Daily Archives: February 13th, 2006 «

 

How the media manufactures a scandal

Posted by: ST on February 13, 2006 at 1:32 pm » 89 Comments

You’re watching it and reading it all over the news – the ‘scandal’ over the accidental shooting by VP Dick Cheney of fellow hunter Harry Whittington. Newsbusters gives the lowdown on how Charlie Gibson on Good Morning America tried to spin this story this morning. Unfortunately, Gibson isn’t the only one. Michelle Malkin reports that [...]

 

The next Bush/Abramoff photo?

Posted by: ST on February 13, 2006 at 11:05 am » 3 Comments

Time Magazine published a photo (click through the ones on that page) this past weekend of the President and disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff – it was introduced with dramatic flair, as if to show that this was a “gotcha” moment from the press towards the President. Note the red circle around Abramoff’s head – in [...]

 

Al Gore sells out the US on Saudi soil

Posted by: ST on February 13, 2006 at 9:28 am » 29 Comments

Way to go, Al: JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia – Former Vice President Al Gore told a mainly Saudi audience on Sunday that the U.S. government committed “terrible abuses” against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment. Gore said Arabs had been “indiscriminately rounded up” and held in [...]