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To: LindyBill who wrote (98539)	2/3/2005 7:13:56 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793698

Hewitt keeps up the pressure - More on SOTU and Eason Jordan, plus a new links list on the CNN cover-up. Lileks has the best recap of the SOTU, and a reminder of the SOTU 2002. Quick: What do you recall of Bill Clinton's eight SOTUs? He held up a little card once, and suggested that it was the future of health care. And they went long. Very long. George W. Bush added to his many excellent speeches last night, and Lileks is right to note "And hello, Egypt! Welcome to the Axis of Damn Well Better Get Your Act Together!" Sitting in a studio last night listening to various pundits talk on, I wasn't in a hurry to jump in. The president is in complete command of the stage and the Democrats have taken the domestic bait and turned themselves into hoarse shouters of "No! Never!' Reactionaries who must feel as the Republicans of 1933 did -speaking the words of confident comeback, but aware that they are cornered for a generation as a party of obstinate indifference to change, incapable of ideas or innovation. Abroad, not all the murmurings from Davos and all the whispers from various caves can dent the fact that the president is using his lever and sure place to stand to change not just Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and the Palestinian territories, but the entire region. As Mike Barnicle speculated last night on MSNBC, we may be living in far more extraordinary times than most people had imagined. On yesterday's program, Jeff Jarvis and Jim Geraghty both stated that big media had to act on the Eason Jordan scandal in relative short order to avoid the appearance of complicity in a cover-up of a friend's scandal. Jay Nordlinger reports at NationalReview.com today on what he was told happened after the Eason Jordan accusation session: "Afterward — again, as it is reported to me — Jordan is surrounded by Arab attendees, who congratulate him on having the "courage" to speak the hard truth. Jordan accepts those congratulations." There's another account at NewsDissector of the reaction to Jordan's slander: "'The room went wild,' someone who as there told me, reporting that most people there didn't have a clue that that had even happened. Its another sign of the media not doing its job–even about its own losses." Jordan and CNN have now provided at least four statements --the most recent of which is at Carol Platt Liebau's site-- on what he said at Davos, and they don't hang together at all. There is also the nugget uncovered by Peter Cook and publicized broadly by Ed Morrissey, that in late 2004, Jordan accused American troops of torturing journalists: "'Actions speak louder than words. The reality is that at least 10 journalists have been killed by the US military, and according to reports I believe to be true journalists have been arrested and tortured by US forces,' Mr Jordan told an audience of news executives at the News Xchange conference in Portugal." Eason Jordan is a serial slanderer of the American military, and he upped the charge from torture to murder this week. He's a senior exec at CNN, which is indifferent to his slanders. Perhaps because they play well where they are intended to? More Jordan, from a 2002 interview: "The reality is that we are a US-based news channel, but that doesn't mean we're American in perspective with our international service. In fact the person who oversees all our international outlets is not an American at all, he's British, and we hired him from the BBC several years ago. There are more than fifty nationalities of journalists who work at CNN International producing that service. If we were to move CNN's base to Egypt maybe they'd say we're Egyptian—you have to be based somewhere. It's the people who produce the channel and the people who provide the reporting who are really responsible for it, and those are people from all over the world, the very best journalists and program makers we can find. No matter what CNN International does, as long as CNN's headquarters is in the United States people are going to say, well, it's an American service. But the reality is that it's an international service based in the United States, and we don't make any apologies about that." CNN has hunkered down, hoping that the SOTU will cover the Jordan story. I don't think this will work, and the network is producing a second act to Rathergate. I am headed to D.C. today, but will arrange for new posts on the subject to be listed here if links are sent to me at hugh@hughhewitt.com. When the Congress, and I think the country, turned as one to honor Sgt. Norwood's parents last night, they did so convicted of the great good and justice that has followed in the wake of the U.S. military. The members of that military do not murder or torture journalists, and the poisonous assertion that they do disqualifies Jordan from any position in a U.S. news organization, or at least it should. OkieontheLam PerkinPrattles PoliticalCalculations Gates of Vienna RogerLSimon Powerline DirectorBlue Blogmosis Tapscott'sCopyDesk TheAmericanMind AceofSpades Rony Abovitz DailyThoughts SaultDesign TomGrey Blogotional OpaqueLucidity CaptainsQuarters Rathergate Grooveswitch LaShawn Barber LaughingWolf ColdFury (first to designate Jordan as a "moonbat.") CheatSeekingMissiles RJ Schwarz GalleySlaves Pajamahadin hughhewitt.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (98539)	2/3/2005 9:18:48 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793698

Sgt. Byron Norwood. Thursday, November 18 2004 @ 08:32 AM EST Contributed by: tomw News8Austin -- Family and friends of Marine Sgt. Byron Norwood remember his life. The 25-year-old was killed in action on Nov. 12 in Fallujah. His family said Byron believed serving his country as a Marine was something he had to do. "He even said, 'I know what my mission is, if I come back from Iraq that's great, if I don't I'm willing to pay that price,'" father Bill Norwood said. Byron was in his second deployment in Iraq as a member of the Third Battalion, First Marine Regiment. Loved ones remember him as a caring person, always full of energy. "He loved life, he enjoyed every minute of it. He wanted to be involved and be a participant. He made the most out of every moment," Pflugerville High Principal Larry Bradley said. Byron graduated from Pflugerville High School in 1998, where he was involved in band, sports and drama. But those who knew him best say his passion was always to become a Marine. "He made that transition from rambunctious teenager to fully grown man and was truly committed," Bill Norwood said. Byron served six years in the Marines mostly in Iraq. "He had a commitment to our country and he believed deeply that the fight against terrorism needs to be kept away from our shores, that the fight should be over there, not here, and he saw his role as critical in that as well as bringing something of value to the Iraqi people," his father said. Byron planned to attend Texas Tech University next fall. His family hopes to lay him to rest this week in Pflugerville. pigstye.net