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To: ecommerceman who wrote (304)	5/2/2003 10:59:47 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794007

Can they get to Peter Jennings at ABC? He took some hits for his Iraq coverage, and his ratings are down. This story is only in conservative media at the moment, just broke today. Pro-Marxist Slant Pushed at ABC, Retired Correspondent Claims By Marc Morano CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer May 01, 2003 (CNSNews.com) - Having kept quiet for 14 years, a former ABC News correspondent has gone public for the first time with allegations that network anchorman Peter Jennings manipulated news scripts during the 1980s in order to praise the Marxist-backed Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Peter Collins, a newsman with over 30 years experience, including stints with Voice of America, the BBC, CBS News and CNN, recently walked away from the news industry and has "no compunction about telling [my story] now." In an exclusive interview with CNSNews.com , Collins alleged that Jennings personally dictated changes in a Collins television script in order to praise the Sandinista government for its "new, unselfish society," for successfully reducing illiteracy and "launch[ing] the biggest land reform in Central America." Collins covered Central America for ABC's "World News Tonight" and "Nightline" from 1982 until 1991 and having recently retired from journalism, Collins said he now feels "liberated." Repeated attempts to obtain a reaction on Collins' allegations from ABC News were not successful. ABC News publicist Cathie Levine told CNSNews.com that neither Jennings nor the network had any comment. The pro-Marxist spin at ABC News According to Collins, Jennings "took a piece that I had written about the 10th anniversary of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua [in 1989] and first asked his producer to correct it for me and then he himself called me up in Managua and essentially dictated to me what I should say." REST AT:http://gopusa.com/cgi-bin/news_links.pl?newslink_dir=cnsnews&newslink_url=cnsnews_link1

To: ecommerceman who wrote (304)	5/3/2003 1:27:32 AM
From: Rollcast...	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794007

Then you did not understand it. I was saying that John should not assume that the poll participants - by answering YES to "Was Iraq connected to 9/11?" - meant that they believed they were involved in 9/11 but rather that they were answering yes to the broader connection. Is Iraq connected to terrorism and the events of 9/11? Of course Iraq was. Most of the libs have their root causes for 9/11... As always the US is to blame. Well, the en-ablers of terrorism, the state sponsors, are the true causes. Removing Saddam was the first. I believe they hope his example will shift the others. If not, then we may just be changing regimes elsewhere as well. Not sure why the left despises an American foreign policy that demonstrates resolve.