Brace yourselves. The MSM is about to praise him for the next week.

[Beelzebud]

For his 'brave' press conference.

The spin is already beginning.

[Jacobin]

1. "Bold, Pugnacious, On Top of his Game"

[Beelzebud]

2. Exactly. I've already heard a couple of those, and it just got over...

America is starting to make me sick...

[LostInAnomie]

3. MSNBC has already used two of those.

The have also said that he was very engaging and has put the press on the defensive for only reporting the bad news coming out of Iraq.

[Jacobin]

4. Yep. He told that Bad Old Media

to start reporting on ALL the GOOD Stuff happening, and stop focusing on those few bad old bomber meanies.

Bush was GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:sarcasm:

[MADem]

6. Gee if they try to report the good news, they'll end up like Jill Carroll

If life is so wonderful over there, where the hell is JILL??????

[Breeze54]

9. Consider the source...

New poll finds MSNBC and NBC have more conservatives as guests than "liberals"
by a factor of three to two, if you include Matthews!
Or ten to five, if you exclude Chris Matthews!
Screw MSNBC and NBC!!
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NBC's Today, like MSNBC's Hardball, hosted more conservatives than liberals

http://mediamatters.org/items/200603210001

A Media Matters for America survey of guests on NBC's Today show thus far in 2006
revealed a significant preference for conservatives over progressives.
For the period from January 1 to March 16, Media Matters found that
when MSNBC host Chris Matthews is classified as a conservative,
conservatives outnumbered progressives by a ratio of 3-to-1.
When Matthews is not included, the ratio is 2-to-1 --
10 conservatives to five liberals,
though two guests classified as liberals appeared together.
Interviews with politicians were not counted in this survey.

Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, was a guest six times.
While conservatives often complain that Matthews is a liberal,
Media Matters named him 2005's Misinformer of the Year for his role as a purveyor
of conservative misinformation.
Media Matters has also identified numerous instances of Matthews's gushing over
President Bush, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), and other Republicans.

Recently, Matthews has:
remarked to White House deputy press secretary Trent Duffy,
"See how much we get done when you come over here?" adding,
"I wish we had you on every night."
said of House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH),
"You can see this man's greatness"; said that KT McFarland, a Republican U.S. Senate
candidate in New York, is a "delightful candidate"; and stated that "people will say"
McFarland's opponent, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), is "Dukakis in a dress"
(a reference to unsuccessful 1988 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis).
claimed that the nation's dislike of then-first lady Hillary Clinton was the reason why
control of Congress shifted to Republicans in 1994, further claiming that a recently
reported that a voter-data venture led by Democrat Harold Ickes -- an adviser to Clinton
-- is "just like we saw the NSA doing" in conjunction with President Bush's
controversial warrantless domestic eavesdropping program.
misrepresented the positions of President Bush and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on a recently
passed South Dakota abortion ban. praised conservative Philadelphia-based radio host
Michael Smerconish without noting that Smerconish appeared at a political event with
Matthews's brother,
who is a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Pennsylvania.
misrepresented a Massachusetts Democratic gubernatorial candidate's position on a parental
consent provision for pregnant minors seeking abortions.
overstated Bush's personal popularity ratings and claimed to be "amazed" when a poll showed
that "50 percent of the people don't like him -- just don't like this guy."
lauded Bush as reminiscent of a heroic character in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird for
his actions in the Dubai Ports World controversy:
"He looks like he's a wise man now ... almost Atticus Finch."
described McCain as a "maverick,"
Bush as "charming," and Republican National Committee (RNC)
chairman Ken Mehlman as "Kenny Boy."
Other guests making an appearance on Today in 2006 include
Bill O'Reilly, host of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor;
Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's Scarborough Country;
Fred Barnes, co-host of Fox News' The Beltway Boys and a regular
contributor to Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume;
Mary Matalin, a Republican consultant and a former co-host
of CNN's Crossfire; Richard Haass, a former Bush administration official,
Wendy Wright; president of Concerned Women for America;
William A. Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights;
and Dr. Laura Schlessinger, author and nationally syndicated radio host.

In the same time period, only five progressives or liberals appeared on Today.
They include James Carville and Paul Begala,
political contributors to CNN's The Situation Room, who appeared together to promote
a book they co-wrote;
Michael Eric Dyson, an author and professor at the University of Pennsylvania;
Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America,
and Richard Walter, a screenwriter. Walter is included as a liberal in this instance
because he argued opposite Donohue during a segment on the upcoming film The Da Vinci Code.

The Today show findings echo two other studies by Media Matters that
have documented the greater number of conservatives on other television programs:
The February report
"If It's Sunday, It's Conservative," a comprehensive study
of guest appearances on the Sunday-morning talk shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC,
and another recent study on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews.
The methodology used in the studies identified each guest's general partisan or
ideological orientation, coding each guest as Democrat, Republican, conservative,
progressive, or neutral
(nonpartisan, centrist, or having no political orientation).

Today Guest Survey: January 1-March 16, 2006

Conservative guests

Air date
Guest
Topic of discussion

1/4/06
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Her book Bad Childhood, Good Life: How to Blossom and Thrive in Spite
of an Unhappy Childhood (HarperCollins, January 2006)

1/14/06
Chris Matthews
Iran's nuclear program, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, hearing for
Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr.

1/24/06
Bill O'Reilly
President Bush, Osama bin Laden

1/27/06
Fred Barnes
His book Rebel in Chief: Inside the Bold and Controversial Presidency of George W. Bush
(Crown Forum, January 2006)

1/27/06
Joe Scarborough
Oprah Winfrey's confrontation with author James Frey

2/3/06
Richard Haass*
Iranian nuclear program

2/4/06
Chris Matthews
Domestic surveillance, new House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), lobbying scandal

2/16/06
Mary Matalin
Vice President Dick Cheney's handling of his hunting accident

2/25/06
Chris Matthews
Iraq and Dubai ports deal

3/1/06
Chris Matthews
Iraq, Afghanistan, Hurricane Katrina

3/3/06
Thomas Monaghan, Domino's Pizza founder
Ave Maria, Florida, a town being built around a Catholic university he founded

3/5/06
Wendy Wright
Morning-after pill distribution by Wal-Mart

3/8/06
William A. Donohue
The Da Vinci Code film

3/9/06
Joe Scarborough
President Bush, Iran, Iraq, Dubai ports deal, 2006 elections

3/11/06
Chris Matthews
Failure of Dubai ports deal, Republican presidential hopefuls

3/13/06
Chris Matthews
Possible presidential candidates


Liberal guests

Air date
Guest
Topic of discussion

1/11/06
James Carville, Paul Begala
Their book Take It Back: Our Party, Our Country, Our Future
(Simon & Schuster, February 2006)

1/23/06
Michael Eric Dyson
His book, Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
(Basic Civitas, February 2006)

3/5/06
Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Morning-after pill distribution by Wal-Mart

3/8/06
Richard Walter
The Da Vinci Code film (appeared opposite Donohue)


Neutral guests

Air date
Guest
Topic of discussion

1/1/06
Tim Russert
Politics of 2006

1/2/06
Howard Fineman, Newsweek chief political analyst
Bush's agenda for 2006

1/3/06
James Risen
His book, State of War: The Secret History of the Bush Administration
and the CIA (Free Press, Janauary 2006)

1/7/06
Connie Chung, Maury Povich
Their MSNBC show Weekends with Maury & Connie

1/8/06
Tim Russert
Rep. Tom DeLay, Alito nomination

1/9/06
Tim Russert
Alito nomination

1/13/06
Tim Russert
Alito nomination, Bush's visit to New Orleans

1/15/06
Tim Russert
U.S. relationship with rest of the world

1/22/06
Tim Russert
Tax cuts, economy, drug program for seniors

1/27/06
Tim Russert
Bush, domestic spying, possible Alito filibuster

1/29/06
Tim Russert
Preview of Bush's State of the Union address

1/31/06
Tim Russert
Bush's State of the Union address

1/31/06
Tom Brokaw
Bush's State of the Union address

2/2/06
Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times columnist
America's dependency on oil

2/15/06
Tim Russert
Cheney's hunting accident

2/22/06
Tim Russert
Dubai ports deal

2/27/06
Tim Russert
Dubai ports deal, 2008 election

3/2/06
Thomas L. Friedman
India, Iraq

3/10/06
Tim Russert
Dubai ports deal, 2008 election

3/14/06
Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times columnist
Attacks occurring in Sudan and Chad

3/16/06
Tim Russert
Bush's poll numbers

* Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He is included in the conservative/Republican category because he worked
previously in the Bush State Department as director of policy and planning
and also worked as a special assistant to President George H.W. Bush from
1989 to 1993. Nicholas Lemann described Haass as a moderate in the March 31, 2003,
issue of The New Yorker.

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[cantstandbush]

5. After the first WTC attack under Clinton, i don't recall that Clinton

spent all his press conferences blaming the previous Bush administration or Republicans. What I remember is that the Clinton administration went after those responsible, caught them, tried them, and/or imprisoned them as they did with the OKC bomber. Yet the Bush administration and the Republicans spend all their public face time blaming others for their failures and lying about what happened. We all know Bush wanted to take out Saddam from the beginning, way before 9/11, yet no press person will put out the facts and call him on his lies. there is little hope that this nation will ever be the great force for good in this world that they started to be after WWII. We were not perfect but we were beginning to find our soul during the Civil Rights era. Once Reagan was elected to office our nation began a spiraling down that continiues until today.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. Clinton had the spies spying on the terrorists instead of the GOP

That must be where he "messed up." Bush hasn't caught Osama or the Anthrax murderers. Clinton nabbed the perps in New York in a few days, just like he did the Okalahoma City perps. Bush is wasting all the FBI's and CIA's manpower spying on American citizens, instead of the terrorists. Bush was busy tracking down John Kerry and the Quakers, instead of Osama!

[reality based]

7. Those who lie down with dogs get fleas

They may help postpone a day of reckoning, but they insure that they will be included in its consequences. We have informal ministries of propaganda that deserve their own day at the Hague. They are helping to destroy the Constitution that protects them. Do they realize that there will be consequences?

[hopeisaplace]

8. So MSM is basically saying "let the death continue"? cause

in their opinion * appeared strong in news conference?

You know what, people are smarter than the press can ever figure out.
There is no way the majority will buy into, "* is strong therefore
keep on keepin' on". MSM will only make themselves look very
"questionable" <---(to average person) if they start on this rant.

I can just see people standing in front of a TV in the electronics department
hearing this: "* is strong, etc, wonderful now, etc from media pundits", scratching
their heads in a :wtf: manner. But hey, that's just me and my opinion on how
this could play out.

[LibDemAlways]

11. Last night I had to turn off

Anderson Cooper when he made some inane comment about reporting positive news to come out of Iraq. Seems that the Bush Crime Family is ordering its puppets in the press to make up good shit in order to sway public opinion back to the chimp.