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Monday, October 20, 2008
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
An Obama Campaign Event: Meet the Press
by Rich Galen
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And, by the way, when he was climbing his way up through the Washington, DC power vines:

Powell was appointed National Security Advisor by Ronald Reagan. Pretty conservative, by most accounts.

He was nominated to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by George H.W. Bush. Moderate, in most people's thinking.

He was nominated to be Secretary of State by President George W. Bush. Certainly to 41's right.

And how did the Democratic Party treat Colin Powell when, say, Bill Clinton was President? PBS quotes Dick Morris on the relationship between Clinton and Powell prior to the 1996 re-election campaign as follows:

"Clinton was apoplectic on the subject of Colin Powell, terrified of Colin Powell. For three months, all he could think about was Colin Powell. And he would talk about the press giving Powell a free ride, that the press is promoting Powell's candidacy."

Was the party ideology claim challenged by Tom Brokaw? No. Of course not, because NBC and a significant proportion of the main stream media believes it to be true.

NBC will "win" this week's Sunday Talk Show Sweepstakes. In fact on both ABC's "This Week" and Fox's "Fox News Sunday" George Stephanopoulos and Chris Wallace brought up Powell's endorsement on their shows. It will certainly be on the front page of the Times, the Post and every other newspaper this morning.

When Tim Russert hosted the show, he was tough on every guest - Republican or Democrat. The new "Meet the Press" is an FEC investigation waiting to happen.

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Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Rich Galen currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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Reply # 1
Date: Oct 21, 2008 - 3:46 PM EST
Fair == Democrat by definition
People are so used to high ranking Democrats moving to the press they think it is a law of nature. George Stephanopoulos held EXACTLY the same positions for the Clinton regime that Karl Rove held for George W. Bush. When he was chosen to take over for David Brinkley no one thought it was odd at all. Imagine Karl Rove being made a news anchor. Every newspaper and major media outlet would be screaming about it until his name was withdrawn. PLEASE don't tell me that having him as commentator along with various Democrats is the same thing. What did Russert do before he was allowed to replace A PANEL OF THREE REPORTERS? " Russert worked as a special counsel, and later as chief of staff, to Democratic U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. In 1983 he became the counsel to Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo of New York State." Yes they used to have 3 reporters from different papers, but those were ALL replaced by NOT A REPORTER, but a Democrat staff member. Obviously NBC saw those two things as essentially the same. Press or Democratic Hack. What's the diff? Does NOBODY see how BIZARRE this is?
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Reply # 2
Date: Oct 21, 2008 - 2:05 PM EST
Oh PLEASE!
Obama is using hypnosis!!

The left, not just Obama, are using propaganda, control of news and entertainment as well as the schools to seize control of this country...

It's been going on for years, decades really, and is right out of the marxist textbook used so many times, else where in the world.
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