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but neglected to report that the approval of the Democrat-led Congress is only half of the President's. These practices of deception used to be called "yellow journalism," but they are so common today, that the phrase is meaningless.

Because of their visceral hatred for President Bush, liberal media outlets have been tried to destroy him from day one, and they have done this with deceptive journalism. During hurricane Katrina, the networks made much of the "failure" of the administration to respond to the emergency, as the gross mistakes of Mayor Nagin and Louisiana Governor Blanco, were largely untold. TV networks did not report the fact that President Bush, a former governor, himself, pleaded with Governor Blanco the night before the storm to declare a state of emergency-an action that would have given her special powers to protect the people of her state. The obnoxious Mayor Nagin refused an offer of train service to evacuate New Orleans citizens, and allowed dozens of buses to sit idle, when they could have been used to transport people to higher and safer ground. Because of who they are, journalists condemned President Bush, but gave Blanco and Nagin a pass.

Far and away the largest and longest-running case of journalistic malfeasance occurred during the war in Iraq. The death count of American troops was reported daily, but the number of insurgents killed was ignored, making it appear that we were losing the war badly. The left-wing media charged again and again that no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq, implying that the administration had lied in order to sell the war to the American people, despite the fact that no evidence exists to support the charge. They were not reporting the fact that Democrat critics of the war received the very same information that President Bush was given, and most of them voted to give President Bush the authority to conduct military operations in Iraq.

The most commonly-used deceptive media tactic is to report good news about the war or the economy, only to mitigate it with questions to the contrary, or by reporting the comments of critics. They will then predictably devote twice as much time to reporting the bad news as they do the good news, but look for that to change if a Democrat is elected to the White House in November. Media outlets are loathe to report anything that might embarrass the liberal side of an issue or a liberal politician.

Whenever a negative domestic issue occurs, the media routinely adds, "women and minorities are hardest hit." This is because liberals believe that the free market capitalist system in America is patently unfair, and that a large federal government is needed to even the score. It's an old theory that has been a monumental and demonstrable failure, but liberals in the media continue to herald government as the salvation of the common man, as if it's a new progressive ideology.

The 2008 election will be as important an election as any recent election has been. For that reason, it's important that the electorate be honestly and truthfully educated about the real issues that America faces and how the political candidates plan to address them. Sadly, television media and liberal print media will not do the job we expect of them, they will continue to distort and deceive in order to influence the outcome of the election. Don't let them get away with this. America's future security depends upon it.

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