From Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Eugene Kane’s blog:
It’s a 150 year tradition in town. They call it the 4th Street Forum.
It’s a non-partisan public event that talks about important issues in Milwaukee and Wisconsin, viagra canadasildenafil held downtown at Milwaukee Turner Hall on 4th Street. I’ll be part of a panel discussing the 2008 elections today at noon. The topic: “Seeking Truth as Campaigns Spin.”
The other panel members are :
JOHN COLEMAN, PhD
Professor and Chair, Political Science
UW-Madison, www.polisci.wisc.edu
Wisconsin Advertising Project, www.polisci.wisc.edu/tvadvertising
JANE HAMPDEN
Former WUWM “Lake Effect” Producer and Host, Milwaukee Public Radio
Former News Anchor and Reporter
Lecturer, Broadcast Journalism, UW-Milwaukee, www.uwm.edu/Dept/JMC
EUGENE KANE
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Metro Columnist, www.jsonline.com
Former Host of “Black Nouveau,” Milwaukee Public Television
As always, the 4th Street Forum is free and open to the public. If you can’t make it, the forum will be televised on Wisconsin Public TV channels 10/36 on Friday and Sunday (check your local listings.)
Unlike other events, the 4th Street Forum is about intelligent, reasonable discussion of the issues, with very little yelling.
So did you see it?
It was calling an event featuring a radical newspaper columnist, an ex-NPR reporter, a Hispanic journalist, and a university professor from Madison, a “non-partisan” event.
(Actually sounds like a pretty accurate cross section of the Democratic party to me. ;) )
John McCain’s health plan won’t lower the ranks of the uninsured. Barack Obama’s fails to curb the soaring cost of health care, cialis meaning initial gains in helping more people buy health insurance would eventually be undermined.
Well, which is it?
The truth is, no one knows.
And that’s the problem with government intervention in free markets. The only law more powerful than the law of supply and demand is the law of unintended consequences.
He writes an entire column accusing the McCain campaign of “out-and-out” lying while depending on his own untruths and distortions to make his point:
Take the case of the Bridge to Nowhere, discount viagrapharmacy which supposedly gives Ms. Palin credentials as a reformer. Well, cialis usa when campaigning for governor, Ms. Palin didn’t say “no thanks” — she was all for the bridge, even though it had already become a national scandal, insisting that she would “not allow the spinmeisters to turn this project or any other into something that’s so negative.”
Oh, and when she finally did decide to cancel the project, she didn’t righteously reject a handout from Washington: she accepted the handout, but spent it on something else. You see, long before she decided to cancel the bridge, Congress had told Alaska that it could keep the federal money originally earmarked for that project and use it elsewhere.
You might have missed it, but right in the middle of his accusation he ADMITS that she said “no” to the Bridge to Nowhere.
Has the McCain campaign implied that she was more against it than she was?
Yes, I’d say that would be a fair characterization.
But to call Palin’s claim an outright lie is a lie in and of itself.
And then there’s the claim that Mr. Obama’s use of the ordinary metaphor “putting lipstick on a pig” was a sexist smear, and on and on.
I think too much has been made of this, but I do believe Senator Obama meant to conjure up Sarah Palin with that reference: from their reaction, his audience certainly seemed to think that was what he was getting at.
Has the McCain campaign pushed the truth a couple of times?
I think so. (Especially with McCain’s claim that Governor Palin sold Alaska’s private jet for a profit.)
But the truth is, the ugliest lies in this campaign have come from supporters of Senator Obama including:
For the most part, viagra buyviagra I think over the years professional journalists have made an effort to be as nonpartisan as their unconscious biases would allow.
But, ampoule now, it feels like the mainstream media has abandoned any pretense towards impartiality and declared open war on the Right.
For well over a year, the mainstream media has been fawning all over Barack Obama.
And now I’m wondering if, like Paul Soglin, the press hasn’t decided that this election is so important that anything they have to do to assure Barack Obama’s election is justified.
The Fourth Estate has an important role to play in a Democracy.
They should ask hard questions.
They should probe for answers.
They should try to find the truth.
But they should not take sides.
And, at this point, it is my judgment that many members of the press have abandoned their traditional role as democracy’s referees and have chosen advocacy over arbitration.
This video is supposed to make you dislike Sarah Palin, viagraorder but (like much of what’s coming from the media these days) this weapon just backfires.
But as far as I’m concerned, cialis salehealth Andrew Sullivan (a man who insisted that Sarah Palin provide proof that she was actually the mother of her newborn son rather than his grandmother) has no business questioning anyone else’s honor.
What’s the two scariest things some folks on the Left can think of?
Guns:
And God:
Like Barack Obama, viagra salesovaldi the press will be bewildered by the fact that many American’s won’t find either of these two things scary. And, generic viagra in fact, will be MORE likely to vote for her because of that picture and that video.
(As a side note on the Church video. She DID NOT say that Iraq was a plan from God, she said we have to pray that there IS a plan and that that plan is from God. If anything, the Left should be seizing on this as proof that she’s not certain we ARE doing the right thing in Iraq. I’m an Agnostic, but the accusation that this is somehow sinister is freaking ridiculous.)
…from On The Media host Bob Garfield that the press was just doing its job when they attempted to complete destroy Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
And I really, cialis saletroche really hope the rest of the press embraces his exhortations to “keep up the good work.”*
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