Washington Times Claims Press Jumped All Over Rove's Remark, Durbin Ignore

[otohara]

Are they serious, all I heard and saw for days was about Senator Durbin's remarks.


Major news outlets that largely ignored the controversial comments of the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate last week immediately reported on a fiery speech by White House adviser Karl Rove, giving the story front-page prominence and the lead of newscasts.

Early yesterday morning, NBC's "Today" show, the CBS "Morning Show," and ABC's "Good Morning America" all featured the Democratic outrage over Mr. Rove's comments that after September 11 liberals "wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers" while conservatives "prepared for war."

Each network's nightly newscasts on Thursday also ran stories on Mr. Rove's speech, delivered Wednesday night.
On June 14, Senate Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin compared the military's interrogation techniques at the prison camp at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to that of the Nazis and other murderous regimes.

Yet CBS did not broadcast a single story on the Illinois Democrat's comments. "Today" and "Good Morning America" and those networks' nightly news programs didn't air anything about it until the senator apologized after a week of complaints by Republicans, the Anti-Defamation League and veterans groups.

"What the networks did was zero, zero, zero, zero on Durbin, and as soon as Rove shows up, boom," said Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the conservative Media Research Center. "To say that one deserves zero coverage and the other huge coverage is just bizarre."

Steve Lovelady, managing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review Daily, said he's "not sure if the network morning shows even qualify as journalism these days," describing them as "yuk-fests with periodic headline updates tossed into the mix almost as an afterthought."

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050624-105735-9566r.html

[eleny]

1. Oh, consider the source

[Vincardog]

2. Just turn them off. And let all the advertisers know.

[Bleacher Creature]

3. One word

Moonies

[CityDem]

4. Conservative Rag

Wash Times is a right wing rag owned my Moon. Nonetheless, Durbin wussed out and apologized and Rove will stand firm. I wish our leaders would stand firm instead of crying like a baby.

[otohara]

9. Yeah I Know -

But it does show just how divided this country is in it's perceptions.

[C_U_L8R]

11. That's just how they paint it.

Never confuse Washington Times with a Newspaper.
It's a direct marketing vehicle for the Riech
no different than any other piece of junk mail.
All spin all the time.

Speaking of which... isn't it time we got tougher
libel laws so that these extremist rags and politico-propanda
networks like FAUX can't be just making shit up and
claiming it to be "fair and balanced" news ???
It absurd !

And even more absurd ... is that anybody in our
propserous country (with a fairly decent education system)
actually believes this shit ! ?? Did all these Fweepers
drop out after sixth grade or what ??????
Geez... talk about gullible.

[chelsea0011]

5. That's funny because I remember seeing Durbin apologize on tv

but all I saw from Rove came from radio.

[rodeodance]

6. repugs whine whine whine!!!!!! its just not fair--cry cry cry

[rodeodance]

8. here email them--there is a pull down to managing editor-painless 1-2

minutes and I feel better. I told them they whine a lot-and play the victim.

http://washingtontimes.com/contact-us/

[Up2Late]

7. The Washington Times is mostly RW propaganda, total BS

[otohara]

10. Washington Times Is A Horrible Paper

I posted it because this story could have been in the NYT's with the opposite claim and I would believe it.

Durbin was all over the tube, Rove not so much.

I wonder if their claims are true, or did they pull this out of their asses and it's a total lie.

[Cha]

12. moonie times..whinging again?

Durbin told the truth..what's that? You wouldn't know the truth if it head ya upside the head? Yeah, I know.

Anyway, Durbin told the truth ..

and rove Slandered 9/11Victims'.. widows, loved ones and friends and managed to insult our Dem Soldiers while he was letting gutterot spew out of his piehole.

[JABBS]

13. Conservative Hypocrisy on Durbin's Nazi reference

I first posted this at http://jabbs.blogspot.com/2005/06/white-house-defends-roves-ridiculous.html

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Conservative leaders will no doubt follow Bush's lead, thus following a recent history of hysteria when a Democrat says something questionable, and hypocrisy when a Republican says something similar.

Conservatives were quick to jump on Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) after a June 14 speech on the Senate floor, in which he quoted from an FBI agent's report on the deplorable conditions at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, then said: "'If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime -- Pol Pot or others -- that had no concern for human beings." Durbin later apologized.

By comparison, conservatives did not roar after Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), speaking on the Senate floor May 19 said that Democratic complaints about the "nuclear option" to ban judicial filibusters are "the equivalent of Adolf Hitler in 1942 saying: I'm in Paris, how dare you invade me, how dare you bomb my city. It's mine."

Santorum never apologized. Nor did Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who when discussing his opposition to stem cell research last October said: "We certainly have all seen the rejections of Nazi Germany's abuses of science. As a society and a nation, there ought to be some limit on what we can allow or should allow."

And there was no uproar before, and no apology thereafter, when conservative leader Grover Norquist said in an interview earlier last year with the Jewish newspaper The Forward: "The Nazis were for gun control, the Nazis were for high marginal tax rates. Do you want to talk about who's closer politically to national socialism, the Right or the Left?"

[newyawker99]

14. Hi JABBS!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[JABBS]

15. Hi JABBS!!

Thanks. Happy to be here.

[JPK]

16. The Today Show.....

I used to watch them all the time but it has become the "What will Katie be wearing and how can she look trendy without looking like she wants to be a teenager again.....Today, Show?" Will Matt have an interesting interview and ask personal and embarrassing questions of Ben Aflick or Paris Hilton....Today, Show"? Will Al Roker test his talent outside of doing the weather by doing a badly done and insinscere....human interest story....Today, Show? Or, will Anne Curry risk life and limb, sort of, on another stunt she wants to try.....Today, Show? That show has become the most mindless and worthless three hours of drivel on the air.


"Television is a medium.....because it is neither rare nor well done."

[otohara]

18. True, True

me too! I can't believe I used to watch it??? Hey, welcome to DU

[Imagevision]

17. Durbin compared the military's interrogation at Gitmo to Nazis regimes.

Well, we saw the pictures from Abu Gahrab's prison, how far off was Durbin in making the comparrison?? If Rove was Joe Nobody and made those comments in any local Bar? -- he would get busted up in a New York Minute -- Durbin owed no-one an apology.

[berni_mccoy]

19. Durbin Apologized...will Rove?

Then we can all get back to ingoring it...

Until then, the heat is on Rove.

[snowbear]

20. Guess that's why so few people subscribe to it....

As compared to the Post..

:rofl: