Posted on 09/15/2006 4:36:50 PM PDT by lowbridge
Friday’s "Good Morning America" broadcast yet another bad-news-for-Republicans story concerning the party’s chances in the upcoming mid-term elections. In a report from Robin Roberts, three southern women, all either former Republicans or Republicans considering voting for Democratic candidates, were given air time to express their disenchantment with the GOP:
Robin Rasmussen: "I voted Republican in every election since I was 18."Robin Roberts: "But not this year. Robin Rasmussen is thinking of voting for a Democrat and she’s not alone."
Janna Herbison: "And I used to consider myself to be a Republican."
Tracy Quick Bradford: "...I think that the, the candidates that, that represent the Democratic party this year are most in line with my views."
Roberts told co-anchor Diane Roberts and new GMA newsreader Chris Cuomo (yes, son of the Democratic former governor of New York and brother of New York attorney general candidate, Andrew) that a "lively, lively" discussion took place among the women. Viewers of the segment saw none of that. In the portions of the discussion that did air, Roberts never asked the women why they felt Democrats might make better leaders. Instead, the piece highlighted each of the women expressing their dissatisfaction with the party, or rehashing Democratic talking points:
Roberts: "What are the issues, Tracy, that you’re most concerned about?"Bradford: "I think health care, education and the economy. And I think that the, the candidates that, that represent the Democratic party this year are most in line with my views."
Rasmussen: "If the Democrats are in power, they’re gonna--you know they’re going to do the best they--you hope that they’re going to do the best that they can."
Janna Herbison: "And I heard a comment, I think, from a congressman the other day that said if the Democrats don't agree with the war, they're more concerned with the terrorists safety than with Americans safety. And I couldn’t–that just, that blew my mind...Don’t say they’re aligning themselves with the terrorists because they disagree with you. That’s un-American."
Before concluding the segment, Sawyer served up some more "worrying" news for Republican incumbents:
Diane Sawyer: "But another worrying thing for the Republicans has to be how much they just seem to want change of some kind."
Chris Cuomo: "That’s right. I mean, you have to distinguish between not liking the Republicans and feeling that the Democrats are a better bet."
The full transcript follows below:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Great work!
I couldn't find a way to email this to Megan McCormack or Newsbusters, so I finally broke down and created an account there.
This is one Southern woman who has voted Republican since she was 21 and will continue to.....so there. I cancel out your vote!!
There are millions of us!
BUSTED!!!!
Wouldn't take my complaint first few times but finally got it through...thanks!
Just as I suspected! I was just going to say BS when I read your post! These liars are amazing, yet they call Bush the liar!
Oops...well that changes things a little. ;-)
Evidence to back up this claim? Even if true two obvious faux Republicans in a deliberately staged Democrat PR hit piece totally guts any Journalistic credibility of the report. Any serious information outlet would of not touched this with a ten foot poll.
"Sundquists" tie in just has not been uncovered yet. That there is no proof at this point that she is in fact a Democrat activists or paid Leftist lobbyist doest automatically make her a "Republican".
Right On!
Check this little Propaganda stunt out!
They still do NOT get it. They are not the gatekeepers any more! Got to love the New media!
Not Today Show, but this is too funny. Newsbusters?
He he! That was an excellent piece of research.
I haven't gone to DU much lately (waiting for the election results, then I'll go and gloat), but they used to have a lot of threads that read just like that GMA bit.
You know............."I just spoke to my neighbor who ran a campaign office for Bush in 2000. He is so pissed that Bush has betrayed our country, our soldiers, and or elderly that he has joined me in canvassing the neighborhood for new voters this fall. Needless to say we only register Democratic voters"
YOU HAVE GOT TO GET THIS INFO TO RUSH & HANNITY ASAP!!!! IT'S EXPLOSIVE!!
" The Dems must really be getting nervous about this election. They've got the MSM news doctoring machine out in heavy 'fake but accurate' mode.
On Sept 7, Freeper Recovering_Democrat
exposed another CBS fraud.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1697499/po
CBS News with Katie interviewed a former Republican, who was suddenly anti Bush and anti war.
I've turned him off," said retired Marine Col. Jim Van Riper. "I've tuned him out."
Only problem for CBS was that Van Riper has been outspokenly anti Bush , anti Rumsfeld and anti war since the beginning.
Don Sundquist was a very unpopular Republican Gov. of Tennessee, especially since he raised taxes and pushed some kind of Gov. healthcare program that cost a fortune. The info from that post said she was once his press secretary.
But the info ALSO said she was once press secretary for the Tennessee House Democratic Caucus.
Sheesh. She really gets around.
I bet they were all blondes too.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
Thank you for the correction. Well I am glad he is a "Was". HOW did he ever get elected in Tenessee of all places? This guy sounds like a Republican version of Hillary Cliton
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