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The summer of 2004, wasn’t it revealed that one of the networks, I believe it was ABC, had some sort of memo or handbook on how to cover the election that said the coverage should be more critical towards Bush?

If you care to read an article that actually puts the email in context:

(The word “mixed” was used twelve times in the debate. The word “message” was used twenty six times.)

FYI- For anyone not drinking the kool aid Bush’s speaking style is, shall we say, frustrating.

I knew the first line of defense would be “out of context”.

Obviously, the American people preferred substance over style. And here you are
whining about it 18 months later, Preston. So, maybe it is you who needs to put
down the Kool-Aid glass.

p.s.: Could you please try not to screw up the comment boxes?

Well, Robbie, isn’t illuminating to the context to know that the word “mixed” was used twelve times in the debate and the word “message” twenty six times?

2. I don’t know what you mean by ‘whining’. I didn’t say a word about the election. Do you really lash out this blindly against anyone who disagrees with you- you must be a joy around the office…

American people preferred substance over style. That’s hillarious. Did you see his ’substance’ during the press conference.
Mr. President: it’s called the ‘Federal Reserve’.

Typical. You don’t even realize when you are being offensive, Preston. And, yes, you are a whiner.

Well, I guess we’ll just leave it at that.

Another example of Preston using statistics to misrepresent the point:

The email that ABC Producer John Green sent states “If he uses the ‘mixed messages’ line one more time, I’m going to puke,” .

JOHN GREEN WROTE THIS!

We aren’t talking about the debate Preston. We’re talking about the comment!

Preston, why don’t you send those statistics to John Green and see if he’ll join in your spin that what he wrote was taken out of context.
Because of the number of times the words were used in his comment…ummmm, I mean the debate.

You people are amazing.

If I say “That car is so expensive it makes me puke” isn’t a reasonable reaction to ask: “How expensive is the car?”

If it turns out to a third party that the car is not very expensive it is reasonable to think that I am biased against the car for some reason.

If the car is expensive- well what’s the problem?

I would not have had this ‘rally around the candidate’ reaction if Mr. Green had said: ‘If John Kerry mentions Vietnam one more time, I’m going to puke.’ Because- you know what- he mentioned it too much.

Y’all are going to have heart attacks at early ages if you maintain this level of outrage…

Preston — I don’t care so much about the “if he says mixed messages one more time I’m going to puke” comment. From the “context” of the message that you provided a link to, that is understandable.

The “Bush Makes me Sick” comment? That’s the one that I’m pissed about.

Here’s what the bigger point is:

Here’s an even more interesting angle to this. If this guy were sending this from a personal computer, with a personal email address, at home to friends or blogging at KOS that’s one thing (although if it were leaked, it would still be worth mentioning to add that extra nail to the liberal media coffin saying “look, we told you”)… But this is a top ABC News Producer, using an ABC BlackBerry device, using his ABC email address, and sending it to others at ABC like it’s something they do everyday, because it probably is. Do you get what’s wrong with this?!

The larger picture!? For anyone who works in an office, you know it’s not okay to be sending this sort of thing around, and you could get in trouble for it. But the liberalism at ABC News is so widespread, they think nothing of sending Bush hate emails. It’s what they talk about around the water cooler anyway!

The “Bush Makes me Sick” comment? That’s the one that I’m pissed about.

It’s a poor choice of words. I would have said: “Bush drives me crazy. If he says ‘mixed messages’ one more time I going to puke…”
But in the context of his sentence (ooh, that dreaded concept…) that’s the way I interpret it.

The larger picture!?

If there aren’t similar emails about Kerry and Clinton you’d have a point. But I’m sure there are- that’s the world they live in and the people they are- they are cynical about politics and politicians. That’s why they refuse to talk about the actual results of government policy: they believe that politicians only introduce policies for their political benefits. So any discussion of, say, the Medicare Prescription Bill didn’t focus on: ‘Wow, this bill sucks’ but: ‘This is really going to help the President in 2004!’.

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