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CBS dancing to Republican tune
Toronto Star ^
| Nov. 9, 2003
| ANTONIA ZERBISIAS
Posted on 11/10/2003 11:11:34 AM PST by holymoly
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To: Revolting cat!
He needs to have the photo retaken in his burqa.
To: weegee
He will always be just a peanut farmer to me.
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posted on
11/10/2003 12:52:41 PM PST
by
kylaka
To: kylaka
>The Reagans was never meant to be a news program. It was >designed as drama, and cheesy drama at that. But its >critics seem to be saying that most Americans can't >discern between TV fiction and news.
OOooohh I get it! The next time I want to slander someone and claim they made remarks they didn't actually make and that shows them in a negative light... I'll just say, "I'm not a NEWSSS PROGRAM!! Therefore I don't have to be accountable to anything!!" Thanks for the legal loophole Antonia!
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posted on
11/10/2003 12:59:55 PM PST
by
sunryse
To: All
44
posted on
11/10/2003 1:32:23 PM PST
by
BFM
To: holymoly
First, there was CBS's dumping of its sweeps period biopic The Reagans after a right wing-organized backlash, and then, at Thursday's Canadian Journalists For Free Expression awards dinner, I got into a surreal argument with a TV network foreign affairs producer who made the outrageous claim that the U.S. never lied about its motives for attacking Iraq.
The two events are related because it has been my experience in the past two years that, every time you raise an issue that makes those on the right uncomfortable, they change the subject and argue about something else.
I'm trying to figure out where in the article he shows that conservatives are changing the subject when he points out something about The Reagans. Or for that matter on Iraq. Or was that just some unrelated observation? This guy should cut down on the bong hits.
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posted on
11/10/2003 2:05:20 PM PST
by
lasereye
To: holymoly
The Toronto Star is arguably the most far-left major daily paper in the Northwestern Hemisphere. The bias isn't pink-it's deep scarlet red.
To: kylaka
He will always be just a peanut farmer to me.
What do you have against peanut farmers?
To: holymoly
It's a wonder I stopped bashing my head long enough to eke out this column. The rattling sound coming from inside the head sounded like a baby's rattle. A big, loud one full of marbles.
You should put some ice on that.
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posted on
11/10/2003 3:27:42 PM PST
by
Allegra
(CBS has canceled this tagline. It was "not due to controversy." Tom Daschle is disappointed.)
To: oh8eleven
I have nothing against peanut farmers. But I'll bet those peanuts were real impressed by his degree in Nuclear Physics.
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posted on
11/10/2003 4:19:19 PM PST
by
kylaka
To: holymoly
....the outrageous claim that the U.S. never lied about its motives for attacking Iraq. I've been hearing this accusation for months, but am still waiting to hear what exactly they lied about.
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posted on
11/10/2003 5:44:42 PM PST
by
Jorge
To: holymoly
I wouldn't mind a shot or two hitting him in the head with drywall.
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posted on
11/10/2003 5:54:36 PM PST
by
doug from upland
(Why aren't the Clintons living out their remaining years on Alcatraz?)
To: holymoly
"If that's not enough irony for you, consider this: President Ronald Reagan was the guy who, in 1987, vetoed legislation, passed by both the U.S. Congress and the Senate, that would have entrenched the "Fairness Doctrine.'' As a president who was big on keeping government out of the business of business, he did not see the value in a law that would have forced broadcasters to present balanced accounts of controversial issues."
Translation: The left is still pissed about losing control of radio and television 16 years later.
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posted on
11/10/2003 6:40:34 PM PST
by
Beck_isright
(Socialists are like cockroaches. No matter how many die, 300 more are born under every cowpile.)
To: BFM; dirtboy
And so, in making his case about how the Bushies made their case for killing thousands of people in Iraq, my TV foreign affairs colleague kept shifting the debate the way a desert wind shifts the sands. No, the White House never said the U.S. was in imminent danger of attack by nuke-yule-er weapons wielded by terrorists, he said. Subj: Imminence Front
Ms. Zerbisias seems to be Canada's answer to Molly Ivins. I've engaged her in an e-mail exchange over the above quote, pointing out that the TV producer was 100% correct.
She disagreed, contending she was, at that moment, watching a videotape of him saying just that. When I asked for the specific cite and context, she responded with:
A script for PBS Frontline
Upon reading the entire script (composed of sound bites) I noted out that, in no statement, had President Bush claimed Iraq constituted an "imminent threat" to America (though Bill Clinton certainly had, back in 1998-9). She then changed her point of reference to the following phrase:
Pres. GEORGE W. BUSH: The Iraqi regime could launch a biological or chemical attack in as little as 45 minutes.
Which, I reminded her, had originally been cited by Tony Blair, come from British intelligence sources -- and, in context, had referred only to Iraq's neighbors.
I eagerly await Ms. Zerbisias' next riposte.
She apparently hung an entire column on one willful mischaracterization. And, of course, she won't give it up -- just like dear Molly.
Makes one wonder, though, if the DNC's talking points memos have international distribution...
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posted on
11/10/2003 6:43:52 PM PST
by
okie01
(www.ArmorforCongress.com...because Congress isn't for the morally halt and the mentally lame.)
To: HarleyD
"...how the Bushies made their case for killing thousands of people in Iraq..."Well they've got a looong way to go before they catch up with Saddam.
To: RightWingAtheist
Can't measure up to the Mpls Star Tribune.
To: Eric in the Ozarks
TRUST me on this. I've been living in Minneapolis myself for the past three months (as a graduate student), and while the Red Star Tribune is obnoxiously liberal, it doesn't compare with the virulent and strident radicalism of the Toronto Star. The Mpls Star Tribune is basically the Detroit Free Press with a slightly higher level of writing (sixth-grade level, as opposed to the Dreep's-I refuse to call it the Freep- third-grade level).
To: holymoly
No matter. I can't decide who is uglier!
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posted on
11/10/2003 7:51:40 PM PST
by
manic4organic
(An organic conservative)
To: holymoly
I'm thinking of having the above photo retaken in order to show the drywall embedded in my forehead. It's a wonder I stopped bashing my head long enough to eke out this column.
He quit knocking his head before any sense got in. He needs to continue bashing his head for as long as it takes.
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posted on
11/10/2003 7:59:41 PM PST
by
Wolfhound777
(It's not our job to forgive them. Only God can do that. Our job is to arrange the meeting--N.S)
To: Timesink
bttt
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posted on
11/11/2003 1:10:40 AM PST
by
lainde
To: RightWingAtheist
We lived in the Twin Cities from 1986-2001. The Strib is beyond anything from other northern cities I visited.
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