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		<title>By: firebird</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2004/10/29/distortions/comment-page-1/#comment-10610</link>
		<dc:creator>firebird</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2004 15:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Excuse me but isnt forgery a federal crime? and this has to do with the president should,nt dan rather be charged with forging a signature? and none other then the president of the U.S. should,nt rather be tried for forgery? Well and i do say there will indeed be a few more media constoversies before the year is out and with the ingoreration next year there will be the usial amount of jerks holding the stupid protests they should all go and soak their heads</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excuse me but isnt forgery a federal crime? and this has to do with the president should,nt dan rather be charged with forging a signature? and none other then the president of the U.S. should,nt rather be tried for forgery? Well and i do say there will indeed be a few more media constoversies before the year is out and with the ingoreration next year there will be the usial amount of jerks holding the stupid protests they should all go and soak their heads</p>
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		<title>By: vanyogan</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2004/10/29/distortions/comment-page-1/#comment-9306</link>
		<dc:creator>vanyogan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 16:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry La Shawn, I got error messages that I guess weren&#039;t errors.

Please delet the duplicates in you have a chance.

vann</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry La Shawn, I got error messages that I guess weren&#8217;t errors.</p>
<p>Please delet the duplicates in you have a chance.</p>
<p>vann</p>
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		<title>By: vanyogan</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2004/10/29/distortions/comment-page-1/#comment-9302</link>
		<dc:creator>vanyogan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 16:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ooops, my apologies to our valiant, fierce and compassionate fighting WOMEN! My bad...

This woman sticks in my mind as the biggest stud of the Iraq war. If you have not read this story... ENJOY!

http://www.talkingproud.us/EditorChoice041103.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ooops, my apologies to our valiant, fierce and compassionate fighting WOMEN! My bad&#8230;</p>
<p>This woman sticks in my mind as the biggest stud of the Iraq war. If you have not read this story&#8230; ENJOY!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.talkingproud.us/EditorChoice041103.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.talkingproud.us/EditorChoice041103.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: vanyogan</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2004/10/29/distortions/comment-page-1/#comment-9301</link>
		<dc:creator>vanyogan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 16:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have to give the media credit for running a sophisticated propaganda campaign against the president.

The above stories are important but moot if the media does there job which is to force Kerry to answer questions.

Expose his record or lack there of. The Media hasn&#039;t hyped Kerry&#039;s record for a very simple reason, there is no there there.

Finally the relentless barage of negative news coupled with shameless omissions like Kerry insulting our coalition allies including the prime minister of Irraq.

No politician should be allowed to shamelessly demoralise our troops the way kerry has on the explosives and Tora Bora attacks.

The most agregious media bias is as follows:

Our soldiers have thousands of great stories to tell from Afghanistan and Iraq, the media has been shamelessly disrespectfull to our volunteer fighting men. Our young soldiers and veteran commanders are the most valiant, fierce, and compassionate in the history of warfare. Bar none! They have given arms, legs, and lives for the media to practice their...whatever.

This goes on and on and on.  The media is about to get the most relentless backlash in the history of our republic after this election, regardless of who wins. Probably more so if Kerry wins.

Pick your poison media elite, but it&#039;s coming.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have to give the media credit for running a sophisticated propaganda campaign against the president.</p>
<p>The above stories are important but moot if the media does there job which is to force Kerry to answer questions.</p>
<p>Expose his record or lack there of. The Media hasn&#8217;t hyped Kerry&#8217;s record for a very simple reason, there is no there there.</p>
<p>Finally the relentless barage of negative news coupled with shameless omissions like Kerry insulting our coalition allies including the prime minister of Irraq.</p>
<p>No politician should be allowed to shamelessly demoralise our troops the way kerry has on the explosives and Tora Bora attacks.</p>
<p>The most agregious media bias is as follows:</p>
<p>Our soldiers have thousands of great stories to tell from Afghanistan and Iraq, the media has been shamelessly disrespectfull to our volunteer fighting men. Our young soldiers and veteran commanders are the most valiant, fierce, and compassionate in the history of warfare. Bar none! They have given arms, legs, and lives for the media to practice their&#8230;whatever.</p>
<p>This goes on and on and on.  The media is about to get the most relentless backlash in the history of our republic after this election, regardless of who wins. Probably more so if Kerry wins.</p>
<p>Pick your poison media elite, but it&#8217;s coming.</p>
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		<title>By: SCSIwuzzy</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2004/10/29/distortions/comment-page-1/#comment-9299</link>
		<dc:creator>SCSIwuzzy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 16:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, and... &lt;strong&gt; Fly, Eagles fly &lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, and&#8230; <strong> Fly, Eagles fly </strong></p>
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		<title>By: SCSIwuzzy</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2004/10/29/distortions/comment-page-1/#comment-9298</link>
		<dc:creator>SCSIwuzzy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 16:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>JcJ3,
There have been polls and studies that show (don&#039;t have time to find and link right now) that more and more people don&#039;t trust (or take at their word) the established media outlets.  This number goes up each year, and is largely tied to the percieved bias and well known incidents of bad reporting/research (exlpoding Fords, forged memos, etc).
But I think that many of the news moguls and figureheads live in an echo chamber... they are liberal, work with fellow liberals, live in liberal neighborhoods, attend leiberal parties etc.  So they hear their own worldview 90+% of the day, so it is no shock that they don&#039;t see the bias, or see that they are falling out of step from mainstream America.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>JcJ3,<br />
There have been polls and studies that show (don&#8217;t have time to find and link right now) that more and more people don&#8217;t trust (or take at their word) the established media outlets.  This number goes up each year, and is largely tied to the percieved bias and well known incidents of bad reporting/research (exlpoding Fords, forged memos, etc).<br />
But I think that many of the news moguls and figureheads live in an echo chamber&#8230; they are liberal, work with fellow liberals, live in liberal neighborhoods, attend leiberal parties etc.  So they hear their own worldview 90+% of the day, so it is no shock that they don&#8217;t see the bias, or see that they are falling out of step from mainstream America.</p>
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		<title>By: John C James III</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2004/10/29/distortions/comment-page-1/#comment-9293</link>
		<dc:creator>John C James III</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 14:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;The funny thing is that they have to know by now that most Americans recognize them for what they are, yet they keep right on plugging away, and still present themselves as a news outlet, rather than what they really are: a Democrat propaganda machine.&lt;/em&gt;

Montie,  do MOST Americans see this?  I&#039;m really beginning to believe that they don&#039;t!  In the last few months I&#039;ve heard more people sounding like parrots for the major media.  It&#039;s sickening.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>The funny thing is that they have to know by now that most Americans recognize them for what they are, yet they keep right on plugging away, and still present themselves as a news outlet, rather than what they really are: a Democrat propaganda machine.</em></p>
<p>Montie,  do MOST Americans see this?  I&#8217;m really beginning to believe that they don&#8217;t!  In the last few months I&#8217;ve heard more people sounding like parrots for the major media.  It&#8217;s sickening.</p>
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		<title>By: Montie</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2004/10/29/distortions/comment-page-1/#comment-9286</link>
		<dc:creator>Montie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 13:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ElMariachi,

In fact, FOX makes an effort to appear fair and balanced, often presenting both sides of an issue and giving equal due to both of those sides. CBS, on the other hand, has now taken to calling themselves &quot;fair and balanced&quot; but do not give equal billing to both sides of an issue that they have a partisan interest in. This can be proven by simply watching the campaign coverage of both networks. FOX will show footage of both candidates on stump speeches with neutral commentary and equal camera time. CBS will often accompany footage of Bush with negative commentary, and show much shorter clips, compared with Kerry, whose footage is accompanied by neutral or even positive commentary.

Now, many liberals decry FOX for being biased to the right, but the problem is a matter of perception. When you have CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, et al. with a marked bias to the left, FOX standing alone without the left-leaning presentation of the news only APPEARS more blatant, but in fact is far less so. Maybe they are biased to the right, but one major TV news outlet vs. all those others hardly brings things into balance.

Incidentally, you mentioned that FOX is far more &quot;influential&quot; than CBS. This has occurred because CBS has squandered the level of trust and influence they used to have with the American public, with blatant and obvious partisan hackery like the forged documents incident. It has also occurred because much of the public, weary of the obvious liberal bias in all the major news outlets has found FOX a &quot;breath of fresh air&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ElMariachi,</p>
<p>In fact, FOX makes an effort to appear fair and balanced, often presenting both sides of an issue and giving equal due to both of those sides. CBS, on the other hand, has now taken to calling themselves &#8220;fair and balanced&#8221; but do not give equal billing to both sides of an issue that they have a partisan interest in. This can be proven by simply watching the campaign coverage of both networks. FOX will show footage of both candidates on stump speeches with neutral commentary and equal camera time. CBS will often accompany footage of Bush with negative commentary, and show much shorter clips, compared with Kerry, whose footage is accompanied by neutral or even positive commentary.</p>
<p>Now, many liberals decry FOX for being biased to the right, but the problem is a matter of perception. When you have CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, et al. with a marked bias to the left, FOX standing alone without the left-leaning presentation of the news only APPEARS more blatant, but in fact is far less so. Maybe they are biased to the right, but one major TV news outlet vs. all those others hardly brings things into balance.</p>
<p>Incidentally, you mentioned that FOX is far more &#8220;influential&#8221; than CBS. This has occurred because CBS has squandered the level of trust and influence they used to have with the American public, with blatant and obvious partisan hackery like the forged documents incident. It has also occurred because much of the public, weary of the obvious liberal bias in all the major news outlets has found FOX a &#8220;breath of fresh air&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: jaymen</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2004/10/29/distortions/comment-page-1/#comment-9269</link>
		<dc:creator>jaymen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 02:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I would add to your list the virtual free pass granted to Kerry for the controversy surrounding his military records, especially when compared to the media attention given to Bush’s military records.  What little “Kerry coverage” made airtime/print were mostly asides to articles castigating the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.  When one considers the specific charges levied against each candidate with respect to their military records, the glaring disparity in coverage becomes that much more acute.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would add to your list the virtual free pass granted to Kerry for the controversy surrounding his military records, especially when compared to the media attention given to Bush’s military records.  What little “Kerry coverage” made airtime/print were mostly asides to articles castigating the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.  When one considers the specific charges levied against each candidate with respect to their military records, the glaring disparity in coverage becomes that much more acute.</p>
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		<title>By: La Shawn</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2004/10/29/distortions/comment-page-1/#comment-9240</link>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Montie - I think Rather is rather surprised that he and others are being called on their blatant partisanship. The forged memo scandal is a PERFECT example of what happens when you let partisanship run amok and allow it to influence your professional judgment. We reap what we sow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Montie &#8211; I think Rather is rather surprised that he and others are being called on their blatant partisanship. The forged memo scandal is a PERFECT example of what happens when you let partisanship run amok and allow it to influence your professional judgment. We reap what we sow.</p>
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		<title>By: ElMariachi</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2004/10/29/distortions/comment-page-1/#comment-9233</link>
		<dc:creator>ElMariachi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Democrats have CBS, the Republicans have Fox. The only difference is, Fox is substantially more influential and blatant in its support.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Democrats have CBS, the Republicans have Fox. The only difference is, Fox is substantially more influential and blatant in its support.</p>
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		<title>By: Andy</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2004/10/29/distortions/comment-page-1/#comment-9231</link>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Montie, sad but true</description>
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		<title>By: Montie</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2004/10/29/distortions/comment-page-1/#comment-9229</link>
		<dc:creator>Montie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>La Shawn,

I was reading a post over at Dean&#039;s World referencing a post on Joe Gandalman&#039;s site about the latest bin Laden tape. Upon linking to Gandalman&#039;s site I was astounded to see that Walter Cronkite, former longtime CBS News anchor and mentor to Dan Rather, intimated in an interview with Larry King, that he thought that the latest bin Laden tape was somehow engineered by Karl Rove!

Now Walter IS vey old, and maybe he&#039;s getting senile. Then again, maybe he&#039;s still sharp as a tack, and this is the way he really thinks. If so, is it any wonder that his direct progeny at CBS, Dan Rather, is the leftist hack that he has been revealed to be during this election cycle?

With people like Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather exerting influence at CBS, it is no wonder that they have such an obvious left-leaning bias to the way they report the news. This has been going on for years, I&#039;m sure, but we have just now begun to really recognize it thanks to FOX News and bloggers like you.

I have been carefully watching CBS news, which stories they choose to run, and how those stories are presented, since the whole Rathergate thing. It is truly amazing to see. Even compared the bias of the other major news outlets, CBS comes across as the MOST biased of the whole bunch.

John Kerry could not have bought a better media outlet with all his wife&#039;s money! The funny thing is that they have to know by now that most Americans recognize them for what they are, yet they keep right on plugging away, and still present themselves as a news outlet, rather than what they really are: a Democrat propaganda machine.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>La Shawn,</p>
<p>I was reading a post over at Dean&#8217;s World referencing a post on Joe Gandalman&#8217;s site about the latest bin Laden tape. Upon linking to Gandalman&#8217;s site I was astounded to see that Walter Cronkite, former longtime CBS News anchor and mentor to Dan Rather, intimated in an interview with Larry King, that he thought that the latest bin Laden tape was somehow engineered by Karl Rove!</p>
<p>Now Walter IS vey old, and maybe he&#8217;s getting senile. Then again, maybe he&#8217;s still sharp as a tack, and this is the way he really thinks. If so, is it any wonder that his direct progeny at CBS, Dan Rather, is the leftist hack that he has been revealed to be during this election cycle?</p>
<p>With people like Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather exerting influence at CBS, it is no wonder that they have such an obvious left-leaning bias to the way they report the news. This has been going on for years, I&#8217;m sure, but we have just now begun to really recognize it thanks to FOX News and bloggers like you.</p>
<p>I have been carefully watching CBS news, which stories they choose to run, and how those stories are presented, since the whole Rathergate thing. It is truly amazing to see. Even compared the bias of the other major news outlets, CBS comes across as the MOST biased of the whole bunch.</p>
<p>John Kerry could not have bought a better media outlet with all his wife&#8217;s money! The funny thing is that they have to know by now that most Americans recognize them for what they are, yet they keep right on plugging away, and still present themselves as a news outlet, rather than what they really are: a Democrat propaganda machine.</p>
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		<title>By: Random Observations</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2004/10/29/distortions/comment-page-1/#comment-9142</link>
		<dc:creator>Random Observations</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2004 02:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Economic Bad News&lt;/strong&gt;
MRC sums up what I&#039;ve been saying, offine for a long time: Good Economic Numbers = Bad News? … When...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Economic Bad News</strong><br />
MRC sums up what I&#8217;ve been saying, offine for a long time: Good Economic Numbers = Bad News? … When&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Catez</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2004/10/29/distortions/comment-page-1/#comment-9141</link>
		<dc:creator>Catez</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2004 02:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Berger&#039;s not in jail. Just read Cosmo&#039;s Call.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Berger&#8217;s not in jail. Just read Cosmo&#8217;s Call.</p>
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