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visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:16:48 -0700 From: Media Research Center IS Staff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MRC Web News - Our Latest Analysis [mrcgoldlogo.gif] Media Research Center America's Media Watchdog Bringing Political Balance and Responsibility to the Media MRC Web News: Our Latest Analysis September 25, 2003 …Daily updates on MRC's latest analysis ________________________________________________________________________________ Today’s CyberAlert: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030925.asp 1. Poll in Favor of Cancelling Tax Cut for Rich Delights Russert Much to Tim Russert’s delight, since it matches his weekly mantra on Meet the Press, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that to pay for the $87 billion for Iraq, 56 percent of the public prefers to cancel the recent tax cuts for the “upper income brackets” and only 13 percent want to cut other spending. Russert stressed how “one-third of Republicans said cancel the tax cut for the top brackets,” prompting Tom Brokaw to hope: “That will get the attention of the White House.” The next morning, Matt Lauer trumpeted: “Maybe one of the few times they get away with saying, 'we can win by saying increase taxes.’” 2. Jennings Showcases Poll on How Iraqis Say They’ll Be Better Off ABC’s Peter Jennings on Wednesday night, but not CBS’s Dan Rather or NBC’s Tom Brokaw, highlighted a Gallup poll of people in Baghdad which found that 62 percent think that getting rid of Saddam Hussein was “worth the personal hardship” they endured and, that though 94 percent see Baghdad as less safe than before the war, 67 percent believe that in five years the nation will be better than it was under Saddam Hussein. That belief befuddled New York Times reporter Patrick Tyler, who led into that finding by listing a litany of negative events: “Despite the systemic collapse of government and civic institutions, a wave of looting and violence, and shortages of water and electricity....” 3. Headlines All Over the Place on Bush Address to the UN Headlines all over the place Wednesday morning on President Bush’s Tuesday address to the UN. Brit Hume, during the “Grapevine” segment on Wednesday’s Special Report with Brit Hume on FNC, displayed several ones with various takes. USA Today: “Bush invites help in Iraq.” New York Times: “Bush, at UN, Defends Policy Over Iraq.” Washington Post: “Bush is Criticized at UN Over Iraq” 4. CNN’s Arraf on Iraq: “Reality Is, It Is Pretty Bleak There” Add CNN Baghdad reporter Jane Arraf to those who see the situation in Iraq as “bleak.” She insisted on Wednesday’s American Morning that while “there are small bits of good news” in Iraq, all reporting from Iraq “is against the backdrop of something that cannot be seen as other than bad news.” She recited how “American servicemen are dying, Iraqis are afraid, and it's really only when you've been there...that you get a sense of it.” She contended: “We can't paint a rosier picture than exists. And the reality is, it is pretty bleak there.” 5. Letterman Audience Applauds Bringing Democracy to Iraq A spontaneous sign that the public is not so hostile to Bush’s Iraq policy as the media think? On Wednesday’s Late Show, when Second Lady Lynne Cheney talked about “continuing the good work that’s going on in Iraq, moving the process of democracy forward,” loud applause broke out inside New York City’s Ed Sullivan Theater. 6. “Top Ten Ways Arnold Schwarzenegger Prepared for the Debate” Letterman’s “Top Ten Ways Arnold Schwarzenegger Prepared for the Debate.” See today’s entire CyberAlert at: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030925.asp ________________________________________________________________________________ Advertisement www.TimesWatch.org TimesWatch.org The Times vs. “Scurrilous Biographies”…Sometimes Michiko Kakutani reviews an anti-Clinton biography and doesn’t like it one bit: “Nigel Hamilton's new biography of Bill Clinton represents a sleazy new low in the chronicling of presidential lives. It regurgitates the most scurrilous and unsubstantiated rumors about Mr. Clinton and his wife…” So the Times would never herald a book full of “scurrilous and unsubstantiated rumors” about a president and his wife? Ask Nancy Reagan. Read the entire article as posted on TimesWatch.org: http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/0925.asp Advertisement JOIN THE MRC TODAY The MRC has a unique opportunity that would greatly benefit our work to expose the left-wing agenda of the national media. But it can only be realized with your support. [FORM] Or, visit Media Research Center at: www.mediaresearch.org [FORM] Today's Media Reality Check NBC Pumps Public Demand for Higher Taxes Today’s Matt Lauer Fantasizes How Democrats Could Beat Bush With a Promise to “Increase Taxes” Much to Tim Russert's delight, since it matches his weekly mantra on Meet the Press, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that to pay for the $87 billion needed for Iraq, 56 percent of the public prefers to cancel the recent tax cuts for the “upper income brackets” while only 13 percent want to cut other spending. Last year, MRC documented how, on his Sunday interview program, Russert had posed at least 44 questions reflecting the... 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