The Real Story is the Media

Boortz.com ^ | 17 Feb 2004 | Neil Boortz

[AfghanIraqVeteran]

Today marks the Wisconsin primary, the coronation of John Kerry as the Democratic presidential nominee, and the completion of the destruction of the dreams of America's Deanie Babies. As of tomorrow Howard Dean has

[AfghanIraqVeteran]

Today marks the Wisconsin primary, the coronation of John Kerry as the Democratic presidential nominee, and the completion of the destruction of the dreams of America's Deanie Babies. As of tomorrow Howard Dean has no campaign strategy, no campaign airplane, no campaign schedule and no campaign manager. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

Will today also mark the end of this absurd story about Bush's service in the National Guard? Hopefully ... but probably not.

Did you folks know that about one week ago U.S. intelligence operatives uncovered a memo from a leading terrorist bemoaning the level of American success in Iraq? The memo was from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, one of the world's most wanted Islamic terrorists today. Al-Zarqawi was exhorting Al Qaeda to promote a Sunni - Shiite civil war in Iraq, the only way he sees to turn around the American success in Iraq.

We're winning! That's news, isn't it? A leading Islamic terrorist says that the United States is "suffocating" the jihad in the Middle East! Isn't that just what we went over there to do? Don't you think that's news?

Apparently it's not.

Columnist Diana West searched the transcripts of the White House media briefings for last week and found that there was only one question about the memo. Only one. The enemy admits it's losing, and this gets only one question. But what about President Bush's service in the National Guard? Well, that issue brought over 100 questions. We're fighting a war on terror in the middle east. The enemy is bemoaning our successes, and questions about Vietnam rather than the war on terror overwhelm White House press briefings by a factor of over 100 to 1.

I think that former ABC news correspondent Peter Collins pretty well sums things up. He says that there is a working template that the mainstream Washington and DC press corps is using to formulate its coverage of both the war on terror and the presidential campaign. That template is summed up in four words: "Democrats good. Bush bad." If there is a news story out there that can make George Bush look bad, the media is going to pursue that story to the end. If there's a story that makes Democrats look good, the media will go for it.

The National Guard story had the potential (though unfulfilled) to make Bush look bad ... so the press rode it for all it was worth. The al-Zaqawi memo had the potential of making Bush look good. It was ignored.

Let's not leave this discussion without addressing John Kerry's little bimbo eruption last week. This is a story that was largely ignored by the mainstream political press. Let's turn the clock back to 1992. The Drudge Report contains this summary of media reaction to a rumor of an affair George H.W. Bush, who was running for reelection. A book hit the newsstands with a quote contained in a footnote. The quote was from a long-dead ambassador. The ambassador said that he had arranged a little afternoon delight for George Bush 41 back in 1984. The media jumped on this like a crow on a June Bug. A CNN reporter confronted Bush with the allegation as he was hosting the Israeli Prime Minister in his office.

[AfghanIraqVeteran]

...Drudge compiled this brilliant flashback into how the media grilled George H.W. Bush over claims of infidelity in 1992. Now, contrast that flashback from Drudge to this story in which a reporter from the Washington Post says they wouldn't run the story about a Kerry affair even if someone produced photographs. So, you have to ask yourself whether or not the media has a different standard for Republicans and Democrats. Duh! And here's a good wrap-up from World Net Daily...

You've gotta read the whole story at boortz.com. The duplicitous stance of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Media is unbelievable!

[FreedomPoster]

Boortz bump.

[King Black Robe]

Good post. He is exactly right.

[MEG33]

That's different.Bush was a Republican and Kerry is a Democrat.That is all the difference that is required.

[ken5050]

Have you read anythin about NBC's Bob Arnot quitting..saying the media is biased against good news from iraq?

[CedarDave]

It's an uphill battle when you have to fight both the media and the RATS. Look at this from ABC's The Note and quoted in numberous FR threads:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote_Feb1004.html

Regarding Kerry's bimbo eruption, I'm more concerned with the current Mrs. Heinz-Kerry. Click on the link to see links to the absolutely sick "cartoons" her money has funded (via a left-wing foundation) regarding our servicemen in Iraq. I won't attemp to characterize them -- you have to see them for yourself.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1078280/posts?page=32#32

[Izzy Dunne]

you have to fight both the media and the RATS

I'm sorry, I must have missed it - what exactly is the distinction?

[CedarDave]

"you have to fight both the media and the RATS"

I'm sorry, I must have missed it - what exactly is the distinction?

ZING! lol