This biased media (from Drudge):
During a live press conference in Bagdad, Senators McCain and Graham were heckled by CNN reporter Michael Ware. An official at the press conference called Ware’s conduct “outrageous,” saying, “here you have two United States Senators in Bagdad giving first-hand reports while Ware is laughing and mocking their comments. I’ve never witnessed such disrespect. This guy is an activist not a reporter.”
Senators McCain and Graham flew into Iraq and drove into Bagdad, making stops at an open market and a joint Iraq/American military security outpost before appearing at the press conference.
This is not the first time Michael Ware has taken issue with Senator McCain’s comments about early progress in Iraq. Last week, after Senator McCain told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that he needed to catch up on the news coming out of Iraq, Michael Ware responded, saying:
“I don't know what part of Neverland Senator McCain is talking about when he says we can go strolling in Baghdad.”
Michael Ware has also publicly expressed his views on the war last year in an interview with Bill Maher, saying, “I've been given a front-row ticket to watch this slow-motion train wreck … I try to stay as drunk for as long as possible while I'm here … In fact, I'm drinking now.”
You know damned well this drunkard is but a tip of the biased media iceberg...
UPDATE: Flopping Aces is peeking below the suface of that tip and finding nothing surprising:
... the AP has decided to pull out the stops to attack any Republican they can. This one being Newt Gingrich.
He made a speech Saturday in which he stated that it was ridiculous to have elections where ballots need to be printed in 700 different languages. You want to be a citizen of this country...learn the freakin language:WASHINGTON - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich equated bilingual education Saturday with “the language of living in a ghetto” and mocked requirements that ballots be printed in multiple languages.
“The government should quit mandating that various documents be printed in any one of 700 languages depending on who randomly shows up” to vote, said Gingrich, who is considering seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. He made the comments in a speech to the National Federation of Republican Women.
“The American people believe English should be the official language of the government. ... We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto,” Gingrich said to cheers from the crowd of more than 100.They headline the piece:
Gingrich links bilingual education and ‘ghetto’
Which is baloney. Stop being so hyper-sensitive. I know it's hard when your agenda is to bad mouth as many Republicans as you can but come on. This is common sense. You want to earn a good wage? Own a home? Then get an education and learn english. The language of this country you are choosing to live in. If you decide not to learn english then 90% of the time you will be stuck in that low paying job and trapped in that ghetto. Take it from someone who has worked South-Central Los Angeles for 10 years.
But that's not all. Ankle Biting Pundits found something peculiar about this article. Check out the last sentence:Bilingual programs teach students reading, arithmetic and other basic skills in their native language so they do not fall behind while mastering English.
On voting, federal law requires districts with large populations of non-English speakers to print ballots in multiple languages.
Reports of extramarital affairs have dogged him for years as a result of two messy divorces, but he has refused to discuss them publicly.
WTF?
What Tom Foolery indeed.
YET MORE: Mark Lasswell notes the utter hypocrisy of ABC News and particularly George Stephanopoulos:
It's a pity, because Mr. Stephanopoulos might be able to help viewers understand why the firing of eight U.S. attorneys in the Bush administration has been by far the biggest television-news story lately, and yet when dozens of federal prosecutors were fired during the Clinton administration, it was barely noticed by network newscasts. According to the Tyndall Report, which tracks this sort of thing, during the week of March 12-16, the three network evening newscasts spent a total of 45 minutes on the prosecutors story, with the war in Iraq placing second at 16 minutes. "World News with Charles Gibson" logged 13 of those 45 minutes on the prosecutors.
By contrast, in 1993, Attorney General Janet Reno's wholesale firing of U.S. attorneys appointed by George H.W. Bush was a non-story on the ABC evening news--literally a non-story, according to records kept by the Vanderbilt University Television News Archive, as in zero coverage. CBS also skipped it; NBC gave it 20 seconds.
At the risk of putting a damper on all the fun, here's a primer on the sort of White House experience that ABC's chief Washington correspondent could draw on to enlighten viewers.
Go and read that primer and shake your head at the gonads on display by our beloved objective MSM.
Better watch it. When Reno didn't get satisfaction by firing all of the lawyers (someone forced her to keep one) she went on two (that I remember) shooting spree's. Between her and Madam NotAllTooBright the did more damage to this country than any thousand stupid politicians.
Posted by: scrapiron | Sunday, April 01, 2007 at 10:20 PM