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Jan 29, 2007
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(Vol. Twenty; No. 3)
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Saddened by Hillary's
"Burden" |
"Is it any kind of a burden for you, Senator, that so many opinions are
pre-formed? Americans know Hillary Rodham Clinton."
- Anchor Brian
Williams interviewing Hillary Clinton on the January 22 NBC Nightly News.
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Hillary Too Timid for
Katie? |
"Senator Clinton, you're against sending
additional troops to Iraq, and according to our latest poll, 66 percent of
Americans agree with you. So why not vote to cut off funding so the
President can't carry out this policy?"
- Katie Couric to Hillary Clinton on the January 22 CBS Evening News.
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Toasting Pelosi's "Freight
Train" |
"A short while ago, the Democratic-led House
passed the final measure of its self-declared first one hundred hours in
office....It was an energy bill that would encourage investment in
alternative energy sources and lower oil industry subsidies....The House, by
the way, completed their scheduled hundred hours of work in just about 42
hours, so they can put the other 58 in the bank."
- ABC's Charles
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"Like a freight train, she's already moved six major pieces of
legislation through the House - everything from stem cells to minimum wage.
And whatever side you're on, when this new Speaker moves, she moves fast.
Nancy Pelosi says power is not handed to you, you have to know how to win
it. When she walks into a room, she is quiet, polite. But her fellow
politicians say she's galvanized steel with a smile."
- ABC's Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America, Jan. 19.
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No War If Women Ran
World... |
"Do you believe that if there were more women presidents in the world, there
would be less war? How sure are you that there would be less war?"
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Diane Sawyer tossing out a question to all 16 female U.S. Senators on ABC's
Good Morning America, Jan. 17.
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But Is America Too
Backwards? |
"There was a Newsweek poll recently
that showed that 35 percent of American people do not think America is ready
for a woman president....What has taken America so long? We've got, what,
six, seven, female presidents, six prime ministers that I know about in the
world."
- Sawyer in a second segment with the female Senators about an
hour later in the same program.
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Katie's Feminist Critique |
"It's still thrilling - and even a little
awe-inspiring - to get 'briefed' at the White House, no matter who is
sitting in the Oval Office. And yet, the meeting was a little disconcerting
as well. As I was looking at my colleagues around the room - Charlie Gibson,
George Stephanopoulos, Brian Williams, Tim Russert, Bob Schieffer, Wolf
Blitzer, and Brit Hume - I couldn't help but notice, despite how far we've
come, that I was still the only woman there....The feminist movement that
began in the 1970s helped women make tremendous strides - but there still
haven't been enough great leaps for womankind....That meeting was a reality
check for me - and not just about Iraq. It was a reminder that all of us
still have an obligation to ask: Don't more women deserve a place at the
table too?"
- CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric in a January
15 "Couric & Co." blog posting on CBSNews.com, referring to a White House
briefing held in advance of President Bush's January 10 speech on Iraq.
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More Taxes, Please |
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Host George Stephanopoulos: "You were
Secretary of Energy. Energy independence, as you say, is going to be one of
the number one issues in the campaign. And you've talked about alternative
energy. But isn't it going to take real sacrifice, real cutbacks in
consumption if we're going to be energy independent?...Higher gas taxes?" |
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Governor Bill Richardson (D-NM): "It's going to be a collaborative
effort. No, you don't have to do it with taxes...."
Stephanopoulos: "But aren't higher energy taxes the best way to get
people to conserve?"
- ABC's This Week, January 21.
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John McCain vs. "Far Right" |
"Plus, Senator John McCain takes
not-so-friendly fire from the far right. Why he is fending off criticism
from an evangelical leader....Senator John McCain is fending off fire from
the far-right flank this morning. A leading evangelical minister says
there's no way he could support McCain."
- CNN's Miles O'Brien first
teasing, then introducing a report on James Dobson's opposition to McCain,
January 16 American Morning.
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Which Way Is It? |
"Bush Cheered at Fort Benning"
- Headline
of a January 11 Associated Press report.
vs.
"Bush Speaks and Base Is Subdued"
- New York Times headline on same trip, January 12.
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Fox's 24 = "Naked
Brainwashing" |
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"Is 24 propaganda? Is it fearmongering?
Or is it a program-length commercial for one political party?...If the
irrational right can claim that the news is fixed to try to alter people's
minds, or that networks should be boycotted for nudity or for immorality,
shouldn't those same groups be saying 24 should be taken off of TV
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- MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on the
January 16 Countdown, reacting to how the Fox drama depicted
terrorists detonating a "suitcase nuke" near Los Angeles.
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Media's "Plantation
Mentality" |
"As we saw in the run-up to the invasion of
Iraq, the plantation mentality that governs Washington turned the press
corps into sitting ducks for the war party, for government, and
neoconservative propaganda and manipulation.....What's happened is not
indifference or laziness or incompetence, but the fact that most journalists
on the plantation have so internalized conventional wisdom that they simply
accept that the system is working as it should. I'm doing a documentary this
spring called 'Buying the War,' and I can't tell you again how many
reporters have told me that it just never occurred to them that high
officials would manipulate intelligence in order to go to war. Hello?"
- PBS's Bill Moyers, in a January 12 speech to a conference on "media
reform" aired four days later on the left-wing Pacifica network's
Democracy Now.
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"Hard to Portray" Good Iraq
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"[Life in Iraq] isn't entirely what it seems. You know, we're really good at
getting across the relentless bombing and the violence, but it's really a lot
harder for us to portray those spaces in between....When you wake up early in
the morning, if you can be out on the streets, which we can't anymore, the sun
shining, there are children walking to school, there are girls and boys, there
are Iraqi girls who are walking to school, and it's that wonderful sign of
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resilience that is the fabric, the background of life there. Now, to go out
and do that story, we would not only be putting ourselves in danger and our
local people in danger, we'd probably be putting those children in danger
because that is the nature of television. I worked under Saddam Hussein in
Saddam's Iraq, and this is harder now than it ever was then."
- Baghdad
reporter Jane Arraf on the January 19 NBC Nightly News.
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Pelosi, Sweeper of the
House |
Diane Sawyer: "I'm going to tell you
what she [Nancy Pelosi] did, I'm willing to bet, no Speaker of the House has
ever done in the entire history of the United States of America....We're
walking along with the camera, she looks at the carpet. It has lint on it,
little scraps of paper. She can't stand it. She gets down and cleans the
carpet so we could walk. And she looks up at me and says, 'It's just the
bonus of having a female Speaker of the House.'"
Robin Roberts:
"Yeah. Don't think any of the guys did that. All right, Diane. Have a safe
trip back home."
David Muir: "A clean rotunda on Capitol Hill."
Roberts: "Got to love it!"
- ABC's Good Morning America, January 19.
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