CNN spinning for Bush

Oh my god. CNN just did a report on Inside Politics, about Social Security and the competing "road shows". Coverage of the Dem event started with "protestors" outside mocking the Democrats as ostriches with "their head in the sand" and a soundbyte from a young guy wanting the "option" of private accounts. Then the reporter knocked the Dem event because questions were not taken from the audience and the only "real people" (dripping with reporter's sarcasem) were on the stage with "prepared" comments. He then contrasted this with the Santorum event where "democrats infiltrated the event" with nasty comments. Awful. Awful. Awful. There is no liberal media. The corporate media has no shame. I am enraged.

•  Corrupt Press

  We should simply refer to the "Pravda Press."

  by Geonomist on Fri Mar 04, 2005 at 12:39:52 PM PDT

•  remember

  the first step at controlling a population is controlling what it hears in the news.  

  by jalapeno on Fri Mar 04, 2005 at 12:40:59 PM PDT

•  Capitalistpig News Network

  They really are amazing, aren't they?  Eason Jordanism strikes again!

  by Sean Robertson on Fri Mar 04, 2005 at 12:46:08 PM PDT

•  yep saw it too

  but what do you expect from sloppy whores?

  by reef the dog on Fri Mar 04, 2005 at 12:46:30 PM PDT

•  CNN = FOX

  
   This became painfully obvious to me in the aftermath of the 2000 Election.

    Judy Woodriff
    Wolf Blitzer
    Bill Schneider
    Tucker Carlson
    Robert Novak
    Aaron Brown
    Paula Zahn
    et. all

    There is no difference between these folks
    and Brit Hume or Mort Kondracke, etc.

    Its the same fact-free, twisted-around, snide-based, anti-democratic, pro-Bush presentation of "news".

  by NewAmerica on Fri Mar 04, 2005 at 12:50:15 PM PDT

  •  ding, ding!

    Right you are. And Brown's shows this week have been especially atrocious.

    by Omar on Fri Mar 04, 2005 at 01:43:10 PM PDT

•  I would like to say

  That I'm shocked, but I'm not.  I haven't see the clip you're talking about, but I'll check out possible transcripts.  I'm so over CNN, to the point where I flip off the bldg. every time I drive by and I don't even then they're still in there.  

  by fabooj on Fri Mar 04, 2005 at 12:53:39 PM PDT

•  While Lou Dobbs isn't on board

  It should be noted that the Chairman and CEO of Time Warner, Richard Parsons, was co-chair of Bush's Social Security Board a few years back and has this to say about it:

  Supporters of personal accounts argue that if the system is not changed, future retirees will not get the benefits being promised today. Though going to a system of investment accounts means the government would cut promised benefits, participants theoretically could make up the difference through their investments.

  "This result is superior, particularly compared to the returns you would get leaving that money with the government," said Richard Parsons, chairman and chief executive of Time Warner Inc. and co-chairman of the 2001 Presidential Commission to Strengthen Social Security.

  "People ought to be able to start to save on their own behalf to create wealth for themselves so that they have that wealth to look to in their later years, as opposed to a government promise only, which at some point in time is going to have to come up empty," he said.

  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/12/15/politics/main661178.shtml

  by Viktor on Fri Mar 04, 2005 at 12:55:35 PM PDT

•  The sad thing is ...

  
  When CNN first started out (pioneering the whole cable news phenomenon), it looked like a progression from the dull, filtered, and often dishonest ( Kennedy Assasination, Vietnam, etc., blame-stuff-on-Carter, portray-Reagan-as-a-hero ) CBS/NBC/ABC  monopoly on news that we had been stuck with.

  As soon as Bill Clinton was elected in 1992, CNN began to dramatically swing-around, bit-by-bit each day, and every year until it reached its one-dimensional FOX-Faux news status (during the shoot-down health-care, hype-up WhiteWater, lets get Clinton on sex, Greenspan not Clinton made the economy work ...  period that led up to the disgraceful 2000 election - where we were told that the unaccomplished,unqualified,lying,bumbling,ex-drunk,son-of-a-failed-president, George W. Bush was :  "an honest and decent man" unlike Al Gore, whom we were instructed we must reject).

  CNN, in many ways, is worse than FOX News because people are inclined to believe it more and think that it is the "real news" due to its original positive history  (whereas FOX was transparantly biased right from day one).

  It is time that we have an "OUTFOXED" type of documentary about CNN and show to people - that it ain't a matter of just one station here.

  by NewAmerica on Fri Mar 04, 2005 at 03:12:23 PM PDT