ABC's "The Note" on Kerry

[GRClarkesq]

The (Democratic) Elephant in the Room: DEVELOPING(?) . . .
"The Answer Is 'No.'"

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html

[redqueen]

1. Is this how the mainstream media

handled the Lewinsky story?

[GRClarkesq]

2. ABC is one of the media listed by Drudge

as investigating the Kerry story.

Of course, they might admit nothing until they are ready to break the story with more facts.

[bigtree]

3. "But we do want to highlight

. . . one textbook case of how the right cleverly uses the modern media conveyer belt to produce sound and fury about Democrats who they want to take down.

The sequencing is pretty basic: they start by handing something to one or more right-leaning Web sites.

That begets talk radio, which begets cable TV (usually FNC first), which begets a Washington Times story, which leads to other newspaper stories, and then, finally -- pay dirt -- network television coverage "


Here's another web link to the story:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=328470

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. it looks as the mainstream media is

starting to either revolt or ... has a weird idea of what the story is

though national security is not a democratic issue due to Kerry's service, but because BUSH has broken the army...

That is the issue, he is a terrible CiC

[cosmicdot]

5. — 11:31 pm: report on healthcare has been cancelled so that we can ...

... bring you the latest on this developing and amazing story ... back to you ... since there's nothing to report on the economy today, except that we're told all is well ... nothing on the education front ... back to you ...