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Senator Kerry, Media Darling
National Review Online ^ | 11/2/06 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 11/02/2006 9:26:48 AM PST by siddude

Candidates are not the only major factors in this year’s elections. The media have taken a big role — and a biased role. The latest in a long list of examples is the way they have immediately circled the wagons around John Kerry to protect him and the Democrats from the reaction to an ill-advised remark that the senator made at a college in California.

What was the remark? “You know, education, if you make the most of it, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

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1 posted on 11/02/2006 9:26:49 AM PST by siddude
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To: siddude

Fortunately, the MSM no longer rules the roost. The alternative media (such as here) and talk radio have gotten the word out.

This is why the Dems. are desperate for the so-called fairness doctrine -- to muzzle talk radio and to muzzle us.

Can you say "facism," boys and girls?


2 posted on 11/02/2006 9:29:44 AM PST by piytar
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To: siddude

Good points!


3 posted on 11/02/2006 9:29:47 AM PST by cvq3842
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To: siddude

WLS POLL

Were John Kerry’s recent remarks about the military disrespectful?

87% Yes. He loves to thumb his nose at our troops.

6% Don’t know. I don’t listen to anything he says!

5% Maybe he should have made his point more eloquently.

2% No. The truth is our people are “stuck in Iraq.”


5 posted on 11/02/2006 9:37:25 AM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: siddude
I'll repeat my comment from another thread here:

The big smiles on the troops' faces in the HALP US JON CARY photo says a lot - having great fun in their "smart bomb" response.

Re: pitifully biased media coverage -- see the amazing MSNBC report discussed over at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1730748/posts

6 posted on 11/02/2006 9:37:35 AM PST by Tirian
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To: siddude


Media powers-that-be have completed their mind reading:
"John Kerry was joking about the cost of education."


7 posted on 11/02/2006 9:44:04 AM PST by OESY
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To: siddude

Oh, to be quuoted.


8 posted on 11/02/2006 9:56:08 AM PST by Waco
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To: Baynative

"If you marry money and trash your country, you can do well." - John Cash&Kerry


9 posted on 11/02/2006 10:15:48 AM PST by talleyman (Kerry & the Surrender-Donkey Treasoncrats - trashing the troops for 40 years.)
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To: siddude

John Kerry: "If you can graduate with a 'Gentleman's C' average, marry a rich heiress and then a rich widow, and not say anything too revoltingly nasty about our dumbass troops, you can do well. Ooops, I've stepped in it again!"


10 posted on 11/02/2006 11:37:00 AM PST by Enchante (There are 3 kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Drive-By Media)
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