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Re:  Rudy Giuliani: ‘We Had No Domestic Attacks Under Bush; We’ve Had One Under Obama’, The Huffington Post, Rachel Weiner, First Posted: 01- 8-10 08:51 AM   |   Updated: 01- 8-10 09:59 AM

And the right complains about liberal media. Yea, right. The MSM are all shills for the right. They have been since Reagan and even though there is a huge Democratic majority in both houses of congress, and a Democrat in the White House, they continue to support right wingers and their outlandish, untrue talking points. In this case, Stephanopoulos lets Giuliani get away with conveniently overlooking the one act of terror that he used as his political platform in his quest for the presidency in 2008: 9/11.

Rudy Giuliani has joined fellow Republicans Dana Perino and Mary Matalin in seeming to forget that the September 11th attacks happened under President Bush.

On “Good Morning America” Friday, the former New York mayor declared, “We had no domestic attacks under Bush; we’ve had one under Obama.”

Not only does the statement suggest Giuliani does not remember the devastating attack in his own city, it also omits the anthrax attacks and the attempted shoe bomber attack.

And Stephanopoulos let him get away with it.

Giuliani’s claim to fame is not that he was some kind of hero or leader during the hysteria that was 9/11, but that he was such a fool that he thought he could use one of our nations worst crimes as political capital. Watch:

I have railed against the media for so long that my face has gone from blue back to normal. It’s like drinking yourself sober. Giuliani has the gall to say that there were “no domestic attacks under Bush”. Check out what the public is saying about the main stream media.

Now, I’m going to let others do the talking for me on this one.

Read on. Below are samples of comments posted to the above linked article in the Huffington Post. There exisits a mindset in the media that questions every move made by our Democratic Party leaders, but accepts every decision made by our Republican Party leaders as fact. They let these wild revisionist comments hang out there like they were true. Let’s be thankful that extolling this propaganda has not escaped the general public as hoped for by the corporatists who own the media outlets.

(Any bold emphasis is my own.)

This commenter blames Stephanopoulos. From carolcolorado:

Anyone wasting time watching GMA and others of its ilk would probably be idiotic enough to forget what year 9/11 occurred in. Duhmericans have no long-term memory, and Rudy knows it. As far as Steph is concerned, he is earning his chunk by mutely, passively downing the inanities fed him…..thus, his perpetual Alfred E. Neuman “What, me worry?” look.

SigonellaPC3 also takes aim at the interviewer:

The sad thing is, sometimes these hosts will ignore blatant misconceptions in order to interview the “get”. I think the hosts want these people to lie; the outrage builds ratings. Let’s shut off these interviewers too timid to challenge the lies. I have better things to do; it’s time to be proactive about taking our country back.

In this reply to the linked article, rockyb26 has a more active approach to the MSM’s backing of right wing talk, and he’s right, of course:

Send your comments to Good Morning America. They get away with this because we let them….
http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3271346&cat=Good%20Morning%20America

Here it is, short and sweet, from BobSacomano:

It looks like the press has decided not to stray from the ‘Republican enabler‘ mode they fostered during the ‘Shrub’ years.

From Kristen777 we have a sobering reminder of the consequences of the media’s failure to report the truth:

The very real and very frightening reality of this – is that many, MANY people take them seriously – and they vote, and they protest, and sometimes they commit acts of violence – on the basis of false information that they happily accept as reality.

Nate Schaub thinks that it is up to us to do something about how the MSM propels propaganda from both sides, although I see these types of revisionist comments more from the right than the left:

These are the type of comments that are completely unproductive, but it’s all we hear from Washington — from both sides. I’m fully convinced that “we the people” have to be the ones to change the conversation, especially as it relates to the “War on Terror” and how we interact with Muslims and the entire Middle East. The pickings are slim, but there are a few people actually trying to break through the fear rhetoric with some productive dialog. Check it out and get in on the discussion: http://ow.ly/Uf0Z

And finally, from Gail Vida Hamburg, a solution to shoddy reporting and biased journalism as displayed by the main stream media:

MSM rakes people over hot coals for three weeks about small incidents such as the Salahis’ party crashing, but fail to ask simple questions about trumped up fiction that glosses over historical facts. We need an engaged Fourth Estate that subscribes to the principles of journalism laid out by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. http://www.journalism.org/resources/principles

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