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by: SG

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 23:05:16 +0000

A very welcome comment! Worthy of an entire article in response– “Truth, Justice, and the American Way” March 17th.

by: Small man in a big world

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 22:52:46 +0000

SG- I generally find little fault with the opinions expressed in your articles. I don’t consider myself a conservative/republican or a liberal/democrat, but (I think I’m stealing this idea in quotes) rather “Extreme middle”/independent. I generally read your articles with that frame of mind and neither consider SG conservative or liberal, but rather somewhat anti-propaganda. But I have passed SG articles on to fellow Americans and they seem to think that SG articles are “super liberal”. I think that kind of proves your point that “the Republican voting power bloc consists of masses of the ignorant”. I would also like to say “that goes for democrats as well.” The republicans just happen to be somewhat of a majority right now. But if the democrats were had the majority and the media bias again, I’m sure SG would be more than happy to point out their flaws as well. Keep up the freethinking.

by: SG

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 22:50:25 +0000

Follow-up, a bit later in the day…. Today’s (Sunday) Denver Post has a featured article suggesting that the Churchill settlement talks have been stalled because more Churchillian crimes have been discovered by the “Claremont Institute.” Described simply as a “think tank,” the “Institute” is in fact a right-wing political organization whose self-described mission is to “restore the principles of the American Founding (sic) to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life.” Their Colorado front-man, former State Senate President John Andrews, had his picture with the article and this quote featured in italics larger than the subhead for the article:

“If any Republican regent would vote to either pay off Churchill or keep him on the faculty, I’ve got a radio audience and e-mails from 10,000 folks around the state who would do anything to get that regent recalled.”

But wait, there’s more… in the first column of the article, the writers (Denver Post staff writers Arthur Kane and Dave Curtin) say that:

“Churchill critics [including Andrews] and private citizens across Colorado contacted some elected regents or went public Friday to express their displeasure with any negotiated settlement with the professor who demonized some 9/11 victims as Nazis.”

What the HELL kind of reporting is this?! The “critics and citizents” part is vague innuendo intended to support a statement that Churchill “demonized… victims as Nazis.” Stating it as fact. Karl Rove couldn’t have done a neater job of demonizing Churchill. Although since we see so many common threads, and the most vociferous witch-hunters are in fact Republicans– it wouldn’t be all that surprising to learn that the entire affair has been scripted by the Minister of Propaganda himself.