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ABC Gets Its Pound Of Corpse For Inauguration Coverage
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| January 21, 2005
| Captain Ed
Posted on 01/21/2005 1:33:51 PM PST by puppets
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More liberal media bias more here:
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DocWeasel.com has re-created the ABC News page seeking "military funerals for Iraq war casualties" to cover "for a possible Inauguration Day story." Sure enough, they found one. We checked the transcript of yesterday's "World News Tonight" (available on Factiva, but not on the public Net) and found this:
Peter Jennings: Fair to say, we think, that at some point today here in Washington, the war in Iraq was on everyone's mind, when the president spoke; when the antiwar demonstrators shouted as the president went by; when one or another military unit did something here today as part of the celebration. And we thought, too, of the many wounded at the army hospital here, watching it all on television.
And in Rockport, Texas, today, just about the time the president was speaking, there was a funeral for a young marine reservist, 21 year-old Matthew Holloway was killed in Iraq last week by a roadside bomb. His brother told a local paper that as much as Matthew wanted to be home, he was very proud of what he was doing in Iraq, and it is something you hear from so many people in the services, including the 10,000 who have already been wounded.
We didn't actually see the show, but reading the transcript Jennings seems rather condescending when he observes that servicemen are "very proud." It's as if he was expecting them not to be.
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posted on
01/21/2005 1:33:52 PM PST
by
puppets
To: puppets
ABC eats it for this crap!
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posted on
01/21/2005 1:37:20 PM PST
by
beyond the sea
(Andrea Mitchell is Barbra Streisand on peyote ......and the north end of a south bound mule.)
To: puppets
Someone needs to look Jennings in the eye and tell him that we are war, and that is why we have a military. Unfortunately people are hurt and people die during war.
He makes me sick.
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posted on
01/21/2005 1:39:06 PM PST
by
Coldwater Creek
('We voted like we prayed")
To: puppets
We didn't actually see the show, but reading the transcript Jennings seems rather condescending when he observes that servicemen are "very proud." It's as if he was expecting them not to be.
Now I don't know about that. I hate Jennings, ABC, and what they did here, but I don't read that part of the transcript and see it as condescending to servicemen.
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posted on
01/21/2005 1:42:42 PM PST
by
Jaysun
(If you disagree with me it's a clear indication that you're wrong.)
To: mariabush
Unfortunately people are hurt and people die during war.Jennings knows this, as do they all. That is not the point. The point is to turn the American public against the war in Iraq and pull off another media lost war the way they did in Vietnam. I expect to see much, much more of this now that we are in Bush's second term.
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posted on
01/21/2005 1:43:04 PM PST
by
Bahbah
To: puppets
Peter Jennings should be deported to his native Canada.
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posted on
01/21/2005 1:43:34 PM PST
by
EternalVigilance
(The Left believes in everything about the First Amendment....except what it actually says!)
To: puppets
Those who continue to watch ABC should make their objections known at the highest levels of the network
Ugh, you have the best of intentions, but I think you are posting this in the wrong place for that. I doubt if many, if any, here do (watch ABC), or would bother to complain to ABC. It's a waste of time and effort.
ABC knows exactly what it is doing, and so do we.
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posted on
01/21/2005 1:45:24 PM PST
by
ml1954
To: puppets
I glanced at the ABC coverage, and even I was dismayed by the blatant partisan attacks on this administration.
I saw zero attempt to even cover up that anti Bush bias.
Jennings made me sick.
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posted on
01/21/2005 1:45:36 PM PST
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: puppets
The Price in Blood!
Casualties in the Civil War
At least 618,000 Americans died in the Civil War, and some experts say the toll reached 700,000. The number that is most often quoted is 620,000. At any rate, these casualties exceed the nation's loss in all its other wars, from the Revolution through Vietnam.
The Union armies had from 2,500,000 to 2,750,000 men. Their losses, by the best estimates:
Battle deaths: 110,070
Disease, etc.: 250,152
Total 360,222
The Confederate strength, known less accurately because of missing records, was from 750,000 to 1,250,000. Its estimated losses:
Battle deaths: 94,000
Disease, etc.: 164,000
Total 258,000
The leading authority on casualties of the war, Thomas L. Livermore, admitting the handicap of poor records in some cases, studied 48 of the war's battles and concluded:
Of every 1,000 Federals in battle, 112 were wounded.
Of every 1,000 Confederates, 150 were hit.
Mortality was greater among Confederate wounded, because of inferior medical service. The great battles, in terms of their toll in dead, wounded, and missing is listed on this site:
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posted on
01/21/2005 1:47:13 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you FReep!........)
To: Jaysun
No, but Jennings is condescending to America, in general. Let's all remember he's a Canadian and I think it's high time he went back to Canada.
The MSM just makes me completely ill.
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posted on
01/21/2005 1:48:12 PM PST
by
americanMel
(God's Love never fails....1 Corinthians 13:8)
To: americanMel
No, but Jennings is condescending to America, in general. Let's all remember he's a Canadian and I think it's high time he went back to Canada. The MSM just makes me completely ill.
If I agreed with you any more we'd be attached at the skull. It's just that we do ourselves a disservice when we make those sort of claims. He does a fine job of making himself an ass on his own, we don't have to "help" him.
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posted on
01/21/2005 1:52:16 PM PST
by
Jaysun
(If you disagree with me it's a clear indication that you're wrong.)
To: Coop; Cap Huff; Timeout; Boot Hill; swarthyguy; dead; hchutch; Poohbah; Ernest_at_the_Beach
Look at the new media low..
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posted on
01/21/2005 1:53:56 PM PST
by
Dog
To: Jaysun
True...maybe one day he'll dig a hole so deep he'll have to leave.
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posted on
01/21/2005 1:54:26 PM PST
by
americanMel
(God's Love never fails....1 Corinthians 13:8)
To: puppets
Why does MSM treat the attacks on our troops as something new? American troops were being killed in Germany when I was stationed there in 1986-1987. Anyone remember the R.A.F. (Red Army Faction?) Then there was the Berlin disco bombing, ect. And this was 40 YEARS after WWII.
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posted on
01/21/2005 1:55:37 PM PST
by
RetroWarrior
('I will guard my post from flank to flank and take no 'crap' from any rank')
To: Bahbah
I agree with your statement, but as a military family tricks like ABC pulls, make my blood boil.
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posted on
01/21/2005 1:58:22 PM PST
by
Coldwater Creek
('We voted like we prayed")
To: Red Badger
I heard just today that almost 100,000 deaths occur each year because of hospital mistakes.
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posted on
01/21/2005 2:00:54 PM PST
by
Coldwater Creek
('We voted like we prayed")
To: Red Badger
Something like 40,000 die on our roads every year. Who knows how many are permanently injured.
How often does ABC (or any media, MSM or otherwise) question if this is worth it to our society?
After all, if we lowered the speed limit to 15 mph and aggressively enforced it, we'd probably save almost 40,000 lives, not to mention those who would otherwise be permanently injured.
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posted on
01/21/2005 2:02:01 PM PST
by
ml1954
To: ml1954
Most traffic studies show that the best (fastest) speed should be 45 MPH. Don't remember where I heard that. Make me wonder how many lives would be saved if we follow that advice.
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posted on
01/21/2005 2:06:59 PM PST
by
RetroWarrior
('I will guard my post from flank to flank and take no 'crap' from any rank')
To: puppets
Do you expect anything different out of Jennings. I don't and neither does the majority of the voters of this country who voted Bush back in office by over 4,000,000 votes.
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posted on
01/21/2005 2:11:58 PM PST
by
kempo
To: Dog
Not surprising,....see this:
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posted on
01/21/2005 2:28:47 PM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
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