http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/2004electionbias/ en-us Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:29:01 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228919/posts Think about it. Has there been a lousier 10 years in American history? OK, the Civil War, granted. And the Great Depression wasn't so hot, either, the pictures suggest. But this one has been close enough to an all-time bad to merit the kind of willful amnesia that I'm proposing. sajohnson@tribune.com Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228919/posts#comment Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:29:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005228/posts Friends at Black Rock say Looney Liberal Leslie Moonves may be on his way out the door at CBS. Moonves has overseen a number of CBS fiascos including The Demise Of The Dan (which Rather is about to play out again in a NY courtroom), the hiring of Ratings Remover Perkie Katie Couric as well as very bad ratings for the nightly entertainment (?) block. And of course, most important of all, stock prices are locked in deep declining do-do. Supposedly Moonves has lost the faith of Summer Redstone, and when you lose the faith of His Grace, The Chairman,... Friends and Fiends at CBS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005228/posts#comment Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:12:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977049/posts Dan Rather slammed CBS Tuesday for trying to keep his court fight with the network out of the public eye. The newsman - who has filed a $70 million lawsuit against the Tiffany network, where he anchored the "CBS Evening News" for 24 years - said "corporate overlords" are conspiring to withhold several key documents. The 76-year-old was back in Manhattan Supreme Court for a hearing on his suit, which accuses CBS of sidelining him to make nice with the White House following a September 2004 report that questioned President Bush's Vietnam-era military service. Rather left the anchor's chair in... New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977049/posts#comment Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:39:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927851/posts National Review's KerrySpot looks at a NPR feature that interviews swing voters, and one swing voter in particular: John Ridley, who is also an NPR contributor. First, isn't getting your "man on the street" from the payroll list a little on the lazy side? It's like Ted Baxter using Bernie as his "common man." And does NPR really think their staff represents a sample slice of America? Next thing you know they'll refer to Cokie Roberts as a "soccer mom" and Click and Clack as "NASCAR dads." Anyway, Ridley doesn't seem terribly unbiased. He thinks the Swift Boat Veterans for... Les Jones http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927851/posts#comment Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:13:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1445505/posts Ken Paulson took over as editor at USA Today in the wake of the Jack Kelley scandal. Kelley had embarrassed the paper by writing a series of stories filled with lies. Paulson said that would never happen again. Then, he presided over USA Today's own version of the CBS Memogate scandal. Like CBS, USA Today used those bogus documents to discredit President Bush's National Guard service. But Paulson managed to exercise a form of damage control because CBS used the documents first and put them on TV. Paulson acted as if the scandal was confined to CBS. Many in the... A.I.M.ORG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1445505/posts#comment Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:50:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1404847/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- During the 2004 presidential elections, the mainstream news media frequently engaged in bias -- especially on pro-life issues such as abortion and stem cell research. As with previous polls, a new survey confirms most members of the media voted for Democrat John Kerry over President George W. Bush. The University of Connecticut's Department of Public Policy found journalists picked Kerry over Bush by 68 percent to 25 percent. The college sampled 300 journalists, from both newspapers and TV. The poll also found that Democrats outnumber Republicans 3 to 1 and twice as many self-identified themselves as... LifeNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1404847/posts#comment Tue, 17 May 2005 15:01:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1317689/posts Report just issues, mapes finally fired cbs radio news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1317689/posts#comment Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:02:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1317710/posts REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW PANEL DICK THORNBURGH AND LOUIS D. BOCCARDI ON THE SEPTEMBER 8, 2004 60 MINUTES WEDNESDAY SEGMENT “FOR THE RECORD” CONCERNING PRESIDENT BUSH’S TEXAS AIR NATIONAL GUARD SERVICE JANUARY 5, 2005 KIRKPATRICK & LOCKHART NICHOLSON GRAHAM LLP Michael J. Missal, Esq. Lawrence Coe Lanpher, Esq. 1800 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 778-9000 Counsel to the Independent Review Panel i TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION..............................................................................................................1 II. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...............................................................................................4 A. 60 Minutes Wednesday Background..............................................................................6 B. The Pursuit of a Story on President Bush’s TexANG Service ......................................7 C. Obtaining Documents ....................................................................................................8 D. The Production of... CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1317710/posts#comment Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:32:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1305986/posts Tuesday night, I went down to the graduate student lounge in my college for an election night “party;” mostly just people camped out in front of the television with snacks and drinks. My idea for this column was to take along my laptop, which I did, and chronicle what an expat election party was like. Advertisement I figured my fellow Trinity Hall students were good for some amusing and interesting quotes, which they were, and that any British students in attendance might provide a different perspective, which they did, and that even if the night didn’t go my way I... The Raw Story http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1305986/posts#comment Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:47:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1305522/posts Courtesy of Newsweek, mainstream media’s pet blogger Wonkette takes a cute little slap at the bloggers who broke the Dan Rather fraud story: Fast Chat: The Wonkette. What did you think of the bloggers’ role in the Dan Rather affair?I think they did a disservice to the debate because they made the debate about the documents and not about the president of the United States. There was another half to that story that had to do with verifiable events of what Bush may have been up to. While blogs like LGF were doing a “disservice to the debate” by exposing... Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1305522/posts#comment Tue, 21 Dec 2004 03:01:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1304594/posts Former "This Week" host and National Public Radio veteran Cokie Roberts blamed conspiracy filmmaker Michael Moore on Sunday for causing Sen. John Kerry to lose the presidential election. "I think Michael Moore actually had a very major impact - a negative impact - on the Democratic Party," Roberts told NBC's "Chris Matthews Show." "I think he exemplified all of the things that people hate about Democrats. And the fact that he was - it was a hate-America-first campaign and that hurts the Democrats every time." Adding insult to injury, Roberts also contended that Moore's "physical appearance did not help." newsmax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1304594/posts#comment Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:47:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1300200/posts SEATTLE - Rod Watson had to cancel 1,000 flu-shot clinics in four states when the national vaccine shortage cut off his supply two months ago. Now Watson has flu shots aplenty - and he can't give them away. "My biggest fear is I'm gong to end up with a lot of serum, and there's a national shortage," said Watson, president of Prevention MD, a medical screening and immunization company. He offers $20 flu shots Monday through Friday at his Seattle-area office. Public health officials in California, Colorado and other states have voiced similar fears. Some are relaxing the rules to... Billings Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1300200/posts#comment Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:11:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1298365/posts I would like to make a point about the election that I think has been missed by all the pundits. Why was it as close as it was? The 9/11 attacks have been widely cited as helping Bush. They certainly did give him an opportunity to prove his leadership, but they also hurt him in another very important respect that nobody seems to realize. They sucker-punched the U.S. economy just as we were trying to come out of a recession. The economy is still a very important factor in Presidential elections whether we realize it or not. Had the 9/11... RussP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1298365/posts#comment Fri, 10 Dec 2004 06:14:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1298376/posts WITH the CBS News investigation of Memogate almost done, Mary Mapes, the producer who obtained the fake memos used in Dan Rather's George Bush-bashing report, is fighting to save her job and her reputation. The sleuths at ratherbiased.com report Mapes wrote up a 68-page statement in her own defense and has been lobbying to convince the CBS probers that Rather's exposé on Bush's National Guard service was accurate, even if the documents obtained from a crackpot Texas Democrat were bogus. Rather acted preemptively by quitting as the "Evening News" anchor. New York Post - Page Six http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1298376/posts#comment Fri, 10 Dec 2004 06:33:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1298367/posts When I was linking to CBS News for my Stupefy Me report earlier today (directly below), I came across this gem of a story (FR THREAD ON THE CBS ARTICLE: Blogs: New Medium, Old Politics NEW YORK, Dec. 8, 2004). It appears that CBS News not only is striking back at the blogs and bloggers that took out Dan Rather and embarrassed their entire organization, but they are also supporting censorship of us rascally citizens. Internet blogs are providing a new and unregulated medium for politically motivated attacks. With the same First Amendment protections as newspapers, blogs are increasingly gaining... Lone Star Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1298367/posts#comment Fri, 10 Dec 2004 06:18:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1297897/posts Rumor has it that the results of the investigation into CBS Memogate are going to be released tomorrow. And in a rather ... uh ... curious coincidence, Dr. David Hailey, the Utah State professor who is desperately, quixotically trying to prove the CBS memos are real, has released what he claims as the final version of his shoddy, laughable "analysis". And I'm sure you won't be shocked at all to discover that his conclusion is ... the documents were typed. On a magical typewriter that somehow produced an exact duplicate of a Microsoft Word document, down to the spacing, line... Little Green Footballs.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1297897/posts#comment Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:09:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1296314/posts Publishers Weekly Names 'America' (The Book) Jon Stewarts Riff on Politics, Book of the Year Jon Stewarts' 'America,' (The Book) the television commentators riff on politics and other matters of historical staire, has been named Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, the industry trade magazine.In announcing the award Monday, Pubishers Weekly called the book 'a serious critique of the two party system, the corporations that finance it, and the spinless cowards in the press who aggressively print allegiation and rumor independent of accuracy and fairness.'Stewart's book was released in September and immediately topped best seller lists even as Wal... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1296314/posts#comment Tue, 7 Dec 2004 18:58:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1295162/posts After the 2000 presidential campaign, strategists for President Bush came to a startling realization: Democrats watch more television than Republicans. So by buying millions of dollars' worth of television advertising time, Republicans were spending their money on audiences that tended to vote Democratic. What to do? With the luxury of four years until the next election, the Bush team examined voters' television-viewing habits and cross-referenced them with surveys of voters' political and lifestyle preferences. This led to an unusual step for a presidential campaign: it cut the proportion of money that it put into broadcast television and diverted more to... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1295162/posts#comment Mon, 6 Dec 2004 03:44:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1292753/posts NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Times Co. told investors Thursday that its fourth quarter and full-year earnings would come in below Wall Street estimates on weaker-than-expected advertising in the fourth quarter and higher costs for promotion, printing, distribution and newsprint. The company also said it would begin expensing the cost of stock options and its employee stock purchase plan. It also said that it would no longer provide estimates for full-year earnings, focusing instead on quarterly estimates, due to the greater uncertainty in the current environment for media companies. The company, which also publishes The Boston Globe and... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1292753/posts#comment Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:47:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1291314/posts George W. Bush ran the most negative presidential campaign in history, and the media never covered the story, an aide to Sen. John Kerry's campaign said last Monday at the journalism department. Marco Trbovich, a United Steelworkers of America employee who advised Kerry on labor policy, told the 20 students gathered at Carter Hall that about 80 percent of Bush's campaign money was spent on negative advertising. "If you can think of a few positive commercials that you saw, you saw all of them that were there," he said. Bush's campaign played upon fear, using patriotic and religious fervor to... NYU News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1291314/posts#comment Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:38:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1290906/posts IN A recent speech at Tufts University, Andy Rooney reflected on the election and said, according to The Tufts Daily, that Christian fundamentalism is a result of "a lack of education. They haven't been exposed to what the world has to offer." Those comments as well as the identification of the "bigoted Christian redneck" after Election Day in various editorials left me wondering: Where do these "liberal elites" get this fictional image of Christians? When did this distorted perspective begin in our cultural history? How can I work to bridge this gap? Rooney is reflective of the "liberal elite" in... Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1290906/posts#comment Tue, 30 Nov 2004 07:55:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1290613/posts NEW YORK Feeling a bit lost lately? You should, at least according to a compendium posted today at Jay Rosen’s popular PressThink Web log, because the biggest loser on Election Day was not John Kerry but the mainstream media. Daniel Henninger, writing in The Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal, put it this way: "It is often said that the only sure winner in American politics is the media. Amid GOP victory parties or the ruined dreams of the Kerry candidacy, the one constant is that the media marches on. Maybe not this time. Big Media lost big." "I was interested... Editor and Publisher http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1290613/posts#comment Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:29:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1290063/posts What the Republicans did, cleverly, was to establish effective "memes" in the minds of the public and the pundits... Bush became the "winner" of a dead heat, in the midst of an incomplete recount, when a premature victory was declared on her own unnecessary deadline by his Florida campaign co-chairwoman, who also held the crucial post of secretary of state... [I]t was clearly a shameless ploy to slam the door before the election escaped. A meme was born. The other effective GOP meme was the mantra, "we counted, and counted again, and then a third time." These words were chanted... Chicago Sun-Times Inc http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1290063/posts#comment Mon, 29 Nov 2004 03:03:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1288311/posts Hoo-boy. It's a hot time in the old blogtown. The pajamahadeen are firing their virtual bullets into the cyber-air in celebration of CBS anchor Dan Rather's announcement on Tuesday that he was retiring as the top talking face of the network after 24 years. "This has been a simply outstanding month," crowed a poster on http://www.freerepublic.com. "Bush won, Arafat died, we're kicking ass in Fallujah, and now this!" Typically, the above-quoted "Freeper" didn't get that Rather may be down, but he certainly isn't out. When he steps down as front man for The CBS Evening News on March 9, he... Toronto Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1288311/posts#comment Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:52:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1286145/posts THE last presidential election in the United States is as American as apple pie. Even till the last second before the event started, nobody in the US or elsewhere knew for sure whether George Bush would retain his job or whether he would be defeated by John Kerry. Characteristic of American presidential elections in recent history, the last one was tough, rough and sometimes acrimonious, although some degree of razzmatazz was also noticeable.Key issues in the run-up to the election were security, the war against terror, the American misadventure in Iraq and the worrisome state of US economy. Generally speaking,... The Vanguard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1286145/posts#comment Mon, 22 Nov 2004 21:08:08 GMT