Within the United States, there is growing challenge to President Bush about the conduct of the war and also opposition to the war. So our reports about civilian casualties here....help those who oppose the war.
“Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces....And I personally do not understand how that happened, because I’ve been here many times and in my commentaries on television I would tell the Americans about the determination of the Iraqi forces, the determination of the government, and the willingness to fight for their country. But me, and others who felt the same way, were not listened to by the Bush administration.
“Now America is re-appraising the battlefield, delaying the war, maybe a week, and re-writing the war plan. The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance; now they are trying to write another war plan.”
-- Then-NBC/MSNBC/National Geographic Explorer correspondent Peter Arnett’s comments on Iraq’s state-controlled television network, March 30.
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Romanticizing the Rabble Award for Glorifying Protesters
“The size of the demonstrators, at least here, at least in Europe, seems to underscore, Chris, that there are now perhaps two world superpowers. There’s the United States and then there are those millions of people who took to the streets opposing U.S. policy.”
-- MSNBC’s David Shuster to Hardball host Chris Matthews, February 17
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Why Is Essie Mae Washington-Williams
Described as “Black”?
Why is Essie Mae Washington-Williams, the daughter of a white father, the late Senator Strom Thurmond, and black mother, described as “black” or “African-American” in many media reports on Washington-Williams acknowledging her parentage? Isn’t she just as white as she is black? And isn’t labeling her black, in the midst of stories wondering how she dealt with her segregationist father, ironic in that it plays into historic prejudices that having some black heritage in your bloodline somehow taints you as black?
Admittedly, she was raised in a black household and was treated as black by society, but that doesn’t mean she really is any more black than she is white, or any more Negro than Caucasian.
So, as some media outlets have done, she should be described as “mixed-race” or “bi-racial.”
But on Wednesday night, December 17, after she held a press conference to publicly acknowledge her father was a 22-year-old Strom Thurmond who had a relationship with a 16-year-old maid in the Thurmond family home, the three broadcast networks, CNN and MSNBC all described her as “black” or “African-American”
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MSNBC Producer: Reporters “Feel Vindicated” By Setbacks in Iraq
A month ago MSNBC producer Noah Oppenheim traveled to Iraq to “find out if things had really gone as horribly wrong as the evening newscasts and major print dailies reported.” In the latest Weekly Standard, he recounted how found that “the mounting body count is heartbreaking, but the failure of American journalism is tragic.” Oppenheim discovered that “America has brought to Iraq the notorious Red State-Blue State divide. Most journalists are Blue State people in outlook, and most of those administering the occupation are Red.” Since “most journalists did not support this war to begin with,” Oppenheim observed, they “feel vindicated whenever the effort stumbles.”
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The big gorilla at MSNBC, Chris Matthews has the biggest liberal voice...
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The liberal media also has a way of characterizing non-liberal views as "non-traditional" and the like. I did a search on MSNBC for "NRA" and found a vast majority of anti-second amendment articles. One lovely example placed doubt on the very realistic figure of 2.5 million lives saved annually by gun owners. "In fact, few scholars think the number of guns used for self-defense each year is in the millions." That is far from true. They use the same line when telling us that those scientist who question the validity of global warming are the fringe scientists rejected by mainstream scientists. If I thought the opposition was a bunch of poorly respected wackos, I might be inclined to believe that the polar ice caps were going to melt and drown us all too.
MSNBC also tells us in one headline that, "Most U.S. states lack basic gun control laws - survey. It then elaborates further with "Forty-two states lack basic gun control laws to provide even "minimum standards for public safety," a nationwide survey released Thursday said." Note that they use the term "basic." Most people believe that if you lack something basic, there is a problem. Gun control laws are not basic by any means. They are clearly in violation of the second amendment. Worst of all, this article tells us, as if it were an axiomatic truth that gun control laws provide for minimum standards of public safety. The whole article is based upon lies. It gets even worse. In big, bold letters it declares "MASSACHUSETTS, HAWAII SCORE BEST." I do not know about you, but I was under the impression that best was a good thing. These two states were the ones with the most restrictions on gun ownership. At the very end, it gave a very brief rebuttal from the NRA but then immedietly went back to its gun bashing.
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