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NPR is the Devil!
We have NPR on in the office this morning. They are discussing the debate and "misstatements" made by each candidate. Again, even on NPR, their effort to be balanced ends up making the entire report a heaping pile of bullshit.
For example, Edwards discussed the FACT that Halliburton has paid fines and is under investigation for accounting fraud that occurred when Dick Cheney was CEO and that these accounting frauds are just like Enron and Ken Lay.
NPR points out that while it is true that Halliburton misstated their income by over a hundred million dollars and that their CFO has been found guilty of fraud (all on Cheney's watch), it is not quite on the scale of Enron, so Edwards was being misleading.
Cheney, of course, lied about terrorists in Iraq and chemical weapons plants in Baghdad. First of all, this Al-Zarqawi motherfucker wasn't in Baghdad and secondly, if he was making chemical weapons in a plant in Iraq, where the hell are the weapons and where the hell is the plant? If we knew about it why haven't we found any weapons of mass destruction? There is no exaggeration here or question on the scale of terrorist activities, Cheney is lying.
Why does the media insist on bringing up nuanced examples of "misstatements" by Kerry and Edwards to compare to the astonishingly bold lies by Bush and Cheney?
For example, Edwards discussed the FACT that Halliburton has paid fines and is under investigation for accounting fraud that occurred when Dick Cheney was CEO and that these accounting frauds are just like Enron and Ken Lay.
NPR points out that while it is true that Halliburton misstated their income by over a hundred million dollars and that their CFO has been found guilty of fraud (all on Cheney's watch), it is not quite on the scale of Enron, so Edwards was being misleading.
Cheney, of course, lied about terrorists in Iraq and chemical weapons plants in Baghdad. First of all, this Al-Zarqawi motherfucker wasn't in Baghdad and secondly, if he was making chemical weapons in a plant in Iraq, where the hell are the weapons and where the hell is the plant? If we knew about it why haven't we found any weapons of mass destruction? There is no exaggeration here or question on the scale of terrorist activities, Cheney is lying.
Why does the media insist on bringing up nuanced examples of "misstatements" by Kerry and Edwards to compare to the astonishingly bold lies by Bush and Cheney?
posted by littleboxes at 8:32 AM
2 Comments:
The best thing for Edwards, Kerry, and the Dem's to do in light of this "balanced" treatment is to unashamedly start telling lies along the lines of cheney et. al. since seriousness of the "misstatement" clearly does not matter to the media. For instance, he could have said that George W. Bush is a pedophile, which incidentally I've heard is true, and perhaps have gotten away w/it w/his cute kids in his arms. But I'm not convinced that Edwards hates the Repubs enough. --Reader J
a pedophile? is that true? I've never heard of anything that crazy.
--duus
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