Why didn't the liberal media let us see this? Quotes from former Republican House Majority leader?
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This president must apologize to the troops for having suggested, six weeks ago, that the chaos in Iraq, the death and the carnage, the slaughtered Iraqi civilians and the dead American service personnel, will, to history, “look like just a comma.”\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops because the intelligence he claims led us into Iraq proved to be undeniably and irredeemably wrong.\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops for having laughed about the failure of that intelligence at a banquet while our troops were in harm’s way.\n\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops because the streets of Iraq were not strewn with flowers and its residents did not greet them as liberators.\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops because his administration ran out of “plan” after barely two months.\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops for getting 2,815 of them killed.\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops for getting this country into a war without a clue.\n\nAnd Mr. Bush owes us an apology for this destructive and omnivorous presidency.\n\nWe will not receive them, of course.\n\nThis president never apologizes.\n\nNot to the troops.\n\nNot to the people.\n\nNor will those henchmen who have echoed him.\n\nIn calling him a “stuffed suit,” Sen. Kerry was wrong about the press secretary. \n\nMr. Snow’s words and conduct, falsely earnest and earnestly false, suggest he is not “stuffed,” he is inflated.\n\nAnd in leaving him out of the equation, Sen. Kerry gave an unwarranted pass to his old friend Sen. John McCain, who should be ashamed of himself tonight.\n\nHe rolled over and pretended Kerry had said what he obviously had not.\n\nOnly, the symbolic stick he broke over Kerry’s head came in a context even more disturbing.
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At least your account didn't get hacked down-- like mine.\n\nAs much as I would like to slam every lib here, I can't.\n\nIt's only a handful of especially bitter and threatened libs.\n\nNot all of 'em are soulless.\n\n\n\n\nGee, a thumbs down.\n\nIs it one of you "reporters"?
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I guess it's only if the media wants to run with the story...how much ratings it will get them to report it over and over again. Your Political Parties are fueled off the main stream media, so if your famous, and you make a rude remark, and it is getting closer to the elections, it will be smeared everywhere. Or they "the liberals" really don't want to hear or care what Hollywood is saying unless it's for their cause and it starts getting more air time.
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All that and more: the stop lights on my way to work were mistimed, so I missed them both. But I think that was Cheney's fault.\nIf only liberals could take a joke... one that's not named Clinton or Kennedy, that is.
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its funny, but even though one can produce word for word accounts, and their own ppl found "no reliable evidence" there will be ppl that will immediately dismiss things like that as "liberalist media" or some crap. \n\ni love it when they use clips on the daily show of bush or rumsfield from a year ago (often much less) and then clip from today, and the things they're saying are polar opposties.\n\ni.e. rumsfield saying "we know where the wmd's are, they're south, north, east and west of baghdad" \n\nand then a week or two ago "i never said we knew where they were".\n\nbrilliant
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That is F-ing great,, right from the the source this republican beast claims as it's forefathers! Ha! If that was broadcast today people would be calling it liberal media propaganda. Great!.
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I am paying attention. The reason these are not made more public is because it takes all of the steam out of the left's anti-war argument. \n\nIf things can be proven to be going well in Iraq, then they would have no basis for an argument.
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I think Ralph Nader's statement may have been about news and entertainment.  5% of the people control the content of the news and entertainment we all see.  People are influenced by what they see in the media.  It is obvious by your questions that you are buying everything the liberal left is selling you.  When you say the planet is going down the drain it implies things used to be better.  Perhaps you preferred our nation before the Civil Rights movement?  Maybe you liked it when women couldn't vote?  Remember that politicians made those changes.  The World is both better now and worse now depending on the issue you are looking at.  I believe people are about as happy as they choose to be.  It appears you have chosen to be bitter and negative.  That will impact your life far more than it will impact others who choose to be happy.  Does that mean I agree with everything going on in our nation or the world?  NO!  I simply choose to focus on the issues directly in front of me that I can have some impact on.  I try to help the people I meet and work to build a better community where I live.  As for spending my days debating national politics I recognize the truth of what Ralph Nader said.  I really only know what the 5% tell me about any issue.  I do not spout the "party line" for either party.  I look for evidence of good outcomes from action rather than jumping on the bandwagon to hate "liberals or conservatives" just for the label the 5% have given them.  I also realize that my vote is the only real political power I have in this country, unless I am willing to do the work of building a coalition of voters. It seems today that the political climate in our nation tends to be more shrill.  We are fast to say "I hate the person" so none of their ideas can be good rather than examine the ideas.  As for your sub question "Exactly how stupid ARE the people in this country?  I would say it's more a question of being lazy than of being stupid.  It's easy to turn on the TV and choose which side you want to cheer for.  It's far more work to examine issues in your own community and work for solutions to problems you find.  Always remember, no matter what the talking heads on TV tell you the truth is "LIFE IS A GRASSROOTS ISSUE BECAUSE IT HAPPENS RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE"
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Went to your first link and found the quote, the exact words. So they did report it.\n\nI've now heard three explanations of what happened. One it was a joke. Two, it was a joke and he messed up his lines, and now it was a statement about Bush.\n\nNow, I can understand how anyone can mess up a prepared speech, but to say you stand behind your statement and then say that its a botched joke about the president....and they know that’s what I was talking about.\n\nYes I know what you were talking about, our troops, you said it plain and simple.\n\nI don't understand why John Kerry just doesn't apologize for the statement, unless he meant it about our troops.
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I would like to say how completely outraged I am with the New York Times.  When they reveal secret programs aimed at finding terrorist, they put my husband, a US Marine, and the men and women serving with him, at risk.  They don't have a right to endanger my husband's life more than it is.  I agreed with Mr. Daly (on the O'Reilly Factor Friday night) when he said that in order to have liberty we must have secret programs.  Thanks to the left wing media, a secret program is now considered to be a cover-up and dangerous to our civil liberties.  As far as a I am concerned, the left wing is just as bad as the terrorist at the moment.  Shame on the New York Times and all the papers that revealed this program.  God bless America and God bless our troops.
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Gee that's funny, I throw bombs at liberals for fun, and my email is always open.  The day I become afraid of liberals, I pray someone in my family will run me down with their car.\n    Sadly, only one had emailed me, and as it turned out it was nothing but an intelligent respectful argument.  \n   So friend, allow me now to insult your factless whiny accusation.  You do not inevitably see it. That is somewhere on the scale of wishful thinking to downright lie.  So put the picture of Speaker Pelosi away, pull your pants up, and stop crying.  There are better ways to celebrate your election day afterglow isn't there?
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Look what the conservative media does \nThey were the only ones that would consider airing that trash with OJ Simpson\nNecons like to say theres a liberal media bias because they say so many bad things about the President\nWell how bout this \nHow bout Bush does something right for once\nThe guys been wrong on everything The Budget, WMD's\nIraq\nThe guy screws up everything he touches
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I saw him on Fox News last night, and I think he is one of the most incoherent academics I've ever seen--and that's quite a feat.\n\nHow come the liberal media didn't give him a hard time for calling ALL of the World Trade Center victims "Little Eichmans", but they fell all over themselves to excoriate Ann Coulter for what she said about the Witches of New Brunswick?
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Because the press has a liberal bias.
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Ooooh.  Are you connected to the republican talking points?\nBecause that's what YOU are saying, \nnot the media.\nbecuz thats wat Republicans do.
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OMG! "The document is only available to the certain members of Congress and the Home Land Security."?????\n\nIt is answers like these that EVERYONE should take shame in. There are good liberals who believe that the Democrats are right and can make good arguments against the Patriot Act. I don't necessarily agree with them, but the arguments can be made. Political debate is the cornerstone of our great republic and answers like the two before mine do a great disservice to our nation and the liberal cause.\n\nIf you are a liberal, I challenge you to challenge these two answers.\n\nThe original text of the Patriot Act can be found in a PDF file here:\n\nhttp://files.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/terrorism/hr3162.pdf\n\nAn online, searchable version can be found here:\n\nhttp://www.asksam.com/eBooks/Patriot%5FAct/\n\nAnswerman and Margret_Moses - please take your nonsense elsewhere. People are actually trying to expand their horizons here.\n\nEDIT: You liberals are absolutely amazing. Here someone is trying to expand their horizons, and you CONTINUALLY spread VERIFIABLE out-and-out lies. If you absolutely insist, I will provide your .gov link to the document:\n\nhttp://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=107_cong_public_laws&docid=f:publ056.107.pdf#search='text%20of%20patriot%20act%20.gov'\n\nThat is the website to the Government Printing Office (GPO). Official enough for you?\n\nNow, open version and open the link to the findlaw.com link I supplied. Notice anything funny? HEY!! IT'S THE SAME DOCUMENT! Same number of pages, same words on every page, the same document.\n\nAs I said, I can PROVE what I post here ... How are you going to prove your statement, Margret_Moses ... ummmm, I mean Larry_Joe.
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Good question!  Why wasn't leaking Plame's identity treason?  What happened to the free press, or is it only free if Bush says so?