More News, Les Kinsolving
Jan. 25th, 2003 10:30 amRittenhouse has a snippet of a Fleischer press conference where an unidentified "Lester" gets all foamy about the Washington Times "bug chaser" story.
Lester also had this for Ari:
Q Ari, the Episcopal Church's presiding bishop, Frank Griswold, said -- and this is a quote -- "The United States is rightly hated and loathed for its reprehensible rhetoric and blind eye toward poverty and suffering. I'd like to be able to go somewhere in the world and not have to apologize for being from the United States." My question is, does the President take this at all seriously, or does he categorize it with Senator Patty Murray, who is now becoming known as Osama Mama?
So I googled... Can I just say "yick" and introduce you to my candidate, Lester Kinsolving?
Les Kinsolving is the nation's un-labeled talk show host! Just when you think he's conservative, he's liberal. And just when you think he's liberal, he's in the center! From proud, vociferous patriot to opinionated social commentary to winsome, mischievous devil's advocate, LES keeps audiences on their listening toes!
Les was also a Nationally syndicated (250 papers), Pulitzer-Prize nominated columnist and Talkers Magazine picked him as one of the top 100 the last four years among 4,300 US radio talk show hosts! Les has also appeared on national television as a result of being Baltimore radio's only White House correspondent. He brings knowledge, scoops, foibles, hard-facts to an involved, rapt audience Monday-through-Friday!
Here, you will be able to find out more about this provacative [sic] and ingenious White House correspondent, night time talk show host, and nationally syndicated columnist.
How Les sees his role in the process:
Les is best known among the Washington press corps as one of the few who has the guts to ask probing questions and even providing comic relief.
Even with the Bush Administration in the White House, Les continues to ask probing questions.
Emphasis, as usual, mine.
From Lester's latest commentary on WorldNet Daily:
In this free society, where all citizens are allowed to participate in choosing the nation's leadership, the propagation of public opinion by the media is so important that in the First Amendment of our Constitution's Bill of Rights, there is a guarantee of freedom of the press — which now includes electronic media as well.
But shouldn't the propounders of public opinion in all U.S. media be accessible to the public?
Talk-radio hosts are accessible to many millions of callers everyday. So is that only one other part of media not controlled by liberal Democrats — the Internet.
...
The editorial writers at the Washington Post are kept as inaccessible and as protected from criticism as the Roman empire's vestal virgins.
For example, the Post editorial department decided to address national news which their own news department had back paged and buried, as an item in a political column.
This news as reported nationally by the AP and Fox News is now widely known as "The whitewash of Sen. Patty Murray." In high schools all over Washington state, she gave adulations to Osama bin Laden along with criticism of the U.S.
...
The Post editorial, commending Sen. Murray for these far-worse-than-Trent-Lott statements, confused "Vancouver, Wash." with what they noted was "Vancouver, Canada."
When I telephoned the Post to inquire about this 280-mile error, a young female voice, who would identify herself only as "an assistant to the editors," refused to allow me to talk with any of the editorial writers. She even contended that the error was "a typo."
The following day's correction, published on the Post editorial page, made no such typographical claim. Few typos in the history of journalism have ever matched this alleged confusion of the word "Washington" with the word "Canada" — both of which have a city called "Vancouver."
This 280-mile error was obviously the negligence of a Washington Post editorial writer who failed to check the facts. But he or she is one of the Post's vestal virgins, who is protected from any public inquiry.
While there may be an occasional talk-radio host whose screeners protect him or her from any harsh or intelligent critics who phone, almost all of us neither receive — nor have any desire for — any such protective screening.
Yeah, yeah. Tell it to Randi Rhodes, asshole.
ahem.
In addition to discovering that the editorial department at the Washington Post needs a better proofreader (although not as desperately as the news department needs a passably non-partisan managing editor), challenges to the liberal hegemony by Mr. Kinsolving include these searching thrusts at non-partisan knowledge:
Q Both The Washington Post and The New York Times reported at length that a schizophrenic woman, still under medications, claims that she may have been molested 32 years ago by Father Roger Mahoney, who is now the Cardinal Archbishop of Los Angeles, but, she added, she's not clear on the details.
And in the event that schizophrenic women in New York and Washington claim that they think they may have been molested by Punch Sulzberger and Donny Graham, can you imagine, Ari, that this would ever be reported by the New York Times or the Washington Post?
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Q: Ari, you remember that when a 28-year veteran CBS reporter, Bernard Goldberg, wrote his book, "Bias," the President was so impressed that he carried a copy with the title exposed past several alert photographers. Now, the National Press Club has just given its Press Criticism Award to William McGowan for his book, "Coloring the News," which is one of the most extensive and accurate journalistic indictments of the New York Times ever written. And my question is, surely if the President is so interested in the book, "Bias," you as his faithful Press Secretary have told him about "Covering the News" or have even gotten him a copy, haven't you, Ari?
Oh, I could go on, but, you know, yick.
Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, your liberal press.
Lester also had this for Ari:
Q Ari, the Episcopal Church's presiding bishop, Frank Griswold, said -- and this is a quote -- "The United States is rightly hated and loathed for its reprehensible rhetoric and blind eye toward poverty and suffering. I'd like to be able to go somewhere in the world and not have to apologize for being from the United States." My question is, does the President take this at all seriously, or does he categorize it with Senator Patty Murray, who is now becoming known as Osama Mama?
So I googled... Can I just say "yick" and introduce you to my candidate, Lester Kinsolving?
Les Kinsolving is the nation's un-labeled talk show host! Just when you think he's conservative, he's liberal. And just when you think he's liberal, he's in the center! From proud, vociferous patriot to opinionated social commentary to winsome, mischievous devil's advocate, LES keeps audiences on their listening toes!
Les was also a Nationally syndicated (250 papers), Pulitzer-Prize nominated columnist and Talkers Magazine picked him as one of the top 100 the last four years among 4,300 US radio talk show hosts! Les has also appeared on national television as a result of being Baltimore radio's only White House correspondent. He brings knowledge, scoops, foibles, hard-facts to an involved, rapt audience Monday-through-Friday!
Here, you will be able to find out more about this provacative [sic] and ingenious White House correspondent, night time talk show host, and nationally syndicated columnist.
How Les sees his role in the process:
Les is best known among the Washington press corps as one of the few who has the guts to ask probing questions and even providing comic relief.
Even with the Bush Administration in the White House, Les continues to ask probing questions.
Emphasis, as usual, mine.
From Lester's latest commentary on WorldNet Daily:
In this free society, where all citizens are allowed to participate in choosing the nation's leadership, the propagation of public opinion by the media is so important that in the First Amendment of our Constitution's Bill of Rights, there is a guarantee of freedom of the press — which now includes electronic media as well.
But shouldn't the propounders of public opinion in all U.S. media be accessible to the public?
Talk-radio hosts are accessible to many millions of callers everyday. So is that only one other part of media not controlled by liberal Democrats — the Internet.
...
The editorial writers at the Washington Post are kept as inaccessible and as protected from criticism as the Roman empire's vestal virgins.
For example, the Post editorial department decided to address national news which their own news department had back paged and buried, as an item in a political column.
This news as reported nationally by the AP and Fox News is now widely known as "The whitewash of Sen. Patty Murray." In high schools all over Washington state, she gave adulations to Osama bin Laden along with criticism of the U.S.
...
The Post editorial, commending Sen. Murray for these far-worse-than-Trent-Lott statements, confused "Vancouver, Wash." with what they noted was "Vancouver, Canada."
When I telephoned the Post to inquire about this 280-mile error, a young female voice, who would identify herself only as "an assistant to the editors," refused to allow me to talk with any of the editorial writers. She even contended that the error was "a typo."
The following day's correction, published on the Post editorial page, made no such typographical claim. Few typos in the history of journalism have ever matched this alleged confusion of the word "Washington" with the word "Canada" — both of which have a city called "Vancouver."
This 280-mile error was obviously the negligence of a Washington Post editorial writer who failed to check the facts. But he or she is one of the Post's vestal virgins, who is protected from any public inquiry.
While there may be an occasional talk-radio host whose screeners protect him or her from any harsh or intelligent critics who phone, almost all of us neither receive — nor have any desire for — any such protective screening.
Yeah, yeah. Tell it to Randi Rhodes, asshole.
ahem.
In addition to discovering that the editorial department at the Washington Post needs a better proofreader (although not as desperately as the news department needs a passably non-partisan managing editor), challenges to the liberal hegemony by Mr. Kinsolving include these searching thrusts at non-partisan knowledge:
Q Both The Washington Post and The New York Times reported at length that a schizophrenic woman, still under medications, claims that she may have been molested 32 years ago by Father Roger Mahoney, who is now the Cardinal Archbishop of Los Angeles, but, she added, she's not clear on the details.
And in the event that schizophrenic women in New York and Washington claim that they think they may have been molested by Punch Sulzberger and Donny Graham, can you imagine, Ari, that this would ever be reported by the New York Times or the Washington Post?
-----
Q: Ari, you remember that when a 28-year veteran CBS reporter, Bernard Goldberg, wrote his book, "Bias," the President was so impressed that he carried a copy with the title exposed past several alert photographers. Now, the National Press Club has just given its Press Criticism Award to William McGowan for his book, "Coloring the News," which is one of the most extensive and accurate journalistic indictments of the New York Times ever written. And my question is, surely if the President is so interested in the book, "Bias," you as his faithful Press Secretary have told him about "Covering the News" or have even gotten him a copy, haven't you, Ari?
Oh, I could go on, but, you know, yick.
Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, your liberal press.