Dick Cheney endorses Fox News; Brezhnev Endorses Pravda
Vice President Cheney endorsed the Fox News Channel during a conference call last night with tens of thousands of Republicans who were gathered across the country to celebrate a National Party for the President Day organized by the Bush-Cheney campaign.
“It’s easy to complain about the press — I’ve been doing it for a good part of my career,” Cheney said. “It’s part of what goes with a free society. What I do is try to focus upon those elements of the press that I think do an effective job and try to be accurate in their portrayal of events. For example, I end up spending a lot of time watching Fox News, because they’re more accurate in my experience, in those events that I’m personally involved in*, than many of the other outlets.”
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Cheers could be heard erupting behind an insurance representative from Johnson County, Iowa, as she began asking Cheney her question. She complained about “the inconsistencies that we see in the media” and asked him to “clarify some of the things that are happening in Iraq that really are good but just never get through the media.”
Cheney told the questioner he has “experienced the same kind of frustration you have.”
“The fact is that we spend a lot of time talking to a broad range of people out there to make sure we’ve got a good fix on what’s going on,” Cheney said. “You can’t simply rely just upon the press coverage. The situation today is clearly — we’ve made enormous progress when you think about where we came from a little over a year ago. Saddam Hussein was in power. Tonight, he’s in jail. His sons are dead. The government is gone. It’s been taken down. The extent to which you had a regime there that hosted terrorists over the years and also pursued and used weapons of mass destruction — that’s all been dramatically changed.”
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Saddam Hussein was a big fan of Iraqi Satellite Television…
(*) they report the news we give them… just the way we give it to them…