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In Reply to: Dubya is scary posted by news hound on September 23, 2003 at 09:26:12:
When I read the news, I know it's one-sided and biased and it's very hard to get the truth. The media is blatantly anti-bush and anti-war. They want him and anything he does to fail. That was obvious to me when the whole thing unfolded. I heard from soldiers who came back who were very angry at the media the way they were presenting the war in Iraq. They said it was not like that at all. Even today, it's very biased. A recent conversation with a soldier said the people basically wanted them there - it's the foreigners brought in by Muslim extremists who are making the trouble. The Iraqi people don't want them there either.
I would rather read something objective also - what's wrong with that? I recently read something by a liberal columnist - darn I can't remember his name now - but he is apparently very well known and has a website where he picks on his own party and liberals because he feels they are missing the mark. He brouhgt out one thing I found amazing. He mentioned how people with an agenda can tweek things so that they make something in the news work for them and make their opponents look bad. He gave as an example a news article that said the welfare to work program wasn't working because many children were living without their parents because of it. His response was, loosely translated, - "where did they go? Are they living on the street? No, they are for the most part living with their grandparents who are usually better off in raising them then their own drug-induced parents" and he went on to say how this was a tactic of making the opponent (in this case, conservatives) look bad. I like reading objective writings that are non-partisan or non-agenda and that is sometimes very hard to find. I'm sure Bush has his own agenda and bias, don't we all, but at least he's trying to be objective. Another objective and interesting site is AndrewSullivan.com.
