ABC Frets Over Demise of 'Landmark' Immigration Deal; NBC Sees 'Extremes' at Fault

NewsBusters ^ | June 7, 2007 | Brent Baker

[CAWats]

Figures. Small men like tall women.

[Obie Wan]

Well mdittmar,we can smile and have a good laugh,and don’t get me wrong,I can have a hell of a good time as anybody else here,however we REALLY dodged a bullet for you,me and our kids and grandkids tonight.This McCain\Kennnedy Bill that our great leader Bush was dying to sign,would have put a dagger in the heart of our country and what it stands for.I so want to debate the people who think this man is a good leader because they’re thinking with their hearts not their intellects !!!

[BurbankKarl]

It is Free Republic’s fault. That ad was the tipping point.

[Altura Ct.]

Awww poor MSM. Are they fretting over losing their influence? (Thank God!) They are just pissed that they can’t manipulate us as easily as they used too. Time to lay off a few more reporters!

[mdittmar]

we can smile and have a good laugh

We did good today,we did it.

[Obie Wan]

You DON”T get it.The MSM can only go so far. The issue about illegal immigrants has been taken up by elected crack whores who intend to sell you and I out.They have names and personalities like Ted Kennedy,John McCain,Arlen Specter,Hillary Clinton and George Bush. These people would screw a snake if they could get it’s legs apart. They are decidedly Not your friends !!!

[berdie]

Being from Texas, I don’t think that President Bush’s opinions about immigration (illegal or otherwise) is any big surprise. Nor should it be to anyone who voted for him in either election if they studied his ideology. That it came to a “boiling point” is some what surprising. Given Reid’s statement that this is the President’s bill, not the Democrat’s..things that make ya go..hmmmm.

In answer to your question..Kerry or Gore? I would still vote for Bush. I am not in agreement with all he believes in..never was. But he is like most presidents..sometimes good..sometimes not so good. AND looking at the current slate of Democratic presidential candidates, if President Bush were in the race, I’d have to stick with him. What choice would we have? Unless a viable third party emerges (not likely}..none.

I hope our elected representatives listened to the feed back and kept unacceptable legislature out of our country. I am no Bush-Bot, but the present alternatives scare me.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

>>But, Charlie, just as we were going on the air, I got contacted by two Democratic sources who do say now they believe they're making tentative steps toward working out a deal to proceed tonight.<<

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[berdie]

DDDFD...do I need to stay up all night for this???

[Altura Ct.]

Don’t worry I know who the team players are( at least some of them)and certainly know that the “snake screwers” as you put it are not my friend and not on our side but the MSM is just as much a part of it. Without the internet, talk radio to an extent and certain conservative writers this bill would have passed with hardly a whimper. You’d of never read any dissenting opinions or very few on any of this from The Wash Post, The NY Times, The LA Times and the WSJ who have been pushing this crap for years. Not to mention most of the talking heads of ABC, CBS, NBC along with certain CNN and Fox “newscasters” and pundits. They underestimate and underestimated the power of the internet and in part talk radio. However don’t you underestimate their influence. They have had their way for decades if not hundreds of years when it comes to shaping “public opinion”. Of course they don’t do this for their own satisfaction but work hand in hand with the power brokers of DC. Many people only know what they see on TV or read in the paper. That’s how they vote and that is how they form many of their opinions. The internet has changed the containment of influence at least for the moment. The only question is what is DC going to try to do about it?

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

>>DDDFD...do I need to stay up all night for this???<<

LOL. You would have to stay up longer than one night to catch them sneaking the bill in again.....

[Cheapskate]

Rush was right! This is another version of the Conservative Crackdown.

the first one deep-sixed ms. Meyers.

[TADSLOS]

The bill is on it’s last legs and so are the dinosaur media. Wow, what a coincidence.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Basically it is the extremes who oppose this amnesty bill. The extremely wise,extremely well read, extremely rational, extremely aware that present emigration laws would work if they were enforced, extremely aware that a double fence across our southern border is essential to the salvation of the United States.

20 million illegal aliens not only can be rounded up and sent home, they MUST be rounded up and sent home. Anything less is amnesty and an invitation to the entire populace of the world,(especially Mexico) to invade the USA.

Just stop the sob stories and excuses and do it!

[N. Theknow]

Getting pretty tired of hearing the "path to citizenship" line of BS.

As I understand it.....

1. An illegal is here illegally.

2. This bill in the swoosh of a pen stroke makes him legal.

3. However, the new legal person must return to his native land, return to the US, pay $5,000 and go to the back of the of the line for becoming a citizen of the US so he can pay taxes, social security taxes and healthcare which he does none of now.

Someone please correct me if I am wrong.

[alrea]

And the part that PISSES me off the most is it’s being led by so called Republicans and conservatives. Bullshit,these people being led by the “compassionate” conservative

Compassion spelled "M-E-D-I-A"

[alrea]

Giving away someone else’s property for votes indeed takes many forms, but Bush is OK with it because some friends put pressure on him.

[Let's Roll]

Isn't it amazing how everybody else is an extremist?

[berdie]

You are so right!! It ain’t over yet!