NOMINATIONS NEEDED: Free Republic's Peter Arnett Awards

Monday, April 26, 2004 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

Nominations are requested for Free Republic's Peter Arnett Awards 'honoring' those reporters, news organizations and public figures whose reporting and statements have given aid and comfort to the enemy and undermined morale in the war on terrorism like Mr. Arnett did last year with his infamous interview in Baghdad saying the Americans were losing the war against Saddam.

Nominations will be accepted until 6 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 28. Voting will commence later that evening with the cutoff time to be announced when the voting thread is posted.

Please provide a source link or documentation where possible.

A couple nominees to get things started:

The Washington Post for its cheerleading of the so-called antiwar movement. Nearly every prominent antiwar leader has been sympathetically profiled in the Style section and nearly every antiwar protest, no matter how small, gets reported on in glowing terms. The Post has never reported in depth about the background, funding and true agendas of the major antiwar groups.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) for his 'Iraq is Bush's Vietnam' speech. Kennedy's speech was used as a rallying cry by Muqtada Al Sadr who threatened that "Iraq will be another Vietnam for America."

The winners will be announced at the sixth annual freep of liberal bias in the media held outside the White House Correspondents Association dinner by the D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com on Saturday, May 1.

[Prince Charles]

Michael Moore -- for his communist, treasonous tommyrot.

[nuconvert]

I don't think Chris Matthews is a reporter.
But you're right. I stopped watching.

[kristinn]

That's an inspired nomination. I would add to Her Heinous' qualifications her remarks in separate speeches that women in Afghanistan and Iraq were better off under the Soviets and Saddam, respectively, than they are after being liberated by America.

[ride the whirlwind]

....'honoring' those reporters, news organizations and public figures whose reporting and statements have given aid and comfort to the enemy and undermined morale in the war on terrorism

Matthews fits in one of these categories, I'm sure of it. :-)

[Shethink13]

How about Andy Rooney - didn't he say something about the troops not being heroes or some such nonsense?

[kristinn]

You're right, he's definitely a public figure. We just need specifics.

[kristinn]

Bingo! Andy's a perfect nominee. I'd vote for him.

[Shethink13]

This is what I was referring to:

Andy Rooney: GIs Not Heroes

[nuconvert]

Ah....yeah, guess he does. : )

[wildbill]

I'm sure someone has beaten me to it:

Ted Koppel for the entire Nightline crew.

Richar Fisk for every word he writes.

[jwalburg]

I had no idea he was from Arkansas, but it makes sense he's a Clintonite.

[wildbill]

Charlie Rose has been almost pathological lately, trying to get Egypt's Mubarak and then Prince Bandar to criticize Bush. Good nominee.

[hole_n_one]

That's gotta be the frontrunner so far!

[kristinn]

Thanks for the link. Rooney went around the bend with that one.

[al baby]

[MJY1288]

Ron Fournier was part of the package that arrived in D.C. in 1993 from Little Rock

[jwalburg]

Was Espo one of those, too?

[WVNan]

Andy Rooney for sure.
Time Magazine's John Dickerson for asking the President what his biggest mistake has been in office. Implication that the President has made mistakes in the WOT.
And Michael Moore for being the most obnoxious low-life in the world.

[hoosiermama]

Is there anyway we can get Gorelick a nomination...for writing the "wall" document.

[hole_n_one]

Bush 'betrayed us'