[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15178]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        AN ADMISSION FROM WITHIN

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, some of us have been saying it for 
years, there is a liberal bias in the media. Last weekend, we witnessed 
a brief moment of candor. Evan Thomas, the assistant managing editor of 
Newsweek Magazine, admitted on a radio station that, ``The media, I 
think, wants Kerry to win. And I think they are going to portray Kerry 
and Edwards, I am talking about the establishment media, not Fox, but 
there is going to be this glow about this that is going to be worth 
maybe 15 points.''
  Let me repeat the words of this top Newsweek editor. ``The media, I 
think, wants Kerry to win, and they are going to portray Kerry and 
Edwards in a certain way to help elect them.'' He says, ``The media 
bias is worth 15 points in the polls.'' In other words, without media 
bias, President Bush would be cruising to a landslide election.
  Mr. Speaker, the biased media is getting dangerously close to 
becoming a real threat to our democracy.

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