No, Ito Didn't Underestimate the White Jurors Either
"In his written ruling, Ito
said, I'm quoting here, `The court finds the probative value of
the remaining examples,' those not allowed, `substantially and
overwhelmingly outweighed by the danger of undue prejudice.' Do
you think Ito has underestimated the intellectual capacity of
this jury because it is black-majority?"
- Today co-host
Bryant Gumbel to O.J. Simpson lawyer Alan Dershowitz on Judge
Ito's ruling that admitted only two of Mark Fuhrman's racial
slurs, September 1.
Lying More Than Johnnie Cochran
"On Close Up this morning,
Medicare. Republicans in Congress are beginning to detail how
they intend to cut $270 billion from the Medicare budget."
- Bryant Gumbel, September 15 Today.
"The Democrats, the big
mistake they've made is they ought to have advertisements about
deterioration of quality, they ought to show an elderly person
in a hospital bell ringing for a nurse who doesn't show up.
That's where the cutbacks are going to be."
- Newsweek's
Eleanor Clift, September 16 McLaughlin Group.
"Democrats and Republicans
in Congress late today came close to actual physical blows over
proposed cuts in Medicare. That's the separate U.S. government
health care coverage for 37 million older Americans of all
income levels. There's no doubt that Medicare spending will be
cut. The question is how much and for how many."
- Dan
Rather, September 20 CBS Evening News.
"Congressional Republicans are trying to squeeze $270 billion out of the program during the next seven years. The Democrats say the proposed cuts are too deep." - CNN's Bernard Shaw, Sept. 20 Inside Politics.
"The Republican plan to
slash $270 billion from Medicare cleared its first hurdle in a
Senate committee vote last night."
- CBS This Morning
co-host Paula Zahn, September 28.
"Just after midnight the
[Senate Finance] committee voted 11 to 9 along party lines to
approve an anti-deficit plan mandating massive cuts and changes
in Medicare, Medicaid, and virtually every federal welfare
program."
- Washington Post reporters Eric Pianin and
Judith Havemann, September 30.
"Senate Minority Leader Tom
Daschle said today Democrats have a plan to save Medicare
without raising premiums or deductibles. He said the Democratic
plan would cut $89 billion over seven years, a third of what the
Republicans have proposed to slash."
- PBS anchor Robert
MacNeil on The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour, October 2.
Cronkite Tries Spin Control
Caller: "You've been quoted
as saying that you felt that most journalists were liberal, in
fact that a good journalist was by nature a liberal."
Walter Cronkite: "I define liberal as a person who is not
doctrinaire. That is a dictionary definition of liberal. That's
opposed to `liberal' as part of the political spectrum....open
to change, constantly, not committed to any particular creed or
doctrine, or whatnot, and in that respect I think that news
people should be liberal."
- Exchange on CNN's Larry King
Live, September 11.
Reality Check:
"I know liberalism isn't
dead in this country. It simply has, temporarily we hope, lost
its voice....We know that Star Wars means uncontrollable
escalation of the arms race. We know that the real threat to
democracy is the half of the nation in poverty....We know that
no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child....Gawd
Almighty, we've got to shout these truths in which we believe
from the housetops. Like that scene in the movie Network, we've
got to throw open our windows and shout these truths to the
streets and the heavens."
- Cronkite addressing a November
17, 1988 People for the American Way dinner as quoted in the
December 5, 1988 Newsweek.
No, Colin, Not the Genocidal Republicans!
"For urban dwellers, and
especially the poor, the Republican Party as currently
constituted is the enemy - the source of endless destructive,
mean-spirited and racist initiatives....The unspoken question on
Kelly Street [in the Bronx] was how, in good conscience, General
Powell could serve as the standard-bearer of a party that is
waging all-out war against the poor and racial and ethnic
minorities (and which is hostile to the interests of the middle
class as well)....For years, the insidious and blatantly racist
strategy of the Republican Party has been to pit the middle
classes against the lower classes, while sucking money from both
groups up the economic pyramid to the smiling faces at the
top."
- Former NBC reporter Bob Herbert in his New York
Times column, September 22.
The Pope's a Crank
"There are 60 million
Catholics in America, and for many of them he also speaks with
the voice of a conservative crank when he stonewalls on
abortion, birth control, married priests, women priests and so
on."
- Washington Post reporter Henry Allen in an October
2 Style section story.
Nothing Dangerous About Abortion
"The picture, fed by
conservative critics, of a festival of radical feminism where
ideas germinated in the West were spread aggressively among
wide-eyed disciples from the rest of the world, didn't match the
conference that I covered....to those who argue there was a
dangerous political agenda at work, that is true only if you
believe there is something dangerous about helping 70 percent of
the world's poor, who happen to be women."
- CNN anchor
Judy Woodruff in a Washington Post op-ed, October 1.
Sounds Like Mario Cuomo
"Our viewers remember from
'80, from 1980 to 1988, Ronald Reagan said he could cut taxes,
increase defense, and still balance the budget. The deficit
under Ronald Reagan doubled. The debt tripled, and home mortgage
rates were 12 percent. It didn't work then. Why would it work
now?"
- Meet the Press host Tim Russert to GOP
presidential candidate Steve Forbes, September 24.
For Once We Agree
"The Standard is part of
the process, whereas George is part of the problem. Why should
politics need more packaging when The New Yorker has gone
Hollywood, Vanity Fair psycho-babbles, and we've already got too
many television yak shows where Ross Perot flies in one of Larry
King's ears and out the other like a maddened fruit bat."
- CBS Sunday Morning television critic John Leonard, September
24.
- L. Brent Bozell III;
Publisher
- Brent H. Baker, Tim Graham; Editors
- Geoffrey Dickens, James Forbes, Steve Kaminski, Gesele Rey,
Clay Waters; Media Analysts
- Kathleen Ruff; Circulation Manager
- Gene Eliasen; Intern