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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 10:19 AM
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For NewsBusters, reporting on threats against Congressmen = "legitimizing Democratic talking points"
March 25, 2010 10:44 am ET by Simon Maloy

According to NewsBuster Brent Baker, network news anchors and reporters who reported last night on the threats against Congressmen who supported health care reform were "legitimizing Democratic talking points meant to discredit critics of the just-passed health care bill" ... Notably, for all his denunciations of the Democrats and the press over this alleged "demonization," Baker couldn't find any space to denounce the people actually doing the threatening ...

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201003250020
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 10:38 AM
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1. fox news--the neo fascist ministry of propaganda
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 11:17 AM
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2. WSJ's playing the same game:
MARCH 25, 2010, 11:53 AM ET
Democrats Seize on Threats, Vandalism

By Naftali Bendavid

Democrats are seizing on reports of vandalism, threats of violence, the use of epithets and other incidents to portray many opponents of the recently enacted health overhaul as irresponsible and reckless ...

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/03/25/democrats-seize-on-threats-vandalism/
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