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Montauk6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-05 10:56 AM
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I thought they were PROUD to be conservative! Think again...
Edited on Mon Jul-25-05 11:00 AM by Montauk6
You ever hear of Cyberalert? This is the conservative version of Media Matters (though they've been around longer) but they truly pale in comparison to the thoroughness of Brock & Co. (no surprise there).

But look at how lame-o these folks are. They're jumping all over Nina Totenberg for her SMEAR on Mister Roberts. Check this out (am I the only who finds this hilarious?):

http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2005/cyb20050725.asp#1 (Oh, did I mention that this is part of what they offer to PROVE, case closed, the evil LIBRULLL MEDIA BIAS?)

Totenberg: Roberts a "Hardline Conservative," "Very Conservative"

NPR's Nina Totenberg, who last week tagged Supreme Court nominee John Roberts as "very, very conservative" and "very, very, very conservative," on Inside Washington over the weekend described him as merely "very conservative." But she couldn't resist adding a modifier every time she applied the conservative label, also dubbing him "a really conservative guy," "a hardline conservative" and "a clear conservative." Plus, she emphasized how he's "a conservative Catholic."

Last week, the July 21 CyberAlert recounted: There's no doubt in NPR reporter Nina Totenberg's mind that Judge John Roberts is "very conservative," it's just a matter of how "very." On NPR's All Things Considered on Tuesday night, she prefaced "conservative" with three verys, describing him as "a very, very, very conservative man." But in a taped soundbite on the next day's Good Morning America on ABC, she cut back to two modifiers, dubbing him merely "a very, very conservative man." For more, see: www.mediaresearch.org

Inside Washington is a weekend panel show carried on Sunday mornings after This Week on Washington, DC's ABC affiliate, WJLA-TV, and on Saturday nights on the local all-news cable outlet NewsChannel 8, which it owns.


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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-05 11:00 AM
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1. Eh. I think it's a nice change to see a conservative press release...
that has even a sliver of a sense of humor. Better than the usual foamed-mouth idiocy.
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Montauk6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-05 11:03 AM
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3. Well, you know what this means now?
We're going to have to cut down on our very's lest we offend the very, very, VERY conservative crowd. :silly: :rofl:
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-05 11:09 AM
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4. And God forbid...
We ever discusss the very, very, very, very conservative crowd. They'd probably firebomb an abortion clinic for us even mentioning them.
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-05 11:02 AM
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2. And they're suddenly hush-hush about the Federalist Society, too.
Edited on Mon Jul-25-05 11:03 AM by displacedtexan
What's going on?

It sounds like another Up Is DOWN/ Rovian "Let's pretend Dems are being mean by calling us "conservative'" crap.

Like they haven't made "liberal" a dirty word.

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