Republicans wolf ad attacked by Marian Wilkinson, Roy Eccleston and Phillip Coorey

Lefty journalists attack Republican wolf ad. They think it's "scary"

Gerard Jackson
BrookesNews.Com
Monday 1 November 2004

Some readers have challenged my view that the likes of Marian Wilkinson, Roy Eccleston and Phillip Coorey parrot America's leftist media as well as sharing their weltanschauung. Well, how about this? A short time ago the American networks broadcast a Republican election ad alluding to terrorists as wolves.

This was simply just too much for little Miss Wilkinson and 'Boy Wonder' Eccleston. Good God! This piece of Republican perfidy might actually succeed in persuading some of those dumb yanks that Kerry wasn't serious about fighting terrorists with troops but preferred subpoenas instead.

The courageous Eccleston was the first to wade in, sneering that it was an "Aesop's fables election" (The Australian, Eagle or wolves: candidates use fables to convey terror 'truths', 25 October).

Sticking closely to Dem talking points Eccleston just had to tell us that Kerry was a "decorated Vietnam veteran." (I should point out the Eccleston refused to report on those Vietnam veterans who have disputed both Kerry's military awards and his Vietnam service. However, he did run on the Dems' "Bush was AWOL" smear. So don't expect him to mention that Capt. George Elliott, Kerry's superior officer, said that Kerry should have been removed from command).

Moreover, he also ignored the fact that Kerry collaborated with Hanoi during the war and was a prominent member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, a Hanoi-directed pro-communist organisation.

However, Eccleston's omissions are understandable given his leftwing beliefs and hatred of Bush.

The interesting thing about Eccleston's so-called report is that it revealed his ignorance of fairly recent American political history. The wolves ad was not inspired by one of Aesop's fables but by a clever 1984 Reagan election ad that used "a bear in the woods" to allude to the Soviet threat.

Bigoted, ignorant and stupid sums up most of our lefty journalists. This brings me to Marian Wilkinson, a journalistic mastermind, this time from Fairfax Press.

She was just as fast off the rank as Eccleston. In her Be afraid of the big bad wolf, voters warned (Sydney Morning Herald, 26 October) Wilkinson warns us that it's "a scary political ad" and "perfectly timed, one week before Halloween, to crank up the fear factor several notches."

That's right, folks, the ad was timed just "one week before Halloween". Gee, I bet all you dummies out their thought the timing had something to do with the election.

Evidently mastermind disapproves of President Bush running "a scary political ad". (She also thinks Bush "scared children" during his first presidential debate [Bush camp rattled as Kerry closes in, 6 October]).

What Wilkinson ignored is the scare campaign that Kerry and his leftwing media supporter are running against Bush. The one in which the elderly will their lose social security benefits, the young will be drafted, blacks will be denied the vote, Bush has provoked terrorism and made the US less safe, and so on. Why Bush is bad he even kept the late Christopher Reeve in a wheelchair.

Funny how these accusations escaped the keen-eyed attention of our intrepid journalist. On the other hand, if you hate Bush and think he's evil then any accusation you think would help destroy him is justified, isn't that so, Marian?

Even Wilkinson is not so thick as to directly attack the ad — so what did she do? She quoted from a pro-Kerry website that called it a "vicious campaign attack ad".

Wilkinson obviously agrees with John Edwards, Kerry's running mate, who stated that the "President is continuing to try to scare America in his speeches and ads in a despicable and contemptible way."

These media clowns had their stories published on the 25 October and 26 October. What is significant about this is that the wolf story was pushed on 22 October by the ABC's Bush-hating anchor Peter Jennings who accused President Bush of getting "positively primal..."

David Gregory, NBC Nightly News reporter and Kerry mouthpiece, attacked the ad as "brazen". Needles to say he never called any Kerry ads "brazen". Come to think of it, neither has Eccleston nor Wilkinson.

CBS's John Roberts tried to neutralise the ad by arguing that Republicans also voted to cut Intelligence budgets in the '90s. Missing from this statement is the fact that Kerry's proposed cuts would have savagely crippled intelligence. Roberts also ignored Kerry's Senate record of attacking American intelligence.

(This accusation is pretty rich coming from a network that was complicit in a criminal conspiracy to use fake documents to destroy President Bush. This was another leftwing media scandal that our ever so objective journalists managed to overlook).

And finally we have Phillip Coorey, another of Kerry's Australian lapdogs. Like Marian Wilkinson he used a quote to attack the ad (Herald-Sun, Scare tactics in US poll, 24 October). This one came from Edwards who hypocritically called the "ad a despicable scare campaign..."

Coorey followed Wilkinson's lead in not making any references to the Democrats' own scare campaign or their media hit jobs.

So what we have here are US-based ideologically motivated hacks who see it as their political duty to report in a way that favours John Kerry and disparages President Bush.

If their papers had any integrity, which they don't, they would have fired these phonies years ago.

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