Mr. Bush omitted any direct criticism of Europe, even though his aides have been saying, publicly and privately, that the members of the European Union have deliberately manipulated the debate -- and unfairly caricatured Mr. Bush as an enemy of good environmental practice -- to cover up their political problems coming into compliance with the Kyoto mandates.
In a letter to Mr. Dodd, Mr. McConnell called the refusal to bring his bill to a vote a sign "that the majority intends to manipulate this debate in a divisive, partisan manner that dooms the election-reform effort".
The emotion-stokers of fear and anger are at it again, promulgating these emotions that manipulate the debate on health care reform.
By nature, they seek to control debates and manipulate them to suit their political priorities.
But during the call, an official said, Mrs. Clinton emphasized that the United States had not tried to manipulate the parliamentary debate.
Brokaw then aimed directly at the NRA and how they manipulate the gun debate.
In the Seattle Post-Intelligencer review of the film, it was reported that "Under his chummy but compassionless smile" Eckhart radiated charm and "Naylor's true joys: manipulating arguments, steering debate, cooking words".
The leaders of the antiestablishment faction argue that the debate has been manipulated to bring up the electric issue of race because the leadership is desperately trying to keep control and block independent-minded people from the board.
What emerges from the shameful way in which "debate" has been manipulated, is that the hold of the media over the imagination of the people is more circumscribed than its practitioners believe, so maladroit has been their management of political news.
"Last night, as Michele prepared her plans to debate on CBS, we received concrete evidence confirming what every conservative already knows — the liberal mainstream media elites are manipulating the Republican debates by purposely suppressing our conservative message," Keith Nahigian, Mrs. Bachmann's campaign manager, wrote in an e-mail to supporters.
