The Jihadi Journalist (Debbie Schlussel Says There's Nothing Laudatory About Peter Jennings Alert)

Debbie Schlussel.com ^ | 08/08/05 | Debbie Schlussel

[SJackson]

Presuming this is an article, not a blog entry, Debbie should have waited a couple weeks since it will be dismissed as vitriol. The real issue isn't Peter Jennings who will be forgotten in a couple weeks, but overall media bias which allowed him to continue his jihad.

[SJackson]

For anyone who's interested, links to some of his middle east coverage.

[Howlin]

I think it's in poor taste because he's not even in the ground yet, regardless of the parts I agree with.

[P.O.E.]

I won't pile on the trashing of Jennings, but I do wish the MSM would stop effusing their whitewash of the guy. They're way overdoing it, slow news day notwithstanding.

[EveningStar]

Right now, it's a blog entry. I don't know whether or not it will become a formal article. Either way, I agree with you when you say this: "Debbie should have waited a couple weeks since it will be dismissed as vitriol."

[EveningStar]

Agreed.

[wayoverontheright]

I saw Katie Couric say this morning on the Today show intro that he was "sophisticated and had a worldliness about him that will be missed". I had to turn the tv off before I heard any more.

Code for: "a socialist sympathizer who truly didn't have a country he wanted to call his own".

[Ouderkirk]

On the bright side he's likely enjoying a reunion with his great buddy Yasser Arafat

Yaasir Arafat a pederast and terrorist.

[hershey]

Excellent post! I was getting tired of reaching for the remote.

[Slings and Arrows]

President Bush is always the epitome of class. The MSM are the epitome of class minus the "cl".

[Kryptonite]

Julia's got some big ones...

BTW, the article is right on. I'll always remember him as PALESTINE PETE.

[Temple Owl]

Ping

[Rummyfan]

Thanks for the link and the post. THIS is the Jennings I knew. RIP Pet-ah, but your way of 'reporting' will not be missed.

[Republican Red]

I haven't read any posts on the thread so I might be alone in my feeling that this article was in poor taste.

The man is not even dead 24 hours and he is being bashed.

I was not a Jenings fan but I think respect for his passing is in order. There will be time to critique his career and even his personal life but that can wait for a time.

[Marysecretary]

I didn't look that close. It was his eyes that got me thinking. He looks blitzed there.

[Marysecretary]

I rarely watched him once I discovered Fox. Snobby is right. He always seemed 'too cool for you' in MHO. Well, he's gone now and let's hope that the next one is a bit more conservative. I'm not betting the farm, though.

[blitzgig]

That was a great article by Debbie! Thanks a lot for posting it.

First off: I respect Jennings as an accomplished broadcast journalist, and I certainly take no pleasure at all in his passing. But we should not overlook his many faults, which were displayed in the consistent slant on the news he presented on ABC. Because of left-wing bias inherent in the network, important information was concealed or distorted in the public eye on many topics. Islamic radicalism was one such topic, as Debbie points out.

Even as we rightly mourn the death of Jennings, we should never forget the unhealthy and dangerous bias that he helped propogate through the MSM. Thank God the networks don't control things the way they did when Jennings took over.

[EveningStar]

Scroll down and check out the responses to Debbie's article. She's certainly taking some heat.

[Callahan]

My most vivid memory of Jennings was his coverage of the O.J. slow-speed chase. O.J.'s Bronco was parked in his driveway and super-journalist Jennings takes a call from a witness who says he can see into the car from the house next door. Of course they put this guy on the air with no verification. Peter asks him what he sees and they go back and forth a bit. Then the guys says "It looks like OJ is reading a book....it's....it's a copy of Howard Stern's "Private Parts"--available at bookstores everywhere!" The episode simultaneously made this stuffed shirt anchorman look like an ass and exposed the absurdity of the media's O.J. obsession(which only got worse). That's my Peter Jenning's memory.

[George W. Bush]

Reading the other Petah threads, I thought I had I stumbled into a lib site. Here, then, is a proper FR thread on the life and impact of one Peter Jennings.

I find it interesting that Jennings was a high-school dropout, like most of the hardcore Hollywood Lefties. It seems that the less education you have, the more susceptible you are to being a useful idiot for the Left and its causes (communism, terrorism, antisemitism, etc.). I sometimes wonder if they don't pick and promote exactly those kinds of individuals to promote, certain that they can manipulate them easily.

I looked at a DU thread last night and noticed the mentions they made of how he did them favors by peddling propaganda or suppressing facts damaging to Dims. Well, at least they know he was their friend.