MoveOn.Org reports that top TV reporters have asked presidential candidates 2,679 questions in the last year, of which three were about UFOs, and three were about climate change.
It would be tempting to dismiss this as Fox News vacuousness, but for the non-participation of NBC's Washington Bureau Chief, Tim Russert, who clearly just doesn't care.
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"MoveOn.Org reports ... "
This, from the same guy who, not 5 days ago, pompously declared, "Global Warming is NOT a Left-Right Issue".
http://www.desmogblog.com/global-warming-is-not-a-left-right-issue
Now, if you can only cram any more postings lifted directly from Moveon.org, Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and any other George Soros-funded left-wing front group, I don't know how? And any conservative who happens to disagree with that, must be an "anarchist", ipso facto?
Yeah, I thought so.
... or maybe not. Maybe, once again, you'd like to talk about - well - pretty much anything other than the actual content of the post.
Do you disagree that the U.S. media is ignoring this story?
Do you have evidence to suggest that Moveon is making this stuff up?
Or, more succinctly, do you have a point?
"Do you have evidence to suggest that Moveon is making this stuff up?"
Uh, you mean besides the fact that we're talking about Moveon.org?
You're joking, right?