Bunker Mulligan "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." ~Mark Twain

October 9, 2004

Anniversary

Filed under: Media — Bunker @ 9:44 am

When I watch television news, I watch FOXNews. They have now reached the 8-year point in their history. And it has been some run. As Neil Cavuto writes:

Our only saving grace was our only singular saving philosophy: News, fair and balanced.

People once laughed at that tag line. Little did they know it would tag quite a line and start a revolution among a nation of viewers sick of news being spoon-fed them and open to a news channel respectful of them.

I’ve written emails to various of the FoxNews Team–Neil Cavuto, Brit Hume, Mara Liasson, Juan Williams, Bill O’Reilly–and all but one have responded. I’ll let you guess which one.

They care, about the news and about Americans. I don’t get that same sense from the other major networks. I think MSNBC comes closer to being like FoxNews than any of the others–attempting to present the news in a factual, interesting way. They just don’t have quite the quality of people that FNC has.

Happy Birthday.

Afghanistan

Filed under: International — Bunker @ 8:04 am

Don’t expect much coverage of the Afghani election from our friends at ABC, CBS, and NBC. You will have to look elsewhere for any competent coverage.

A 19-year-old Afghan refugee in Pakistan became the election’s first voter early Saturday, casting a ballot in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.

Women’s Rights? White House Office of Women’s Outreach? Pale in comparison.

Of course, the hardliners (like some we have here) will do what they can. Some have already launched a few rockets.

“In 25 years a lot of rockets have landed. If another one lands because of the election, it’s no problem,” said Noor Uddin, a 49-year-old Kabul businessman, on Friday. “(Saturday) is a happy and historic day. That’s what is important.”

It isn’t bias

Filed under: Media — Bunker @ 7:34 am

Power Line calls it bias.

With Dan Rather and Mary Mapes doing their best to unseat Bush, CNN keeping Carville and Begala on the air, and now ABC News’ Political Director Mark Halperin rallying the troops around Kerry, it is far more than simple bias.

It is power.

We’ve already seen how frightened they are over a bunch of folks sitting around their living rooms dissecting every report MSM

Press Conference

Filed under: Government — Bunker @ 7:20 am

UML Guy has an interesting solution to offer the candidates.

Howard victory

Filed under: International — Bunker @ 7:15 am

Wretchard has a good post on the election just completed in Australia. John Howard and his coalition (of the bribed and coerced?) have gained strength at the expense of Mark Latham’s Labor Party. In fact, Labor also lost ground to the Greens.

Tim has links to many other commentaries, and over 200 comments at his post.

Good on ya, Australia.

October 8, 2004

The Anchoress

Filed under: International — Bunker @ 5:23 pm

Rob pointed this out to me:

“This president,” say the Democrat ticket, “has squandered the goodwill of those nations who shared our pain on 9/11.”

Because they loved us when we were suffering.

She has a wonderful post of which this is only a small part.

Only one campaign

Filed under: Politics — Bunker @ 5:11 pm

Kevin McCullough of Crosswalk has an article up at WorldNetDaily:

Only one campaign has threatened to sue publishers over material that was written about their candidate and his controversial time spent in uniform. Only one campaign made threats to sue TV stations for airing the commercials of those who sought to broadcast critical messages of that campaign’s candidate. Only one campaign was able to get bookstores to pull negative manuscripts that disputed its candidate’s claims from their inventory.

It’s a long list of “onlys.”

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