WatchWe reported a true story. One can argue about whether we got it at the right way or not, but number one a young George Bush -- there's no joy in saying this -- he got into a privileged National Guard unit, the so-called "Champaign Unit" to make sure that he wouldn't have to go to Vietnam. Then when he was in the unit he disappeared. He disappeared for a year while he was suppose to be on duty with the National Guard.
Now if you're a soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan and you disappear overnight, you are automatically AWOL, which is a very serious offense, and if you are gone for any length of time you are "deserted". We reported that story, not because of anything personal with George Bush, but if he's Commander in Chief of the U.S. military, this is information that people need.
But the powers that be in the corporate structure were very uncomfortable with the story. They got pressured by the Bush administration and others in Washington, and it costs a lot of good people their jobs including myself finally.
CBS Ousts 4 For Bush Guard Story
Since Dan Rather was kick off of CBS news for reporting a highly relevant and important true story, no one on the right gets to bitch and moan about the media having a liberal bias. We had to put up with all the bullshit birther controversies and the secret Muslim lies and the question of whether or not Elizabeth Warren had a Native American great-great-grandparent. And all those false stories aren't even important issues. But when an issue that is germane to leading the armed forces in a time of war is reported, the corporate overlords wrongfully fire people who have proven themselves over decades of service in order to cover up the issue.
Evidently, the truth is what the right calls "liberal bias".
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The travesty isn't that one political party or the other "Owns" our media.
It's that any at all does.
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Gawd dude - are you really so crazy to STILL BELIEVE those forged memos? I don't mean to be a dick, but are you really a moron?
Check out this GIF file that clearly shows they were written in MS Word using default fonts and spacing. Go ahead, try and explain how a typewriter in the 60's can match MS Word exactly.
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ForgedBushMemosSomeoneUsedWordAndHadAutoCorrectTurnedOn.aspx
But but but.........they just HAVE to be true. Kind of like how everyone just knew that Bush had lower grades and IQ than Gore and Kerry. It just FEELS so right!
Anyway, let me know when Fox News or any other Conservative news outlet uses obvious forgeries to try and swing and Presidential Election weeks before an election.
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socal2 says
The real story was George Bush playing at National Guardsmen (barely) to avoid actual service. The memos are irrelevant. Well at least Mitt's kids won't have to play that game since we abolished the draft.
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Vicente says
Ha ha!
Memos are faked. But the story is "real". Isn't this a thread about media bias? Can you think of one single example of Fox News using fraudulent documents to corrupt our election process like the disgraced Dan Rather and CBS did during the 2004 Presidential election?
Anyway, isn't military experience "irrelevant" based on the results of the 2008 election? We elected a Hawaiian stoner over a real war hero like McCain.
Are Obama and Democrat surrogates really going to go after Romney's sons for lack of service when Obama has such a shady history of taking drugs and hanging out with domestic terrorists and racist pastors when he could have served in uniform?
No one cares about this stuff any more. We have far more important things to worry about. The old rules where Liberals got to dominate the narrative and news cycle is coming to an end.
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socal2 says
Guess you missed the "Birther controversy"? Seems so.
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Vicente says
Other than the nut Donald Trump, are there any major Republican politicians or media groups of Dan Rather and CBS's level pushing the Birther nonsense?
Birthers are nuts, but they didn't have major media organizations in their pocket using fraudulent evidence to push their conspiracies.
Don't forget the Michael Moore propaganda movies all during the Bush years where they even gave that dishonest hack a seat of honor next to Jimmy Carter during the 2004 Democrat Convention.
Are memories really so short that you forget all of the major Democrat political/media and pop-culture figures flirting with 9/11 Truther conspiracies? That's 1000X worse than the birther crap. The former being possibly the worst crime possible worthy of treason charges.
Then we have the whole Palin episode. Hundreds of reporters were digging through her trash in Alaska even suggesting that Trig was not her baby, yet nearly 4 years later we are still learning new things about Obama that weren't reported on in 2008.
I think the biggest piece of evidence that proves the suffocating liberal bias in our media is the massive popularity of Fox cable news. There are simply no other TV news outlets that don't toe the liberal line, so Fox gets all of the disenfranchised viewers.
UCLA even did a study quantifying the level of liberal bias in our media.
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664.aspx
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RMoney was hanging out with Birther in Chief just recently slurping up spaghetti and pocketing checks from the Birthers:
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And Obama has taken a million dollar check from king misogynist and religious bigot Bill Maher.
If Obama doesn't need to distance himself from his nutty Hollywood money, Romney shouldn't waste time repudiating any financial supporters if Obama is not being held to the same standard.
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socal2 says
Wait, you mean Dan Rather wasn't fired from CBS news?
I didn't mention any such memos, nor did the video or news article.
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Vicente says
True, but being a deserter even in the National Guard is a serious offense. People have been hung or shot for being deserters. And the maximum penalty for desertion during wartime in the U.S. is still death. So, even the desertion is a pretty important issue when it comes to deciding who runs the military.
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socal2 says
Bill is no misogynist. Getting laid doesn't constitute a war on women -- unless your doing it really wrong.
And Bill is no religious bigot. He hates all religions. That's equality.
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Yeah because Hollywood money is what is ruining the government. The entire economy is taken down by gambling banks, we've head over a decade of warfare because of Bush's lies, but god forbid gays be allowed monogamous marriages and the right to health insurance spousal benefits. That would really fuck up the entire country. Now let's go out and kill some brown children like Jesus intended us to do.
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socal2 says
Michael Moore movies are clearly intended to persuade. However, that does not make them propaganda. The only mistake I know of in a Michael Moore movie is the one where he stated that the Cuban health care system was good. But that was just one leg of an argument with a dozen legs. His conclusions about the U.S. health care system were still correct and well supported.
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Absolutely right. 1000x worse, hang those liberal america haters immediately (we don't bother with that tedious trial stuff in modern america). Just look at the liberal assholes at the biggest truther group "we are change". Oh shit, wait a minute, "we are change" is actually a bunch of libratarians and conservative right wingers.
Never mind.
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Vicente says
Which main stream media outlet used forged documents related to Obama's eligibility issue?
It is quite the opposite - Obama presented forgeries to US public while the national media outlets are being used as his propaganda machine.
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The real story is who prepared the bogus documentation and made sure it got to Rather's producer - and why the forgers believed they needed to discredit a story about Caligutard going AWOL on a rich-kid's Air Guard unit.
A lot of very focused work just to make Rather look like a dick head which he does whenever he appears on TV, anyway.
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So... You object to the fact that discussion of the issue itself (Bush's alleged desertion/AWOL from the National Guard) was clouded and undermined by the reporting of false information. In other words, you object to the fact that the question itself was changed.
Yet, you are perfectly happy with changing the question regarding Elizabeth Warren: Changing it to "whether or not [she] had a Native American great-great-grandparent" vs. the real questions: Did she lie or exagerate about her history in order to advance professionally, and was she honest about her recent reportings of her actions.
Pot, meet kettle...
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Dan8267 says
If it turns out that Obama's Selective Service registration is a fake, as Sheriff Arpaio's investigation claimed, what should be the punishment for usurper-in-chief?
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nosf41 says
You want Obama to hang by a noose? I'll give you that if we also get to hang Bush, Cheney, the entire Bush cabinet, and every Republican runner this year except Ron Paul, oh, and we also hang Sheriff Arpaio because he's a god-damn murderer, too.
As for Arpaio's claim, only an idiot would believe anything that comes out of that baby killer's mouth.
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Paralithodes says
No.
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Dan8267 says
Arpaio is the chief law enforcement oficer in a county that has 4M residents. He has enough resources at hand, enabling him to investigate and recognize fake documents.
Only a fool thinks that he would lie about Obama's documents - his career and legacy would have been destroyed in an instant.
Given the fact that DoJ is in the midst of investigation against Arpaio, any lies told by him could be used by DoJ to attack him.
Obama did not hesitate to mock Trump. However, he is carefully avoiding engaging Arpaio in similar fashion.
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I don't question Arpaio's resources. I question his intent. That baby killer constantly lies and abuses human rights. He is evil.
The DoJ isn't going to be interested in Arpaio's Obama bullshit as lying about the president's birthplace or service isn't a crime. The DoJ has many other more important reasons to land Arpaio's ass in jail.
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Dan8267 says
The answer to the above is unknown. But more importantly in the context of this thread, the second part of the question was "and was she honest about her recent reportings of her actions?"
Now, why is it that you (a) complain about shifting the question to something else, (b) engage in it yourself, and (c) when called on it, continue to engage in it by completely ignoring the second part of the question? You seem to like to complain about the very thing that you're fully willing to engage in.
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nosf41 says
Only a fool would think Arpaio is doing this for any other reason than he's another Birther nut trying to distract everyone from his own flaws.
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Paralithodes says
No, the answer is clearly known. One cannot, by definition, unintentionally tell a lie. At worst, Warren might have been mistaken about her heritage due to incorrect information given to her from relatives while she grew up. And that's really grasping at straws. But a lie is an intentional misrepresentation of the truth, and that clearly does not apply to Warren.
It does, however, apply to every Republican office holder ever in the news. For example, Newt Gingrich attempted to remove a sitting president from office over a blow job while he was fucking women as his wife laid dying of cancer, and then he campaigned as a "family values" person. Now that's a big lie.
It's also a lie that materially interferes with the effective running of government and compromises national security by distracting the command-n-chief from essential duties to deal with a complete non-issue.
And I can give billions of other examples of Republicans lying constantly. I can also give plenty of examples of Democrats lying but their lies are nearly as outrageous or dangerous as the Republican ones. For example, when Democrats lie, millions of people don't get murdered, tortured, and rape like when Republicans lie.
Let's face it. The only reason that you right-wingers are attacking Elizabeth Warren on this non-issue, is that you would hate for her to successfully reform the financial system and this is the only straw you can see to grasp at.
But you know what, it's going to fail, and your side is going to look stupid for even attempting to block reform just like your side still looks stupid to this day for stalking Martin Luther King, Jr. and trying to stop the civil rights movement by character assassinating King over adultery.
And even though King did actually commit adultery, it had nothing to do with the civil rights movement or the correctness and weight of King's arguments for equal rights. And that character assassination didn't work, and it didn't stop the civil rights movement. The same damn thing is going to happen with financial reform. Your side is doomed to lose because the only way that your side can win is to completely destroy America's economy, and people aren't going to let that happen.
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Vicente says
flaws --> crimes
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Vicente says
Are you saying that Arpaio succesfully punked Obama regime?
The DoJ wages media campaign against Arpaio trying to prevent him from the enforcement of immigration laws yet they are silent about this issue.
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Birthers can believe what they choose & it's their right, but if they don't sit down & shut up I will open the Pandoras Box of Morman beliefs.