Let's start a list of those who have been destroyed by a rush to judgment by the MSM. Can we

[mfcorey1]

reach 50? I will start.

Van Jones......destroyed by a video clip, Glen Beck and Faux News

[MrScorpio]

1. ACORN is on my short list nt

[eridani]

2. Seigelman and Scrushy n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. Rev. Wright. Valerie Plane.

Hundreds of qualified Democratic candidates who refuse to run, simply because the RW media is so bloody corporate and evil.

The USA.

[rucky]

4. Bill Clinton

[Jamastiene]

11. +1

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

5. Gary Condit nt

[One_Life_To_Give]

6. Richard Jewel

Atlanta Olympic Bombing Hero and subsequently dragged thru the mud before being cleared.

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/July-August-08/On-this-Day--Bomb-Explodes-in-Atlanta-s-Olympic-Park.html

[sea four]

7. John Kerry & Howard Dean campaigns

[sufrommich]

8. The worst casualties of the media, as far as I'm concerned. nt

[Botany]

16. John Kerry

The man w/ three purple hearts, a bronze star, and a silver star who was painted as a coward by
Creative Response Concepts Arlington, VA in their work for Karl Rove in 2004.

[Ignis]

23. +1

When you put it that way, it's amazing that our response to these idiotic charges of cowardice was so lackluster.

We should have had every (D) politician out there every day on every channel, asking if the RW media really has no shame.

:argh:

[sarge43]

9. Adm Jeremy Boorda n/t

[Jamastiene]

10. Al Gore

MSM was against him from day one and spent every resource they had to destroy him at all costs.

[WinkyDink]

12. Jimmy Carter, as Walter Cronkite intoned, "Day 400 of the Iranian Hostage Crisis." "Day 401...."

Never mind that they came home alive without us starting a war and killing thousands of them and us.

[Triana]

13. It's in the sigline n/t

[WinkyDink]

15. The MSM destroyed MJ? Wasn't he on trial, as in an actual court? And wasn't he about to

start a world tour?

[Triana]

17. yes. he was convicted by the media in the 'court of public opinion'

before being ACQUITTED on all charges because there was NO evidence against him and you cannot CONVICT anyone of a crime with NO evidence. There was NO evidence b/c he was innocent. The media and greedy extortionists helped destroy him and his ability to make a living.

I won't respond to any more of your ignorant questions about it. You ought to have learned by now, along with the NAACP, the Obama admin, Tom Vilsack, et al, NOT to believe anything the lame$tream media says. Yet, it is clear to me that you have bought their decades of lies about MJ.

You don't GET it. You think you do, but you don't. You believe their lies on the one hand (MJ), but on the other, you are lambasting the fact that they tell them (here, in regards to Sherrod et al).

Get the FACTS before making judgements. You don't have them about MJ anymore than Fox "news" had them about Sherrod. It's the same problem.

[WinkyDink]

14. NOT Mel Gibson, BTW. No "RtJ", except by those who defend.

[ecstatic]

18. Cynthia McKinney - Thrown under the bus by repugs AND dems nt

[Botany]

19. The truth ...... Florida 2000, Ohio 2004, Weapons of Mass Destruction in ...

.... Iraq, W going AWOL w/ a coke habit, and on.

In some cases it is not a rush to judgment but a policy of the "news organization"
to protect the corporations which pay them and the republican party.


Like many Americans, I spent the evening of the 2004 election watching the returns on television and wondering how the exit polls, which
predicted an overwhelming victory for John Kerry, had gotten it so wrong. By midnight, the official tallies showed a decisive lead for George
Bush -- and the next day, lacking enough legal evidence to contest the results, Kerry conceded. Republicans derided anyone who expressed
doubts about Bush's victory as nut cases in ''tinfoil hats,'' while the national media, with few exceptions, did little to question the validity of
the election. The Washington Post immediately dismissed allegations of fraud as ''conspiracy theories,''(1) and The New York Times declared
that ''there is no evidence of vote theft or errors on a large scale.''(2)

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0601-34.htm

[rucky]

20. Helen Thomas n/t

[Contrary1]

21. Dan Rather n/t

[Emeritus]

22. The people who have died in the Iraq war n/t