"Need to Know" program on PBS

[cornermouse]

Background articles written by co-host Jon Meacham of Newsweek

Why Dick Cheney Should Run in 2012
http://www.newsweek.com/id/224670

But I think we should be taking the possibility of a Dick Cheney bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 more seriously, for a run would be good for the Republicans and good for the country. (The sound you just heard in the background was liberal readers spitting out their lattes.)

Why? Because Cheney is a man of conviction, has a record on which he can be judged, and whatever the result, there could be no ambiguity about the will of the people. The best way to settle arguments is by having what we used to call full and frank exchanges about the issues, and then voting. A contest between Dick Cheney and Barack Obama would offer us a bracing referendum on competing visions. One of the problems with governance since the election of Bill Clinton has been the resolute refusal of the opposition party (the GOP from 1993 to 2001, the Democrats from 2001 to 2009, and now the GOP again in the Obama years) to concede that the president, by virtue of his victory, has a mandate to take the country in a given direction. A Cheney victory would mean that America preferred a vigorous unilateralism to President Obama's unapologetic multilateralism, and vice versa.

Media biased against Christians?
http://www.newsweek.com/id/164656

Fox News analyst Brit Hume said "widespread media bias against Christianity" was to blame for criticism of his suggestion that Tiger Woods should embrace Christianity to find redemption. "Instead of urging that Tiger Woods turn to Christianity, if I had said what he needed to do was to strengthen his Buddhist commitment or turn to Hinduism, I don't think anybody would have said a word," Hume told Christianity Today. "It's Christ and Christianity that get people stirred up."


The Great American Ideological Crackup
http://www.newsweek.com/id/219359


Apparently, looking at entries for him at mediamatters.org, Meacham appeared more than once on The O'Reilly Factor. A couple of the egregious items off the top.
http://mediamatters.org/research/200604210002
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200604120007

[cornermouse]

1. Kicking back to the top for those who still watch PBS

Because they should know the type of programming that PBS is moving toward and consider whether they want to continue to fund what is rapidly becoming right-wing orientated with the simultaneous cancellation of NOW and the end of Moyer's Journal.

[3waygeek]

2. "Cheney is a man of conviction"?

No, but he should be -- for treason, war crimes, etc...

[cornermouse]

3. Works for me.

I have trouble understanding the reasoning processes of anyone who would think Cheney should be a candidate for President.