Validating our Opinions: Media Bias

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While I do believe Fox's base is the political and social conservative, to their credit they do not withhold negative stores to protect Bush or the GOP.

LOL!!! If one were to understand the policies behind FOX news, one would immediately understand that they are mearly an arm of the GOP.

http://mediamatters.org/

Thank God for the internet.

Compared to Bush's record before he was elected president, Kerry looks busy as hell....

Foxfyre:

As Cycloptichorn pointed out, it would seem that Kerry was much more involved working in the Senate than George W. Bush could ever have hoped to be in his role as Governor, National Guardsmen, Yale Student, and/or the Ranger's owner.

Now, if we could bear witness to the transcription of Kerry's statements in the Senate, vs. Bush's statements while Governor of Texas, I believe it would be most telling in regards to which man actually used his own personal resources to further their career. Bush WAS a miserable governor, and he had to win by smearing Ann Richards and accusing her of being a "lesbian."

This is the only way Bush can win. It's the only way he's EVER won in office.

"Chuck McDonald, who as Ms. Richards' spokesman blamed the Bush campaign [for smear tactics] in 1994, said that he sees some parallels with the McCain episode. Mr. McDonald said Bush political operatives have a history in which supporters spread stories while the candidate stays above the fray. "The Bush campaign in 1994 effectively used surrogates to spread any campaign message the campaign thought needed to be carried," said Mr. McDonald, now a political and business consultant in Austin. Political scientists and consultants say hardball tactics are common as candidates seek to win an advantage over opponents. But Mr. Bush has sought to set his campaign apart, saying he won't engage in that. Mr. McDonald said the architect of Mr. Bush's political campaigns is Karl Rove, a longtime strategist with an aggressive style. "Clearly, Karl Rove has a formula, and everything in 1994, in 1998 [Mr. Bush's re-election] and this year fits within that formula," said Mr. McDonald. Mr. Rove, a colleague of the late GOP consultant Lee Atwater [who is considered the father of political smears and directed the Poppy Bush campaign featuring the Willie Horton ad], got his start in Republican politics while a student in college. In 1973, Mr. Rove organized conferences that instructed young Republicans on campaign dirty tricks, such as going through a rival's garbage to obtain inside memos and contributor lists. As a Republican consultant in Texas over the last two decades, Mr. Rove has worked for most major GOP candidates seeking statewide office. [For example,] as consultant to Gov. Bill Clements in his 1982 re-election bid, Mr. Rove distributed a mock newspaper suggesting that Democratic challenger Mark White was drinking while driving when he had a wreck as a college student." (DMN, 12/2/99)

There are smoking guns on the Bush campaign team, primarily, Bush, himself, and his sidekick political guru Karl Rove. It's generally agreed that Bush backers blitzed South Carolina with deceptive advertising and dirty tricks against John McCain, angering the Arizona Senator to this day, and Bush never specifically separated himself from those ads. In fact, he was overheard by a reporter telling a backer that while he can't "get" McCain on TV, the attack will be "under the radar," and it was, with racist radio ads, pointing out that Mac had adopted a little girl "of color." One was reminded of similar ads by Bush backers during his first gubernaorial campaign, when Governor Ann Richards was criticized for "appointing avowed homosexual advocates" to state jobs. Other than Bush, the connection, of course, between the two campaigns of bigotry was political strategist Karl Rove.