Mike Benge
More on Kerry's MIA Cover-up
Thu Jan 22 13:59:14 2004
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From: "Mike D Benge" mbenge@fs.fed.us

More on Kerry's MIA Cover-up

John McCreary, a top DIA analyst assigned to John Kerry's Senate Select Committee, filed several articles of impeachment against Kerry with the Senate "Ethics' committee, as well as with the BAR in an attempt to get Kerry disqualified as a lawyer. One of the charges was that Kerry shredded classified documents when he headed the committee. The documents were of live sightings, and the reason Kerry shredded them is that the documents obtained by the committee would all feed into the National Archives, and eventually be declassified.

By shredding these documents, it allowed the parent agencies, CIA, DIA and DOD, to then reclassify them at National Security so they would never see the light of day.

I wrote a article on this in the "Washington Inquirer," published by Accuracy in Media (AID), and after reading it, Kerry wrote a letter to AID threatening them with a lawsuit on character defamation (it was first of a three part series I wrote on Kerry). The paper was a weekly, and by the time AIM got the letter my second article was in print with a big picture of Kerry testifying before Congress, where he called those fighting in Vietnam as "baby killers," and he looked doped out. The caption read, "Was Kerry chasing the dragon when he went to Laos?

Kerry was really pissed and called AIM who decided not to print my third article where I sourced a Boston Globe writer who didn't like Kerry, and had wrote articles accusing him of being the Sandanista communist ambassador to Congress and quoted General Patton III (not the General Patton, but his son I believe), who served in Vietnam, who compared Kerry to Jane Fonda, calling him a traitor. Kerry didn't have a leg to stand on the defamation accusations, but AIM didn't have the money to fight him in court, so my third article wasn't published by AIM, however one of the Vietnam Vet newspapers did.

Regards, Mike Benge (VN POW, '68-73)
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This Just in: Liberal Media Bias Is Alive and Well

Posted Jan. 7, 2002

By Reed Irvine
Bernard Goldberg, the retired CBS News correspondent who infuriated anchorman Dan Rather, 60 Minutes Executive Producer Don Hewitt and many others at CBS by showing how their liberal bias colors their reporting, has written a fascinating book that tells how he, a died-in-the-wool liberal from New York City, came to write a column that made him the unforgivable enemy of nearly everyone at CBS News. His offense was telling the truth in a column in the Wall Street Journal that made the case that news reporting should be objective, fair and balanced.

Goldberg correctly notes in his book, Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distorts the News, that what he said in that column would have been brushed off by his colleagues if it had been written by a well-known conservative such as William F. Buckley Jr. But coming from Goldberg, a trusted member of the liberal fraternity, CBS News President Andrew Heyward accused him of "an act of disloyalty" and "a betrayal of trust." Goldberg says that a few years earlier Heyward had told him, "Of course there's a liberal bias in the news. All the networks tilt left." He added, "If you repeat any of this, I'll deny it." He says that when he reminded Heyward that he hadn't used that quote in his column, he screamed, "That would have been like raping my wife and kidnapping my kids."

Those words reflect the intensity of Heyward's feeling of betrayal by a colleague who shared his liberal views. Goldberg makes no bones about his own liberalism, saying he defends abortion and gay rights, for example, but he parts company with most liberals on some other social issues. He has a chapter in his book on this that is intriguingly titled "The Most Important Story You Never Saw on TV."

That story, Goldberg says, is "the terrible things that are happening to America's children." He cites an article published by the conservative Heritage Foundation that puts much of the blame for increasing rates of child suicides, sexual activity, venereal disease and poor academic performance on the great increase in the number of working mothers. This, he says, has resulted in an increase in the number of day-care and latchkey kids who don't get enough parental supervision. He overlooked the hundreds of polls and studies showing that the messages kids get from the entertainment industry, dominated by the same liberal mentality as the news media, bear a large share of the blame for the increased violence, sex, drug use, crimes and suicides among American children.

Goldberg cited the lack of enthusiasm displayed by TV news coverage of a recent study that found that 17 percent of the children left in day care for more than 30 hours a week "argue a lot, demand a lot of attention, act cruelly, show explosive behavior, talk too much and get into lots of fights." He pointed out that this was reported by the networks as a "controversial" study, indicating that it was one with which the reporter did not agree. He attributes their enthusiasm for more federal funding for day care, and their lack of concern about its possible harmful effects, on the fact that so many of them are members of working couples who depend heavily on day care.

These stories are important, but it is not just bias that keeps them from leading the evening news. Like crumbling bridges, they are not breaking news. The most important breaking news story that has been suppressed in recent times is the killing of former deputy White House counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr. in 1993, a story that even Goldberg probably doesn't know. A leading Republican senator said seven years ago that the reason they were not investigating Foster's death is that, if he did not kill himself, the president was somehow involved and the democratic process could not survive such a disclosure. The media seem to share that view, because no major news organization ever has investigated or reported the flaws in the official investigations.

The U.S. Park Police told another law-enforcement agency it was saddled with the investigation because of its sensitive nature. When the police saw the gun in Foster's hand they decided it was a suicide. This later was confirmed by Robert Fiske and Kenneth Starr, independent counsels whose agents concealed all the evidence pointing to murder.

Accuracy in Media has given Bob Woodward of the Washington Post what I believe is irrefutable evidence that Foster was murdered. He promised to read it and respond. When he failed to respond, we told him that we would take his silence as an admission that he couldn't refute the evidence. He remained silent. That means the Washington Post can't refute the proof, but it won't report it. That is suppression of important news.

Reed Irvine writes frequently about politics and news bias and is the president of Accuracy in Media, a nonprofit media watchdog group in Washington.
http://www.insightmag.com/news/2002/01/28/FairComment/This-Just.In.Liberal.Media.Bias.Is.Alive.And.Well-161499.shtml

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