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The Press & John Kerry

August 29th, 2004 · 1 Comment

Patterico comments on this morning’s “Reliable Sources” show, wherein Debra Saunders from the San Francisco Chronicle states “I think that most journalists support John Kerry” in response to host Howard Kurtz’ questions about the “double standard” that Kerry seems to be receiving with regard to 527 ads. President Bush has been asked by the public to denounce these ads, and for the most part, Kerry has not.

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  • 1 D. Miesen // Oct 4, 2004 at 11:13 am

    I’m sick and tired of the media’s mind numbing overplay of Kerry’s supposed flip flopping. They’ve taken the Republican’s overused line of attack against Kerry in this election; and with continual replay have helped, once again, turn fiction into truth.

    The media blithly ignores that Bush and his cronies are the ones who have flip-flopped these past four years. Bush flip-flopped on his promise to go after Bin Laden; when he abruptly turned from Afghanistan to invade Iraq. Bush flip-flopped the US economy from healthy to sick. Bush flip-flopped gas prices from reasonable to obscene. Bush flip flopped his promise of jobs right out of the country. Bush flip-flopped Americas international respect into contempt. Bush said he’d unite the country and has flip-flopped it into a deeper division than ever before.

    And yet, during this crucial election the media chooses to run with Enquirer type headlines - that concentrate on cheap, false personal attacks - instead of the Republicans 4 year history of running the country into the ground.

    Is this election about having Kerry apologize because he didn’t get himself killed in Nam? What about Bush? Where was he hiding at that time. Is this election about Kerry questioning the 87 million dollar expenditure? Why shouldn’t he have done so? After all Bush flip flopped on it, no?

    Why are the real issues not being addressed by the media? Why is the public being bombarded with tacky personal attacks that have nothing to do with how the country has faired under Bush’s leadership?