Posted on 06/26/2002 12:29:33 PM PDT by Peacerose
06/24/2002
This week ABC News President David Westin put an end to the worst kept secret in broadcast news and officially declared that George Stephanopoulos would take over as the host of ABC's This Week in September. Media bias activists don't buy the magical metamorphosis from Clinton's spin doctor to unbiased newsman, but most had been reading the smoke signals and were not at all surprised.
What was disturbing was some absurd commentary from people who ought to know better. Consider the comments of Eric Burns, host of Fox News Watch, who advises us to wait and see what kind of job Stephanopoulos does as anchor!
" By the time this column appears, some conservatives will be officially irate.
They believe that because Stephanopoulos was once Bill Clinton's right-hand man, which is to say a publicly declared Democrat, which is to say a card-carrying liberal, he is unqualified to hold a position as a network news anchor. They believe that ABC's naming him to such a position is an example of the network's bias.
What I believe is that conservatives who feel this way are demonstrating a bias, or at least closed-mindedness, of their own."
Mr. Burns should be advised that calling names would certainly get folks officially irate if they weren't before. But putting that aside, there are mountains of evidence suggesting that George Stephanopoulos will continue his liberal activism unabated as he has since leaving the employ of President Clinton. Let's look at a few recent examples:
Burns pleads: "Do they not realize that he is already so sensitive to charges of liberal bias, so aware that some on the right will take him to task for even so minor an offense as turning his head to the left to sneeze, that he is likely to work harder on his neutrality than virtually anyone else in a similar position?"
What kind of crazy talk is this? Based on his performance to date, why would we expect a sudden trend toward neutrality? In fact, it is not a stretch to say that expecting neutrality from George Stephanopoulos is like expecting Arafat to put a stop to terrorism against Israel: If it happens, it is only a cosmetic change and only for a too-brief period of time.
Please join me in urging Eric Burns to seek professional help for the delusions he is suffering. Below is the contact information.
Fox News Channel
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10036
Phone 212-301-3000
FAX 212-301-4229
Read more here:
Eric Burns: Watch First, Judge Later
MRC Spotlight: George Stephanopoulos
MRC CyberAlert, 06/19/2002: Stephanopoulos: Analytical, Not Ideological
Media Reality Check: Devoted to Bringing About Liberal Change
fairpress.org: Stephanopoulos and the Imaginary Lock-Box
fairpress.org: Clinton Shill Test Drives Morning Host Job
Thanks Peacerose for the bump and the article.
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No it is not a stretch. Before Stephanopoulos turns neutral, Arafat will convert to Judism, become a Rabbi and win Rabbi of the year award.
Why Clinton Slept. Tapes used to provide evidence against Islamic terrorist funding "charities" made in '93, Dick Morris:
"Liberals felt that the civil rights of suspected terrorists were more important than cutting off their funds. George Stephanopoulos, the ankle bracelet that kept Clinton on the liberal reservation, explains in his memoir "All Too Human" that he opposed the proposal to "publish the names of suspected terrorists in the newspapers" with a "civil liberties argument" and by pointing out that Attorney General Janet Reno would object."
Mr. Burns is wrong, and his mommy would probably get angry at us for suggesting this.
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Call it what you will Eric me boy, but if it walks like a duck! Eric burns seems to be a little shy on common sense.....the rarest commodity in the universe.
I gotta confess, I really didn't think abc would put the boy wonder in such a position. I should have know better.
FGS
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