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Travis: "Thank God for talk radio and the internet. In another era, Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley wouldn't have even mentioned the beheading death of an American if it didn't suit their agenda, and we would have only heard vague rumors of the existence of a film."

Wardaddy: "I'm often flabbergasted at how ignorant my liberal neighbors are.

I wish they could just spend one rainy day with me gleaning what I do here and elsewhere on the net.

Folks who only watch the alphabets and read the NYT, USATODAY. or COMPOST don't have a chance not to be ignorant.

God forbid one tosses NPR in that mix."

So true, both of y'all. Even with the info available, they still try to suppress or spin it. Effective too, since 90% of people are too busy watching "married with children" to be bothered to do their own reading and decision-making.

I can't tell ya how many times I've watched a day of hearings on c-span only to hear CNN (or in the old days, CBS et al) report such a twisted version of events it was barely recognizable.

In fact, it is what turned me to politics and ultimately, conservatism. I came down with the flu during the Iran Contra hearings, and was able to watch them all day (then bought a vcr and taped them).
Then I'd watch the "news" at night.
Stunned.
I wrote my first (only, actually) letter to CBS complaining about the egregious spinning Dan Rather did in his nightly reports. I was still in school, idealistic and clueless... thought I was a democrat like my dad. lol

Yep, ABCNNBCBS consistantly "cherry pick" the odd out of context phrase which suits their agenda to run on the nightly news.

It's sickening to think of Americans who form their opinions based on what slanted news snippets they catch while clicking from MTV to Queer Eye to Friends.

Just look at how USA TODAY put both the beheading AND the prisoner crap side by side on the front page....they won't have anything derail something that can hurt W can they?

And last nite, CNN on the net had the beheading as a side bar meanwhile sticking with Tagabue as the lead.

And ABC called it a swift execution.....they obviously did not watch the video did they?

All the other lefty orgs are focsing either on how it's W's fault or the military's or how the family who are anti-W are responding or how this is the "first" payback for the "horrible" prisoner abuse.

We have a homefront war that may be our undoing worse than the ragterrs.