Monday, March 20, 2006, 5:30 AM -- After the segment about the Sunday anti-war march in Portland, we were treated to the sight of the woman in the helicopter in Iraq, some time before a grenade blew her legs off.  She  is an Iraq war vet.  She is running for office in Illinois or Indiana.  I didn't catch which.  We'll say it's Illinois.  She says one can be loyal to the veteran and still criticize the war.  This statement, like "culture of corruption," is one of the many, many talking point propaganda lines we have heard from Democrats and their dullard friends in the old media.

The "journalist" interviewing her mentioned that her war record would probably be challenged during the campaign.  That sort of thing happens these days.

This is about old wounds

For perspective, here, the has-been liberal media undercounts conservative demonstrations, and normally attributes them to the hate-filled drives of right wing fascist types.  Left wing demonstrations, of course, are commonly overcounted, and described as made up by emotionally-available, proper-thinking liberals. People who love people.  People who want peace for animals and children.

Now, if there were ten thousand people at that demonstration in Portland, that means that three-quarters of the dope-smoking, brain-dead, leftist remnants of the Sixties which infest Oregon were someplace else, drunk, stoned, in rehab, stealing somebody's property to get the money for drugs or trying to find a Che Guevera gearshift knob for their VW microbus.

And, it means that millions of Oregonians were not at that demonstration.  Liberal journalists, all of whom are uncomfortable with numbers which do not support their pre-conceived political notions, frequently fail to mention that the demonstrations they present represent .000012% of the population of the locale.  In so doing, they leave the impression that said demonstrators represent the view of those who are not there.  Demonstrations take place in big cities for a reason.  You can see this reason by looking at a map.  Just as bears are found in the woods, liberals are found in the big cities.  The only places where people voted for John Kerry are seen below, in blue.

The reporter's reference to the questioning of war records is our next item of focus, here.  It is pure liberal propaganda.  This legless Illinois candidate's service in Iraq would never be challenged by anybody on the American right.  That is particularly true for any politician or anybody in new American media. What is true is that the old line leftist media dunces project the public attack on John Kerry's clearly self-distorted war record during the last campaign to attacks which have yet to be made, and which will not be made, in the upcoming run for office.

(An aside might help here.  Did you notice that Republicans impeached Bill Clinton?  Do you now understand why ever since Bush II became president, the American left, media and all, have been trying to impeach him? To a liberal, there are no fixed values like right and wrong. Clinton was convicted by a federal judge on the very charge the Democrats blocked in the Senate trial.  The charge was real.  Clinton was guilty.  Look it up for yourself.  He got a big fine and his license to practice law was taken away. Democrats have trying to get even ever since. They don't care if their charges are valid.  The only fixed value they have is winning political power and the only fixed crime they recognize is when they don't.)

So that you have this firmly fixed in your mind.  The "journalist" on the segment which ran this morning on Portland, Oregon's ABC affiliate, did not list and describe specific attacks which have been made on the female candidate's war record.  No such attacks have been made.  This "journalist" just said that she could expect to have her military record attacked.

One doesn't Gore liberal oxes

Noble persons, to the "journalists" at KATU-TV, are peope who vote for the same people they support.  That is, liberals.  John Kerry's war record  was attacked.  John Kerry is a liberal.  Therefore, the attack was political savagery.  Now, read what actually happened.  Mr. Kerry was attacked for writing in his own damned book that Nixon had sent him into Cambodia on Christmas Eve.  The date this happened, as written in Kerry's own book, meant that Nixon was commander in chief and running the Vietnam war before he was the president.  A neat trick by tricky Dicky, don't you think?  

 John Kerry, self-styled war hero, has since revised his book, which has since been reprinted. 

And, then there is the matter of John Kerry at Hanoi Jane's Vietnam Vets Against the War (VVAW) meeting where the discussion had to do with ways to assassinate six sitting U.S. Senators.  (Mr. Kerry didn't report that to the authorities, or put it in his book.)  Then there is the matter of the descriptions by witnesses of events in combat which differ with Kerry's narratives..  Then there is the matter of Kerry's three purple hearts without hospital time or scars.  Then there is the matter of Kerry's rescue of a soldier who fell out of Kerry's boat when Kerry's operation of the craft caused the man to go over the side in the first place. 

Then there is the matter of Kerry's refusal to do what Bush did -- release all his military documents -- so that we can find out why old John didn't get out of the service until Jimmy Carter was president. Then there is the matter of John Kerry's visits with the North Vietnamese government, in Paris, while the future senator was still in the military.  This is while the war was going on.  This is known as treason in earlier versions of America.  It is of no importance to the "journalists" of KATU-TV.

To "broadcast journalist," Carl Click (and friends), Kerry, was attacked.  The body of evidence is not important.  To "broadcast journalist," Carl Click, and to the freaks left over from the Sixties who marched in Portland, yesterday, evidence is that which is printed or spoken which supports their view of the world.  Information which does not support their view of the world is a lie.  If it's on videotape and you can see the knife go in and the blood come out, it's still a lie. 

Truth in Baghdad

In conclusion, Mr. Carl Click is not fit to appear before an audience, presenting himself as a journalist.  In fact, there is nobody at his television station who demonstrates the qualities of a journalist.  KATU-TV's coverage of the anti-war march, and of the legless warrior was pure bias. It is part of years of bias by people like Click in the media, and is responsible for the distorted opinion Americans, as demonstrated by polling, have about that war and our president.  If Mr. Click had an ounce of journalist in him, he would simply take a look at the re-enlistment rate of soldiers who have been in Iraq. (Even wounded soldiers, now in hospital, from that conflict.)  I've heard these men and women talk.  I know what the truth is. That story is a very different one from the one Mr. Click presented.

But, Mr. Click isn't a journalist.  He is like Saddam Hussein's former minister of "information," who stood on a Bagdad hotel roof and told reporters the Americans would never enter that city.  Baghdad Bob we call him.  He made that statement while the cameras were on him, and over his shoulder we could see the American tanks rolling down the boulevard toward the hotel.

March's Oregon Magazine Baghdad Bob Award for make-believe journalistic propaganda goes to Mr. Carl Click of KATU-TV in Portland, Oregon.  In our opinion, he is network material. CBS, with the actual election fraud from that last campaign (Dan Rather and the Bush military records) is well ahead in the misinformation arena.  Mr. Click has a gift for bad journalism which could return ABC to its rightful place as the worst location for information since Pravda.

(LL)

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