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GMA Casts Dem Truther Bedell As Dem-Hating Right-Wing Extremist
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 03/06/2010 6:57:17 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

John Patrick Bedell was a registered Democrat who believed George W. Bush was behind 9-11. So how does Good Morning America portray him? As a right-wing extremist, part of a pattern of anti-government violence that flares during Dem presidential administrations . . . GMA had a two-part segment on Bedell this morning. First came a reasonable report by Martha Raddatz. At one point, as images of the WTC in flames appeared, she did state that "there had been internet postings, laced with conspiracy theories about 9-11, and government corruption." Raddatz stopped short of mentioning that Bedell explicitly accused the Bush admin of being behind 9-11, calling them a "murderous government" and "collection of gangsters" that sacrificed "thousands of its citizens" on September 11th.

But then came co-host Bill Weir, literally waving Janet Napolitano's report about "right-wing extremism" in the air, and wondering out loud to ABC consultant and former FBI agent Brad Garrett, who was willing to go along, about having seen this before "during past Democratic administrations."

View video here.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abcnews; bedell; billweir; deceit; gma; janetnapolitano; johnpatrickbedell; rightwing
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1 posted on 03/06/2010 6:57:17 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

O.K., if anything, all this does is reinforce our opinion of how bias the MSM is. We all know that is a lie. no matter how many time they say it, it’s still a lie.


2 posted on 03/06/2010 7:01:21 AM PST by marstegreg
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Didn't take long...


3 posted on 03/06/2010 7:01:36 AM PST by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Bill Mahr says the Pentagon shooter was anti Government, uses him to wish Gelnn Beck dead:

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/06/the-obligatory-maher-wishes-beck-dead-post/

4 posted on 03/06/2010 7:07:47 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM, where are you?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
John Patrick Bedell was a registered Democrat who believed George W. Bush was behind 9-11. Good Morning America [portrayed him as] a right-wing extremist....

Lying is what they do.

They do it poorly.

5 posted on 03/06/2010 7:17:55 AM PST by Lazamataz (Seriously. The only way Obama can possibly pull this out is to declare Martial Law before November.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I just wrote GMA a nice note about their hit piece.


6 posted on 03/06/2010 7:29:40 AM PST by Juan Medén
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To: Juan Medén

Thanks, JM: could you please let me know what kind of response you get?


7 posted on 03/06/2010 7:32:06 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Gladly, but I am not holding my breath and I would suggest that you not either . . . you know how it goes.


8 posted on 03/06/2010 7:33:58 AM PST by Juan Medén
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Never forget the immortal words of Osama bin Laden to Mullah Omar.

“The news is 90% of the preparation for the battle.”

These are the exact same orchestrated news stories the left came up with prior to the OKC bombing.

Back in around June or July, Howard Dean let the cat out of the bag that the dems were doing a repeat of their strategy from 94/95 of orchestrating news stories that the right wanted to assassinate the prez.

In 94/95 the dems came up with a plan to paint the right as wanting to assassinate Bill Clinton. The dems and their allies in the MSM began orchestrating news stories to that effect, and low and behold Kalid Shiek Mohammed came up with a plan for an attempted assassination of Bill Clinton in the Philippines.

Why the Philippines?

That's where Terry Nickles had been traveling.

The Southern Poverty Law Center had spies in all the “Right Wing Extremist” groups. They new exactly where Terry Nickles was going.

The planned attempted assassination of Bill Clinton in 95
was supposed to be part of the preparation, read news, for the OKC bombing.

9 posted on 03/06/2010 7:41:09 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: Juan Medén
God, Please help these foolish Democrats States and the pitiful News Media types. Lord they are always telling big lies! Please send them Right minded folks that love this country, its people and God.
10 posted on 03/06/2010 7:44:53 AM PST by man from mars
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"John Patrick Bedell was a registered Democrat who believed George W. Bush was behind 9-11.

So how does Good Morning America portray him? As a right-wing extremist, part of a pattern of anti-government violence that flares during Dem presidential administrations .
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This is sort of nonsense that leads most of us to really believe that liberalism is a mental disease; no one - other than a complete idiot - could come to that conclusion.

But, in the art of propaganda, it's the repeated telling of the lie that metamorphisizes it into weak, human brains...it doesn't have to be true at all.

I could see folks getting all wee wee'd up on TV back in the 50's...it was a brand new media; again when color TV came out in the late 60's/early 70's.

But we should have seen enough evidence of corruption from news folk and celebrities by now to be over the "It-was-on-tv-so-it-must-be-true" syndrome.

These folks are the very ones who don't hesitate one minute in accusing someone of "profiling" because some terrorist is muslim wearing underwear bombers, but they will use the antics of any criminal, or shooter, to try and make them into "right wing extremists".

In most every case, however, they are proven wrong. This is not to deny that there are extreme right wingers who would in engage in extreme actions, of course there are some. But to CNN and the rest of the lamestream media, they are instantly tagged as right wingers.

But, that's ok. Paranoia takes many forms, including trying to turn the public against your enemy. The only problem here is that the majority of Americans lean more to the right, than to the left.

The first thing they do is to see what party the perp is registered in (to the left, even murder is political); then when that doesn't work, they look for his likes and dislikes. In this case, he didn't like George Bush...well that only covers the entire left and progressives and barrack obama...they're the ones still railing about him.

But, some advice to any right-wingers that might want to go and shoot up an army base - say, Fort Hood - or take out some Pentagon officials; run down to your election headquarters and register as a democrat...that way, the press will blame it on George Bush and you'll get a heroes welcome by the dems.

I must be in an alternate universe...none of this current one makes any sense anymore.

11 posted on 03/06/2010 7:47:05 AM PST by FrankR (Those of us who love AMERICA far outnumber those who love obama - your choice.)
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ABC’s Bill Weir Frets Over 9/12 Rally Rage and ‘Anger;’ Worries About Lost ‘Civility’

By: Scott Whitlock
September 14, 2009 18:26 ET

Over the weekend, ABC provided hyperbolic, worried reporting on the 9/12 protest in Washington D.C. And while the other networks had mixed results, Good Morning America co-host Bill Weir opened the program on Saturday by fretting, “This morning, outrage. Protesters descend on Washington to rally against the President’s health care plan. As civility gives way to shouting, what’s fueling all this anger?”

On Sunday’s GMA, Weir spun that the protesters were “rail[ing]” against higher taxes, government run health care and spending. Reporter Yunji de Nies highlighted a marcher who labeled Barack Obama a “communist.” She then pounced, “Do you really believe the President is a communist?” Right after this exchange, de Nies told viewers that those rallying “insist they’re not extremists.”

http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:HvSwJbBRjMgJ:www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20090914063126.aspx+Bill+Weir&cd=43&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us


12 posted on 03/06/2010 7:55:03 AM PST by kcvl
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To: marstegreg
We all know that is a lie.

The problem is that those whose sole source of news is the MSM, never having heard the truth, will continue to believe it.

13 posted on 03/06/2010 8:04:22 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., hot enough down there today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed
The problem is that those whose sole source of news is the MSM, never having heard the truth, will continue to believe it.

Bingo. It's a strategy the Left has used -- very effectively! -- over and over. This is the Southern Poverty Law Center-originated attack on the Tea Party movement. It portrays anyone who opposes Obama's policies as crazed, extremist and potentially violent. That includes us, folks. That smarmy schmuck Potok has been all over the MSM lately preaching this message, to the delight of MSM talking heads.

14 posted on 03/06/2010 8:27:25 AM PST by Bernard Marx (I donÂ’t trust the reasoning of anyone who writes then when they mean than.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Who writes Bill Weir’s voicetrack. Obviously, the boy can’t think for himself so someone else has to put words in his mouth. Who is it?


15 posted on 03/06/2010 8:33:30 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If you liked 2009, you're going to LOVE 2010!!!!!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Robert Gibbs? Just guessing ;-)


16 posted on 03/06/2010 8:34:45 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Great catch! Everyone, send this on to your family and friends.


17 posted on 03/06/2010 9:57:39 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The Washington ComPost is pushing this as well today.

http://maroonedinmarin.blogspot.com/2010/03/washington-compost-others-paint-bush.html


18 posted on 03/06/2010 9:58:32 AM PST by stratman1969 (IMPEACH OBAMA for putting terrorist security ahead of American security)
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To: FrankR

>> liberalism is a mental disease; no one - other than a complete idiot - could come to that conclusion.

Liberalism is a class to gentle for these miscreants - they’re Leftists. They lie and deceive with malice and the intent to erode the Capitalistic underpinnings of our Country - they wish to restrict our Liberties - they wish to constrain us. Truth is their enemy.


19 posted on 03/06/2010 10:51:00 AM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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Liberalism is a class too gentle for these miscreants - they’re Leftists.


20 posted on 03/06/2010 10:51:43 AM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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