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Now That They Will Control Both Houses, Democratic Party Has The Burden Of Delivering On Promises

This message is for undecided women voters: you are the group that can decide this election. That also makes you responsible for your own future, and mine. War is distasteful, and it is scary; that goes without saying. However, unless you look good in a designer BURKA, and are used to holding your tongue and hiding your face, heed these words well. right now, this war may be an ocean away, but it can just as easily follow us to the streets of New York, Detroit, Buffalo, and anytown, USA; 911 is proof of that. If you think for a moment that you in your cute little True Religion jeans would be spared a public beheading in Yankee Stadium, just so some twisted terrorist could make an example of you, then you are wrong! Sympathizing with the enemy will not save you! Pretending they don't exist will not save you! Only STANDING UP will save this country and your freedom!

Wake up women of America. Fear is you enemy; perhaps even more than the terrorists!

Please...help us win the war for FREEDOM! Vote Republican!

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I was watching Fox last night and I could detect a diffrent tone. Was it bias? Maybe. But was it bias or was it the truth? CBS is obviously liberal. From the postings the customers write to the article selection. At this moment Fox has the Iran missle launch story on their web site. I could not find it here. I suspect because some one thaught it might help Republicans. CBS has a poll favoring Democrats as the lead story. I can't tell if fox leans right or it just looks that way because every one else is so far left. It makes since FOX has the highest ratings. Wich would suggest they are more unbiased.

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Good question "bluestardad".

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Why was there bias?
Was it because the news talks alot about Iraq? Well then, I hope there is a bunch of the networks talking about Iraq, because it is a mess we should not be in. That's "bias" well placed.

If you look for bias, you're gonna find it. It's like the old saying goes, "Seek and yee shall find". If you want the news or if you WANT to be informed, then you're gonna have to change the channel, and by that I mean get more sources for your information. Watch all the channels; listen to the shows you "hate" sometimes. Open your mind and piece together what you think is important based on facts and logic, not emotions and talking points.

Stop being afraid of debate.

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Conservatives often promote the myth that the U.S. media are liberal. This myth serves several purposes: it raises public skepticism about liberal news stories, hides conservative bias when it appears, and goads the media to the right. GOP strategist William Kristol also reveals another reason: "I admit it: the liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures." (1)

In unguarded moments, however, even far-right figures like Pat Buchanan come clean: "The truth is, I've gotten fairer, more comprehensive coverage of my ideas than I ever imagined I would receive." He further conceded: "I've gotten balanced coverage and broad coverage -- all we could have asked%u2026 For heaven sakes, we kid about the liberal media, but every Republican on earth does that." (2)

So what's the real story? The fact is that conservatives have powerful friends in the media: the corporations that own them, and the corporations that pay for their advertising. These giant firms have been increasingly successful in bending the media's message to suit their self-interests, which include a conservative and pro-corporate agenda. Studies show that the media are eerily silent on the issues most important to workers, consumers and other citizens adversely affected by corporate behavior. Conservatives respond to these charges with (old) polls showing that most journalists are personally liberal, but these polls are outdated.

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The Center For Media AND Public Afairs is a GOP funded and run organisation. If you've got something from a nonpartisan source let's see it.

The U.S. media are rapidly being monopolized by a dwindling number of parent corporations, all of whom have conservative economic agendas. The media are also critically dependent upon corporations for advertising. As a result, the news almost completely ignores corporate crime, as well as pro-labor and pro-consumer issues. Surveys of journalists show that the majority were personally liberal in the 1980s, but today they are centrists, with more conservatives than liberals on economic issues. However, no study has proven that they give their personal bias to the news. On the other hand, the political spectrum of pundits -- who do engage in noisy editorializing -- leans heavily to the right. The most extreme example of this is talk radio, where liberals are almost nonexistent. The Fairness Doctrine was designed to prevent one-sided bias in the media by requiring broadcasters to air opposing views. It once enjoyed the broad support of both liberals and conservatives. But now that the media have become increasingly owned and controlled by corporations, conservatives defiantly oppose the Fairness Doctrine. This is probably the best proof that the media's bias is conservative, not liberal.

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The Center For Media AND Public Afairs is a GOP funded and run organisation. If you've got something from a nonpartisan source let's see it.

The U.S. media are rapidly being monopolized by a dwindling number of parent corporations, all of whom have conservative economic agendas. The media are also critically dependent upon corporations for advertising. As a result, the news almost completely ignores corporate crime, as well as pro-labor and pro-consumer issues. Surveys of journalists show that the majority were personally liberal in the 1980s, but today they are centrists, with more conservatives than liberals on economic issues. However, no study has proven that they give their personal bias to the news. On the other hand, the political spectrum of pundits -- who do engage in noisy editorializing -- leans heavily to the right. The most extreme example of this is talk radio, where liberals are almost nonexistent. The Fairness Doctrine was designed to prevent one-sided bias in the media by requiring broadcasters to air opposing views. It once enjoyed the broad support of both liberals and conservatives. But now that the media have become increasingly owned and controlled by corporations, conservatives defiantly oppose the Fairness Doctrine. This is probably the best proof that the media's bias is conservative, not liberal.

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Where is Mark Foley? Why is he not in Jail? He solicited underage children for ***. Why has he not been charged? Why is he permitted to roam free after his 30 days in Rehab? Is there a different standard for child predators if they are from Congress? If he were on Dateline NBC he would have been arrested. Please let us know and take action, the American People are watching.

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Bush won't rally the GOP or Republicans.

Republicans are wallowing in the mess they advocated for in Iraq.

I hope they all stay home and think about what they've done.

The Democrats should take control so we get to see the depth of the GOP/Republican incompetence in Congress.

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Here's a few good reasons to apologize to the troops and their families. See if you can figure out who owes them one.

1. For asking them to lay down their lives for a lie and continuing to lie when those lies were exposed.

2. For pretending to support and care about the troops while you underpay, under man, under equip, and ask them to do a job that you did not train them to do.

3. For pretending to care about them while simultaneously cutting funding for their healthcare when they get injured.

4. For bungling the planning and execution of the war/reconstruction and asking them to lay down their lives playing referee in a civil war.

5. For using this war as an opportunity to enrich yourselves and your friends with corrupt no-bid contracts and sending cronies to oversee the rebuilding.

6. For listening to pundits instead of the experts who told you that this would go exactly the way it has.

7. For pretending to know or even care what offends the troops.

8. For telling the troops they're coming home and keeping them there and or repeatedly sending them back.

It's time for you "bumper-sticker patriots" to challenge yourselves by looking deeper than the slogans and sound-bites and really start being concerned about what's happening to our troops.