Media Handling Trent Lott, Chris Dodd

[Chris_Davis]

Remember that little flap about Trent Lott being racist because he praised Strum Thurmond at a private birthday party? How come the media hasn't picked up the story about Chritopher Dodd praising Robert Byrd in the Senate Chamber? Byrd was a card carrying member of the KKK, he tried to filibuster the Civil Rights Act. But Dodd thinks Byrd would make a great leader in any American era. Come on ABC, CBS, NBC, NY Times, LA Times, what gives, why no coverage?

[Neal]

Painfully obvious isn't it.

Neal

[Ranger Ray]

Thats because you keep getting your news from the biased media. For fair and balanced news you have to listen to the O'Frankin Factor. NOT! What a bunch of loosers these people are. :D ;)

[Dick Graves]

Try this link for some unbiased news reportingwww.americanfreepress.net You won't read this information in the Detroit News or the freep.

[Ranger Ray]

unbiased news reporting
There is no such thing! ;)

The American Free Press leans further port side than a catamaran in 90 mph winds. :eek:

I just read one of the articles Media Coverage of Iraq Called “Shameful” By Peers and it is riddled with crap (good thing my pastor gave a sermon on anger management today or I would be steaming). :D

Those are just some of the outspoken assertions from a three-day Media at War conference at the University of California (Berkeley) School of Journalism. In attendance were Hans Blix, the former chief U.N. weapons inspector, Joseph Wilson, former U.S. ambassador to Iraq and a host of senior journalists and editors from the U.S. and abroad
Berkeley. Didn't this city pass a referendum denouncing our government’s stance on the war with the taliban and going after Bin Ladden? Hans Blix, Joseph Wilson are certainly 2 people that have no reason to be biased. Yea right!
Serious criticism of the role of the U.S. media came from two leading journalists—Robert Scheer of The Los Angeles Times, who is a visiting professor at the journalism school, and John Burns, The New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad
Oh look! My two most favorite non biased reporters who work for those two big non biased newspapers. Haven’t both CEO's of these newspapers come out and denounced Bush as a president. John and Robert must have had their heads in the sand while the head of the BBC resigned for letting and even encouraging bogus reporting biased against Blair and Bush during the invasion. They also must have missed the accusations some of CNN"S and CBS's own news reporters made of how the pressure was put on them to report anti Bush war material.
Maher Abdallah Ahmad of the Arab network, Al Jazeera, based in Qatar, said he felt that Americans still did not know what was happening in Iraq.
Maher states: “Does anyone here know how many Iraqis were killed in the war? You make all these efforts to establish a democracy, and you don’t give a damn how many people were killed?” he added.

And now lets here from the omnipotant, non biased, equal right defending, christian loving, pro American Al Jazeera . :mad:
Gee! I wounder if Abdallah posed that same question to Saddam when he was in power? I wounder if he has asked Hamas how many Jews they have killed? Doesn't he give a damn how many of them have been killed? :mad:

Berkeley has become an anti American propaganda machine. Please read the following article in full. What you will hear from Berkeley teachers themselves is preposterous.

To fully appreciate how deeply knee-jerk anti-Americanism permeates the UC Berkeley campus, one needs to look no further than the school’s "Day of Remembrance" last September marking the one-year anniversary of the 9/11 catastrophe. The event’s student organizers originally refused to hand out red, white and blue ribbons to participants or allow the singing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "God Bless America" for fear that (perish the thought) an outpouring of national pride may result.
"We thought that [red, white and blue ribbons] may be just too political, too patriotic," one of the student organizers, Hazel Wong, told the California Patriot. "We didn’t want anything too centered on nationalism, anything that is ‘Go U.S.A.’"
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=6406

[Bluegill Bob]

Tell em, Ranger Ray & Neal. If you want unbiased news reporting you should just listen to Rush Lamebrain. The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. :D

[Ranger Ray]

Were do you get yours BB the O'Frankin Factor. And you got to stop just lookin at the pictures and start reading the articles.:p ;)

[Chris_Davis]

Originally posted by Bluegill Bob
Tell em, Ranger Ray & Neal. If you want unbiased news reporting you should just listen to Rush Lamebrain. The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. :D

Rush Limbaugh is not a news organization, he's in the entertainment buisness. Rush also doesn't claim to be unbiased. Meanwhile American Free Press, Free Speech TV and LINKS TV all claim to be unbiased and are far less entertaining, not that I find Rush entertaining.

[Dick Graves]

:D Man you guys are hard on my pals @ americanfreepress.net They claim to be unbiased, so they have a few rogue reporters, I still subscribe to their weekly paper, at least they try to report the truth. :D

Relax, life is to short! :( I would much rather read their paper once a week, then the Detroit Free Press on a daily basis.) My brain is inunidated with false media reporting, at least I will take a look at the alternative. :eek:

[Ranger Ray]

Relax, life is to short!
Im with ya big guy! :cool: :cool: :cool: :D

[Neal]

By Jimmy Moore
Talon News
April 13, 2004

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Members of a black leadership group are asking Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) to resign from his position in the United States Senate because of recent comments he made regarding Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV).

Talon News was one of the few national media outlets that reported on this story last week about Dodd's remarks about Byrd made on the floor of the Senate on April 1 (read previous story).

"I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia that he would have been a great senator at any moment," Dodd exclaimed. "Some were right for the time. Robert C. Byrd, in my view, would have been right at any time."

Despite the fact that Byrd was once a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Dodd even remarked that the West Virginia Democrat "would have been right at the founding of this country, right during the Civil War."

Dodd concluded his controversial statement by claiming, "I cannot think of a single moment in this nation's 220-plus year history where [Byrd] would not have been a valuable asset to this country."

Project 21 spokesman Kevin Martin said he is outraged at the comments made by Dodd and is shocked that Dodd was allowed to make them without any backlash whatsoever.

"How could Senator Dodd have made the comments he did with a straight face? And how can he believe he's going to get away with it?," Martin asked in a press release. "Robert Byrd is a former leader in the Ku Klux Klan, and later an opponent of civil rights legislation. I can think of many places in American history where I wouldn't want him setting our nation's agenda."

Martin recalled the treatment given to former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) after he found himself in a situation to Dodd's.

"When Senator Trent Lott made similar comments about Senator Strom Thurmond at a party, he was roundly condemned," Martin recalled. "He lost his leadership post, and almost drummed out of the Senate."

Talon News reported last Thursday that Lott made a speech at the 100th birthday party for the legendary South Carolina Sen. Thurmond where he asserted that if he had been elected president in 1948 running as a member of the segregationist Dixiecrat Party, then "we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years."

The media onslaught was treacherous as Lott attempted to apologize for his comments. The pressure did not let up until he decided to step down from his position as Senate Majority Leader.

Demonstrating their consistency on this, Project 21 roundly criticized Lott at the time and called for him to resign his leadership position.

"What Lott said was hurtful, and he paid a price at Senator Dodd's urging," Martin stated. "Now it's Dodd's time to face the music and resign."

What Martin is referring to is a quote made by Dodd about Lott's comments about Thurmond in December 2002.

"If a Democratic leader had made [Lott's] statements, we would have to call for his stepping aside, without any question whatsoever," Dodd told United Press International at the time.

He continued, "If Tom Daschle or another Democratic leader were to have made similar statements, the reaction would have been very swift. I don't think several hours would have gone by without there being an almost unanimous call for the leader to step aside."

Actually, Dodd was at the forefront of the movement to have a "bipartisan" censure of Lott to make him face the "reality" of what he had said.

Following the petition effort begun by GOPUSA's (web site) "Call for a Public and Official Rebuke of Sen. Christopher Dodd," Project 21 believes it should go one step further.

"Senator Dodd's statement is tasteless and wrong," Martin declared. "It's time for him to follow his own advice and leave."