My head is loose from all the shaking it does back-n-forth.

Can you imagine, ever, an all-Republican or conservative "panel" discussing the passing of Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton?  Not in a million  years.

What dreck.

"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere"          -Ali ibn-Abi-Talib, 4th Islamic Caliph

Mark-- Do you think there is any decency left in the MSM when it comes to issues regarding Republican politicians???

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?

Fair? Balanced?  Not even an attempt. Sickening and disgusting, but not surprising.

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." --Hubert Humphrey

This is like asking a chef for advice on how to rebuild an engine. The MSM shows us daily how unreliable they really are.

there is much to learn from gerald ford's term as vice president and president.  that era was the comming of age for the yuppies who now run our universities, control our unions, control the democratic senate, control our newspapers and media.  they wanted blood over vietnam, got a taste of it when they drove lbj from office and got more when they drove nixon from office.  they deal with today's issues in the same way now as then.  why not they were successful.  the politics of hate and personal destruction began in that era.  during that era the intelligence services were destroyed.  the military was destroyed.  Hillary Clinton made her claim to fame and learned tactics from Nixon that she still uses.

it should be required for all conservatives to go back and study that era and not believe what they are fed from the MSM.  you can learn a lot about the enemy by studying that time in history.

Yes the MSM is going to be shameless in it's treatment of Ford's passing..last night Chrissy Matthews in a call-in interview went on on how his passing was "good timing" because it would help his legacy by comparison of today's politics..IE:his history as president can be used to bash Bush(Watergate,Vietnam etc).

This is almost as bad as when Reagan died and the MSM was stunned at the out pouring of love that was shown Reagan by the American people..they couldn't understand why they didn't hate him as much as they did even though they spent over a decade bashing him in the press to convince them he was a bad president.

Let's go easy on Cokie today.  It's her 63rd birthday.  She doesn't look bad for an old lefty.  Just think, in another 100 years she'll look just like Helen Thomas.

Not only weren't there Republicans, but there was no one outside the ABC News circle. In recapping Mr. Ford's life, aren't there anyone but reporters they can turn to offer opinions?

Worst of all is the "opinion" piece posing as hard news by Bob Woodward this morning in the WP.......

He claims a day after Ford dies that the former President "was opposed" to the current war in Iraq based on purloined tapes from an interview several years ago......these folks are incorrigible and totally out of control these days.....the enemies of this nation carrying on the fine new traditions of the DEM party.....

Talk about a MSM AGENDA that keeps on giving!

I really wish that Betty Ford would take Woodward to task PUBLICLY today on this BS article and chastise Woodward for using the former President for his own political purposes before the body is stiff......

Nowhere to Run....Nowhere To Hide.....

Yeah, those damn Democrats.  And I bet they completely neglected to include any mention of the invasion of East Timor by Indonesia in ’75.  President Ford and Henry Kissinger were informed of the pending invasion and allowed it to happen as part of the on-going support for anything that Suharto, an "anti-communist", wanted to do.  The report of East Timor’s Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation report released in January of this year has found that U.S. "political and military support were fundamental to the Indonesian invasion and occupation" of East Timor from 1975 to 1999 . . .”

How does an unwarranted, illegal invasion and occupation that resulted in the death of anywhere from 180,000 (from the final report of East Timor's landmark Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation) to 250,000 (Asia Times, July 13, 2004) somehow get lost when telling the story of Ford’s presidency?

Well, one way is to keep it under seal for years until it's all forgotten.  Brad Simpson, a professor at the University of Maryland who works for the National Security Archives and is head of the Indonesia/East Timor Documentation Project has worked for over 25 years to get the release through Freedom of Information Act laws of sealed documents and memos that show Ford and Kissinger’s involvement.  When asked recently about what he learned from those documents Simpson said:

Gerald Ford actually met twice with Suharto, first in July of 1975 when Suharto came to the United States. And later in December of 1975, of course, on the eve of his invasion of East Timor. And we now know that for more than a year Indonesia had been planning its armed takeover of East Timor, and the United States had of course been aware of Indonesian military plans. In July of 1975, the National Security Council first informed Henry Kissinger and Gerald Ford of Indonesia’s plans to take over East Timor by force. And Suharto of course raised this with Gerald Ford in July when he met with Gerald Ford at Camp David on a trip to the United States. And then in December of 1975 on a trip through Southeast Asia, Gerald Ford met again with Suharto on the eve of the invasion, more than two weeks after the National Security Council, CIA, other intelligence agencies had concluded that an Indonesian invasion was eminent. And that the only thing delaying the invasion was the fear that US disapproval might lead to a cut-off of weapons and military supplies to the regime.

The invasion started as Ford and Kissinger flew to Guam where Ford gave a speech to memorialize Pearl Harbor.  In the speech Ford said, “never again should the United States allow another nation to strike in the middle of the night, to attack another defenseless nation.” The Indonesian army was supplied and trained by the U.S. and dropped paratroopers from U.S.-supplied planes.  A few days after the invasion, Ford sent a telegram to the State Department asking that an emergency diplomatic cable be sent to General Suharto, in response to his recent visit. And inside the cable, which was sent by diplomatic pouch from the US Embassy, was a set of golf balls from Gerald Ford.

When Americans wonder why people around the world hate us or at least have a hard time believing our intentions are pure, they should read a little history.  That is, if they can find it.  A lot of it won’t be found in the MSM.  But then, you knew they were biased already, right?