CNN Hatchets Come Out Against GOP After Debate Ended. Let's not forget the rest of the story.
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Let's get back to CNN. First, the New York Daily News is reporting in its print pages today (not online yet) that the sanctuary city question asked to Rudy was from a die-hard New York Democrat who hates Rudy, voted against him, and hoped to score some points against Rudy.
Other than Buzz Brockway and Grover, were there any Republicans in the list of questioners?
But more egregious than that, let's get on to what we haven't paid attention to. Throughout the night, Campbell Brown kept getting to pimp her series, "Broken Government -- Campaign Killers." Not only that, but Campbell was also eye candy in the panel discussion immediately after the debate, wherein she got to keep pimping her special.
Lo and behold, for those who stuck around, we got to see CNN do a hit job on David Bossie, the current head of Citizens United — the prestigious campaign group that is doing the Lord's work to take on the left and, naturally, the media generated narrative that we're losing in Iraq and all the other drive by media generated narratives.
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In fact, in the show, Campbell alleged that "many mainstream Republicans have denounced [David Bossie's] tactics." As Quin Hilyer, now Citizens United's communications guy, pointed out in a response to CNN,
The only example she offered was of the elder President Bush complaining about an ad 15 years ago that Mr. Bossie did not produce.
CNN even called David Bossie a "dirty trickster," attributing to him things, like the ad mentioned above, that he had no involvement in.
The problem here is that CNN tried to paint Citizens United and David Bossie as part of the hitman wing of political activism in the same category as MoveOn.org, which relishes that reputation. David Bosse went out of his way to make the case that this is not true, with actual facts to back him up, but CNN chose to leave all that on the cutting room floor.
One last example of just how slanted this show was: CNN interviewed Floyd Brown, who did the Gennifer Flowers ad back in 1992 against Bill Clinton. Instead of asking Mr. Brown about that ad, they asked David Bossie of Citizens United. Why? To make sure the message was clear -- Citizens United is a dirty group.
This all reminds me of the BBC, which tried to portray Queen Elizabeth as having a temper by showing her storming out of a photo shoot. In fact, the footage was of her entering the photo shoot and no blow up ever happened.
The media will lie, fabricate, and distort to get the narrative it wants. Truth doesn't matter so long as CNN gets to say Republicans are as dirty as Democrats. Of course, I don't remember anyone uncovering any GOP hacks infiltrating the Democratic CNN-YouTube Debate.
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We don't expect a debate to be deliberately sabotaged by the network that hosts it. That crossed a new line, and one that makes CNN a pariah even among the biased MSM.
I have no affiliation with any candidate whatsoever. In fact, this week's GOP debate was the first time I saw any portion of any of the debates live rather than on the news. The main thing I noticed had to do with Ron Paul.
George Soros himself couldn’t have found and financed a better person to run as a Republican than Ron Paul. His chances of winning the Republican nomination or anything more than a delegate or two cannot be taken seriously. Yet the leftish media is able to use his sound bites to suggest that there’s a strong faction of Murtha-like anti-war fanatics among Republicans. It just ain’t so.
But there is a positive side. The manner in which Ron Paul’s candidacy and positions are treated by the other Republican candidates, the Republican audiences, and the GOP itself is yet one more demonstration that conservatives are far more tolerant of and respectful toward real differences of opinion and real debate than are liberals/progressives. Any person running for president as a Democrat who was, say, pro-life (sacrilege!) and in favor of winning the war in Iraq (again!) would be roundly and uniformly vilified by the Democratic Party, the other candidates, and the leftish media.
To the average American liberal/progressive, “tolerance” means surrendering your right to voice any opinion with which he disagrees, especially regarding moral issues. To him, the fundamental purpose of the constitutional right to freedom of speech is to protect defamation, sedition, and (especially) pornography.
As Hayek pointed out about so-called liberals (as contrasted with those conservatives and libertarians who hold to the classical liberal principles and traditions on which the U.S. was founded):
"[C]ontempt for intellectual liberty is not a thing which arises only once the totalitarian system is established but one which can be found everywhere among intellectuals who have embraced a collectivist faith and who are acclaimed as intellectual leaders even in countries still under a [classical] liberal regime." (The Road to Serfdom, ch. 11.)
but Paul is no D. He may be more of a true Libertarian than a Republican but except being anti-war he really has nothing in common with the left.
He'd end the income tax, close most of the federal cabinet departments, end social security, get government out of health care, veto every spending bill that crossed his desk, and criminalize abortion.
If he were in D debates, it'd be just as funny as seeing him in R debates. Part of the reason he has such a following is b/c he doesn't fit into either party well.
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They are thoroughly mendacious, and far from being the 'pariah' of the Partisan Media, they are just part of the gang. Nobody will use the 6pm news or 60 minutes or the View to denounce this deed or the debate sabotage. Certain individuals in the networks may decry it, but most of the Rather-was-right gang will privately cheer, and publicly remain silent.
Stare decisis is fo' suckas -- Feddie
channel from my cable boxes and by the way I was a Lou Dobbs watcher, not anymore.
I was one of those 800K-1M viewers he enjoyed each night and I hope I am not the only one who will take his numbers back down to where they were at 6PM.
Clinton News Network needs to be destroyed simply by not watching them and cutting their ad revenue based on their viewing numbers.
I personally do not like Shepard Smith but my channel will be on FOX all day long to increase their numbers for them to get the money in ad revenue that they deserve.
It is as simple as the pocket book.
Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion