The old, mainstream media continues to show its true colors. Everything you read and see has become an op-ed piece! ABC News' Charlie Gibson, showed us his bias when he asked Gov. Sarah Palin about "The Bush Doctrine," and the rest of the mainstream media ran with wild claims! The New York Times, after the interview said:
... Ms. Palin most visibly stumbled when she was asked by Mr. Gibson if she agreed with the Bush doctrine. Ms. Palin did not seem to know what he was talking about. Mr. Gibson, sounding like an impatient teacher, informed her that it meant the right of "anticipatory self-defense."
Columnist Charles Krauthammer, the man who coined the phrase "Bush Doctrine," wrote that Charlie Gibson is the one who got it wrong. From his article:
It was most dramatically enunciated in Bush's second inaugural address: "The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world."
This declaration of a sweeping, universal American freedom agenda was consciously meant to echo John Kennedy's pledge in his inaugural address that the United States "shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty." It draws also from the Truman doctrine of March 1947 and from Wilson's 14 points.
If I were in any public foreign policy debate today, and my adversary were to raise the Bush doctrine, both I and the audience would assume -- unless my interlocutor annotated the reference otherwise -- that he was speaking about the grandly proclaimed (and widely attacked) freedom agenda of the Bush administration.
Not the Gibson doctrine of preemption.
In my opinion, Palin showed her sharp wit and intelligence in her answer to Gibson. She knew Gibson was asking an open-ended question that could be twisted in numerous ways, so she made him clarify and get more specific. She did this more than once in the interview.
Breitbart.tv has an excellent segment below about media bias.
In another article pertaining my home State of Michigan, Nick De Leeuw, of RightMichigan shows us how character, honesty and integrity has been completely removed from the mainstream media.
A Leftist blogger claimed that the Republicans in Michigan were going to bring a list of foreclosed homes to the polls and block African Americans who had their home foreclosed on from being able to cast their vote. The mainstream media ran with the story! ABC, CBS, Ariana Huffington, et al went wild with accusations!
As De Leeuw explains:
To believe the Messenger story is not just to choose the less credible side in a he-said, she-said, it is to suspend one's use of reason to the umpteen-and-twelfth degree of ridiculousness. The story LITERALLY makes no sense. As a story. As a sewer level Democratic Party strategy it is brilliant and, literally, straight out of their Party playbook.
Page 54, section 2 in the 2004 Democratic National Committee "Election Day Manual" to be specific. It reads, in part:
2. If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a "pre-emptive strike" (particularly well-suited to states in which there techniques have been tried in the past).
# Issue a press release
i. Reviewing Republican tactic used in the past in your area or state
ii. Quoting party/minority/civil rights leadership as denouncing tactics that discourage people from voting
# Prime minority leadership to discuss the issue in the media; provide talking points
# Place stories in which minority leadership expresses concern about the threat of intimidation tactics
# Warn local newspapers not to accept advertising that is not properly disclaimed or that contains false warnings about voting requirements and/or about what will happen at the polls
Nick De Leeuw also points out that the blog that started the rumor, Michigan Messenger, is a paid blog sponsored by the Center for Independent Media (CIM). As Nick says (emphasis added), "We're talking Stryker, Soros, Moveon.org... you name the liberal extremist billionaire group or individual and they're on the CIM Christmas card list."
"The disparity in mainstream media activity is inexcusable," says Nick. I agree. In the mean time, I have to ask where's Huffington on this real story? De Leeuw picked up this story, and Michelle Malkin easily picked it up too!
It looks as if we have more voter fraud from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform, better known as ACORN.
Even the Detroit Free Press reported on this story:
Bad voter applications found
The majority of the problem applications are coming from the group ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which has a large voter registration program among its many social service programs. ACORN's Michigan branch, based in Detroit, has enrolled 200,000 voters statewide in recent months, mostly with the use of paid, part-time employees.
"There appears to be a sizable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications," said Kelly Chesney, spokeswoman for the Michigan Secretary of State's Office. "And it appears to be widespread."
Chesney said her office has had discussions with ACORN officials after local clerks reported the questionable applications to the state. Chesney said some of the applications are duplicates and some appear to be names that have been made up. The Secretary of State's Office has turned over several of the applications to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
I just did a quick search on google, and other than the local papers (and Michelle Malkin), NOBODY is talking about this story. They ran wild with a rumor, but fail to report an actual news event.
I think it's safe to say, the days of the mainstream media are numbered.
Except for the Bush Doctrine question, which was garbled, Gibson's questions were fair enough............................but that "look down your nose" tenor!!!!!!!!!!
My gosh. Just awful.
I just don't remember the same disdain for the less accomplished Obama.