September 17th, 2004 | Melanie | News Hounds

Today (September 17, 2004) Dayside w/Linda Vester was on the warpath.

Major Garrett began the program with a report aimed at trashing the credibility of Bill Burkett who, Garrett said, is named in "published reports" as "the potential source" for CBS's Bush National Guard documents.

Then it was to Glenna Whitley, co-author of Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Heroes and its History and now a reporter at the Dallas Observer. (G.B. "Jug" Burkett co-wrote Stolen Valor with Whitley. Burkett is a Vietnam veteran who spoke, together ...   more »

(This editorial appeared in the Dallas Morning News on Friday. It may be the most offensive opinion I've ever read in a "respected" newspaper. Please post your comments. I plan to go after the Dallas Morning News once I've had an opprtunity to catch my breath and your comments would be quite helpful. GS) 

Dallas Morning News | Saturday, September 11, 2004

In the first presidential election since 9-11, foreign policy matters more than at any time in a generation.

The chief difference between John Kerry and George W. Bush on foreign policy is stylistic, and that's no small thing. ...   more »

"Hell was full": Right-wing radio on President Clinton's heart surgery

Right-wing radio hosts Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and Mark Simone served up commentary on former President Bill Clinton's recent heart surgery. Limbaugh said that Clinton opted for quadruple rather than triple bypass heart surgery to increase his sympathy ratings; Savage said that Clinton would fully recover because "hell was full"; and Simone claimed that since the Clintons "don't want him [Kerry] to win," Clinton's surgery "works out perfectly."

Discredited Republican pollster Frank Luntz made rounds on MSNBC convention coverage with flawed focus groups; nobody pointed out his partisanship

Discredited Republican pollster Frank Luntz, CEO and president of Luntz Research Companies, made four appearances during MSNBC's coverage of the Democratic (July 28 and July 29) and Republican (September 1 and September 2) National Conventions, touting flawed focus groups in three of his appearances. Not once during any of these appearances did any MSNBC anchor or commentator mention Luntz's partisan Republican ties or questionable ethical standards.

Three days after Media Matters for America first reported that the website of anti-Kerry group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth contradicted the account of the group's star witness -- retired Rear Admiral William L. Schachte Jr., who claims he was the commander on the December 2, 1968, mission for which the U.S. Navy awarded Senator John Kerry his first Purple Heart -- Swift Boat Veterans for Truth altered its website's account of the incident to make it consistent with Schachte's version of events. According to Schachte, Kerry did not deserve the award because the "skimmer" he supposedly commanded that ...   more »