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Sunday, July 26, 2015

The Lies of Face the Nation and the Rest of the 'Liberal Media'

     So we see again what a piece of creative fiction the claim that there's a 'liberal media ' really is. Just check out Face the Nation this morning. The first 3 interviews were Republicans-Rand Paul, Rick Perry, and Bob Jindal.

    Ok, maybe that was a fluke-I don't think you get preoccupied with a headcount-though if this shows up week after week-as it sometimes has, that's different.

   But it is simply inexcusable that FN host, John Dickerson, in the first interview, with Rand Paul, asks him-for the first question of the show-about the 'reports that the DOJ is investigating Hillary's emails'-without even hinting at the fact that these reports from the NY Times-again putting the lie to the liberal media as the Times is alleged to be the Queen of the liberal media-have been already proven utterly and egregiously false.

  http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/with-hillary-ny-times-is-again-playing.html

  The whole liberal media meme has always been a brilliant political weapon: for Republicans.

  As it turns out, because of Dickerson's history at Slate magazine he may feel he has to work twice as hard to show he's not a liberal.

   https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/01/22/cbss-john-dickerson-pushes-back-at-conservative-critics/

  If the media is always trying to prove it's not liberal the GOP has already won. Meanwhile as Media Matters says, there a whole host of unanswered questions on the Time's false report of a DOJ criminal investigation into Hillary's emails starting with-who was the source?

  "In its initial article, the Times reported: "Two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether Hillary Rodham Clinton mishandled sensitive government information on a private email account she used as secretary of state, senior government officials said Thursday."

  "It is currently unclear who those "senior government officials" are -- whether they were Justice Department sources who may have been mistaken, Republican congressional sources who may have had an interest in deliberately misleading the paper, or a combination of both."

 http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/07/24/the-unanswered-questions-from-the-ny-times-debu/204589

 The Times is so intent on showing it's not liberal that it is just throwing out all it's journalistic standards. We need an answer to all these raised questions if the Times is not to totally squander the trust it has gained through they years as a very credible journalistic source.

 P.S. I see that Meet the Press is also running with the Times' story without mentioning the correction.






 



   

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