As for bias in the media (clue: it didn’t start with FOX NEWS) ask yourself this. What was the news value of Abu Ghraib? Why was it played 24/7 for months? This was a few “rent a soldiers” that got out of control and were caught by the military. Nope, no libera bias there.

Robert South
Grain Valley, MO

Why is the American media letting the bad guys exploint it so unquenstioninly? Which leads to the next question.

Lost in all of this is the fact of certain Iraqui causalties. They get very little press. I am speaking of thousands of young Iraqui men who daily volunteer to join the Iraqui army and police……knowing full well that this brave act may get them killed. Yet they keep signing up. Why? And why does our media not address their courage.

They want their country back. They want to practice their religion. They want to receive our training to peacefully exercise their sovergnity. They would only do so, and risk their lives, if we were doing something right….or else they would help the bad guys.

As Oliver North would say on his TV show: “Their’s is a war story worth telling”. Our media should talk about them….not foment and encourse the “civil war” mantra.

Social Secuity- Most succesful government plan ever? I guess you don’t read the papers, but thats ok
Civil rights legislation – The 1964 Civil Rights Act was an update of Republican Senator Charles Sumner’s 1875 Civil Rights Act
seatbelts & airbags – Congress passed the airbag law in 1998, as if every car in the usa didn’t already have it
public broadcasting – Yeah, thats something we americans can’t live without
Freedom of Information Act – Your naive if you think thats means the government tells us everything now
environmental laws – GO Hug a tree
Americans with Disabilities Act – One thing Dems did right
workplace safety laws, food safety laws, food labeling laws – All these do is impede on capitalism, and find more ways for politicans to tax business
low-income housing – And those have turned out so well! They people who live their treat it with so much respect what i good place for tax dollars to go!
Democrats gave us the Tennessee Valley Project – Smokey the bear says your moron
Peace Corps – Just something for liberals to do after college before they start teaching or work as a enviormental lawyer
Longest period of economic expansion in history (under Bill Clinton) – Sure it wasn’t “Irrational Exuberance” and studies have shown a presidents economic impact isn’t shown till years after they leave office.
lowest infant mortality rate in history. (It’s going up now, of course) Abortions don’t count??
Consumer protection laws – Why is there a law?? Consumer has protection iots called don’t buy the defective product!!
Democrats gave us improved air quality – That shows in the left coast espically in LA, i love breathing in the air their
Democrats gave us the internet Al Gore also said that love story(the movie) was about him and his wife, so you can add that to the list of accomplishments to!
Center for Disease Control & Prevention – Isn’t that the place you call when some retards swallows a bottle of draino becasue they could read the label that said don’t drink. Only question how does someone who can’t read a label dial a phone??
Affirmative Action – Your right most people favour it becasue AA keeps minorities down it sends the message you can’t earn it by yourself so we will help you, and contrary to popular belief most people like to keep other people down.
Space exploration – Not lately, once again paper your got to read them
Family & Medical Leave Act – Oh how great, makre sure those independent woman get their governement mandated jobs back
Consumer Product Safety Commission – Once again don’t buy the product!
cleaned up the Great Lakes – Congratulations, while the republicans were working the liberals were using the tax dollars to pay god knows how many hippies to wade around in the water picking up trash. Good save!
protect endangered species As george carlin says – “99.9% of all species that every lived are extinct, we didn’t kill them all!” Its called nature, just let them go.
Democrats got a ban on CFC’s, DDT, PCB’s, & leaded gasoline – that was close. Unleaded has just cleaned up our enviroment so well I forget we even use gas anymore.
public schooling – HA and thats working out so well. Where did clinton send his daughter again??? (hint private school – Sidwell Friends)
National Weather Service – Worked so well in New Orleans
truth-in-advertising laws – once again if you got screwed don’t go back to the store, basic economics here people, jeez were did you guys learn your economics? public school?
Democrats gave us the Morrill Land Grant Act – Once again we need universities liberals need somewhere to bitch about their former classmartes success in the real world.
Public universities – Republicans don’t mind public universities, I mean where else would 50 years old hippies go to avoid the real wolrd. Those who can, do! Those who can’t, teach. SO true on so many levels.
Promote & fund scientific research – Yeah bush doesn’t give any money, not one cent. Right?
Democrats gave us guaranteed bank deposit – congrats
helped women get the vote – Oh yeah the dems were solely responsible for that. Whatever helps you sleep
Child-labor laws – kids shouldn’t be working they should be at home watching tv with welfare recipent parents. Someone needs to be home to the food stamps from the mail box.
Democrats got us Meals on Wheels – Hillary’s platform in 2008, I smell a winner.
Democrats promote scientific & technological research – Technology, that sounds a lot like electronics which is big business. ooohhhhh scary stop development and the making of cheaper and better products thats the democrat way.
Democrats promote student financial aid – keeping kids in debt since 1970.
Democrats promote child immunizations (which reached record levels under the Clinton Administration) – Wow what a platform, the dems should run on that in 2008
Democrats make the poverty rate go down (Check it out: the New Deal reduced America’s poverty rate from over 50% to less than 20%) – Yeah while FDR was in office highest poverty ever(you dems never say that, u just say he fixed it, never admit he was in offcie almost 7 years before it fixed itself). Then that thing called WWI came around and boom we had jobs. The new deal = whenever the economy is in the toilet start a war, deal!
lower the crime rate – Legalizing abortion will do that. So democrats 1 for you!
Democrats fought discrimination – Your right I forgot a democrat does have the most diverese cabinet. Oh wait no thats bush my bad. But good argument.
Develop alternative energy sources – Really, hows that working out?
Democrats control immigration (better than Republicans; Bill Clinton exported more illegals than any President ever) – Maybe that just means more got in, makes sense. If you catch 10% and send them back. If 500 get in that means you send 50 back. If 1000 get in you send 100 back. So it appears you sent more back when in reality more got in. You need percenatges to prove this point.
Democrats improve the educational system
protect you from malignant corporations – Yes all the EVIL scary corpirations giving us products we like and can use to better are own lives, oohhhh scary.
The GNP grows more under Democrats (thought you might like to know)- Stats please
lowered the teen birth rate – Once again abortion helps with that too, and it helps that Clinton was wearing a condom back then!
deactivated more than 1,700 nuclear warheads from the former Soviet Union – Clinton yeah he was the guy that took down the USSR, oh wait no that Reagan, damnit again I was wrong.
highest home ownership rate in American history – Clinton did do this, but look at that rate now that all those dot com babies went bely up. Most of those houses now belong to the bank
converted the largest budget deficit in American history into the largest surplus (which GWB has incredibly turned back into the biggest deficit AGAIN!) – Its called a war buddy, it costs money. sorry about raising a deficit that your tree hugging money won’t ever dent and protecting you.
Smaller government (That’s right! The Federal government grows much less under Democrats) – HAHAHA sorry buddy I’m gonna need some facts to back up that claim.
Democrats gave us the most exports ever (under Clinton) – Its called the internet boom
Democrats can get the FDA working again (do not take any drugs approved under this administration; it’s that bad) – Once again stop these EVIL medicine companies trying to help our sick people. How dare you try and make a medicine that works, not under the democrats watch you won’t!
Democrats would represent most people (most people want the liberal things–environmentalism, gun control, international cooperation, less torture; Republicans, by contrast, want things that most Americans hate) – Ok 51% voted for bush hence more then half = majority=most people don’t think that. Nice try though, almost got one by me.
Democrats can fix this gross income-inequality thing (income equality correlates significantly with mortality rates, crime, poor educational outcomes, substance abuse, etc.) – Damn right, how dare someone make more then someone else. who do you think you are working harder and making more money your just selfish. you need to share that hard earned money with people who may not work, but they want it and thats all that counts.
Democrats are not so into crackpot science & crackpot stats (science backs up the Democrats; junk science backs up the Right) – Once again kinda need some facts with points like that.
Democrats will give us a health-care system (think about it; the lifespans of Canadians are now 2 years more than ours–because of their healthcare system) – Yeah but those 2 years of life are becasue they are the blanket of protection we provide. Maybe if stop protecting them all that healthcre money would have to go to a military that can actually defend itself.
The African-American poverty rates dropped to their lowest levels EVER under the last Democratic administration – Abortion, less poor mothers having babies less children to grow up in poverty
The poverty rate for single mothers reached its lowest level EVER under Clinton. – Abortion strikes again, less women having babies less singles mothers Not hard math to figure out.

PS if you guys think the media is conservative. You need to layoff drugs its making u parnoid. The new media is conservative, but TV is still crawling with liberals

Time to forget the divisive left/right, liberal/conservative
Machiavellian(sp?) bull sht. and take the Federation back!