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SPOILED BRAT MEDIA
Townhall.com ^
| February 16, 2006
| Thomas Sowell
Posted on 02/18/2006 11:29:36 AM PST by Kimberly GG
Spoiled brat media Feb 16, 2006 by Thomas Sowell ( bio | archive | contact )
The first revolt of the American colonists against their British rulers was immortalized by Ralph Waldo Emerson as "the shot heard round the world." Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident has now become the shot heard round the Beltway.
The accidental shooting of Harry Whittington, while he was on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney, has nothing to do with government policy or the Vice President's official duties but the mainstream media have gone ballistic over it nevertheless.
They are also angry that the news was not given to them more quickly, which prevented it from becoming the feeding frenzy of the Sunday television talk shows. Whether this delay was deliberate or otherwise, it is being called a "cover-up" in the media, as if there were some crime to cover up.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cheney; harrywhittington; kerry; media; sowell
" The same journalists who used phony documents to attack President Bush's military service recognize no "right to know" why Senator John Kerry's honorable discharge is dated long after his service was over and during the Carter administration, when less than honorable discharges were allowed to be upgraded to honorable.
The "public's right to know" apparently extends only to such things as will not cause the public to reach conclusions different from those of the liberal media."
To: All
Forgive me if I've done this posting incorrectly, I rarely try. However, I was pleased to see the Kerry comment by Sowell
To: Kimberly GG
This story has lost it's legs. Now if we could just get the MSM to do the same.
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posted on
02/18/2006 11:33:01 AM PST
by
Just Lori
(Trying to reason with a liberal is like sucking spaghetti through a straw)
To: Kimberly GG
You did just fine. Thanks.
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posted on
02/18/2006 11:39:01 AM PST
by
Faith
To: Spanaway Lori
I thought I'd seen it all from the media. I go back to the Watergate days and even remember the Tet offensive being turned into a VC victory by Cronkite.
But in terms of showing the MSM for who they really are, this takes the cake. A bunch of spoiled, sniveling, Republican-hating brats.
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posted on
02/18/2006 11:42:08 AM PST
by
kjo
To: Kimberly GG
They are also angry that the news was not given to them more quickly
Maybe they should get back in the business of going out and looking for news. :)
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posted on
02/18/2006 11:53:54 AM PST
by
P-40
(http://www.590klbj.com/forum/index.php?referrerid=1854)
To: Kimberly GG
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posted on
02/18/2006 12:06:34 PM PST
by
Wings-n-Wind
(The answers are out there; Wisdom is gained by asking the right questions)
To: P-40
Maybe they should get back in the business of going out and looking for news. They don't report the news...they shape it.
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posted on
02/18/2006 12:11:07 PM PST
by
Starboard
(Liberal superiorists hate the system that allows average people to make more money than they do.)
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