MSNBC is about to air their "Truth Report"

[SoCalDemocrat]

Expect bias. Watch it, then fire off to the editors when it's done. MSNBC claimed "A minor deception on the night" on the part of Kerry, otherwise no major deceptions. They must of been sleeping through this debate!

Here are two obvious topics that should be covered:

DEBATE TRANSCRIPT:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/30/debate.transc...

REPLY HERE WITH LIES YOU FIND IN THE BUSH DEBATE TRANSCRIPT:

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form6.html?1


INTELLIGENCE REPORT LIE

Lehrer to Kerry:
"Colossal misjudgments." What colossal misjudgments, in your opinion, has President Bush made in these areas?

BUSH: "My opponent looked at the same intelligence I looked at and declared in 2002 that Saddam Hussein was a grave threat."

FACT: Bush actually receives far more detailed and often classified reports. Bush received a classified Intelligence Report from the CIA which we now know was heavily altered by the Bush administration then released in declassified form to Congress and Senator Kerry in order to bolster the WMD claims and case for war against Iraq.


RAPID VICTORY LIE

LEHRER: New question, Mr. President, two minutes. You have said there was a "miscalculation" of what the conditions would be in postwar Iraq. What was the miscalculation, and how did it happen?

BUSH: No, what I said was that, because we achieved such a rapid victory, more of the Saddam loyalists were around. I mean, we thought we'd whip more of them going in.

But because Tommy Franks did such a great job in planning the operation, we moved rapidly, and a lot of the Baathists and Saddam loyalists laid down their arms and disappeared. I thought they would stay and fight, but they didn't.

And now we're fighting them now. And it's hard work. I understand how hard it is. I get the casualty reports every day. I see on the TV screens how hard it is. But it's necessary work.

FACT:

Bush lied about Baathist Loyalists being being behind recent attacks in Iraq. This was an excuse given early in the post "Mission Accomplished" Iraq as a reason for the resistance. Since Saddam's capture the administration has dropped this excuse, until tonight. We know that a lot of attacks are attributed to Zarqawi, part of Ansar al Islam, and also to Al Sadr and his Shiite movement. Few attacks in past months, if any at all, are attributed to former Saddam Baathist Loyalists (who are part of the Suuni minority).

[SoCalDemocrat]

1. MSNBC spins the "flip flop" line

MSNBC opened their debate coverage this morning by citing the "flip flop" claim and emphasizing how it has hurt Kerry and has been hammered home by the Republicans. They didn't do it in a neutral way either, the female reporter called Kerry a "flip flopper".

Write MSNBC and complain. Neither candidate mentioned the words "flip flop" in their debate last night. Why does MSNBC feel the need to continue chanting the Bush attack slogans for them? Didn't they get enough of that in the 2000 elections?

Then they brought on their MSNBC political analyst who came across as a Bush supporter. He kept going on and on about how upset he was that Bush agreed to do these debates since he was ahead already. He was clearly bitter and incapable of unbiased reporting.

[markus]

2. They led off with the $200 billion

on both NBC and MSNBC last night.