No.
Just truthful for a change.
Says Alter:
” BUT IF THIS IS, as Drudge says, “the beginning of a second media century, much more of a people-driven media” we should look a little harder at what that might entail. More gutless TV executives? Programming that caters to loud political partisans? Fictionalized treatment of historical figures that cannot be critical?”
That such has been going on for years doesn’t bother Alter, apparently. Oh, wait; this time it’s the LEFTIST activism that gets thwarted.
And does alter know the difference between being critical and lying outright?
At least Alter has the minimal integrity required, though to state what I’ve been saying right along:
More important, it is not Censorship when people organize boycotts or public campaigns trying to keep something off the air. (Censorship, remember, is when the government controls what is published or broadcast). This was plain old free speech.
Says Alter:
“CBS whopper was exceeded only by Drudge, who told Joe Scarborough on MSNBC that if they went and did a Clinton story [that was critical] there would be just as much outrage.’ Yo, Matt. Spare us. If the Fox network wants to air a docudrama about how terrible Bill and Hillary were (and it’s only a matter of time), do you really think it would be pulled because of pressure from advertisers?”
Perhaps not, Jon. Then again, to show that, at least they’d not need to lie about it.
For all of Alter’s crying in his beer, the funniest part of the whole thing was comparing “The Reagans” to “The Missles of October”.. another CBS docudrama, which sought to fawn all over the Kennedys, and utterly ignored their mishandling of the affair, and of foreign policy which in the end, lead to that stand-off.
Alter’s bia s is so pervasive, he can’t even see it himself. Which, I suppose should shock nobody; He’s a liberal.
Alter has apparently missed the idea that Moonves, himself no conservative, said this project was totally biased and out of control. Perhaps that point doesn’t matter to the liberals, who are not used to having any serious challanges to their propaganda posed. The liberals ahve been given a wake-up call, rather like a rolled up newspaper on the nose of an out of control dog. And, like any whipped cur, these animals will need watching for a while. Because, mark this; they WILL try to strike back.
Given this miniseries was particualrly Michial Moore-esque, one wonders if the strike back won’t come form there.
Even more bad news for the Democrats.
Wherever the President held rallies for [Republican gubernatorial candidate Haley] Barbour and [Republican gubernatorial candidate Ernie] Fletcher, turnout increased well above average:
Kentucky
In Laurel County, turnout increased by 252% over 1999 turnout. This year, 12,721 individuals cast ballots for Governor (34.1%) compared to just 3,604 in 1999 (10.2%). Fletcher received 9,403 votes this year, 2.5 times more than the total number of votes cast 4 years ago.
In McCracken County, turnout increased by 161% over 1999 turnout. This year, 19,850 individuals cast ballots for Governor (44.7%) compared to 1999 where 7,619 individuals cast ballots (17.1%). In McCracken, Fletcher received 11,639 votes on Tuesday — 4,000 votes more than the total number cast 4 years ago.
Statewide, turnout increased almost 20 points from 532,242 (20.4%) in 1999 to 1,077,862 (39.8%) in 2003. An increase of over half a million votes.
Fletcher received 593,048 votes in 2003, more votes than were cast in the 1999 General Election.
Mississippi
In DeSoto County, there were 27,160 votes cast for Governor, an increase of 50% over 1999 turnout (18,710 votes). Haley received 18,177 votes on Tuesday, which is almost the same number as the total votes cast 4 years ago in the county.
In Harrison County, turnout increased by 21% over 1999 turnout (from 36,145 votes cast in 1999 to 43,625 cast in 2003).
I’d say the Democrats are going to be in a world of hurt for a long while to come.
nbc4.com – News 4 Your Health – Federal Judge Blocks New Abortion Bill
Odd placement; this isn’t a health issue.
ANdisn’t it interesting that the Democrats, whoa re against using the courts for advocacy, they say, when dealing with such as Justice Brown, can’t get to the courts fast enough, when they want to overturn the will of the people.
There is something seriously wrong with our system of justice when this can happen.
The 2004 election is less than a year away. Regardless of what the polls say, it will be a close, hard-fought election.
Democrats loathe President Bush. Their allies in the lying liberal media will do everything possible to defeat him (remember what the LA Times tried to do to Arnold.) Meanwhile, limousine liberals are banding together to raise as much as $300 million for an unprecedented drive to oust the president.
The choice is yours. One year from now you can wake up on November 4 and celebrate President Bush’s re-election. Or you can wake up to the news that we have a new president who will raise your taxes, appease terrorists, torment businesses and pack the courts with ultra-liberal extremists who will make the Ninth Circus look reasonable by comparison.
Today is Wictory Wednesday. Every Wednesday, I ask my readers to volunteer and/or donate to the Bush 2004 campaign. If you’ve already volunteered and donated, then get a friend to join you.
Newsday.com – Republicans Gain in Critical Swing States
WASHINGTON — Republicans have made significant gains in crucial swing states, in large part because of President Bush’s post-Sept. 11 stewardship, according to an extensive analysis of American voters.
Says it all, this does….
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) today released the following statement concerning a memo written by Democratic staff on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that suggests ways to politicize intelligence data:
“I have often said that the process in Washington is so politicized and polarized that it can’t even be put aside when we’re at war. Never has that been proved more true than the highly partisan and perhaps treasonous memo prepared for the Democrats on the Intelligence Committee.
“Of all the committees, this is the one single committee that should unquestionably be above partisan politics. The information it deals with should never, never be distorted, compromised or politicized in any shape, form or fashion. For it involves the lives of our soldiers and our citizens. Its actions should always be above reproach; its words never politicized.
“If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin. The ones responsible – be they staff or elected or both should be dealt with quickly and severely sending a lesson to all that this kind of action will not be tolerated, ignored or excused.
“Heads should roll!”
I’d heard about this post on the “Democratic underground” from several points.
Sullivan somehow managed to drag it up, however,a nd my hat’s off to him. My comments follow the quoted text..
I Hope the Bloodshed Continues in Iraq
Well, that should bring the bats out of the attic with fangs dripping. I won’t be hypocritcal. It is politically correct, particularly in any Dem discussion to hope and pray and feel for our troops and scream “bring them back now”. I’m fighting something bigger.
I’m a 58 year old broad and I can tell you that what is going on in our country isn’t the usual ebb and flow of politics where one party is in power and then another; where the economy goes through ups and downs…….yawn, yawn–just wait a bit and things will turn out peachy keen. That stupid la-la land is over.
I realize that not every GI Joe was 100peeercent behind Prseeedent Booosh going into this war; but I do know that that is what an overwhelming number of them and their famlies screamed in the face of protesters who were trying to protect these kids. Well, there is more than one way to be “dead” for your country. They are not only not accompishing squat in Iraq, they are doing crap nothing for the safety, defense of the US of A over there directly. But “indirectly” they are doing a lot.
The only way to get rid of this slime bag WASP-Mafia, oil barron ridden cartel of a government, this assault on Americans and anything one could laughingly call “a democracy”, relies heavily on what a shit hole Iraq turns into. They need to die so that we can be free. Soldiers usually did that directly–i.e., fight those invading and harming a country. This time they need to die in defense of a lie from a lying adminstration to show these ignorant, dumb Americans that Bush is incompetent. They need to die so that Americans get rid of this deadly scum. It is obscene, Barbie Bush, how other sons (of much nobler blood) have to die to save us from your Rosemary’s Baby spawn and his ungodly cohorts.
Sullivan adds:
I’m not saying this represents anything but a radical fringe. Implying that liberals or Democrats support his kind of poison is absurd.
With all respect, Andrew, it’s not absurd at all. Matter of fact, this kind of venom is exactly what today’s Democrats are about. This is just what they are, no more and no less. Consider the memo from Rockefeller as posted below. This kind of anti-American thinking is at the root of the Democrat party today, and for the last 40 years. Which is why they took it off the site; they don’t like the thoughts they carry around inside them exposed quite so well.
Think not? Look again at the Beligerant Bunny Blog where she shows pictures of that little love fest on the Mall in DC, where they were waving Iraqi flags, carrying signs openly supporting Saddam, and being not just anti-Bush but Anti-American.
And going forward, watch between now an the end of this election cycle.
I am deeply disappointed that CBS, the network that in 1964 gave me complete artistic control in creating television specials, now caved in to right wing Republican pressure to cancel the network broadcast of the movie The Reagans. (And I say MOVIE – because this is NOT a documentary – it’s a television drama.) The movie will now be aired on Showtime, where the difference in viewership is in the millions…..This is censorship, pure and simple.
That’s not censorship, Babs… that’s the viewers being heard. Your freedom of speech does not mandate that your nonsense will be ‘heard’, nor does it preclude anyone else responding to it, inclduing withlding their own funds from it.
And “just a movie”? Tell me, why not try doing a fantasy hit peice on Bill Clinton?
Remember the Dixie Chicks controversy? It wasn’t the larger general public that called in to radio stations and burned CDs, it was a small group of right wing activists.
No, Babs… that was a large segment of the listenership… inclduing Democrats, by the way… who were threatening to remove their support. And their ability to have their say over yours, just frosts your heart-shaped butt, doesn’t it?
And just in passing; I wonder what Liar Michial Moore is saying about all of this? After all, his movies are of a similar quality. Will any network show his films in future, given the similar nature to this anti-reagan screed Babs is crying over losing? One can hope this is a trend… because if so, his excretions will never see the public air again.
Kentucky, and Mississippi, this time. The margin of victory in both states was around 55/45. That makes five Democrats in all, that havebeen removed from office by the voters in one form or another, within the last year.
Of course the munchkins over on DU are ignoring this rejection, mostly…
“We have carefully reviewed our options under the rules and believe we have identified the best approach. Our plan is as follows:
“1) Pull the majority along as far as we can on issues that may lead to major new disclosures regarding improper or questionable conduct by administration officials. We are having some success in that regard.
“For example, in addition to the President’s State of the Union speech, the chairman [Sen. Pat Roberts] has agreed to look at the activities of the office of the Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, as well as Secretary Bolton’s office at the State Department.
“The fact that the chairman supports our investigations into these offices and cosigns our requests for information is helpful and potentially crucial. We don’t know what we will find but our prospects for getting the access we seek is far greater when we have the backing of the majority. [We can verbally mention some of the intriguing leads we are pursuing.]
“2) Assiduously prepare Democratic ‘additional views’ to attach to any interim or final reports the committee may release. Committee rules provide this opportunity and we intend to take full advantage of it.
“In that regard we may have already compiled all the public statements on Iraq made by senior administration officials. We will identify the most exaggerated claims. We will contrast them with the intelligence estimates that have since been declassified. Our additional views will also, among other things, castigate the majority for seeking to limit the scope of the inquiry.
“The Democrats will then be in a strong position to reopen the question of establishing an Independent Commission [i.e., the Corzine Amendment.]
“3) Prepare to launch an independent investigation when it becomes clear we have exhausted the opportunity to usefully collaborate with the majority. We can pull the trigger on an independent investigation of the administration’s use of intelligence at any time. But we can only do so once.
“The best time to do so will probably be next year, either:
“A) After we have already released our additional views on an interim report, thereby providing as many as three opportunities to make our case to the public. Additional views on the interim report (1). The announcement of our independent investigation (2). And (3) additional views on the final investigation. Or:
“B) Once we identify solid leads the majority does not want to pursue, we would attract more coverage and have greater credibility in that context than one in which we simply launch an independent investigation based on principled but vague notions regarding the use of intelligence.
“In the meantime, even without a specifically authorized independent investigation, we continue to act independently when we encounter footdragging on the part of the majority. For example, the FBI Niger investigation was done solely at the request of the vice chairman. We have independently submitted written requests to the DOD and we are preparing further independent requests for information.
“SUMMARY: Intelligence issues are clearly secondary to the public’s concern regarding the insurgency in Iraq. Yet we have an important role to play in revealing the misleading, if not flagrantly dishonest, methods and motives of senior administration officials who made the case for unilateral preemptive war.
“The approach outlined above seems to offer the best prospect for exposing the administration’s dubious motives.”
Is there anyone who doesn’t understand that the Democrats really planned to pull this stunt?
Is there anyone who does not understand that despite Rockefeller’s denials, that the contents of this memo had already been implimented?
The stunned silence from te Democrats on this is key; They clearly didn’t plan on their cat getting out of the bag quite so soon.
Roberts says memo undermines inquiry 11/05/03
The problem here is a clear one: The Democrats were about using the Senate Intel Committee as a campaign tool. NOW do you understand why I say there are no good Democrats? NOW do you understand why I openly question the patriotism of these people?
I was going to do my own write up, but Matt seems to have nailed it rather well.
