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CBS Smears Kerry
Critics;
Iraq Abuse = My Lai Massacre?!
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Tuesday, May 11, 2004
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The
so-called mainstream media never admit their liberal tilt, so the
news analysts at the Media Research Center tirelessly document the
media's bias and expose their left-wing agenda. The "awards" for
last week's lowlights:
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CBS Smears Kerry Critics. CBS
must find it intolerable that a group of Vietnam veterans — including
some of John Kerry's former commanding officers — called the candidate
"unfit to be the Commander-in-Chief." So on the May 4 CBS Evening News,
reporter Byron Pitts smeared the critics: "If you think this is just a
group of concerned veterans, think again."
| "It's
the same strategy used to go after Georgia Senator Max Cleland,
who lost three limbs in Vietnam," Pitts proclaimed, presenting a
Democratic myth as fact. Vets opposing Kerry had nothing to do
with Cleland's loss in 2002, of course, and the GOP campaign
against him focused on Cleland's Senate votes, not Vietnam. Pitts
ignored all of these facts, but he did reward Democrats with an
anti-GOP soundbite from Cleland himself: "If you don't go to war,
don't throw rocks at those who did."
For more, see the
May 5 CyberAlert. |
Instead of
scrutinizing John Kerry, CBS's Byron Pitts smeared Kerry's
critics. |
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Iraq Abuse = Vietnam's
My Lai Massacre. The
anti-war media has certainly capitalized on reports of prisoner
abuse in Iraq, but a May 4 report on CNN's Inside Politics pushed
the "America is awful" line harder than any other network story.
Anchor Judy Woodruff began by asking whether Donald Rumsfeld was
correct when he branded the abusive acts as "un-American." "But are
they?" she wondered.
| Reporter Bruce
Morton went back to the '60s to show a pattern of American
atrocities: "We like to think that we're the good guys. But
we're not. Not always." Morton then launched into the story of
the 1968 My Lai massacre, in which hundreds of civilians were
killed. But he failed to say that the awful My Lai killings were
an aberration in American military history, not at all
indicative of the morality of American soldiers.
For more, see the
May 5 CyberAlert. |
Bruce Morton
likened the Iraqi prison abuse to a Vietnam-era massacre of
civilians. |
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