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<P mce_keep="true">[quote user="Railway Man"] <P>[quote user="Bucyrus"]</P> <P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">I understand the concern that this Harry Reid story conflicts with the bill, but that does not mean that the story could not or did not happen last night on the network news.<SPAN> </SPAN>My ears don’t lie.<SPAN> </SPAN>The same story is running right now on the NBC Today Show at 7:00 AM, 2/18.<SPAN> </SPAN>They do attribute the charge to “critics,” and those critics are probably conservatives, but who else is going to criticize it if it is worthy of criticism?<SPAN> </SPAN>And besides, it is NBC who is running the story, hardly a bastion of conservatism.<SPAN> </SPAN>And moreover, NBC is not using the story to criticize the Reid critics, but rather to join them.<SPAN> </SPAN>The thrust of the story is pork in the bill.<SPAN> </SPAN>In any case, I don’t see how the story actually conflicts with the bill.<SPAN> </SPAN>It seems only like a possible result out of the more general language of the bill.<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P>[/quote] </P> <P>Do you think NBC and ABC are acting responsibly and ethically?<BR></P> <P>RWM <BR></P> <P>[/quote]</P> <P mce_keep="true"> </P> <P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">No, I don’t think they ever act ethically because they present themselves as objective news while being slanted far to the left.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I only watch them to evaluate positions of the far left.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But given their bias, I am surprised they even ran the story.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The fact that they did gives credibility to the story in my mind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The story works against the expansion of government, so I would expect it to come from a right wing source, not a left wing source.</SPAN></P>
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