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What is up with ABC today. All this apologizing... First Tapper now McFadden. Never ever have I seen this when they mistakenly misrepresent the GOP.

Sad, sad, sad.

Thank you for the clarification. No one holds it against you.

Well maybe Joe the V (vommiter?) does

personal attacks huh, rbyanes. I won't stoop that low my friend.

Maybe they're all just getting tired. I can tell the candidates are, lots of stumbling over words on both sides. It happens.

Cynthia Mcfadden meant whatever she meant. Stop being so sensitive.

Cynthia Mcfadden meant whatever she meant. Stop being so sensitive.

So Joe, how has the GOP been mistakenly represented? Any problems they have are those dealt by themselves. Stop blaming the media for being the messenger.

"my friend."
Most overused words this campaign season. Along with "Joe".

The internet will eventually prove to be the undoing of the network news media. Not a moment too soon.

How about apologing to Palin, Joe the plumber, and the rest of us for your constant lies.

How come these is no story about Obama's huge TV ratings? oh, so he tanked huh?

No...the most overused words this election cycle have been SOCIALISM and MARXISM. I am so sick of hearing those 2 words ("labels") I could scream!

Cynthia McFadden,
I met you briefly at the Orlando/Obama rally last week...I have watched you many years and always thought that you are one of the better reporters who tells the stories fairly.
Unfortunately, here in orlando..ON ABC one of the anchor Barbara West, did most injustice in interviewing Biden,
suggesting that he is a SOCIALIST & MARCIST!..This has upset so many of our community. When all other democratic candicate in previous years, including Bill Clinton, spoke on tax cuts, social programs, teach america, head start etc. NO ONE called then these names.SO WE AS A MINORITY, we CAN ONLY MAKE ASSUMPTIONS THAT THIS IS RACIALLY MOTIVATED!..She like Palin was completely out of their league, WEST husband probably wrote her questions, shame on local ABC for allowing this. The true colors of the old racial under tone is quite evident NOW...The station should be repramanded for allowing this. The minority population has grown and it is not reflective in the anchors...WHY?...please don't not insult me with we cannot find them who are qualified.. ABC ORLANDO GET WITH IT!. OR YOUR RATINGS WILL LOWER SOON...THE WORD IS BUZZING IN ALL LEVELS HERE.

Shirley, why are you bringing race to this? This has nothing to do with race. First of all, she was interviewing Biden not Obama. That's obsurd to bring race into this. No one on the GOP side has ever brought race into this except Obama and his clan. That's crazy.

abc has caught the msnbs bug-having to explain and excuse any perception that may be damaging to obama.
halloween display in my yard this year is a tombstone that reads here lies the media' which will be relegated into oblivion after this election. i have friends that have already disconnected all cable services/and are discontinuing newspaper/magazine subscriptions like crazy.

geevill: "According to preliminary ratings numbers from the networks, more than 26 million people watched the program on CBS, NBC or Fox. That's 3 million more than usually watch those networks at that hour, according to the Hollywood Reporter."

The big media sites don't have it as front line news probably because then partisan hacks like you would bleat about reporting true facts, which are usually in Obama's favor, being bias.

Seriously, with the frequency of your being shown to be utterly wrong, do you honestly think anyone believes you anymore? That exact utter loss of credibility is what plagues all Republicans this year.

It looked to me (Joe the viewer) to be an authentic error Cynthia, not the frequent and unabashed bias of some of your colleagues, most often demonstrated by Mr.Stephanopoulos.

msnbc/abc one in the same.

i never thought that i would find cnn being more objective than abc.

rhe most over used words in this campaign are 95 percent of you and change and hope. i bet most people are hearing this in their sleep.

What's most interesting besides the tripping over herself to not offend P.L.Obama is that there is no mention anywhere in this or any other article about Bill Clinton saying that P.L.Obama called him and everyone else asking what to do & say about the financial crisis. Priceless.

What's most interesting besides the tripping over herself to not offend P.L.Obama is that there is no mention anywhere in this or any other article about Bill Clinton saying that P.L.Obama called him and everyone else asking what to do & say about the financial crisis. Priceless.

geevil: "How come these is no story about Obama's huge TV ratings? oh, so he tanked huh?"

Seeing as how I just finished reading a fluff piece on how Obama's show beat had double the number of viewers of the World Series, you have now officially moved from troll to laughingstock.

Thanks a lot for not having any audio with your Sarah Palin blip last night. I don't know if was you or local TV but there was NO sound until the very end! You say this election isn't media drivin.. If Obama gets it, a warning...be careful what you wish for.
ABC is just like NBC... too bad. I used to enjoy Nightline.

First, I fail to understand what some of this flap is about. Let it go! There are so many more important things being said and done with regard to this election! My addition to the "small" stuff is this: I don't think I could bear another four to eight years of hearing some ignorant, uneducated fool mortify this nation by saying "newkyalur", and "also too", among other abuses of our language. How refreshing it would be to once again have a President who could actually speak Standard English. That said, consider this: In my opinion, any woman who votes for McCain/Palin is a fool. As far as I can determine,Senator McCain has not done one thing in his entire Senatorial tenure that has directly benefited women. He is anti-choice and any woman who votes against her own freedom is the moral and intellectual equivalent of a Black person who would vote for slavery - because what we are talking about is reproductive slavery for women. He did not support ERA, he did not, and does not support Title IX, he voted against the Violence Against Women Act, he does not support "Equal Pay For Equal Work", he apparently even thinks it's OK for corporations to cover and hide their pay practices until it is too late for a woman to file a lawsuit by the time she discovers the injustice - he may not be an outright misogynist, but he damn sure doesn't seem to think it is much of a problem if other men are, or if the vast bulk of the U.S. corporate system is! To top all that off, the "Base" he and his advisers seem to think is so important, is BASically a bunch of brain-dead Bible-thumpers and brain-washed women (like Palin) who agree with the concept of women "submitting" to their husbands. I liked McCain in 2000, and this country would certainly have been better off had he been elected then instead of Bush. I was a Republican for 40+ years (since Goldwater), but no more. Obama has my vote, McCain my best wishes for his retirement, and Palin should go hunt a moose the fair way, without a helicopter!

dear nitghline
I have always enjoyed watching your program but lately I have to say Iam a little turned off by the way you guys are covering the presidental race .nightline does not give fair coverage to both parties it favors one over the other. I am not staying up late to see who you are favoring I stay up to see the news . your viewing audiance knows who you are endorsing and as news anchors news is news so report all of it. ps. i will not be vewing your program any longer.

For ABC Nightline -- Thursday night as your program was about to close, a picture of Senator Obama and a picture representing the White House was posted on the screen -- then in a voice that sounded like Cindy McFadden were the words "Obama and the White House". How sad that those responsible for this comment deem themselves qualified to indicate to the people of the United States that none of the votes of all Americans count -- because you have already chosen the next president. If we listen closely can we detect that the "Fact Sheet" is just a form of free advertising? Yes, I used to enjoy watching your program, but not any more. There are other programs to watch and I will not spend my time watching Nightline in the future.

This tool is awesome: "Your Money" -- McCain vs. Obama.

Fascinating stuff. Compares your taxes, markets, inflation, college, and retirement under each candidate.

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http://www.planwithvoyant.com

George—re: last night’s Nightline—and please pass this on to your colleagues at the other networks--You of all commentators know polls are very accurate—it is the Diebold and similar equipment which change the election results. If Senator Obama loses in states where he is ahead by wide margins and these states use Diebold black boxes then the whole public will know what those of us who have researched the issue already know—2004 and 2000 were fixed, i.e., in 2004, the Ohio Republican governor guaranteed Mr. Bush he would make Ohio go for him and then forced many counties in Ohio to take the Diebold equipment.
My computer expert told me when Maryland was testing black box computerized voting that a program code could be inserted into the Diebold computers which could flip or delete votes and then the instruction code would self destruct and couldn’t be found. This was later substantiated by several studies at major universities and by other computer experts. In my opinion, this is how Erlich won the governor’s race in Maryland against Kennedy-Townsend—I was an election judge that year and the Diebold equipment was “tested” in two (among others) reliably Democratic counties in the State (Montgomery and PG) where, according to press reports, Democrats came out to vote in an off-year election and just didn’t vote for governor--which put Erlich in.
The difference this time is the black boxes have usually been used when the races were within the margin of error. This time the spread is large in most states. So instead we have the “Bradley Effect” introduced to account for the possibility of Obama losing states he should have won. Who first mentioned this on-air and who did they talk to ahead of time regarding this—the Republican media machine?
Conspiracy theorists have two explanations for what is going on. The first is Bush is highly effective towards his constituencies—including those who wanted the US Treasury totally depleted so the Democrats can do nothing after being elected. The second is that if Obama loses there will be rioting and Bush will be able to use his secret Executive Orders to impose martial law and vacate the election results, thereby staying in power.
I am praying the change we oft-criticized boomers envisioned in our activism is actually upon us, but if the conspiracists are correct that it is the first scenario, since at least then the whole country will have a chance.
Good luck tonight to you and all your colleagues.

Boy Pat, you sure have a lot of paranoia! I would suggest just the opposite is true. Nightline, unfortunately, like all the other media has endorsed and concluded the election before it has happened, completely reporting facts unfairly much less correctly. I am disappointed and will reconsider watching your program. It has become an infomercial for the left.