liberal media my ass

So I'm coming into work this morning and listening to NPR and I hear something about Bush's double didget lead in Oh. Now unfortunately that part is fairly true, but what struck me as really obnoxious is that they continue to just state the administrations position without stating the facts. They said that "The Bush administration continues to criticize Kerry for changing his stance on the Iraq war several times." Several times?!? Several times?!? Uh.. Kerry voted to give Bush the AUTHORITY TO TAKE ACTION in Iraq, HE DID NOT VOTE FOR THE WAR, BECAUSE THE WAR HADN'T EXISTED YET! There was no war to vote on, just Bush's proposal to take military action should the UN sanctions fail. Well the Bushies didn't even let the UN complete it's task and it also threw out any of the info Blix and Kay gave the administration about the lack of WMDs. Then Kerry voted against spending the 87 Billion dollars, because the Bush administration was unclear about what they wanted to spend the money on. Bush now claims it was for supplies and artillary, but at the time the story was much different. Also, most of the 87 billion didn't go to those things at all. There is something close to a billion dollars that they can't even justify because the money just disappeared. It just drives me absolutely nuts that the media can't take half a second to say that John Kerry supported the president BEFORE the war, because post 9/11 that was the thing to do and then state that he voted against funding the war without a definate plan of insertion, transition and REMOVAL, instead they just parrot the administration and say he changed his mind several times. I'm sorry this seems so minor, but it's shit like this that keeps people from really looking at John Kerry's policy ideas and really looking to see if he'd make a good candidate. Most people I talk to have absolutely no idea what Kerry's plans are, but they certainly have a lot of wrong ideas about his plan that have been nothing more than BS from the administration.

UPDATE: Atrios makes a good point on a Bush stance on Kerry's plan:

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Wow. The Bush campaign says Kerry's plan is the same as his. AND, they say Kerry's plan is to retreat. Weird, that. Just what is Bush's plan?
"Forty-three days before the election," Bush said, "my opponent has now suddenly settled on a proposal for what to do next, and it's exactly what we're currently doing."Not so, said Kerry.He noted that just last week the administration acknowledged that it has spent less than $1 billion of the $18 billion committed a year ago for reconstruction. The week before, he said, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld conceded that the number of newly trained Iraqi security forces was less than half the 210,000 he claimed last February. And with just three months to go before the scheduled elections, he added, the United Nations has less than 25 percent of the personnel it will need to play the central role in supervising the vote that Bush had agreed to earlier this year."President Bush owes it to the American people to tell the truth and put Iraq on the right track," Kerry said. "Even more, he owes it to our troops and their families ... ."In his speech to supporters in Derry, N.H., Bush seized on Kerry's apparently contrary statements about Saddam during the Democratic primary campaign last year - that "those who believe we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be president."Although Bush said Kerry's Iraq proposals mirrored his own, his campaign put out a strongly worded - and contradictory - statement. "John Kerry's latest position on Iraq is to advocate retreat and defeat in the face of terror," said spokesman Steve Schmidt."
And a little more on the Bush plan:
"It seems I have been unfair to the Bush administration. I have been saying that their entire plan for Iraq is for all of us to "Clap Louder." Apparently, I was wrong. There's actually a second part to the plan - keep killing Iraqis until they get tired."