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CBS’s DODGY DRAFT STORY;
ABE LINCOLN vs. KING HENRY V |
| May 05, 2008 |
Volume 1, Issue 1 |
The so-called mainstream media never admit their liberal tilt, so the
news analysts at the Media Research Center tirelessly document the
media’s bias and expose their left-wing agenda. The “awards” for last
week’s lowlights:
CBS’s Dodgy Draft Story.
On September 28, Dan Rather’s CBS Evening
News stooped to legitimize bogus Internet claims that Bush would impose
a military draft if re-elected. Reporter Richard Schlesinger profiled a
mother, Beverly Cocco, who “is petrified about a military draft, and
she’s not alone. Mass e-mails are circulating among worried parents.”
Schlesinger asked Cocco, who he claimed was a Bush supporter, “Would you
vote for a Democrat?” She replied: “Absolutely. I would vote for Howdy
Doody if I thought it would keep my boys home and safe.”
Schlesinger never told viewers that his “petrified” mother is actually
an activist with “People Against the Draft,” although he briefly showed
the anti-war group’s Web site on-screen. CBS also never disclosed that
the military opposes a draft and the only legislation for a draft was
submitted by anti-war Democrats and will not pass. But CBS producer
Linda Karas told the blog site INDCJournal.org that the falsity of the
Internet claims was beside the point: “The truth of the e-mails were
absolutely irrelevant to the piece, because all the story said was that
people were worried.” And she’s supposed to be in the “news” business?
Abe Lincoln vs. King Henry V. Going into last Thursday’s debate,
Newsweek’s Jon Meacham, a member of MSNBC’s perpetual pundit roundtable,
likened John Kerry to Abraham Lincoln: “The greatest flip-flop in
American history is Lincoln, [who] in his first Inaugural was not for
emancipation and then two years later he was. Is that statesmanship, or
is that a flip-flop?” After the debate, Meacham suggested President Bush
looked “a little worried and a little tired of being questioned.”
Meacham argued: “This was a man who was almost monarchical in his
tone....He became Henry V and...there was almost an element of self-pity
there.”
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