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visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:12:09 -0700 From: Media Research Center IS Staff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MRC Web News - Our Latest Analysis [mrcgoldlogo.gif] Media Research Center America's Media Watchdog Bringing Political Balance and Responsibility to the Media MRC Web News: Our Latest Analysis September 23, 2003 �Daily updates on MRC's latest analysis ________________________________________________________________________________ Today�s CyberAlert: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030923.asp 1. CNN Trumpets How �Bush is Sinking!� & �May Be Beatable in 2004" CNN�s Judy Woodruff led Monday�s Inside Politics by trumpeting �striking new evidence that President Bush may be beatable in 2004.� Bill Schneider gleefully related: �Judy, President Bush is sinking! Last month the President's job approval rating was at 60 percent. Now it's dropped to 50, his lowest rating ever.� Making an illogical comparison, the CNN announcer at the top of the half hour had contrasted Bush�s plight with the �huge leap forward� for Carol Moseley Braun, the last-place Democrat who had simply made her hopeless presidential campaign official. 2. Liasson Reveals NPR Listeners Think Braun �Says Sensible Things� The kind of people who listen to NPR think that left-wing Democratic presidential candidate Carol Moseley Braun �says sensible things.� On FNC�s Special Report with Brit Hume on Monday night, NPR White House correspondent Mara Liasson inadvertently provided evidence that NPR appeals to liberals as she related how NPR listeners praise Braun. Fred Barnes suggested that the media have �invested their hopes and dreams in Wesley Clark.� 3. Media�s �Falsely Bleak Picture� in Iraq �Emboldens Our Enemy� A Democratic Congressman from Georgia who just returned from a visit to Iraq, in a Monday op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, condemned the news media for its excessively negative drumbeat. U.S. Representative Jim Marshall asserted: �I'm afraid the news media are hurting our chances. They are dwelling upon the mistakes, the ambushes, the soldiers killed, the wounded....Fair enough. But it is not balancing this bad news with 'the rest of the story,� the progress made daily, the good news. The falsely bleak picture weakens our national resolve, discourages Iraqi cooperation and emboldens our enemy.� 4. ABC Points Out How Spending is Soaring Under President Bush The news media regularly push for more and more government spending to solve every problem, but on Sunday night ABC offered a refreshing criticism of President Bush -- taking him on from the right for approving of massive new and higher spending. Jake Tapper pointed out that despite candidate Bush�s promise that �big government is not the answer,� under President Bush �the size of government is bigger� as �discretionary spending on transportation and other non-military items increased by 21 percent under Mr. Bush. And a taxpayer group says pork barrel spending is up 48 percent since 2001.� Tapper recalled how �at about this point in his term, Ronald Reagan had vetoed 22 spending bills from Congress,� but �President Bush has vetoed none.� 5. Bush Tells Hume He Avoids Media Bias By Avoiding News Media President George W. Bush has discovered a way to avoid being influenced by liberal media bias: He avoids reading newspapers or watching television news. During Brit Hume�s interview with Bush aired Monday night on Fox and FNC, Bush revealed how he relies on his staff for �objective� news summaries since �a lot of times there's opinions mixed in with news� from the usual media outlets. �We won't disagree with that sir,� Hume quipped in response. See today�s entire CyberAlert at: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030923.asp ________________________________________________________________________________ Advertisement www.TimesWatch.org TimesWatch.org Backhanded Bush Compliment: He�s Now Less Misleading Richard Stevenson gives out backhanded compliments for what he calls the Bush administration�s recent �increase in straight talk.� Stevenson writes: �By the standards of a White House that insists that nearly everything at all times is proceeding precisely according to plan, and where misjudgment is typically held to be a stranger, the last few weeks have brought a new, unvarnished tone.� Read the entire article as posted on TimesWatch.org: http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/0923.asp#2 Advertisement JOIN THE MRC TODAY The MRC has a unique opportunity that would greatly benefit our work to expose the left-wing agenda of the national media. But it can only be realized with your support. [FORM] Or, visit Media Research Center at: www.mediaresearch.org [FORM] Bozell's News Column Mad About the "Madam Secretary" Morning after morning and evening after evening, the wrecking crews of the TV news have their brass knuckles out for the Bush administration�s handling of Iraq and the war on terrorism. The starting point of any conversation is the assumption that at best, we�ve made no progress at all, and at worst, everything the president has done has only made terrorists stronger. So where was this frenzy of "accountability" during the eight years of the Clinton administration, where every foreign policy failure, every diplomatic vacillation and empty military gesture, was greeted with either a... Read the latest column written by L. 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