| NBC, USA Today Accused Of Sending Subliminal Anti-Bush Messages SPARTANBURG, SC (Talon News) -- Just as the fury over CBS News airing a story questioning President George W. Bush's National Guard service was beginning to die down, two other major news media outlets are embroiled in a controversy over sending subliminal messages in their news coverage. NBC Nightly News on Monday showed a 16-second still shot of Bush speaking at an Iowa campaign stop with the letters "ILIE" in the background during a story about the president's remarks. The phrase "TAX RELIEF FOR WORKING FAMILIES" was displayed behind Bush while he was speaking. As Talon News reported on Tuesday, Bush signed his fourth tax cut in four years during this visit to Iowa. The apparent anti-Bush sentiment from NBC comes four years after a similar incident involving then-Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore. Ironically, it was NBC who broke the story involving the letters "RATS" being shown next to a picture of Gore in one frame of a Bush campaign ad. The letters were part of the word "BUREAUCRATS" that was in the background of Gore speakin
WASHINGTON — President Bush has brought France into his re-election campaign as a reason not to vote for
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Hollywood, Florida-AP -- Party members say they're unified on the Democratic platform after a many meetings and compromises. The Kerry campaign avoided a platform fight by persuading activists to drop language declaring the war in Iraq a mistake. Certain members of the platform committee wanted to discuss a plan and a time-frame to bring U-S troops home. Instead the party adopted language more reflective of the Kerry's position. |
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He says that as more troops from other nations are added in Iraq, the U-S can begin to reduce its presence and avoid the appearance of a continued U-S occupation.
The platform will focus on national security issues and the Kerry campaign. Kerry has said he wants to build a multi-national coalition to secure Iraq so the U-S won't have to "go it alone."
How to be a good Democrat:
1. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.
2. You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach 4th-graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.
3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese & North Korean communists.
4. You have to believe that there was no art before Federal funding.
5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical, documented changes in the earth's climate and more affected by soccer moms driving SUVs.
6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial but being homosexual is natural.
7. You have to be against capital punishment but support abortion on demand.
8. You have to believe that businesses create oppression, and governments create prosperity.
9. You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but loony activists who have never been outside of San Francisco do.
10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.
11. You have to believe that the military, not corrupt politicians, start wars.
12. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.
13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.
14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Gen. Robert E.Lee, and Thomas Edison.
15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.
16. You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is normal and really a very nice person.
17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.
18. You have to believe conservatives telling the truth belong in jail, but a liar and sex offender belonged in the White House.
19. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag, transvestites, and bestiality should be constitutionally protected, and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.
20. You have to believe that illegal Democratic Party funding by the Chinese government is somehow in the best interest of the United States.
21. You have to believe that this list is part of a vast, right-wing conspiracy.
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