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Are Media Wisely Running Away From Bogus Rush ‘Phony Soldiers’ Story?
News Busters ^ | October 2, 2007 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 10/03/2007 4:47:40 AM PDT by libstripper

On Monday, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) stepped onto the floor of the Senate and strongly denounced talk radio host Rush Limbaugh for what have proven to be out of context statements made by the conservative personality on his program last Wednesday.

Yet, with the exception of a CNN segment aired Monday, and articles by Fox News, USA Today's On Politics blog, The Hill, NewsMax, and the New York Post, virtually no major media outlets covered Reid's statements.

Not the New York Times. Not the Washington Post. Ditto all three broadcast network evening news programs Monday, and the Associated Press.

This raises an important question:

Have most major press outlets correctly concluded that the leftwing organization Media Matters did indeed cherry-pick and misrepresent Limbaugh's statements thereby making earlier reports on the subject erroneous?

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brock; mediamatters; reid; rush; rushlimbaugh
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Looks like the DBM are backing away from the Rush story.
1 posted on 10/03/2007 4:47:42 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: libstripper

What’s the latest on Britney?


2 posted on 10/03/2007 4:49:54 AM PDT by period end of story
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To: libstripper

Reid may be a fool,but he’s THEIR fool and they will shelter him from adverse publicity any way that they can.


3 posted on 10/03/2007 4:50:53 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: libstripper

NewsBusters is turning out to be one of the most important sites on the internet.


4 posted on 10/03/2007 4:51:03 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: libstripper

Limbaugh needs to spend three or four days on the air covering every detail of the Harry Reid real estate scandal. EVERY STINKING SHRED OF EVERY DETAIL.


5 posted on 10/03/2007 4:52:04 AM PDT by mrmargaritaville
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To: libstripper

This needs to be front and center.

The democrats are completely bought by the Soros organization Moveon and must do as they say. Sellouts all the way for politics and money.


6 posted on 10/03/2007 4:55:20 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: libstripper

Nice to hear Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist denounce this bogus attack on Rush, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe show. Maybe MSNBC suits decided one of their shows needed some light of truth on this despicable made up attack. Maybe MSNBC decided one Keith Olberman is more than enough as an outlet for Media Matters bile. Or maybe they decided Rush would win this and they wanted some cover.


7 posted on 10/03/2007 4:56:03 AM PDT by YaYa123
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To: libstripper

FNC is still screwing it up.

Watched FNC b/c they mentioned Rush and they had a useless republican who simple was a doormat for the Democrat who pushed all the DNC “blame bush for war” talking points.

With Republican Senators like these, we are fighting evil with rubber guns.


8 posted on 10/03/2007 5:00:49 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: libstripper

Get your “Tom Harkin Absolute Moral Authority Card” here:

http://hotair.com/archives/2007/10/02/the-tom-harkin-absolute-moral-authority-card/


9 posted on 10/03/2007 5:00:49 AM PDT by shove_it (nonillegitimous carborundum)
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To: Farmer Dean
"Reid may be a fool,but he’s THEIR fool and they will shelter him from adverse publicity any way that they can."

I had the same thought. They're trying to protect idiots like Reid from themselves.

10 posted on 10/03/2007 5:04:50 AM PDT by DJ Frisat (SPAM: best in the can and in sammiches -- not for use on computers.)
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This phony-balony outrage was not aimed at the general public or even at the Round-Heeled Media. It was aimed at the rank-and-file anti-War Left. Even they were offended by the General Betray-Us ad. This was an attempt to demostrate that those eeeeeeevil Republicans are just as bad, and to deflect their oturage away from MoveOn.org toward another target.

They are trying to trigger the "Everybody Does It" response, which causes any good Leftist to just throw up his hands and reset. Unlike a Somebody Elses Problem Field, which requires a 9-volt battery to generate a field large enough to hide the Empire State Building, and Everybody Does It Generator can run off the energy generated by a fly's beating wings.

11 posted on 10/03/2007 5:06:21 AM PDT by gridlock (C'mon people now / Smile on your Brother / Everybody get together / Try to love one anoth-kaBOOM!)
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To: Timesink; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; ...

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

The MSM covering up for the DNC Brownshirts?

Actions worse than McCarthyism are glossed over?

Does this mean that it won’t be etched into the pages of our childrens’ history books?


12 posted on 10/03/2007 5:12:44 AM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: libstripper

Probably waiting for another angle...maybe the vet ad.


13 posted on 10/03/2007 5:12:57 AM PDT by LucyJo
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Report on Fox & Friends...

This morning Fox & Friends had on Joe Sestak & Mike Pence to discuss this issue. Of course, Pence stated that this was all gearing up to the Fairness Doctrine...but the Dem just kept repeating the lies about what Rush said. I was SCREAMING—but the soldier WAS PHONY!!! Then Sestak concludes that we shouldn’t be wasting our time on a talk show host and Congress shouldn’t be policing the airwaves. Well, tell that to Queen Hillary who wants to shut up all enemies.

Next segment...now I am applauding Fox...the Friends are showing the quotes that Dingy, Lurch and other Dems have made against the troops and the war. Who said this? NOT Rush! with a pic of a smiling El Rushbo.
14 posted on 10/03/2007 5:14:47 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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Now Michael Reagan is on...saying this is going to get worse. He is doing a great job! Steve asks if this is a war from the Left? Yes, the fingerprints of Soros are all over this trying to silence us in an election year.


15 posted on 10/03/2007 5:18:35 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Miss Didi

Reminds me of the scene in Monty Pythin’s Holy Grail, “run away, run away”!!!


16 posted on 10/03/2007 5:20:03 AM PDT by teddyballgame (red man in a blue state)
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To: libstripper

Rush really needs to take out a full page ad in the NYT and stick it to the lefty elite on this issue.


17 posted on 10/03/2007 5:21:30 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: libstripper

No, the DBM is cynically keeping this below the radar, so as to placate the kooks while avoiding a public fight which Limbaugh would win.


18 posted on 10/03/2007 5:28:58 AM PDT by Cedric
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To: libstripper

They are covering for their morons.


19 posted on 10/03/2007 5:29:16 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW!)
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To: period end of story; libstripper

Did you hear about OJ’s watch?

( /sarc barely off)


20 posted on 10/03/2007 5:29:23 AM PDT by Old Sarge (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
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