One of my favorite blogs is powerline.com; smart, insightful, and took down Dan Rather with the truth, see his and mapes favorite site link. They provide a link that I found on realclearpoltics.com, realclearpoltics.com another phenom of a website(my morning read.) From mrc.org, there is a list of 2005's media highlights to amuse and befuddle yourself. I read it and reread pats, very disturbing the lack of objectivity of those entrusted to provide us with honest news and commentay. Here is one segment on Ted Turner I found scary, he is a tycoon and considered a brillant man:
Ted Turner: "I am absolutely convinced that the North Koreans are absolutely sincere. There’s really no reason for them to cheat [on nukes]....I looked them right in the eyes. And they looked like they meant the truth. You know, just because somebody’s done something wrong in the past doesn’t mean they can’t do right in the future or the present. That happens all the, all the time."
Wolf Blitzer: "But this is one of the most despotic regimes and Kim Jong-Il is one of the worst men on Earth. Isn’t that a fair assessment?"
Turner: "Well, I didn’t get to meet him, but he didn’t look — in the pictures that I’ve seen of him on CNN, he didn’t look too much different than most other people."
Blitzer: "But, look at the way, look at the way he’s, look at the way he’s treating his own people."
Turner: "Well, hey, listen. I saw a lot of people over there. They were thin and they were riding bicycles instead of driving in cars, but–"
Blitzer: "A lot of those people are starving."
Turner: "I didn’t see any, I didn’t see any brutality...."
— Exchange on CNN’s The Situation Room, Sept. 19.
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