Congressman Dennis Kucinich's articles of Impeachment of Vice President Cheney presents a stunning catalog of the lies made by our Vice President. The graphics below (click graphics to enlarge) shows where Vice President Cheney made these lies.
Congressman Dennis Kucinich's articles of Impeachment of Vice President Cheney presents a stunning catalog of the lies made by our Vice President. The graphics below (click graphics to enlarge) shows where Vice President Cheney made these lies. As noted in this graphic, the largest portion of these lies were made on Tim Russert's "Meet the Press".
See original at http://coolaqua.blogs.com/... for graphics
But to take a closer look at this, lets remove all the non commercial media outlets, and just focus on the media outlets where Cheney lied. This view reveals that NBC was responsible for allowing Vice President Cheney to lie without challenge. Over 58% of the vice President's were made on GE's NBC.
This graphic seems to back up reports that NBC's owner, GE (ie ex-CEO Jack Welch), was complicit with Karl Rove and White House in spreading its lies. GE CEO Jack Welch personally negotiated Tim Russert's contract. Tim's tenor towards Democrats, and his willingness to allow Administration Officials to make unchallenged statements on his show increased after Welch negotiated his contract.
CEO Jack Welch is now retired, but is GE still corrupt politically? This is really an issue that should be taken up by the FCC, it directly relates to the perils of Media Consolidation.
The articles of Impeachment seem to document that a single US Corporation, GE, is essentially responsible for launching the US into a war on false premises.
I certainly don't expect the FCC to do anything about this during President Bush's term. But these facts will weigh heavily on advocates of further media consolidation once a new President is elected, and a new FCC staff is appointed.
One thing to keep in mind is that the Articles of Impeachment only list lies made directly by Dick Cheney. There's a whole other series of lies that should be listed which were put in the New York Times by Judith Miller. Miller was a conduit for White House lies that were "leaked" to Miller and presented as fact.