SO MUCH FOR KERRY
Here's proof that Howard Dean is actually financially supporting George W. Bush!
Yesterday in a conversation with a union worker, John Kerry called the Bush admistration the "most crooked ... lying group of people I've ever seen." Kerry's comment was picked up by a live mic after a political rally. Let's see how the press is reporting it today:
CNN:
Kerry spokesman later said the senator wasn't referring to the president but to those behind what he characterized as a GOP attack "machine."
But the chairman of the Bush re-election campaign, former Montana Gov. Mark Racicot, isn't buying it. He says Kerry should apologize.
MY VERDICT: CNN seems fair and balanced here.
ASSOCIATED PRESS:
Kerry created a stir Wednesday in Chicago after he spoke via satellite to labor leaders meeting in Florida. When a supporter urged him to take on Bush, Kerry said, into a still-open microphone: "Let me tell you, we've just begun to fight. We're going to keep pounding. These guys are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen. It's scary."
President Bush's re-election campaign demanded an apology for "this negative attack."
MY VERDICT: Gee, AP, I think this truly was a "negative attack." No quotation marks needed.
REUTERS:
Democratic White House candidate John Kerry slammed his Republican critics as "crooked" liars on Wednesday and met former rival Howard Dean to discuss ways to work together to beat President Bush in November.
MY VERDICT: How does Reuters know Kerry was referring to his "Republican critics" and not the Bush team specifically? Are they psychic? This is bias.
BOSTON HERALD:
President Bush is demanding an apology from Democratic rival John F. Kerry [related, bio] after the Bay State senator was caught off-guard on an open microphone branding the White House team a ``crooked'' band of liars.
MY VERDICT: "Caught off-guard?" Seems like a very deliberate, thought-out opinion by the senator. Why the modifier?
AUSTRAILIA'S THE AGE:
Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry sharpened the tone of an already bitter battle with President George W Bush, branding his Republican opponents a "crooked, lying group".
His remarks followed a week of intense exchanges between the camps, including another veiled attack by Bush railing against those who would "build a wall" around the United States on the trade front.
MY VERDICT: This is simply lousy reporting. Calling Bush's challenge on Kerry's stance on free trade a "veiled attack" is equivocating this to Kerry's true attack on Bush. This is "tit for tat" reporting which is simply not true.
It's my 39th birthday today.
Buy me a beer. And drink it.
Cheers!
