ABC News Director Mark Halperin wants to destroy President Bush.
Why would ABC join CBS in their war against the President
This makes freedom of the Press not Free

When I watched even Fox news almost all of the commentators said the same thing.
"We know Mark and he is a good man." It sounded like they were second rate
News Reporters hopping to get a job with ABC.

Who is this 39 year old Harvard Graduate who strikes such fear in the news media.
What has he done to hold ABC hostage for the last 17 years.

He send out a memo that struck fear in the heart of all the ABC reporters.
I basically said: destroy Bush at all cost. Now those are my words but if you read
His words and realize your boss said I want no more good stories on Bush it has the
same effect if you want to keep your job.

Shame on you Mark Halperin, just like Dan Rather you should be fired for this.
This is not news we trusted you for this is tabloid journalism.

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Here we see Halperin and Jennings quoted, saying they want to destroy Cheney.
Mark Halperin has been the political director of ABCNEWS since 1997 and has covered politics and campaigns through four election cycles. As political director, Halperin manages the editorial coverage of politics throughout the ABCNEWS universe and contributes frequently to ABCNEWS broadcasts. Before becoming political director, Halperin covered special events for ABCNEWS. He served as White House producer, and covered Bill Clinton's rise to power in the 1992 presidential campaign. He joined ABCNEWS in 1988. Halperin is a graduate of Harvard. But Who’ll Destroy ******** Cheney?
“A tactical question for you. If John Edwards is going to go around the country talking enthusiastically, optimistically even blithely about the Democratic Party, who’s going to attack the President and Vice President Cheney?”
Quoted by Peter Jennings to his ABC News Political Director Mark Halperin during live coverage on July 28 after Edwards’ convention speech.

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Halperin Memo Dated Friday October 8, 2004

It goes without saying that the stakes are getting very high for the country and the campaigns - and our responsibilities become quite grave

I do not want to set off (sp?) and endless colloquy that none of us have time for today - nor do I want to stifle one. Please respond if you feel you can advance the discussion.

The New York Times (Nagourney/Stevenson) and Howard Fineman on the web both make the same point today: the current Bush attacks on Kerry involve distortions and taking things out of context in a way that goes beyond what Kerry has done.

Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and mistakes all the time, but these are not central to his efforts to win.

We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but that doesn't mean we reflexively and artificially hold both sides "equally" accountable when the facts don't warrant that.

I'm sure many of you have this week felt the stepped up Bush efforts to complain about our coverage. This is all part of their efforts to get away with as much as possible with the stepped up, renewed efforts to win the election by destroying Senator Kerry at least partly through distortions.

It's up to Kerry to defend himself, of course. But as one of the few news organizations with the skill and strength to help voters evaluate what the candidates are saying to serve the public interest. Now is the time for all of us to step up and do that right.
An internal memo written by ABCNEWS Political Director Mark Halperin admonishes ABC staff: During coverage of Democrat Kerry and Republican Bush not to "reflexively and artificially hold both sides 'equally' accountable."

The controversial internal memo obtained by DRUDGE, captures Halperin stating how "Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and mistakes all the time, but these are not central to his efforts to win."

But Halperin claims that Bush is hoping to "win the election by destroying Senator Kerry at least partly through distortions."

"The current Bush attacks on Kerry involve distortions and taking things out of context in a way that goes beyond what Kerry has done," Halperin writes.

Halperin's claim that ABCNEWS will not "reflexively and artificially hold both sides 'equally' accountable" set off sparks in St. Louis where media players gathered to cover the second presidential debate.

Halperin states the responsibilities of the ABCNEWS staff have "become quite grave."

In August, Halperin declared online: "This is now John Kerry's contest to lose."

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Mark Halperin ABCNEWS Political Director Mark Halperin has been the Political Director of ABC News since October of 1997. As Political Director, Halperin is responsible for the planning and editorial content of all political news on the network.

In this role, he works with correspondents and producers for all ABC News programs, including World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Nightline, Good Morning America, 20/20, and news specials.

He also regularly appears as a correspondent and political analyst on ABC News television and radio programs.

Halperin joined ABC News in January, 1988. He has specialized in national political coverage, working through four presidential and four mid-term elections.

He started at ABC News as a desk assistant and was a researcher for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings in New York for the 1988 election. He spent the next four years working in the investigative unit of World News Tonight and as a general assignment reporter in Washington.

In 1992, he worked full-time as an off-air reporter assigned to travel with the presidential campaign of then Governor Bill Clinton. He covered President-elect Clinton during the transition in Little Rock and Washington and was assigned to White House coverage for the first two years of the Clinton Administration.

In fall of 1994, Halperin became a producer with ABC's Special Events unit in New York. There he worked as an editorial producer, both in the control room and in the field, on events including the Iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire primary, the Democratic and Republican conventions, election night, and presidential news conferences.

Halperin received his college degree from Harvard University in 1987, He is 39 yrs old..

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Mark Halperin. To be 39 in 2004, ABC News political director Mark Halperin seems astonishingly young to be advising the likes of Peter Jennings and Sam Donaldson about politicians and elections. But this Bethesda native (yes, he's the son of national-security expert Morton Halperin) has zoomed through the ranks at ABC since signing on as a desk assistant in 1988. As funny as he is smart, Halperin does drop-dead impersonations of pols he covers; they say his Al Gore is to die for.
Edited by Howard Means, with the staff of The Washingtonian From the December 1999 issue. This is the most recent version.

Father, I thank you that you have given us a will to decide our own actions and how each of us will vote. I pray that each Christian would look more to you for direction in voting and less to the campaigns. I also ask that your light be shined on the situation and that all truths would be revealed. I pray for Mark Haperin, that he would recieve a touch from you and would be drawn by your Spirit to your presence. I also pray that he would be unable to be used by satan to decieve the American people. Lord, in Jesus name have your way in the up-coming elections. Amen

Father, I don't know how or what to pray for these men or the policy. Holy Spirit, reveal all lies, traps of deception, traps of deceit, and just plain hate, anger and duality of these men and their organizations. In the Name of Jesus I bind their efforts and place them at the feet of Jesus for resolution! Bring these men to true repentance and lead them firmly to Jesus for Salvation! If they will not turn away from this course and take Jesus as Lord and Master of their lives then take them down and out of all authority, crediblity, influence and profit, curse the roots of their finances if they refuse to stop this attack of perversion on the American electorial process. In the Name of Jesus! AMEN!

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Something like what Carol prayed, Lord.... I am trying not to lose heart. Please mobilize Christians! Wake them up! Get them active! Let them register and vote for Mr. Bush. With all these lies coming down, all these attacks on our President.... dear Lord, let our President be re-elected inspite of all this!!! We claim that NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST HIM SHALL PROSPER!!! He who humbles himself under the mighty hand of God will be exalted! Let President Bush be exalted, and these men NOT!!! I pray they go down, down, down.... Unless You save them and they repent and they start telling the truth! Whatever it takes to silence these lies, let that be what happens. We need a breakthrough, Jesus! We look steadfastly to You, asking that You keep our faith strong! Do not evil men tripumph because good men do nothing! Let us PRAY and let us VOTE and let us do whatever else You call upon us to do. Make us obedient, that Your righteousness may be promoted and prevail in this land. I leave this all in Your hands, Jesus! I come to You as my only Hope.... for when it looks this bad in the natural, God is about to show up in all His SUPER!!! Please, please, please let the truth be known and let our President be vindicated. And let him be re-elected!!! In Jesus Name, I ask, amen.

~JeriRose~
Finding HIM in 2004

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Father, I pray for America to have a Godly president. Proverbs 29:2 says the people rejoice when the righteous thrive. According to Proverbs 6: 16 & 17, you hate those who shed innocent blood (those who are pro-abortion). So, Lord, we pray that a RIGHTEOUS person may be our President. Whatever it takes! In Jesus Name, amen.

Since Memo, ABC Does Twice as Many Fact
Checks on Bush as Kerry
ABC News "fact check" corrections for President Bush now at four-to-two over those for Senator Kerry since ABC News Political Director Mark Halperin's memo last Friday calling upon his colleagues to hold Bush more accountable since "the current Bush attacks on Kerry involve distortions and taking things out of context in a way that goes beyond what Kerry has done." After Friday's debate, ABC corrected two Bush claims but just one Kerry allegation and, in the first "fact check" since then, Tuesday's World News Tonight corrected two supposed Bush misstatements in a campaign speech, but just one Kerry charge.

ABC's fresh corrections of Bush were for marginal misstatements at best: How Bush claimed Kerry "earned his ranking as the most liberal member of the United States Senate" when that rating was just for 2003 and over his career the same publication actually ranked Kerry as the "11th most liberal Senator" -- as if that means he's not liberal -- and how Bush charged that in Kerry's health plan eight of ten people covered will be added to a government program when it's really a mere 6.5 in ten.

Peter Jennings on Tuesday also failed to take advantage of the "fact check" slot to correct his own inaccurate Friday night correction of Bush. Jennings had scored Kerry correct and Bush incorrect on whether Bush owned an interest in a "timber company," but FackCheck**********, Kerry's source, noted the day after the debate that "the Lone Star Trust now owns 50 percent of the tree-growing company, but didn't get into that business until two years after the $84 in question" which Kerry had cited as Bush's income from a timber company. FactCheck********** acknowledged: "So we should have described the $84 as coming from an 'oil and gas' business in 2001, and will amend that in our earlier article."

For FactCheck**********'s September 23 posting modified on October 9: www.factcheck**********

FactCheck**********'s post-debate rundown of candidate errors, with their earlier misstatement noted: www.factcheck**********

After Friday's debate, Jennings asserted: "First of all, there was this question of the President being accused by Senator Kerry of owning a timber company, or having a part interest in a timber company and taking $84 in a tax rebate. Mr. Bush looked up and said, 'I own a timber company?' We all sort of looked at one another and said who was right? Well, it turns out Senator Kerry was right and here's how he figured it out, that under the Republican definition and based on the President's federal income tax returns of 2001, he reported $84 of business income from his part ownership of a timber-growing enterprise. He shifted it in 2002 and 2003 when he reported his timber income as royalties on a different tax schedule."

ABC's Jake Tapper then corrected Bush's claim that 75 percent of al-Qaeda operatives had been captured and Kerry on how General Shinseki lost his job after he criticized the Bush policy on Iraq and called for more troops to be used.

For more about Halperin's memo and a full rundown of ABC's "fact check" corrections after Friday's debate, see the October 9 CyberAlert: www.mediaresearch**********

Fast forward to Tuesday's World News Tonight, and Jennings brought Tapper back aboard for another session:
"Couple things the President said today made us want to get in touch with our fact-checking team. We asked them to check on Senator Kerry, too. Here's ABC's Jake Tapper."
Tapper: "It has become one of the President's favorite lines."
George W. Bush, in Tuesday campaign speech: "My opponent has shown why he earned his ranking as the most liberal member of the United States Senate."
Tapper: "That remark is based on rankings given by the non-partisan National Journal magazine, which says the President has his facts wrong."
Patrick Pexton, Deputy Editor of the National Journal: "The Bush campaign has been misleading in the way it's used our vote ratings. John Kerry was the most liberal senator in 2003, a year when he missed many votes because he was on the campaign trail. But over his lifetime, he's only among the most liberal Senators."
Tapper: "The 11th most liberal, to be exact. The President was using a different study when he made that claim about Senator Kerry's health care plan today."
Bush: "The facts are eight out of ten people who get health care under Senator Kerry's plan would be placed on the government program."
Tapper: "The Bush campaign says that figure is based on a study by the Lewin Group. What does the Lewin Group say?"
John Sheils, Lewin Group: "It's not eight out of ten people."
Tapper: "The Lewin Group says it's closer to 6 and a half out of 10, not 8. Those are mostly people near the poverty line moved from no insurance to Medicaid. Senator Kerry yesterday unleashed a new line of attack against the President on why gas prices are so high."
John Kerry: "And one big reason is because of President Bush's gross mismanagement and miscalculation regarding the war in Iraq."
Tapper: "A check of the facts:"
Seth Kleinman, PFC Energy: "There are a host of other reasons at play here. There's issues in Russia. There's rampaging Chinese demand growth. There's a lack of tankers. There's a shortage of refinery capacity. So it's not exactly accurate to lay all of the blame for expensive gasoline on the war in Iraq."
Tapper: "It's often said that facts are stubborn things. Jake Tapper, ABC News, Washington."

ABC treated the Lewin Group as an expert source to discredit a Bush claim, but ABC never picked up on how the Lewin Group also countered a Kerry claim. One of FactCheck**********'s post-Friday debate items:
"Kerry closed by saying 'I have a plan to provide health care to all Americans.' He doesn't. His plan would extend coverage to between 24 and 27 million Americans who don't have it now, depending on which estimate one chooses. But none of the estimates predict 'all' would be insured. A study by the independent Lewin Group, for example, projects that 92% would have coverage, up from just under 86% in 2003."

Dear Heavenly Father,
Lord, I ask that you join this prayer with the many others of Your believers on the matter of this Presidential election. I pray that the man that You want to be in office will prevail. I pray that dishonest men will be bound by Your power and that they will be held ineffectual; their evil desires will fail and be exposed. In spite of all the negativity, the lies and distortions, I pray that Your will does prevail. We long for You and know how You, in the same manner as David and Goliath, bring justice and victory in spite of great odds when faced with enormous evil adversity. Thank You, Lord. May Your will be done.

We need to study and find out exactly who is running the media in our country. Things reported in other countries are reported much differently than the way they are reported in ours.

I will repeat what I have heard in a simplistic form. I think I am saying this the right way, but I do hope someone else will fill free to set my words right.

All the television media in the United States (I can't remember if they said the whole world or just here only) is run by about eleven people. This is the main thing I remember hearing.

There was a bill about to be considered for passing that would eliminate the "truly free" press on our television sets.....a lot (but not all) of these are the channels we can pick up by just using an antenna (no cable hookup).

I stored this information in the back of my mind and began to watch the people being interviewed by reporters after the first Presidential Debate. When some of the stations began their interviews I wondered why that person was chosen, or the other one?

This wasn't true about every single station I watched, but most liberals who were interviewed were treated with patience. Conservatives appeared to be cut off during their responses. I did see one station, a major cable network who had a reporter who appeared to be conservative. He had to joke around a little to get his points across.

I do believe we need to pray about this. We don't want to live a lie. We don't want to be forcefed information that is incorrect. We need to pray, also, for our reporters who may be not exactly free to report as they would like - for one reason or another. And we need to love them.

Father, in Jesus' Name we ask You to bless those people in the media who need blessing. Give protection where needed and watch over and keep all of their families safe (every single member). We pray that the evil is cut off of our televisions and that truth is the only thing reported there. You told us to watch. Lord, give us favor in this area. Also, Father, let it be done on earth as it is in heaven. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. In Jesus' Name we ask for all of these things....Amen.

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Trust God.

Father in Heaven, I pray for mercy upon all the nations. Lord, we have fallen so far away from You and Your Ways. We have lost ourselves and according to your Word, you have pulled away and left us to our own sins. Our sins have consumed us and now our nation is falling before our eyes. We have nothing to leave our children. I pray Lord for forgiveness and that Your continuous grace will be seen by all. I pray for your Word to come to pass so that those that you have called and strategically placed as decision makers will be accountable to You and your people.

Lord, please save your people. You created man for your glory and honor. I pray Lord for devil to placed under our feet as you promised.

In Jesus Name, I pray for our President Bush and his family. Protect our leaders who have made a stand to evil and immorality. I pray you will guide President Bush and his campain and that All the glory will go to YOu in the end.

Thank you Lord, for revealing the truth about all. I pray the nation will be shown only truth and grant us the wisdom to stand as one in unity and join forces to a make a stand against the evil and principalities that are mocking You and Your Word. I pray we as your people will stand and vote for what is right for our families and our future. All your prophets spoke and continously prayed for the nations you created. I pray Lord that you will end and ruin the plans of the enemy. I pray Jesus you will showself and your people strong like in the days of Elijah when he asked you to show yourself to the nations so that they would repent and come back to you. I pray this same power to be shown to all believer and unbelievers that You are Lord of Lords, King of Kings...and God of all. And that you are in control of everything.

I pray this in the Name of the Most High, Jesus. AMen

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God's Annointed Child