"Oh please, I'm not trying to be critical. I thought the letter was fine." ~ Cacophonous
Oh, good. Then you'll like the "tone" of this one, too, no doubt:
My email to
viewerservices@msnbc.com on 8-29-03
Subject: MSNBC-Useful Idiots or Cynical Opportunists?
Greetings,
I provide, for your reading pleasure, just one more example, in a long list of succinct examples, of the way you choose to lie to, and mislead the American people when you *report* on events in Iraq.
This is another example of how you (wittingly or unwittingly, it makes no difference - result is the same) place yourselves directly in the camp of America's enemies (within and without), and encourage them to attack and murder Americans at home, and American and allied troops stationed in Iraq and elsewhere around the world by your never-ending "blame America first" rhetoric.
According to your current and past performance, it is blatantly obvious to all but the ones Karl Marx called "useful idiots", that you have thrown your "collective" lot in with those who want to appease our enemies.
The only question remaining to be answered is, do you do it as a result of [1] being credulous, incompetent, useful idiots yourselves, as a result of [2] being cynical opportunists, or -- as a result of [3] being both useful idiots AND cynical opportunists?
Here is the latest example of your laughable, predictable spin of events being contrasted with the truth:
At least 75 killed in Iraqi bombing
MSNBC.COM ^ | 8/29/03 | MSNBC NEWS SERVICES
NAJAF, Iraq, Aug. 29 — A massive car bomb Friday at Iraq’s holiest Shiite shrine killed 75 people, including one of the country’s most important Muslim clerics, Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the chief doctor at the city’s central hospital reported. He said a survey of all the city’s medical facilities indicated that 140 people were wounded, many seriously. ...
BLAMING THE U.S.
The leader of the Iraqi National Congress and Ahmad Chalabi, a member of the provisional Governing Council, blamed the United States in an interview on the al-Jazeera satellite television station for failing to provide security and said the bombing was the work of loyalists of Saddam who were trying to create sectarian discord.
Chalabi said he had been told of the death by the cleric’s brother Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, a leader of the armed wing of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq and a fellow member of the U.S.-picked interim government.
Chalabi blamed the attack on the same group that carried out the suicide truck bombing Aug. 19 at the U.N. headquarters in Iraq, which killed at least 23 people and injured more than 100 others. He offered no evidence to support his claim. ....
Excerpted - click for full article ^
Source:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/870749.asp?0cv=CA01 1 posted on 08/29/2003 12:19 PM EDT by Smogger
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/972789/posts === NOW - The Truth:
To: Smogger
"...Ahmad Chalabi, the head of the Iraqi National Congress and a Governing Council member, blamed Saddam, his remnants and his allies from across the border.
"We know they are active in trying to undermine the Governing Council and allies of the U.S.," he said in a telephone interview.
Chalabi denied an earlier report on Al-Jazeera alleging that he had said U.S. forces were to blame for the bombing because they had failed in their responsibility to keep the area secure.
No coalition troops were in the area of the mosque out of respect for the holy site, Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Jim Cassella said in Washington"
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20030829_718.html 9 posted on 08/29/2003 12:32 PM EDT by Pikamax
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/972789/posts?page=9#9 ===
To: Pikamax
"Chalabi denied an earlier report on Al-Jazeera alleging that he had said U.S. forces were to blame for the bombing because they had failed in their responsibility to keep the area secure."
Good find. Look how quick MSNBC was to report the Al Jazeera's negative spin.
10 posted on 08/29/2003 12:33 PM EDT by Smogger
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/972789/posts?page=10#10 ====
So as you can see, like the New York Times, et.al., your credibility is shot. How long can you last?
Warm regards,
[Name and Town]