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  • From: IAgreeWithEverything
  •   To: msmbiasisreal
  • 2 of 5
  • 5/8/09
>>Yet on Apr 27th,2009  your so out of whack bias showed in a judgement [sic] of  "pants on fire"
for Michele Bachman's truthful statement" when she said
>>"In the 1970s, "the swine flu broke out . . . under another Democrat, President Jimmy Carter." 
>>Isn't it a fact swine flu broke out in 1970s?  Is it not True Carter is a Democrat and was President?




It's true that Carter was a Democrat and was President. 
Though he wasn't President until after swine flu broke out.


The swine flu outbreak in the 1970's started in early 1976.

Gerald Ford was the President.

He was a Republican.



See:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_influenza#1976_U.S._outbreak
     http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol12no01/05-0965.htm




Is it "bias" every time you point out that someone has their facts completely wrong?


  • From: IAgreeWithEverything
  •   To: msmbiasisreal
  • 3 of 5
  • 5/8/09
>>The nonpartisan research group Center for Media and Public Affairs along with
>> California's Chapman University released a study that found the nightly newscasts devoted to
>>Obama  27 hours, 44 minutes to Pres. Obama's presidency in his first 50 days.[4 times the amount of Bush!]
>>Bush       7 hours, 42 minutes for Pres. George W. Bush and
>>Clinton  15 hours, 2 minutes for Pres. Bill Clinton during the first 50 days of their first terms.



If that's true, do you think it might have something to do with the fact that we have two wars and an economic crisis going on?
Of course the President is going to be in the news more during a crisis... or two.. or three...


During the first 50 days of the Bush presidency, the only problem we had was figuring out what to do with the huge budget surplus.
  (Mission accomplished on that.)



This is pretty funny (yet tragic):

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency





  • From: IAgreeWithEverything
  •   To: msmbiasisreal
  • 4 of 5
  • 5/8/09

and The Daily Show covered Michelle Bachmann's factually-challenged revisionist history about swine flu in their segment Snoutbreak '09
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