Posted on 03/04/2006 4:09:17 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
March 4, 2006
And here we thought the MSM was biased against President Bush. Wrong! On this evening's Fox News Watch, reliable lefty Neal Gabler informed us that just the opposite is true. Turns out. . . the MSM has uncritically propagated an overly positive image of the president. Who knew?
Gabler's shocking revelation came in the course of a discussion of the recent Katrina revisionism. In particular, News Watch aired footage from an ABC interview from this past week in which the president made this frank acknowledgement:
"Here's the problem that happened in Katrina. There was no situational awareness, and that means that we weren't getting good, solid information from people who were on the ground, and we need to do a better job. One reason we weren't is because communications systems got wiped out, and in many cases we were relying upon the media, who happened to have better situational awareness than the government. And when you have the media [with] better situational awareness than the government, the American people are saying, 'Wait a minute. What is happening? How come the federal Government and state government and local governments couldn't do a better job of providing information necessarily so that people could react better?"
Conservative columnist Jim Pinkerton predicted the MSM would seize on this and other material that has recently emerged to Bash bush. Gabler agreed, in these terms:
"Reporters have been drinking Kool-Aid so long about this adminstration: strong man, man of his convictions, popular. Turns out he's weak, doesn't have many convictions, unpopular. When they have the opportunity to revise this presidency they lept on it. There is nothing new in this tape, this is the same old stuff. He screwed up! How many times can you say he screwed up?"
How about just, Babler, I mean Gabler just drinks too much.
Another lie right in front of our faces.
Fox News Watch/NewsBusters ping to Today show ping list.
Not to mention the fact that the AP has now issued a "correction" for its false report -- I didn't hear a mention of that on Fox News Watch tonight.
I posted on another thread that Gabler never ceases to amaze me how he can skew any story around to being President Bush's fault..
Notice in the last story about the UN Press Corp voting for a Citizen of the World award...there was NO Bush connection...
But, Gabler had to force one...and in essence chose Kofi Annen over President Bush and John Bolton.
Some one please tell me what a "media writer" is.
The man is delusional. Truly.
Not a week goes by that Gabler doesn't go off on a tangent. Erik Burns defends him and I can't understand why, Burns seems like a straight shooter.
It varies. For some, the medium is crayon.
Why is this little cipher on a show on Fox? Who is he and what has he ever done to warrant being taken seriously, or even given air time for that matter? Is he someone's son-in-law?
Can't be bothered to watch that drivel. They all just sit there and let Gabler babble on and on .. who needs it.
Gabler makes Newswatch unwatchable.
Gabler must have been out drinking with David Gregory just before they taped this.
And Neil Gabler sniffs glue.
Does anyone on either side if the aisle pay attention to what this ankle biter has to say?
I quit watching Fox News Watch a year or so back. Pinkerton and Thomas are really weak sisters when it comes to articulating the rights point of view, Hall is a moderate but rliable liberal and Gabler is on the lunatic left fringe and is allowed to spew his venom unabated. Burns lets it all go unchallenged. A great premise has turned into one of the sorriest shows on television.
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