LIMBO's Pal, Lisa MYERS, Leading Next Wave of KERRY Bashing

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On "Today" this morning, the promo said MYERS would be reporting on a "newly found" tape of KERRY from 34 yrs ago. This turned out to be from the Dick CAVETT show, and the thrust was that BACK THEN Kerry had said "something that contradicted what he has said recently." Yep, it was about Vietnam. The tape had him saying he didn't really want to go to Vietnam, whereas "recently" he said he volunteered and actively WANTED to go because it was "noble". MYERS asserted that "the difference" is that BACK THEN it was "fashionable" (read, "Liberal chic") not to want to go, whereas "for a presidential candidate" it is now "noble".

This MYERS is frequently cited by LIMBOsevic as one of the few in the media who have been "fair" to HIM, that when she negotiated with him for a Today interview, she committed that there would be no bashing of him, no editing to make him look like he IS ("BAD"), and that no rebuttal guests would be sneaked into the tape after he was over. He frequently contrasts her "fairness" to that MEAN OLD Katie, who actually BLANCHES if she sees him in person. (Go, Katie.) MYERS was also a ClEnis stalker. Get ready, she's on the prowl.

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1. Then explain my sig line Lisa the Media Ho!

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2. What an incredible stupid argument

Of course no one wanted to go but when it was time to put up or shut up..JK put up...

[heidiho]

3. Let's Keep Remembering What Chimpy Was Doing in the 70's

snorting, drinking and cavorting while others went to Vietnam in his place.

[DU9598]

4. Pathetic

I watched the Lisa Meyer's piece this morning and thought it was pretty juvenile, at best. They made it seems as though the tape was some smoking gun. Then, they had to explain the difference in his statements.

It is so idiotic to hold someone to their words from 30 years ago. With time perceptions and understandings change. Thirty years ago I was not even born, but fifteen years ago I had ideas about myself that certainly have changed with time. If you ask me why I wanted to go to law school while I was in college, it would certainly be a different reason than why I ultimately chose to spend the money and go.

Why doesn't the media do a spot on Bush and the many sides of issues he has taken, ie, Nation building? Fricking "liberal media"

BTW - I turned off the Today show and don't plan to watch again for quite some time.

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9. I missed the Today Show - please fill me in.

Was it the same Myers piece or did I miss something else? I hate to miss out on anything! But as somebody else pointed out, Katie C. is good about asking questions...

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13. Never mind. If I'd read the first post more carefully I would've realized

that it was on the Today Show first. My bad!

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5. What an idiot. Kerry WANTED to serve his country by going to Vietnam

he did not WANT to go to Vietnam. What idiot would distort that difference for political gain?

[StephNW4Clark]

6. I saw it too.

And was so angry on the drive to work. She had a little smirk on her face as she was wrapping up the segment.

My sole consolation is that we've been through a lot worse scandals and Kerry is a fighter. And this time, we all know we have to win.

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7. Rove has probably been feeding her directly all this time

What a shill.

[Warpy]

8. Amazing, doing semantic hairsplitting on something

...a man said 30 years ago. These presstitutes are desperate to find something, anything, to hang on Kerry, while ignoring the very present danger that the Schmuck in Chief is posing to the country today.

I want them all fired, jailed, humiliated, and spending the rest of their lives doing something they're more suited to, picking up garbage.

The press in this country has abandoned all semblance of its mission. They're just a bunch of whoring RNC propagandists.

[tandot]

10. why don't those idiots talk about all of Bush's positive accomplishments

...oh wait...there aren't any...

So, since they have nothing positive to talk about regarding Bush, they bash Kerry instead with stuff he said/didn't say over 30 years ago??? Who gives a f*cking sh*t.

And the media, of course, plays right into their hands. I wish any of those so-called journalists/anchors would just say:

"Do you really think this is important? We are at war, we have a huge deficit, huge unemployment, lack of health care, the Arab world hates us, Osama Bin Laden offers Gold for killing American soldiers...and you worry about something Kerry said 34 years ago????"

Oh...I am so enraged...what is wrong with those people???

[bolokshi]

11. Hidden Motive

Always thought that that bitch has some fun of fascination with Kerry, another neoconservative out on the field. There are many more like her, could not help but laugh with the way she was explaining with vengence in her voice about Kerry being confused. Too much power is absolute, an absolute of too much power breeds corruption.

[GoldenOldie]

12. "The Liberal Media"

It seems that "The Liberal Media," has little trouble with digging up every minute word or statement that John Kerry uttered 30-years ago, yet are unwilling or unable to research the military records or civilian records of George W. Bush, during the same period???????

DeJaVu.....John McCain - George W. Bush campaign.

[liberalmike27]

14. Yea

I caught that piece myself. I turned the television off while it was on. I'm not the biggest fan of Kerry, but it has become totally obvious that television is no longer reporting news, hasn't been for decades in my view. They skew for a purpose.

All of these negative revelations about Bush and all of his cabal have knocked his numbers down. Their version of "fair" is that they have to come up with something, however lame, to push Kerry's numbers down. I believe it has more to do with the more accomodating policies of Republcians toward media-consolodation as well as the very rich people running these shows mostly want to keep getting their tax-cut loans from our tax-coffers. But another reason they do it is because keeping the race close makes for more interesting presidential races. Look at the last one, they managed an almost totally even election. I wish I could credit our population with being smart enough to make up their own minds, but I can't. I saw what happened when millions of Democratic voters, when they let themselves be steered away from Dean, toward Kerry, who was the best "candidate" who had "served our country." One might question why none of this came out during the campaign? It is clear that they wanted the candidate with the most history, as 200 million is a lot to spend, and they needed plenty of ammunition to be able to knock him off. Kerry might not scream at a rally in public, they might not be able to find something to play a couple of thousand times like Dean did, being so seasoned at this point.

The media is totally now a "Ministry of Propaganda" in all ways. They do nothing, no reporting for common man issues, hell, they don't even want dead-soldiers to receive any credit or mention on their stations. Look at the Sinclair thing. They don't want Miramax to talk bad about their boy-Bush. But if a guy has millions, or a immediately promising career, then sure, cover the front pages for weeks about it.

The skinny for me is this. I save a lot of money on electricity by not watching television these days, as my disgust for what they are doing to the minds of the people of this country is on the rise.