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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Shoot1st who wrote (35674)	7/21/2008 11:00:15 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224729

Kerry Flashback:NBC News Refers to 'Tour of Duty' for Obama's Trip By D. S. Hube, July 21, 2008 It's bad enough that Barack Obama's trip to the Middle East is getting an insane amount of MSM coverage (the three big network news anchors? Whoa!); now, NBC News believes it apt to compare Obama's sojourn to ... an actual military tour of duty. Yes indeed, news anchor Lester Holt introduced last evening's Nightly News with the following headline: HOLT: "Tour of Duty" as Obama visits the war zone: The fight over where to send combat troops next. I never served in the military and I find it quite grating that a major news organization would refer to a presidential candidate's foreign trip to a combat zone -- a candidate who never served, incidentally -- as a "tour of duty." Does anyone else recall former President Bill Clinton's claims that he was on "active duty" as Commander-in-Chief, and therefore immune from any prosecution during the Paula Jones matter? After protests by some veterans' groups, Clinton withdrew his claim (although it's unclear if it was due to these protests or because it was a lousy legal argument). I wonder if NBC will similarly withdraw its specious headline. Brent Bozell's www.newsbusters.org