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ABC already posted a recap of the presidential debate that, uh, hasn't started yet.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040930_1184.html

The media fucking scares me.

CORAL GABLES, Fla. Sept. 30, 2004 — After a deluge of campaign speeches and hostile television ads, President Bush and challenger John Kerry got their chance to face each other directly Thursday night before an audience of tens of millions of voters in a high-stakes debate about terrorism, the Iraq war and the bloody aftermath.

The 90-minute encounter was particularly crucial for Kerry, trailing slightly in the polls and struggling for momentum less than five weeks before the election. The Democratic candidate faced the challenge of presenting himself as a credible commander in chief after a torrent of Republican criticism that he was prone to changing his positions.

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Uh, I don't know what you're been looking at, but every bit of TV media I've seen is strongly left-wing except FOX.

From: (Anonymous)

Uh, no, they aren't. They tout all the right wing talking points and never hold the President to the fire, he gets a pass so often it's ridiculous. But they fail to explain that according to records, Kerry is NOT a flip flopper, but actually sees the world in the various shades of grey that are a more accruate representation of reality than Bush's insipid "yer with us or agin' us" nonsense. Nothing in the world is black and white, and only a fool believes so. Anyone who fails to re-evaluate policy or opinion in the light of new information is dangerously misled about the value of being single-minded. There's that old expression, "cutting off one's nose to spite your face"... and it hold true here.

But, that is subjective, so it is open to interpretation. My opinion holds that they (the networks) do as best they can to appear to be balanced, but don't call the Repbulican administration on their many "twists" of the truth and the obnoxious spin they put on everything. But they do carry all that swift boat nonsense, and they do carry the fact that the controversial documents on Bush's service were forgeries, but they omit to carry the fact that according to many, including the statement by the secretary that would have written the original documents, that their content was accurate, even if the copies she saw were bogus. I'm not sure that in the end it is proof of a left or right leaning bias in the news media, but it is testament to the endemic plague of lazy journalism where facts are not checked, and stories not followed up.

And that is that...