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...at MSN/DNC?

Here's Chris Muir's Day by Day Cartoon, 12-08-05.

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REVERSE ALCHEMY AT AP

   What's "reverse alchemy"? It's turning gold into sh*t.

   Poor old America. Nothing we do is ever enough. All good news about us must be shown to be "really" bad news.

   Check out How long AP allows us to bask in the glow of this obviously magnificent achievement!

U.S. Life Expectancy Hits All-Time High

   ATLANTA - U.S. life expectancy has hit another all-time high -- 77.6 years -- and deaths from heart disease, cancer and stroke continue to drop, the government reported Thursday. Still, the march of medical progress has taken a worrisome turn [boilerplate negative crap inserted here].

   ONE SENTENCE! That's all you get! Then they devote the whole story to a "balanced" account of why, like all news about America, it's really not good news after all!

   These people will not cut America one iota of slack. Not one!

YOU ALWAYS REMEMBER YOUR FIRST TIME

"It was my first experience of getting tricked by a journalist," ... I really felt betrayed, and it made me question all of his [Woodward's] other work."

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AMERICA'S MOST TREASONOUS CARTOONIST?

Ted Rall. Every time you think he (or the syndicate and newspapers who pay to publish this toxic glop) couldn't possibly sink any lower...

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SICK, SICKER, SICKEST

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DRUDGE REPORT SUN NOV 27 2005 17:05:23 ET

NETWORKS PLAN 'END OF AMERICA' SHOWS

The TV networks are getting edgier in their '06 pilot plans.

The nets have filled their development slates with a bevy of brave ideas and bold format experiments, VARIETY reports on Monday, including shows about THE END OF AMERICA!

ABC alone has at least two would-be shows set in post-apocalyptic America ("Resistance" and "Red & Blue") while Gavin Polone and Bruce Wagner are teaming for the comfy-sounding plague drama "Four Horsemen" at CBS (which also is developing "Jericho," about life in a small town after America is destroyed).

Says Fox exec VP Craig Erwich: "The creative community appears to be really inspired this year," he says. "It was an exciting time to be buying. I came away pretty encouraged about network TV."

Developing...

"ALL THE NEWS IS A STAGE,"

Says Michelle Malkin.

  "The smearing of our troops, who were accused of helping stage the capture of Saddam and now stand accused of staging their support for President Bush's goals in Iraq, is especially galling to military family members who have watched the media shamelessly manipulate and fake the news with impunity for years.

"Indeed, as NBC News was indulging in its Bush-deranged feeding frenzy over the "staged" talk with the troops, one of the network's crack reporters, Michelle Kosinski, was rowing a canoe in a few inches of water in New Jersey to create the illusion of dangerous flood conditions. The illusion was comically destroyed when two men walked in front of the camera with water barely reaching their ankles.

"NBC News, of course, knows all about staging events (you remember those faked GM truck crash tests). The rest of the mainstream media know whereof they speak as well -- from Cokie Roberts' faked U.S. Capitol backdrop on ABC News to CBS's manufactured National Guard memos on "60 Minutes" to the bogus reports of Jayson Blair, Mike Barnicle, Janet Cooke, Diana Griego Erwin, Mitch Albom, Stephen Glass, Eric Slater and Jack Kelley.

"As they spin the Saddam trial and deride our soldiers in Iraq, the lesson is clear: These media masters of theater are incapable of delivering real drama and good news unless they control the script

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AP - MASTER OF THE "NEWSITORIAL"

All from Best of the Web Today

Meanwhile, check out this hard-hitting editorial on the Plame kerfuffle:

Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's CIA-leak inquiry is focusing attention on what long has been a tactic of U.S. President George W. Bush's administration: slash-and-burn assaults on its critics, particularly those opposed to the president's Iraq war policies.

If top officials are indicted, it could seriously erode the administration's credibility and prove yet another embarrassment to Bush on the larger issue of how he and his national security team marshaled information--much of it later shown to be inaccurate--to support their case for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

Oh wait, that isn't an editorial; it's an Associated Press "news" story. Hard to tell the difference sometimes.

NOAM CHOMSKY, WORLD'S GREATEST

Intellectual Hypocrite.

Another Hero of the MSN exposed.

SLEAZE AT CNN

How Low Will They Go?

     Here's CNN's Wolf Blitzer springing a surprise "Gotcha" question at Bill Bennett's brother, while interviewing him on an utterly non-family related matter.

     Watch how Blitzer tries to slither away from admitting what he's done by hiding behind weasel words when his victim calls him on the dirty trick.

BLITZER: While you're here, I'm going to switch gears dramatically on you and ask you a question about your brother. As you know, he's in hot water for some remarks he made yesterday on his radio show, Bill Bennett. Listen to this exchange he had with a caller.

(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)

WILLIAM BENNETT, FORMER EDUCATION SECRETARY: One of the arguments in this book "Freakonomics" that they make is that the declining crime rate, you know, they deal with this hypothesis, that one of the reasons crime is down is that abortion is up.

CALLER: Well, I don't think that statistic is accurate.

W. BENNETT: Well, I don't think it is either. I don't think it is either because first of all, I think there's just too much that you don't know. But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down.

That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far out -- these far reaching, you know, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.

(END AUDIO CLIP)

BLITZER: Have you discussed this issue with him?

R. BENNETT: Well, no. And, Wolf, let me say, I am rather disappointed at you for not telling me you would ask me about that. This was about Judy Miller, and I think that's a courtesy you could have extended to me. What I would emphasize is Bill's comment that such a position would be morally reprehensible, I think it's largely making a mountain out of a molehill.

I mean, I suppose I'll get in trouble by saying that it's well established that men are more violent than women and so maybe if we abort all male babies, we would have a safer world. So I think this is really much ado about nothing.

BLITZER: Well, the reason I ask is because I know you and your brother love each other and you are good brothers. And it was only obvious to me, I assume, that you know I would ask a newsworthy question.

R. BENNETT: I didn't know that at all, Wolf. In the past you've always been very straight with me. And I'm honest with you and I'm offended by that.

BLITZER: All right. That's fair enough.

R. BENNETT: But I have never discussed this with him at all.

BLITZER: You are a good lawyer and a good brother and a good friend. Thanks very much for joining us.

R. BENNETT: OK, you're welcome.

BLITZER: Robert Bennett joining us here in THE SITUATION ROOM.

NBC: DECEPTIVE? WHO, US?

The mask slips again. This time, on the Today show.

"...the NBC News correspondent was paddling in a canoe during a live report about flooding in Wayne, N.J.

While she talked, two men walked between her and the camera  -  making it apparent that the water where she was floating was barely ankle-deep..."

"It's not like we were trying to pass it off as something it wasn't," spokeswoman Lauren Kapp said.

Certainly not. Deception packaged as news? MSN would never do a thing like that - except when they do.

One of the MSN's weaker points is the "character issue." They ain't got none. More here.

*MSN: Main stream News