallenged

March 8, 2004

After John Kerry emerged as the likely Democratic nominee for president, the Republican National Committee (RNC) began criticizing his record on military spending. The campaign against Kerry's record escalated on February 22 when the RNC released a list of weapons systems that Kerry allegedly "voted against."

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CNN anchor Judy Woodruff (2/25/04) framed the issue this way in an interview with Rep. Norm Dicks (D.-Wash.): "The Republicans list something like 13 different weapons systems that they say the record shows Senator Kerry voted against. The Patriot missile, the B-1 bomber, the Trident missile and on and on and on."

Embarrassingly, Dicks had to explain to Woodruff that most of the weapons "votes" weren't individual votes at all, but a single vote on the Pentagon's 1991 appropriations bill. Woodruff responded with surprise to this information: "Are you saying that all these weapons systems were part of one defense appropriations bill in 1991?"

more...

http://www.fair.org/press-releases/kerry-military-votes.html

[papau]

2. Excellent piece - I wonder how media whores live with themselves

:-(

[indepat]

3. A good example of why some are labeled "media whores": sadly

they are not selling their bodies, they are selling their souls and selling out our country, our Constitution, our Democracy, we the people IMHO. The term "whores" is really much too tepid and polite considering what they really are/what they do.