CNN mediawhore keeps playing Sessions' personal attack at Kerry for

[blm]

filibustering.

That's her reply to Kerry's speech - play Session's attack that Kerry's motives are all for political gain.

She's done it 3 times in the last hour.

[savemefromdumbya]

1. Call 'her' at CNN

[fairandunbalanced]

5. fair and balanced

Well of course the medias views are totally fair and balanced and they really give you the whole picture not just a one-sided view. Thats what I like about five people owning every channel, fair and balanced...just think one person could own it all..and he could be liberal. Its far better that five conservatives own it all :)

[savemefromdumbya]

17. if I had enough money?

[wtbymark]

2. CNN = certainly not the news

[FreedomAngel82]

13. I like that one

[Roho]

3. they are scared

bill the shill even looked scared, he had to say a filibuster might even make alito stronger.

WFT does that mean? He s either on the court or not, there are no super justices.

[Windy]

4. Go John Kerry...that all I have to say.. he's learned from the last

election! Go John Go!!!

[CoffeeCat]

6. I turned on Today, this morning---

...expecting to see tons of news about Kerry filibustering.

The media is deliberately not talking about this story. If they are, it's a Republican commenting that Kerry is posturing for an 08 run.

Why isn't Kerry on the media more? He really should be out there with his face on camera.

Most Americans do not understand why Alito is dangerous and what most of his opinions are. They need someone to explain it to them, and Kerry could do this well--and also coalesce support for his filibuster. Is he still overseas?

I am SURE that devil-boy Rove told the media to downplay the filibuster. The Republicans know damn well that the Alito nomination will sink if the Dems can cultivate support for a vote against cloture. The way the Reps win is by the filibuster getting little media attention.

It's going to have to be the blogs doing the heavy lifting on this one. I just called my Senator. Everyone really, really needs to do this.

[patrioticliberal]

7. Is it Daryn Kagan? She's Rush's fuckmate

[blm]

9. No - it's a new woman - don't know her name.

Just keeps saying that we need to hear what Jeff Session thinks.

[emulatorloo]

10. apparently they are no longer an item n/t

[spanone]

8. I like it....Sessions comes off as a REAL dumbass. Keep showing it.

Meanwhile, take heart....only a few folks (relative to the population) watch CNN.

[AX10]

11. FOXCNN

[Village Idiot]

12. CNN has turned into the "Conservative Noise Network."

or is it the "Criminal Nonsense Network?"

[bigtree]

14. Session's was looking for a rich dead victim of Katrina to sell estate tax

repeal.

Looking for a Corpse to Make a Case
Senators look for a wealthy casualty of Katrina as evidence against the estate tax

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1106213,00.html

Posted Saturday, Sep. 17, 2005

Federal troops aren't the only ones looking for bodies on the Gulf Coast. On Sept. 9, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions called his old law professor Harold Apolinsky, co-author of Sessions' legislation repealing the federal estate tax, which was encountering sudden resistance on the Hill. Sessions had an idea to revitalize their cause, which he left on Apolinsky's voice mail: " Jon Kyl and I were talking about the estate tax. If we knew anybody that owned a business that lost life in the storm, that would be something we could push back with."

If legislative ambulance chasing looks like a desperate measure, for the backers of repealing the estate tax, these are desperate times. Just three weeks ago, their long-sought goal of repeal seemed within reach, but Katrina dashed their hopes when Republican leaders put off an expected vote. After hearing from Sessions, Apolinsky, an estate tax lawyer who says his firm includes three multi-billionaires among its clients, mobilized the American Family Business Institute, a Washington-based group devoted to estate tax repeal. They reached out to members along the Gulf Coast to hunt for the dead.

It's been hard. Only a tiny percentage of people are affected by the estate tax—in 2001 only 534 Alabamans were subject to it. And for Hill backers of repeal, that's only part of the problem. Last year, the tax brought in $24.8 billion to the federal government. With Katrina's cost soaring, estate tax opponents need to find a way to make up the potential lost income. For now, getting repeal back on the agenda may depend on Apolinsky and his team of estate-sniffing sleuths, who are searching Internet obituaries among other places. Has he found any victims of both the hurricane and the estate tax? "Not yet," Apolinsky says. "But I'm still looking."—with reporting by Amanda Ripley/Washington

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1106213,00.html

[Dawgs]

15. If they didn't try to filibuster, then the media would call the Dems weak!

We're not going to win with these people. That's why the filibuster matters.

[karynnj]

16. Is she playing any of Kerry's speech?

That was a strong speech (why he didn't sound jet lagged is beyond me). If she's gonna play a Republican that often, Sessions is a good one to us (for us). He sounds like a slow Forrest Gump. If played back to back with the eloquent Kerry, we win.

Also, don't you gain points politically by doing things others think are good things to do. Being poll driven carries it to an extreme, but for the most part wouldn't there by a corelation between something being "politically good" and being right.