The Telegraph’s deception is nothing new.

The following is excerpts from some material we hand delivered to The Macon Telegraph for the President and Publisher Jeanie Enyart shortly after her arrival in Macon to take over The Telegraph.

It shows The Telegraph has a long history of deceiving the people of middle Georgia. The deceit and dishonesty did not start with the present President and Publisher George McCanless it just got worse.

The more we looked the more it became clear the Macon Telegraph was using distortion and deceit to scam their readers in order to further their political bias.

Since this was done The Telegraph has changed tactics, now they do not take the time to story shop or twist things. They just declare it all politics and refuse to cover it. The individual making this declaration sitting on the right is The Telegraph Editorial Page Editor Charles E. Richardson.

In fact the Telegraph endorsed this criminal ticket twice [Clinton-Gore] and if you want to count Gore in the primaries that will be the third time. It is not the endorsement that concerns us. The Telegraph and editorial board can endorse whoever they like. It was the deceit in the endorsements that we take exception too.

The Macon Telegraph and editorial board's endorsement of Clinton in 1992 may have been subjective. However, they are glaring examples of what we can only consider deception.

We are told in the 92 endorsement, Clinton "whose accomplishments as governor give him strong credentials in education issues"… this was not true.  Even the most rudimentary inquiry would have shown Clinton had no "credentials in education".  Had anyone checked they would have found this was Hillary's job, one that a reasonable person could have concluded was a failure. The inferred comparison to John F. Kennedy was ludicrous.

By the time the Macon Telegraph endorsed Clinton in 96 it had become clear to a person of average intelligence, something was badly wrong with the Clinton-Gore administration.  For the most part the so-called national news media including the Macon Telegraph ignored the facts.  They published puff pieces, distorted the truth and scammed the people of the United States.

It had become vividly clear that the "impressive array of friends and advisers with high academic and political credentials."  which the 92 endorsement pointed out, had serious flaws.  None of these individuals had any morals or integrity and honesty was completely foreign to them.  They were willing to lie, deceive and even break laws in their struggle to hang on to power.  Some of the "impressive array of friends and advisors with high academic and political credentials." even went to jail.

By the time of the 96 endorsement many of Clinton's dirty little secrets were out.  It was well know that Clinton and Gore had used taxpayer money to hunt down, threaten and harass women in order to control the “bimbos" and prevent them from talking.  The famous million dollar "limousine ride" with "James Riady" was well known.  There were numerous questions about Chinese money floating around.

Every distortion, deceit, smear, and lie, the White House could think of was passed on to the reader as the truth.  The Telegraph, ABC, CBS CNN and NBC confirmed the garbage and completely overlooked the crimes and the illegal acts of the Clinton-Gore administration. Therefore it took on an aurora of the truth.  The Fox News Channel, the Washington Times and a few other publications with stood the tide.  

But the Macon Telegraph readers were never and have not to this day been told the truth about Ken Starr, Linda Tripp, Wiley and other people the Clinton-Gore Administration, the DNC and democratic legislators demonized.  Remember the endorsement telling us about (Clinton's) "empathy for ordinary citizens and compassion for the less fortunate" I guess the Macon Telegraph forgot about the people Clinton's justice department was putting in jail for the same crimes he and the others in the Clinton-Gore administration was committing every day.  The Macon Telegraph and so-called main stream media have largely ignored the story of Clinton's lavishing "empathy" and "compassion for the less fortunate" on Juanita Broaddrick.

All of the deceit, dishonesty, lies and crimes was passed of by the Macon Telegraph in the 96 endorsement as a case where "Some times it seemed the inmates had taken over the asylum.  In taking responsibility for his own household, Clinton often has been put in the untenable position of admitting either incompetence or skullduggery."

The endorsement tells us that Clinton took "responsibility for his own household." This is completely dishonest and deceptive “Clinton has taken responsibility for nothing, however he has taken credit for a great deal, with the blessings of the Macon Telegraph.

If the Macon Telegraph can tell the readers when and where Clinton took responsibility for the fire which occurred on "April 19, 1993 that killed 86 members of the Branch Davidian sect, including 24 children"...  Or, provide any documentation of Clinton's taking the responsibility for the failed mission in "Somalia when 19 American Army Rangers were" slaughtered and the bodies of some American service personnel were dragged through the streets, we would like to see it.  Reliable news sources at the time told us when the Theater Commander requested additional equipment at the time it was turned down because The Clinton-Gore administration made a political decision not to send it.

 The endorsement tells us "Haiti is democratized."  That was not true then nor is it true now.  Maybe that is why the Macon Telegraph's reader has not read anything else about the democracy in Haiti.  I might mention that on September 29, 1999, the Washington Post did tell us that: "Now, five years and several billion dollars later, the administration has announced the end of its policy of permanently stationing troops on this small island."  Now Haiti is worse off than ever.

Then after all the puff pieces and demagoguery about the state of the military and how well it was doing under the Clinton-Gore administration, we all of a sudden find the stories are not true.

On the editorial page for the weekend of May 6-7, 2000, we find a piece over Ed Corson’s name ranting and raving about the state of the military. 

“It is high time the Clinton administration and its top Pentagon leadership increased military funding more than their recent feeble attempts to reverse the effects of years of neglect.   And it is also time to be more selective about when, why and for how long we deploy units overseas. If we fail to do either of those things, we will continue to increase our vulnerability to attack and reduce our ability to put out threatening military fires in a hazardous Post-Cold War world."

Corson puts this finger on the problem; however there had been no meaningful coverage of this state of affairs in the Macon Telegraph.  There has been extensive coverage on this problem from other reliable news sources.

Let me provide examples of just how the Macon Telegraph scammed their readers on military readiness.  On August 28th, the Macon Telegraph runs an article on the front page captioned "Cheney says military has serious problems."  Then in smaller type the reader is told "He admits cuts began when he was defense secretary".  The by-line tells us the story is "by Terry Neal" of "the Washington Post".  Mr. Neal tell us "Cheney on Sunday defended attacks on the Clinton administration's record on military preparedness, insisting that defense forces have steadily eroded the past eight years even while conceding that recent criticisms might not be valid."  

Mr. Neal then tells us "The Gore campaign has noted that deep cuts in defense began in the late 1980s during Bush's father's administration while Cheney was defense sectary."  He then tells the reader that while Cheney “did propose and support the Post-Cold War cutting of the military by 25 percent the Clinton administration 'has cut a lot more than that. …They've cut too deep'".

On that same day Rowan Scarborough of the Washington Times tells us:

 "The root of the problem, analysts and soldiers say, stems from President Clinton's decision in 1993 to double five-year Pentagon cuts, to $128 billion, that had been put in place by President Bush and his defense secretary, Richard B. Cheney. The Post-Cold War reductions were followed by Mr. Clinton sending troops on a record number of peacetime deployments in the 1990s, including major conflicts against Iraq and Serbia. Equipment wore out. Spare parts dried up. And personnel, weary of months overseas, quit. 'You cut the force by more than a third, you cut the budget by 40 percent and then you raise the number of deployments by 300 percent and that's a situation that is going to make trouble inside the military,' said retired Army Col. Joseph Collins. Col. Collins spearheaded an expansive study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies that concluded in January that morale and readiness were down across the military".

Then on 08/31/00, and I can only conclude, after "picking and choosing", the Macon Telegraph run an article under the caption "Cheney says military hurt by neglect." The by-line was "by Karen Gullo" of "The Associated Press."   In this puff piece which the Macon Telegraph chose to run Ms. Gullo declines to mention "Clinton's decision in 1993 to double five-year Pentagon cuts, to $128 billion, that had been put in place by President Bush and his defense secretary, Richard B. Cheney."

On this same day guess what?  The Washington Post run an article by David Von Drehle Post Staff Writer captioned “Cheney Steps Up Criticism Of Military Readiness".  In this article the reader is told:

 "'Over the last decade,' he said, (Cheney) commitments worldwide have gone up by 300 percent, while our military forces have been cut by 40 percent … Pilots are flying more missions on older aircraft… The Navy had only enough cruise missiles to satisfy a little over half 'the strategic need'".

 On both days the Macon Telegraph made sure the reader was not informed of "Clinton's decision in 1993 to double five-year Pentagon cuts, to $128 billion, that had been put in place by President Bush and his defense secretary, Richard B. Cheney."

We for one will not buy any one's opinion that this was "editorial discretion".  We can only conclude that this was a deliberate act by the Macon Telegraph to scam their readers.

Let us look at another example of what we can only conclude was a scam the Macon Telegraph perpetrated on their readers. 

On September 15th, 2000, the Macon Telegraph tells their readers in an article on the front page, captioned "Navy fleet getting 'gender-neutral' commodes" in smaller letters under the caption the readers are told "Bathroom conversions are projected to cost $187,000 apiece."  The by-line was "By Paul Richter" of the "Los Angeles Times".  We are told "3000 'heads' or bathrooms are to be converted at a cost of $187,000 apiece…" This will come to a cost of $561 million dollars.  It is going to cost the taxpayers $561 million dollars to redo the perfectly good facilities now in place.  This money is being spent just to appease the Clinton-Gore administration.

On that same day an article in the Washington Times by Rowan Scarborough, captioned "Naval air is called degraded" tells us: 

"A new inspector general's report reveals that budget cuts and fast-paced deployments that used up spare parts have left crews overworked and pilots insufficiently trained. The shortfalls had real-life impact on pilots' ability to hit targets during last year's bombing campaign against Serbia. More than half of Navy-dropped laser bombs missed their target, said the report by Vice Adm. Lee F. Gunn, the Navy inspector general, who retired this month."   Mr. Scarborough tells us "Adm. Jay Johnson, former chief of naval operations, ordered the extensive review last winter. A Navy official agreed to brief a reporter about the review's findings on the condition he not be identified. He said Adm. Johnson's order came after an influx of $788 million apparently failed to correct the problems as quickly as anticipated" 

The article goes on to tell the reader:

• "Pilots lack sufficient numbers of the target-imaging systems used in learning how to drop laser-guided bombs from F-14 Tomcats and F-18 Hornets. As a result, pilots are forced to learn the system during actual combat. Aircraft hit less than half of their laser targets during the 1999 bombing of Serbia. Lack of realistic training "has resulted in strike-success rates in Iraq and the former Yugoslavia far below those that should be achievable," the IG quoted trainers as saying."

• "Navy pilots were thoroughly beaten in an exercise against Israeli fliers. 'An air wing commander was proud the Israelis only achieved a 6-to-1 kill ratio during simulated air-to-air combat maneuvers against a carrier air wing during a recent exercise, instead of the 20-to-1 kill ratio initially claimed,' the report says."

• "Morale is low among pilots and support crews. 'Naval aviation's morale degraders [or morale depressants] are, unfortunately, not just tied to the [lack of] spares and readiness issues. Dilapidated hangars and other infrastructure problems degrade the quality of the workspace. . . . All of these issues are, we believe, having a cumulative negative effect on our sailors and Marines as they are making career decisions.'"

• "The Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center at Fallon, Nev., where pilots prepare for deployment, have no Tomcats or Hornets that are representative of models they will fly in the fleet."

• "The rate at which squadrons remove parts from one plane to keep another one running nearly doubled from 1995 to 1998."

We called the managing editor at the Macon Telegraph and asked about the "Inspector General's report" and was told that he was "unaware" of this report.  This clearly demonstrates that the Macon Telegraph while claiming to be a regional newspaper fails to keep up with events which are vital to the national security of this country, much less inform their readers.

Our question is which story was the most important to anyone concerned with the future and national security of this great country?  Which money was best spent, the $561 million spent for commodes or the $788 million spent on an attempt to fix the operational problems.

By the way, the Washington Times carried both stories.

We know everyone will recall Clinton's grandiose exit from Martha's Vineyard and his return to Washington to "fight terrorism".  Remember this was right after his big lie was exposed and he was on vacation.

The Macon Telegraph was high on the distortion and deceit from the Clinton-Gore administration and White House Press Releases at the time. Their puff pieces and deceit about Clinton fighting terrorism was nothing but adoration for Clinton.

However, when the facts came out that Clinton had used the United States Armed Forces for an act of international terrorism.  The Macon Telegraph decided to drop the subject.  The scam was to draw the attention away from Clinton's sordid affairs in the White House and the fact that he was and is unfit to hold office.  Gore was a part of this.

Reliable and honest news sources continued their coverage and carried the final story and informed the people that it was finally accepted in Washington that this had been a gross mistake.

The Macon Telegraph ignored later information that was in direct conflict with their puff pieces and White House press releases.  An article in the Washington Post By Vernon Loeb Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, August 21, 1999.   (And information from other sources) tells us that the “U.S. Wasn’t Sure Plant Had Nerve Gas Role Before Sudan Strike, CIA Urged More Tests". Mr. Loeb tells us:

"One month before the United States bombed the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, CIA analysts said more testing would be needed before they could firmly conclude that the plant was producing a key component of deadly VX nerve gas, as the Clinton administration maintained on the night of the strike."

Then the story tells us;

"The bombing, one year ago this week, has led to a lawsuit by the plant’s owner, an embarrassing series of retractions by top U.S. officials, and an increasingly pressing question: Just how certain does the government need to be before it uses force against a suspected terrorist group overseas"? 

The lawsuit is seeking $50 million dollars in damages.

This is approximately what the Whitewater investigation cost.

There was no coverage at all about this in the Macon Telegraph.  They said nothing about the fact that it has become an excepted truth by knowledgeable news sources that there was indeed no mayhem at the "aspirin plant". This in its self would lead one to conclude the Telegraph supported the use of the Armed Forces of the United States by the Clinton -Gore administration for acts of international terrorism and the murder of the night watchmen. 

To us personally, one of the most egregious scams, the Macon Telegraph has pulled on the reader goes back to Clinton's impeachment.  They provided coverage of Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford's editorial that appeared in the New York Times December 21, 1998 Captioned "A Time to Heal Our Nation" Their call for "an outcome that is firm, fair and untainted by partisan advantage."

 However when Sam Nunn wrote an op-ed piece that appeared in the Washington Post on Sunday, August 23, 1998 expressing his views on Clinton’s escapades and also used other outlets to express his “concern about the security risk” to which Clinton exposed this Nation the Telegraph ignored it.

When we contacted the Telegraph and asked about this, the limp excuse an editor for the Macon Telegraph give was “we don’t have an agreement with the Washington Post.”

To this day I have not reached a conclusion where the editor thought I was that dumb and would buy the scam or it would never occur to me to wonder why a so-called regional newspaper was not intelligent enough to have a reporter interview Nunn. 

In my opinion the deceit here was by an act of omission. Sam Nunn's opinion would have carried a lot of weight with the people of middle Georgia.

Another serious act of omission was the fact that on Dec. 7, 1997 testifying before congress FBI Director Louis Freeh tells us the Clinton-Gore administration cannot be trusted with national security secrets.  We are told in a June 16 issue of Human Events: 

"Freeh also noted in his Dec. 9, 1997 testimony that he and Reno had put together a process by which they would determine on a case-by-case basis when national security information developed in the campaign finance probe could be given to the White House and when it should be withheld."

It should also be pointed out that Reno (The so-called Attorney General) testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1997 that "the FBI was withholding national security information from the President."

This in turn inspired Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) to write an Op-ed piece for the Washington Post on May 22, 1997.  The article tells us and I quote from "Inside Washington" Human Events-June 16, 2000 issue. "It was almost unnoticed that Attorney General Janet Reno testified recently before the Senate Judiciary Committee that the FBI had withheld national security information from the President because he is a potential subject in a pending investigation," wrote Specter.  "That revelation has critical implications for our constitutional government and for triggering independent counsel." 

    Spector went on to ask, "Under what authority do FBI director Freeh and Atty. Gen. Reno deny the Commander in Chief such information?"

He also makes the case that:

"Since the facts of the underlying investigation are sufficiently serious in the judgment of the attorney general to deny the President 'significant national security' data, how can they possibly be insufficiently 'credible' and 'specific' to justify not appointing an independent counsel"?  

      There can be no information more vital to the future of this country and the security of the United States, than the fact that we have a President and Vice president who cannot be trusted with national security information. 

The Fact that the Director of the FBI and the Attorney General of the United States has taken it upon their self to unlawfully withhold national security information from the Commander in Chief and Congress for balancing purposes is a disgrace.

The article in Human Events goes on to tell us:

 "In April 1999, Human Events asked the FBI if it was still withholding National security information from the White House and, if so why.  At the FBI's request, HE (Human Events) put the inquiry in writing.  The bureau then declined to answer.  Human Events put the question to the FBI again last week (The Week ending Saturday, June 10, 2000) Again, the FBI did not answer."

I will leave it for you to decide, if the FBI was not still withholding national security information from the Clinton-Gore administration, would they have refused to answer the question?

This is a "triple whammy" for the Macon Telegraph. They failed to inform their readers of the fact that Clinton could not be trusted with national security information. They also failed to inform their readers of the fact that the FBI Director and Attorney General are involved in an unlawful conspiracy to withhold information. The most incredible part of the story is the fact that congress is doing nothing about it and the so-called news media will not inform their readers of the facts in the case. 

When such vital information with the potential for the most serious consequences is withheld from the reader, I think any reasonable person can see the scam.   

 

There have been times when Macon Telegraph editorials mention Journalistic integrity and the Telegraph's position of community leadership.  This is hogwash. 

Have a nice day.