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Democrats Call on News Networks to Balance Stories
TVweek ^ | September 13, 2006 | Ira Teinowitz

Posted on 09/13/2006 1:36:55 PM PDT by 300magnum

Top Democratic congressional leaders are complaining to network and cable television news executives that the networks are giving the party short shrift in national security stories.

"Until now, there has been a complete absence of balance in the news coverage of national security issues," House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. and Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said in letters sent yesterday to top news executives at NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox News Channel and CNN.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chutzpah; democrats; dnc; liberals; msm; nancypelosi; pelosi
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1 posted on 09/13/2006 1:36:56 PM PDT by 300magnum
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To: 300magnum

OMG!! Are they %^&% serious?!!


2 posted on 09/13/2006 1:37:37 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: 300magnum

Waaaaaaa!!!!!!


3 posted on 09/13/2006 1:37:39 PM PDT by Eagle of Liberty (If you speak against your own, you have chosen the wrong side.)
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To: 300magnum

LMAO


4 posted on 09/13/2006 1:37:53 PM PDT by steveo (ADVERTISEMENT)
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To: 300magnum

Be careful what you wish for...


5 posted on 09/13/2006 1:38:09 PM PDT by linear (Taxonomy is a willing and pliant mistress but Reality waits at home, sharpening her knife.)
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To: 300magnum

"We do hold your licenses, if you know what I mean..."


6 posted on 09/13/2006 1:38:25 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: 300magnum

Funny, funny, funny.


7 posted on 09/13/2006 1:38:27 PM PDT by sandra_789 (.)
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To: mainepatsfan

I think they are series. This is hugh. :-)


8 posted on 09/13/2006 1:38:54 PM PDT by 300magnum (We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity, and returns to strike us)
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Were they stamping their feet and turning blue in the face when they issued their nonsence?


9 posted on 09/13/2006 1:39:23 PM PDT by Ilky Hucktar
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To: 300magnum

Pelosi and Reid have gone off the deep end.


10 posted on 09/13/2006 1:39:29 PM PDT by freeperfromnj
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BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

This is satire, right??


11 posted on 09/13/2006 1:39:59 PM PDT by kb2614 (Hell hath no fury than a bureaucrat scorned)
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To: 300magnum

They're probably hearing it from the moonbats who do believe the networks are part of the VRWC.


12 posted on 09/13/2006 1:40:14 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: 300magnum

For reals?


13 posted on 09/13/2006 1:40:42 PM PDT by sappy
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Definitely the very deep end. You'd think they know the Dems don't really have a position on national security.

And some thought Ronald Reagan slept through cabinet meetings. Bwaahahahahhahahahhhahaha

14 posted on 09/13/2006 1:41:11 PM PDT by muawiyah
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Top Democratic congressional leaders are complaining to network and cable television news executives that the networks are giving the party short shrift in national security stories.
Are you series? This is hugh.
15 posted on 09/13/2006 1:41:23 PM PDT by wjcsux (Proudly displaying my contempt for X 42.)
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Are they, in effect, demanding that the networks make stuff up?


16 posted on 09/13/2006 1:41:25 PM PDT by arthurus (Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE)
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That must have been a hilarious conference call: "I'm really, really, really sorry Nancy and Harry, you know we'll help you out, but ya gotta give us something to report besides Bush Lied. Turns out nobody believes that's a good national security policy."


17 posted on 09/13/2006 1:41:34 PM PDT by wvobiwan (BOYCOTT NYT, LAT, AP, Reuters, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, BBC, WaPo, Haaretz, and ALL leftist rags!!!)
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They've got a half-point. Republicans do get more airplay than Democrats. Which should surprise precisely no one, because Republicans control both houses of Congress and the White House. We're the ones actually doing stuff. So of course the stuff that we do is going to get covered. You can only cover Dems complaining for so long.
18 posted on 09/13/2006 1:41:34 PM PDT by Gordongekko909 (Mark 5:9)
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Ok, somebody's gotta say it...

HEY DEMS!!!

WHY DON'T YOU CALL FOR THE WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMBULANCE!!!

19 posted on 09/13/2006 1:41:40 PM PDT by The Blitherer (You were given the choice between war & dishonor. You chose dishonor & you will have war. -Churchill)
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This is just too much. I never thought I would see the day....WOW! I don't think the Democrats are nearly as confident as they want people to believe concerning the upcoming elections.

BTW...I guess they miss Keith Olberman's show along with Chris Matthews.

20 posted on 09/13/2006 1:42:11 PM PDT by yellowdoghunter (Vote out the RINO's. Volunteer to help get Conservatives elected!)
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