Recognizing the media double standard - Kerry / McCain & other Republicans.

[wisteria]

"They have yet to spend a fraction of the time ripping apart Republicans as they did Kerry. This negligence is especially true relative to McCain, who still retains much of his image from 2000 as a man of "straight talk," moderation, and integrity. Clearly, the media refuses to reveal who the men behind the curtain are: individuals who claim the mantles of honesty and strength, but in reality, would much rather be president than be right."


http://media.www.bcheights.com/media/storage/paper144/news/2007/02/22/Opinions/The-Men.Behind.The.Curtain-2736714.shtml

It was good to read this and see that someone else agrees on the media mistreatment of good Senator Kerry.

[TayTay]

1. Inteeresting. Reading between the lines on that

I see that Mass is properly re-evaluating what happened and how unfair it all was. Hmmmmmm.

[karynnj]

7. They see it as unfair - but they still state as a given that Kerry was inconsistent

which was never true. His position was always complex - because he defended the vote on theoretical philosophical grounds and continued to answer it based on the situation in October 2002. The problem was that media had conflated the vote and the war. Some people took the answer as being for the war.

While that was honest and intellectually appropriate, it seemed to conflict with his answer on the war - that he spoke out before the beginning of the war - that it was not a war of last resort, the diplomacy wasn't exhausted etc.

I remember Kerry at one time saying that he had had one and only one position on the war - no flip flopping. This was true, but confusing for a media writing only in black or white.

Since 2004, Kerry has changed only on the vote - now saying it was wrong to trust the President to honor his word. I assume this was an extremely difficult shift as he clearly accepted some responsibility. (even though it is clear that he tried to keep us out of war.)

[wisteria]

9. Margaret Carlson reinforced the same charge of inconsistency

in a piece she just did on Obama and Clinton. She couldn't help but mention Kerry/ windsurfing and changing positions all in one sentence. I personally hate these continued misconceptions about his voting record and positions on issues and I e-mailed her my version of cease and desist.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_carlson&sid=aXvN3j3ZJlKY

"Senator John Kerry could have gone windsurfing with impunity if his beliefs didn't change with the breeze."

As I said, I hate that people like herself are too lazy to actually find out something out Senator Kerry and would rather repeat lies.


:grr:

[MBS]

10. Me, too

It's TOTALLY frustrating and infuriating. And the Dems have even less excuse for this than the Repubs. :banghead:

[MBS]

2. very nice to see this. .thanks n/t

[whometense]

3. Hey!

That's the BC student newspaper. :-)

[MBS]

4. yeah, that especially pleased me

as students there aren't necessarily knee-jerk liberals. . (though it's a good generation, so probably better than it was a few years ago. .)

[whometense]

5. Students are more democratic

than republican, but still heavily Catholic, with all that implies.

[MBS]

6. There were gobs of Republicans at BC High

The BC High Young Democrats were a rather brave group (but exceptionally knowledgeable and personal: by happenstance, I sat next to them at John Edwards Hardball interview in fall 2003, and I was proud to find out they were from BC High; they also showed up for the JK interview two weeks later, and were busy there, collecting signatures for JK : ) ). I expect the Young Democrat numbers have grown at BC High since then, as the Bush presidency continues to wreak its havoc.

[whometense]

8. That's been our experience.

The early Kerry group at BC in 2003 was a hardy bunch of contrarians, but by now the dems are threatening to take over. They are getting more vocal, I think, and the young repukes seem to be getting quieter, though in recent years they brought such luminaries as Little Annie Coulter and "Virgin" (Tbogg) Ben Shapiro to campus.

[rox63]

11. Do you think it helps that JK is an alumni of BC? n/t

[whometense]

12. Maybe a little,

but he was at BC Law, which is a different animal. Still, I think there is some pride there - but I'd imagine he's as loathed by the BC republicans as he is by wingnuts everywhere.