Ted "Let Me Whip Myself" Turner; Un-American Limbaugh & Prejudiced Talk Radio 1) Ted Turner claimed the NewsStand fiasco made him consider suicide and he offered a S&M punishment: whipping. April Oliver revealed her drive to expose secret operations; Jack Smith once held a high slot at CBS; and why couldn't Arnett find poison gas in Iraq? 2) The FEC is ordered to pursue the sale of trade mission seats, another judge orders a Tripp/Bacon-related computer seized and a Gore ally is fined. Nets ignore it all, but explore how turtles hear. 3) "Limbaugh is emblematic of what's wrong" with... continue reading
Arnett Attacks "Right-Wing Media;" NBC Embraces Cosby's Hateful Tirade 1) Peter Arnett complained about "the right-wing media," after CNN decided not to fire him. Explaining why he has no responsibility for his story, he insisted he's "primarily an action reporter." CNN is "too bloody cozy" with the military, a fired producer charged. 2) More disturbing news about technology transfers to China, but the networks don't care. Only CNN and FNC care about Tripp. 3) ABC, CBS and FNC, but not CNN, pointed out how science proves implants did not cause the heath problems claimed by women. NBC endorsed Camille Cosby's... continue reading
Showcasing Clinton's "Safety Net" Solution; CNN Staffers Angry At Bosses 1) No Tuesday evening show mentioned that the Maryland State Prosecutor pursuing Linda Tripp is a Democrat. 2) "A wide gap in the national safety net is about to close," oozed CBS reporter Wyatt Andrews is a sparkling report on how Bill Clinton has solved another problem by making taxpayers pay more. 3) "The symbolism was spectacular," declared a Cox Newspapers reporter is a glowing assessment for PBS of Clinton's China trip. 4) CNN is looking harder at Peter Arnett's role. And in a Monday conference CNN staffers unleashed "unusually... continue reading
Reporter Offers Clinton a Blewinsky; GOP Candidates Hit as Too Far Right 1) Former Time reporter Nina Burleigh wished Clinton took her to his hotel room so she could be "ravished" by him and she could go down on him. Powerful men turn her on, but not Rush Limbaugh. He's a "hater." 2) Linda "Tripp lost membership in the family of man" and "can safely be cast as a villain -- the Mark Fuhrman of the Starr investigation," venomously spewed Time's Margaret Carlson. 3) Bob Schieffer spent an interview pressing three Republicans about whether the religious right "is going to... continue reading
"Gorbachev of China;" Funneling Fumbled; Competition or Liberal Bias? 1) Quote of the Weekend: Newsweek's Eleanor Clift dubbed Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin "the Gorbachev of China." 2) "Nothing has been proven" in the over-hyped Monica mess; Bryant Gumbel prefers France where the media aren't so sex "obsessed." 3) Forced abortions and campaign money funneling were raised at the Hong Kong press conference, but Friday night not a word on abortion and only CNN mentioned the China-connection scandal. 4) ABC and CBS ignored the e-mail showing Tripp tried to end her relationship with Lewinsky. Newspaper revelations about Chung and satellites skipped... continue reading
Starr No Man of Justice; Conservatives Yearn for an Enemy 1) The Hubbell decision "further weakens Starr's image as a man of justice," relayed ABC in picking up the White House line. In China Clinton can escape scandal, NBC trumpeted. ABC's Brian Ross discovered the PLA buys guns by delivering Victor Kiam's razors. 2) Conservative strategists attack Clinton's China policy only because they are "looking for a post Cold War enemy to replace the Soviet Union," CNN's Mike Chinoy viciously charged. 1 The judge's dismissal of the tax charges against Hubbell and his associates topped all but the FNC newscast... continue reading
Tripp "Ratted Out" Monica; Rivera: Clinton Liberated the Chinese 1) Tripp led all but CBS. Tom Brokaw contrasted Clinton's "excellent" job in China with problems at home, but NBC's Lisa Myers verified one Tripp charge. All showed clips of Clinton on the radio. 2) Geraldo Rivera declared that in its "pre-Clintonian days" China had "repression." But that's over now and yet Clinton's "not getting cut any slack back home by the critics." 3) The spectrum at NPR and the Washington Post runs "from the local chairman of the Communist Party to the conservative Heritage Foundation." That puts liberals in the... continue reading
Are There Any Clinton China Critics? Clinton's Satellite Clairvoyance 1) Networks still glowing about Clinton China performance. Only CNN acknowledged any critics exist. ABC suggested jurors may not like Linda Tripp. NBC skipped Tripp and Dale Young to spend time on UFOs. 2) Dan Rather jumped on a judge's charge that an evidentiary argument by Starr's office is "really scary." 3) FNC hiring Matt Drudge: "Further proof that the term 'Fox News' is an oxymoron," whined one PBS star. 4) Geraldo Rivera raised the satellite issue, not to examine its propriety but to admire its foresight for making possible the... continue reading
"Hosannas" for Clinton's "Virtuoso" Performance; "Good-for-Nothing" Tripp 1) Tim Russert set up Jack Quinn for a hit on Ken Starr. ABC and NBC picked up in the evening how Starr "should be ashamed." 2) "Widespread Hosannas of praise for President Clinton on the issue of human rights," insisted ABC. Only CBS detailed what Dale Young disclosed about the definition of sex 'incompleted' by Clinton. 3) Tragedy to triumph. Friday night the networks hit Clinton for going to Tiananmen Square, but by Saturday they were saluting his "virtuoso" press conference performance and how "he turned the memory of a massacre into... continue reading
Donaldson Gets Chinese Arrested; Geraldo Protects Clinton 1) ABC and NBC focused Thursday on the arrests of dissidents in what Sam Donaldson called "a police state." Minutes later Peter Jennings said he learned "the only people who think China is a communist country now live in Washington." CBS took on Taiwan and Motorola. 2) Geraldo Rivera in China for NBC's Today: Tiananmen Square no big deal, everybody loves Clinton and don't care about Monica. >>> The June 29 edition of Notable Quotables has now been posted on the MRC home page by the MRC's Sean Henry. Just go to: http://www.mediaresearch.org... continue reading