| | I don't really know. I sure can't tell from reading the mainstream news.
I like Republicans. And I like DemoCrats. It's the mainstream press that's gotta go.
The Associated Press is supposed to be the premier fact-gathering News Agency. Pick up any newspaper, and you will see many of the main articles with a subtitle "Associated Press." They are completely neutral and only report the facts.
Right?
There was a vote on Friday in the House of Representatives on a "non-binding" resolution expressing disdain for President Bush's plan to stabilize Iraq with a troop "surge." The Associated Press dutifully reported on it here
The headline is "Bush Loses GOP Support on Iraq." Wow. Tragic.
Except, 91% of the Republicans in the House voted against the resolution, in support of President Bush. For the record, that's 180 Republicans supporting and only 17 going along with the Democrats. Do you think there's something the reporter REALLY wants you to believe?
What the reporter is really saying is, "I know I'm right, so don't confuse me with the facts!"
Did you hear about how the Republican's want to stifle debate about the Iraq war? It was in all the newspapers on February 6th:
Associated Press
USA Today
Washington Post
There's just one problem. The Republicans enacted a "filibuster." A filibuster does not end a debate. It continues one. A filibuster keeps the group from moving to a final vote (called "invoking cloture"). That means the Republicans kept the debate going. A Democrat from California (Dianne Feinstein) told the press that the Republicans were shutting off debate this way. And the press went with everything she said.
But there's another problem with it: For the first four years of the Bush administration, the press new exactly what a filibuster was. The Democrats constantly filibustered almost every conservative or Christian judge Bush tried to appoint to federal courts. The press knew that meant that the Democrats had blocked a vote in order to have more debate. So what's the deal?
I don't buy everything that Republican's say. But I know that the mainstream press cannot be trusted to give me the straight news.
(And I didn't even mention the news stories that came out last week regarding how some official report said that intelligence on Iraq was "predisposed" to finding a link between Al Quaida and Iraq. Except that the report never said that. The words were taken from a press conference by Democrat Carl Levin. The press reported Levin's opinion as if it came straight from the official report. Funny how these mistakes never happen in a way that makes Democrats look bad.)
(And I didn't even mention the Islamic imam who lead the prayer at a Democratic party function, and basically prayed in code words that all the Jews and Christians would convert to Islam and that Jews would all leave Israel. Not much in the news about that. Seems kinda important.)
Some of the sites I get different views from:
Power Line
Michelle Malkin
National Review
(especially their main blog)
I originally started out only going here to read the "Best of the Web" pages.
Warning: to break out of the pack of people content to merely swallow everything the press feeds without questioning will take a desire to know the truth as well as effort to engage in much deep thinking. No spoonfeeding allowed.
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| | Posted 2/17/2007 10:39 PM - 57 Views - 8 eProps - 8 comments
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I do read the online news too of course...just not as often as you do. 
