On Tuesday's "Good Morning America," co-host Chris Cuomo and media critic Howard Kurtz ignored the role that liberal bias has played in the decline of ratings for the network evening newscasts. At the same time, Cuomo and Washington Post reporter seemed to be proud of the media's ability to turn Americans against the war in Iraq. Kurtz, who has written a book on the subject, asserted, "I believe that these newscasts in 2005 and 2006 played the biggest single role in helping to turn public opinion against the war." Cuomo agreed and complimented the journalist's analysis. He enthused, "It's easy to say, 'Oh, well. The war was unpopular. People were looking for the unpopularity of it. At some point, the networks gave that to them.' But you have a more penetrating look at it. You take a look at it in terms of the role of the nightly newscasts in shaping the ideas about the news." According to Kurtz, the top three network anchors k
What did Speaker Hastert know about former Congressman Foley’s lurid communications with a former page, and when did he know it? This is an open question that will be resolved through investigations by the House Ethics Committee and the FBI. Yet before all the facts are known, "The Early Show" continued to clamor for Hastert’s resignation. The "Early Show" has raised the subject of Speaker Hastert resigning in at least two stories in each of the last four days.
What did Speaker Hastert know about former Congressman Foley’s lurid communications with a former page, and when did he know it? This is an open question that will be resolved through investigations by the House Ethics Committee and the FBI. Yet before all the facts are known, "The Early Show" continued to clamor for Hastert’s resignation. The "Early Show" has raised the subject of Speaker Hastert resigning in at least two stories in each of the last four days.
played by him and his office in one of the grosses congressional scandals in recent memory. he mentioned this guy named foley, that s mark fully who was another republican congressman. he served in the house at the same time as tom reynolds. in 2000, six mark reynolds resigned from congress in disgrace after he sent explosive messages and horribly explicit emails two teenage boys who were serving on capitol hill as congressional pages. these young assistance who work at the u.s. capital. that story first broke, the marks fully story broke in 2006 right before the midterm elections. the fact that congressman foley had been sending inappropriate emails to teenage boys, the public didn t know that, but it had been known on capitol hill for a long while at that point, including by his colleague congressman tom reynolds from new york. he was also in leadership, the
fourth most powerful republican in the house. one of the pages the teenage boys, who was getting these wrong emails from congressman foley, he went with them to the member of congress who had sponsored him to become page. that member of congress went to tom reynolds and leadership to tell him about it so something could be done. reynolds and his office their were told about mark fully in these emails he was sending to these kids working as pages. they were told more than a year before the story broke and foley had to resign. reynolds knew a full year before that something was wrong. he said he did forward the information, he told the house speaker then was danny hazard who would later have its own problems, he said he told the house speaker but did nothing further. and then he stayed in congress the whole time. ultimately, tom reynolds is chief of staff and was interviewed by the fbi. the fbi biden was investigating