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Bobby Eberle: Et Tu, ABC?: "The so-called mainstream media doesn't have to hold both sides equally accountable? What exactly does that mean? In the heat of a presidential campaign with both sides making claims and counter claims, who are they to say that one side should be held more accountable than the other? If Kerry's distortions are not central to his 'efforts to win,' why exactly is Kerry saying them? Just for fun? For a few laughs? It appears so, as ABC News is now stating in writing that Kerry deserves a free pass on his comments and President Bush does not.

In a Clintonian moment of 'feeling your pain,' Halperin then tells his ABC News staff, 'I'm sure many of you have this week felt the stepped up Bush efforts to complain about our coverage.' Halperin then makes one of the most bold and most blatantly biased statements of his memo, when he describes the Bush campaign's complaints as '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,' Halperin writes. '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 ... [n]ow is the time for all of us to step up and do that right.'

With statements such as these, the recent stories by CBS News which were based on false and misleading information all designed to attack President Bush, and the longstanding sentiment by many that the media is biased to favor Democrats, it is no wonder that other forms of media have risen so quickly. People are tired of getting told what to think. "