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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: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 06:07:52 -0800 From: Media Research Center <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MRC Alert Special: Recent Notable Quotables ***Media Research Center CyberAlert Special*** 9:05am EST, Wednesday March 17, 2004 Recent Editions of Notable Quotables Today, as we busily prepare for our DisHonors Awards on Thursday, no regular CyberAlert. Instead, a time to catch up with some back issues of Notable Quotables not yet distributed by e- mail. Below, the text of the January 19 and February 2 editions. /// But before that, a quick update on the Tuesday CyberAlert item about how the CBS Evening News, after having highlighted two earlier polls showing John Kerry ahead of President Bush, on Monday night failed to utter a word about a fresh CBS News/New York Times poll which put Bush ahead of Kerry by three points: Tuesday's CBS Evening News did not catch up. The March 16 newscast carried a campaign piece by Bill Plante about Kerry and Bush trading "punches" as Bush challenged Kerry to name the foreign leaders who prefer him and Kerry charged Bush with causing a lack of respect in the world for the U.S. Plante concluded with an allusion to polling numbers: "Public confidence in the President's ability to handle terrorism and international crises continues to poll better than Kerry's. But even so, the Vice President will go on the attack tomorrow in a major speech, saying that Americans face a clear choice on national security issues." As noted in the March 16 CyberAlert, Tuesday's Early Show did mention the Bush vs. Kerry comparison, though not until the 8am news update. The CyberAlert did not offer a quote, so here is what Plante reported Tuesday morning which never made it onto the CBS Evening News: "In a two-man race, President Bush now holds a small lead over Democratic rival Senator John Kerry according to our latest CBS News/New York Times poll. Two weeks ago, Kerry had the lead. Most of the voters, nearly three-quarters of the electorate, say their minds are made up..." For the March 16 CyberAlert item: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040316.asp#1 \\ Back to NQ. As you probably know, NQ is the MRC's hard copy publication which provides an every other week compilation of the latest outrageous, sometimes humorous, quotes in the liberal media. The quotes for Notable Quotables are collated by the MRC's Rich Noyes, who produced the hard copy issue, and Kristina Sewell then extracted the text from the PageMaker file. All of these quotes have appeared in previous CyberAlerts but, as always, the NQ provides a compact presentation of the most biased quotes from over a two-week period. And so here's a chance to re-live some recent bias. For the Adobe Acrobat PDF of the January 19 issue, which matches the look of the hard copy version sent to snail mail subscribers: http://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/2004/pdf/Jan192004.pdf For the Adobe Acrobat PDF of the February 2 issue: http://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/2004/pdf/Feb22004.pdf For the NQ archive: http://www.mediaresearch.org/archive/nq/welcome.asp > The text of the January 19, 2004 edition of Notable Quotables, Vol. Seventeen; No. 2: Katie Invited O'Neill's Critique... "President Bush once praised Secretary O'Neill for his candor. He was called a straight shooter. Today O'Neill is under investigation for a tell-all book that raises serious questions about the Bush administration." "You say nowhere did you ever see evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. Well, an intelligent person would draw the conclusion that those charges were being trumped up by the administration as a rationale for the invasion." "Do you think an invasion of a country should be based on allusion and assertion?" "You do describe him [President Bush] as a blind man in a room full of deaf people. So what are you saying about the way policy is established in this White House?" -- Katie Couric's introduction and some of her questions to former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, Today, Jan. 13. ...But Scolded Traitorous George "He was once one of the President's most trusted aides, but his new book about his years on the inside has many wondering whether he's a traitor or man of integrity." "A lot of people, George, think that this is just kinda creepy, that you've done this. They see you as a turncoat, a Linda Tripp type, if you will, who sort of ingratiated himself with the people inside the White House. They made you who you became, and now all of a sudden, you're telling, you're airing all the dirty laundry and some people just think that's sorta gross." "I mean, you were sitting there -- or standing there -- once when the President was in his boxer shorts and Hillary came in and they kissed and you witnessed conversations. It seems to me that, I mean, is nothing sacred?" "Why now, George? Couldn't this have waited until the President was out of office?" -- Couric to George Stephanopoulos on the March 12, 1999 Today after he wrote a book, All Too Human, about his experiences as an operative for Bill Clinton. Hoping for an Anti-Bush Agenda "I think crony capitalism is gonna be a big issue. All of the connections between the Bush White House and companies like Haliburton and the deals on energy and the environment and so on, I think the Democrats are gonna use that....You know, bashing the rich is one thing, but bashing the corrupt rich who are cutting sweetheart deals is another thing entirely." -- Time's Joe Klein on the Chris Matthews Show, Jan. 4. The Conservative Howard Dean Kelly Wallace: "Those who know him well say Governor Howard Dean was no left-wing liberal." Vermont political writer Peter Freyne: "We all laugh at that. Howard Dean represented the Republican wing of the Democratic party. Some even thought it was the Republican wing of the Republican Party at first." Wallace: "In fact, his biggest critics during his 11-year tenure were not Republicans, but left-leaning Democrats who sometimes found him too conservative, like Democrat Francis Brooks." State representative Francis Brooks (D): "There were times when leaving his office, we were a long ways from agreement." -- CNN's Paula Zahn Tonight, January 7. "I give it to Howard Dean. The bum rap is that he's an out of the mainstream liberal. During his twelve years as Governor, the words 'liberal' and 'Howard Dean' never appeared in the same sentence." -- Newsweek's Eleanor Clift giving the "Bummest Rap" award for 2003 on the December 27 McLaughlin Group. "[Howard Dean's] liberal credentials are belied by a long-standing predilection for political moderation and fiscal conservatism in Vermont." -- From a front-page New York Times profile of Howard Dean by Rick Lyman, December 28. Reality Check: "After 12 years of Dean's so-called 'fiscal conservatism,' Vermont remains one of the highest taxing and spending states." -- The Cato Institute's Stephen Moore and Stephen Slivinski in their "Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors: 2002." Dean earned a "D" from Cato for his overall lack of fiscal conservatism. NYT Sees Helpful Democrats... "Clark and Kerry Offering Plans to Help Middle Class/Gearing proposals to appeal to everyday Americans." -- Headline and blurb accompanying a story about the Democratic candidates in the January 6 New York Times. ...But Stingy Republicans "Bush Pushes Education as Election Year Opens/Defending programs that Democrats say he underfinanced." -- Headline and blurb summarizing a story about President Bush on the same page. ABC Touts Bleak "New Reality" Dan Harris: "President Bush used his weekly radio address today to trumpet new jobless figures, which put unemployment at a 14-month low. But...behind these upbeat numbers are millions of workers who've had to downsize their paychecks and their dreams...." Dean Reynolds: "For millions of Americans, being employed means lowering expectations. While there are small signs that better-paying jobs are returning, for the most part, the new positions are on the lower end of the pay scale, and with more and more American jobs being shipped overseas, that's unlikely to change for years. One analyst said it's important for the American worker to come to terms with this new reality. As he put it, there isn't going to be any miraculous job rebound, and to suggest that this economy will be able to create 250,000 jobs a month anytime soon is unfair." -- ABC's World News Tonight, January 10. "Up in Arms" Over "Nazi" Tactics "Foreign visitors are going to be fingerprinted at airports. It starts today. Everybody's up in arms. We're going to ask: Is it going to do any good?" -- Diane Sawyer at the top of ABC's Good Morning America, January 5. "Some countries, as you know Secretary Ridge, are furious at this new policy, specifically Brazil which has started to do the same to U.S. visitors to that country. A Brazilian judge said, compared the new security plans to Nazi horrors saying, ‘I consider the act absolutely brutal, threatening human rights, violating human dignity, xenophobic and worthy of the worst horrors committed by the Nazis.' How do you respond to that?" -- NBC's Katie Couric to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge on Today, January 5. When Will the Enemy Have Won? "The death toll of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is now nearing 500. How many is too many?" -- CBS's Harry Smith to Ambassador Paul Bremer on The Early Show, January 13. Bush's Big Bucks Button "[Howard Dean] cannot equate with the fundraising power of a President of the United States who is a Republican, especially representing the corporate interests. He can go out there, push the button and get a lot of money." -- NBC anchor Tom Brokaw to Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Comedy Central, January 6. Howard Dean, the Love Doctor "[Former New Jersey Senator Bill] Bradley said the Dean campaign quote, 'offers America new hope.' The Dean campaign also, apparently, offers America new love as CBS's Richard Schlesinger reports." -- Anchor John Roberts introducing a Jan. 6 CBS Evening News story about Dean supporters who met through the campaign's Internet-organized "meet-ups." Those Awful Eighties "They were college classmates from the '60s, mourning the loss of a friend and their idealism....It was 1983, a time of Reaganomics, burgeoning yuppies, and the Decade of Greed." -- NBC's Matt Lauer on the December 30 Today show, in a story on the 20th anniversary of the film The Big Chill. CNN Will Never Forget "It is an absolute certainty that if Palm Beach had designed a ballot that correctly reflected the views of the voters Al Gore would be President of the United States today." -- CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin on Inside Politics, January 8. Mel Takes God Way Too Seriously "I think at the heart of the controversy [over The Passion] is Mel Gibson's extreme passion for his very ultra-conservative Catholic faith, and Jewish leaders who are worried that a film about the crucifixion could feed into anti-Semitism. That's at the heart of it." -- People's Jess Cagle on CBS's Early Show, January 8. Tom's Bias Is Even More Wearying American University journalism professor Jane Hall: "The Media Research Center, the conservative media watchdog group, has been getting a lot of attention for its reports alleging liberal bias in the media....What is the impact, do you think, of a steady drumbeat of such criticism? Does it not have an impact on the network?" Tom Brokaw: "It is a little wearying, but you've got to rise above it and take it case by case. Most of the cases are pretty flimsily made....What I get tired of is Brent Bozell [president of the Media Research Center] trying to make these fine legal points everywhere every day. A lot of it just doesn't hold up. So much of it is that bias - like beauty - is in the eye of the beholder." Hall: "So it hasn't impacted the way you cover stories?" Brokaw: "No, it hasn't." -- From an interview with Brokaw in the January/February issue of the Columbia Journalism Review. PUBLISHER: L. Brent Bozell III EDITORS: Brent H. Baker, Rich Noyes, Tim Graham NEWS ANALYSTS: Geoff Dickens, Jessica Anderson, Brian Boyd, Brad Wilmouth, Ken Shepherd, and Amanda Monson RESEARCH ASSOCIATE: Kristina Sewell DIRECTOR OF EDITORIAL SERVICES: Tim Jones END Reprint of January 19 Notable Quotables > The text of the February 2, 2004 edition of Notable Quotables, Vol. Seventeen; No. 3: John Kerry, Rabid Right-Winger? "Senator, you just rolled out of Iowa with a great deal of success and it reminded me that I had seen a letter in the pages of the Iowa Daily yesterday, while you were there, written by a student who said the following, if I may quote a little bit to you: 'John Kerry voted yes for President Bush's Patriot Act, he voted yes for Bush's No Child Left Behind, he voted yes for Bush,' these are his words, 'to invade Iraq. If you support John Kerry for President you might as well stay home on election day as Bush is already doing a good job of leading America into a war and shredding the Constitution.' Your reaction?" -- Peter Jennings to John Kerry during ABC's live coverage following the State of the Union address, January 20. America, the New Evil Empire "The Only Superbad Power: Three years into the presidency of George W. Bush, many people here and abroad fear and loathe our country, its power, its policies, its pride. Is America an evil empire? Seven new books seem ready to think so." -- Cover headline and subheadline of the New York Times Book Review, January 25. Bush Scared America's "Allies" "There was a collective sigh of relief in Europe after the President's State of the Union address. Partially because this time there was no talk of new American military action anywhere, unlike two years ago when he scared Europeans with his talk about the 'Axis of Evil,' and unlike last year when Mr. Bush was about to unleash war on Iraq. Still, Europeans find the President's talk about God and good and evil very scary, so there wasn't much President Bush could say to ingratiate himself to Europeans. That is how badly he has alienated America's traditional allies, and analysts here say that alienation is not going to change until Mr. Bush leaves the White House." -- CNN's Walter Rodgers on the January 21 Wolf Blitzer Reports, summarizing European reaction to the State of the Union address . Too Little Democratic Coverage? "The rest of year and for the last three years the President has dominated the news. Don't the Democrats deserve a few days in the sunshine, if you will?" -- CNN's Judy Woodruff to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, asking why the State of the Union was held during the Democratic primaries, on Inside Politics, January 19. Tax Cuts Cause Awful Deficits... "On the domestic front, the President last night called for making the tax cuts permanent. Is that, in a sense, making deficits in the hundreds of billions of dollars permanent?" -- ABC's Charles Gibson to White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card on Good Morning America on January 21, the morning after Bush's State of the Union address. ...But Bush Isn't Spending Enough President Bush: "The key is to train people for the work which actually exists. No better place to do that than in a community college. That's why we're spending $250 million to encourage that." Terry Moran: "That $250 million amounts to small change in the government's trillion-dollar budget. But it was the biggest ticket item in the President's speech, which was marked by relatively minor, but politically appealing initiatives: $23 million for drug testing in schools; $135 million for abstinence education; $300 million for post-release assistance to ex-convicts; and a call to end steroid use in pro sports, which costs nothing." -- ABC's World News Tonight, January 21. Dean Reynolds: "The President's 21st century jobs proposal is an about-face, after years in which his administration cut spending on training. The new plan would devote $250 million to create partnerships between community colleges and employers in such high-demand fields as computer engineering and health care. But critics say the money is not nearly enough." MIT Professor Tom Kochan: "This is a nice, symbolic gesture. But we have a much, much bigger job to do than this amount of money will ever achieve." -- The very next story on the same broadcast. Wishing for Watergate, Jr. "School for scandal. Two Halliburton employees take $6 million in kickbacks on a contract to supply U.S. troops in Iraq. The Supreme Court agrees to hear a case about Vice President Cheney's energy task force, and then Cheney goes hunting with Justice Scalia. And Republican staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee hack into the computer files of Democratic staffers. Are any of these Watergate, Jr.? We'll ask Carl Bernstein." -- MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on his January 23 Countdown program. Bernstein, the former Washington Post reporter who investigated the Watergate scandal with Bob Woodward, rejected Olbermann's analogy. Promoting Liberal Condemnation Kelly O'Donnell: "Some call it the biggest divide and best opportunity between all those Democrats and President Bush: the environment. Consider this: The League of Conservation Voters grades the President with the first 'F' in the group's 34-year history." Deborah Callahan, League of Conservation Voters: "You don't get an 'F' because you got one or two questions wrong when you're tested. You get an 'F' because across the board you've failed." O'Donnell: "Mr. Bush withdrew from the Kyoto global warming treaty. Environmentalists say harm has been done." Margaret Conway, Sierra Club, Political Director: "They are weakening our clean air laws. They're weakening our clean water laws." O'Donnell: "A perceived vulnerability that's off the radar now while Democrats fight for survival in the primaries." -- NBC Nightly News, January 15. At Least He Recognizes His Bias "The Dallas Morning News leads politics. 'A New Dean or the Old One? Candidate's Ultra-Liberal Label May Peel Back to Reveal Moderate Bent.' In fact, I think Dr. Dean is more moderate than ultra-liberal, and so do a lot of other people. But I'll probably get in trouble from conservatives for saying that." -- CNN's Aaron Brown previewing selected articles from the next day's newspapers, January 22 NewsNight. The Media's Monetary Messiah "He helped engineer the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, eliminating the federal deficit and stabilizing foreign markets....Robert Rubin still at top the top of his game, from Wall Street to Washington, and back again." -- Beginning and end of Anne Thompson's story about the former Treasury Secretary's new book, In an Uncertain World, on the January 10 NBC Nightly News. Ready to Climb Mount Teddy "The best reaction shots were those of Ted Kennedy, whose stature seems to grow right along with his nose year after year after year. Kennedy has now reached a grand moment in the life of a senator; he looks like Hollywood itself cast him in the role. Seriously....Kennedy looked great, like he was ready to take his place next to Jefferson on Mount Rushmore. He gives off the kind of venerable vibes that some of us got from an Everett Dirksen way back when." -- Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales in a January 21 Style section review of the State of the Union address. Only the "Lucky" Have Insurance "Wesley Clark, Joe Lieberman and Dennis Kucinich were at a forum in Manchester, New Hampshire today talking to voters about health care, the lack of it. And the expense for those lucky enough to have it." -- Tom Brokaw on the January 23 NBC Nightly News. Booing Bush's "Unilateralism" "President Bush has unilaterally appointed a controversial judge to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Democrats are very angry that Mr. Bush installed Charles Pickering. He's used what's called a recess appointment that will last until the next Congress takes office, made when Congress was not in session. Democrats accuse Pickering of opposing civil rights and bringing a conservative agenda to the bench. Senator Kennedy said for the Democrats today, 'The President's appointment serves only to emphasize again this administration's shameful opposition to civil rights.'" -- Peter Jennings on World News Tonight, January 16. ...but Clapping for Clinton's "At the White House today, President Clinton bypassed Congress and appointed lawyer Roger Gregory to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. Mr. Gregory will be the first African-American on the court. The President has nominated four African-Americans to the 4th Circuit, but Republicans in Congress would not hold confirmation hearings. Now that Congress is not in session, Mr. Clinton used his powers to make what's called a recess appointment." -- Then-ABC fill-in anchor Aaron Brown on World News Tonight, December 27, 2000. Don't Treat Dean Like Quayle Katie Couric: "You probably know the late night comedians have been having a ball at Howard Dean's expense for his raucous caucus night speech on Monday. Well, last night, Dean went on Letterman to poke a little fun at himself but it didn't stop Jay Leno from having some more fun....Anyway, let's hope all the jokes are going to soon be over for Howard Dean." Al Roker: "Hopefully, today." Lester Holt: "The scream heard around the world, huh?" -- NBC's Today, January 23. Thanks for the Confirmation "Where I work at ABC, people say 'conservative' the way people say 'child molester.'" -- ABC 20/20 co-anchor John Stossel to CNSNews.com reporter Robert Bluey, in a story posted January 28. PUBLISHER: L. Brent Bozell III EDITORS: Brent H. 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