"Credibility gap"? The Bush Administration and the "Media" [+ your press 'poll' here]

FoxNews - Media Watch - Feb. 8, 2003 | Feb. 9, 2003

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Last night during Media Watch on FoxNews, Neil Gabler, a roundtable member and 'media writer' said, "There's a credibility gap between this administration and the media."

The Big Liar's kneepad-wearing minions don't find the Bush administration credible.

We haven't seen a detailed poll re. the press since shortly after 9-11 (when they were at their most patriotic). The pen is mightier than the sword - and we have armies of armed and deluded journalists aiding our enemies daily. Scott Ritter or Colin Powell? Bill Clinton or President Bush? American journalists are having difficulty answering the most basic ethical questions: 1) France or US? 2) UN or US? 3) Saddam or US?

They need to hear from the regular people. We stopped buying mainstream papers and watching network news because of the daily leftist spin. The media now believes the leftist activist letter-writers (the borg) are the mainstream. The media are so ethically-challenged today that they chose to ignore the Nov. elections when the 'will of the people' and reality conflicted with their groupthink.

Let's extend a Freeper helping-hand to our talented and treasonously objective fellow Americans - the mainstream scribes. Let's not join their peer enablers, but offer an intervention, a reality check.

Insta-poll:
Remote control at the ready, choose: 1) any mainstream pundit, newscaster (or their experts), or, 2) a Bush, Cheney or Rumsfeld press conference?

"Credibility gap?" At the end of the day, the mainstream press has little gravitas, and no smoking gun to destroy the President.

The press has become the greatest power within the western countries, more powerful than the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary. One would then ask: By what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? -  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Remember when one atheist teamed up with the California courts to overturn history and the 'will of the people' by removing "Under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance? Regular Americans flooded the phone lines, the media scowled, the ACLU paused, and the Senate stood on the steps of the Capitol singing "God Bless America."

We the people hold them accountable.

[arasina]

AMEN!

[pgkdan]

Last night during Media Watch on FoxNews, Neil Gabler, a roundtable member and 'media writer' said, "There's a credibility gap between this administration and the media."

Amen sister! I heard that panty waisted little twerp last night and just about threw a brick through my TV! He said that evidence of an Al-Queda-Iraq link is very very tenuous. The CIA, Mossad, British Intelligence, SoS Colin Powell, Sec Def Rumsfeld, VP Cheney and President Bush ALL assert that there is a linkage, but some light in the loafers 2 bit media critic thinks he knows better! Criminy, the gall of these people amazes me!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

They need our help - letters to the editor and phone calls - often.

[potlatch]

We the people hold them accountable.

That's why Fox News goes up and the others are going down. Did anyone ever hear anything about the luncheon Bush had with media 'bigwigs' on the day of the State of the Union speech?

[2rightsleftcoast]

No, we never heard anything about that. What a bunch of freeloaders. They haven't spoken of the lunch as far as I know. However, we are of course rerunning Clinton on Larry King right now.

[potlatch]

They haven't spoken of the lunch as far as I know.

Thanks, I thought I'd missed it! Wonder if what the President had to say to them has had any influence on their newscasts since then? Since we can't watch them ALL, it would be hard to tell!?

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

There was something about Dan Rather not being invited. (^;

A member of GHW Bush's administration wrote a book about the out of control press - arrogant journalists telling the (fictional) President that they will not support him. End of story. Forget "will of the people", "every vote counts", the Constitution, or 230 years of American history. Without the press, the President cannot reach the people.

That's where FoxNews, Rush, FR and the American people come in. Florida's press was horribly biased against Jeb Bush in 2002. We were able to get around them by mass e-mailing campaigns to our fellow Floridians, letters to the editor and plenty of taking the press to task for their lies. It worked.

info@ap.org

newsonline@bbc.co.uk

inquiries@un.org

helent@hearstdc.com

esw@rollcall.com

editor@reuters.com

 

Good Mass Media E-Mail Links:

http://globalfreepress.com/email_the_media.shtml

http://www.pregnantpause.org/people/media-em.htm#News

 

[potlatch]

Thanks fot the links, I'll check them out. I'm a Texas gal, where most 'cowgirls' hang out!! LOL

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Love that cartoon!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Cartoonists are inspired these days. I stole this from Meekie, I think: (^:

[lorrainer]

What a loser. Neal Gabler's "experience" comes from introducing old movies on the American Movie Channel.

[Republican Red]

An article was posted last week about the seating arrangements for the luncheon. The link at the bottom of the article will take you to the actual seating chart

ABC, Rather Snubbed at Luncheon

During most important meetings, the seating arrangements often say more about what the hosts think of you than anything than anything else. This was particularly true at a recent White House luncheon for the bigwigs of television news where, it seems, the Bush Administration made its views known about whom it likes.

In a little-noticed article in the Style section of last week's Washington Post, society columnist Lloyd Grove gave the low-down on who sat where at the preview session before the president's State of the Union Address.

Grove's take:

"We wondered why Tom Brokaw and Jim Lehrer could literally rub elbows with the Big Guy, while Peter Jennings had to crane his neck. And did Dan Rather mind being all the way at the end, where it was hard to see what Ari Fleischer was doing?"

Our take:

According to the seating chart, of the eleven journalists in the room, the three who got the worst treatment were Peter Jennings, George Stephanopoulos--both of ABC News--and Dan Rather. Not only were they seated away from the president, located in the middle, they also had an even harder time taking part in the discussion with press secretary Ari Fleischer, who was at the head of the table and directed the informal meeting.

From the looks of it, it seems as though the White House was trying to express its displeasure with ABC News for making a prominent Clinton strategist the host of its Sunday show and the most visible political correspondent on ABC. Conservatives have also been complaining about Jennings's coverage of the Bush Administration's Iraq policies. With both of its representatives on the outs with the White House, ABC was the only network that saw both of its reporters seated poorly.

It's also no secret that the second Bush admin isn't particularly friendly with Rather. That probably comes as no surprise since Rather has expressed skepticism about Bush from the beginning--from doubting his competence with allusions to an "Uncle Cheney, who runs an awful lot of things" to remarks about Bush being "elected or selected, whichever word you prefer." Rather's voluntary speech at a Democratic fundraiser in April of 2001 likely didn't help things, either, especially after Ari Fleischer said of his appearance, "That's an issue that the media needs to grapple with."

We're not sure if ABC and Rather received less chicken, too.


Link to the actual seating plan:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/838127/posts

[MeekOneGOP]

Excellent. I love it.

Not from me, though. That looks like it has TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!'s fingerprints on it...

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thank you, Red. Rather was invited. These guys undermine the President for two years and then expect flowers and candy?

That's rather nuts!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I found a media poll, courtesy of the courageous www.mediaresearch.org:

Viewer Poll

After months of stressing opponents to Bush's Iraq policies, when will Peter Jennings focus on those who support America's strong stance?
See Story

	1)Any day now
	2)When fighting starts
	3)When France freezes over

view results

Any day now	0%
When fighting starts	1%
When France freezes over	99%