Posted on 10/26/2004 1:40:25 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
(CNSNews.com) - A media watchdog group Tuesday said "what amounted to an 'October surprise'" by the New York Times and CBS News blew up in their faces.
The Times was first to report Monday what it considered to be new information that 380 tons of explosives were missing from an Iraqi military facility that was supposed to be under U.S. military control. But an NBC News report later noted the explosives were already gone before troops arrived at the Al-Qaqaa installation in April 2003.
CBS News' "60 Minutes" was planning to hold the story until Halloween, two days before Election Day, according to the Drudge Report Tuesday. "Our plan was to run the story on October 31, but it became clear that it wouldn't hold..." Jeff Fager, executive producer of the Sunday "60 Minutes," reportedly said in a statement.
"Both the New York Times and CBS have repeatedly shown they have chosen sides against President Bush in this election and, once again, they have been caught with Halloween eggs on their faces," said Media Research Center President Brent Bozell in a statement.
"Once again it's the Times, once again it's CBS, once again it's 60 Minutes, and once again they have proven that they cannot be believed when it comes to election coverage or anything else," Bozell said.
"The Times, CBS News, and 60 Minutes especially, have proven beyond all doubt that they are nothing more than extensions of the Democratic National Committee and they have no credibility whatsoever. In fact, episodes such as this and the Rathergate fiasco prove they may be even more partisan than the Democratic Party itself," he added.
I think many Democrats - not to be confused with 'Demrats' most certainly ARE, confused or simply 'unknowing' as to who/what John Kerry really is.
Don't hear him being called the 'marxist in an empty suit' very often.
Or even the 'marxist who wore spandex'. . .no, don't hear it.
That is who and is all, he really is.
Trolls everywhere.
I'll be a happy camper when this election is over and the President is re-elected.
Lotsa zots will be more fun then!
But they are still a major force. Maybe not to us, but to a lot of people they are. They've got to be destroyed, not just diminished.
He is the Vietnam Vet who served our Communist enemies; he is the American who committed treason and now thinks he deserves to be President.
He is the friend of America's enemy now. .. just as he was the friend or our enemy, years ago.
They should be forced to declare themselves a 527.
John
GIVE THEM A NOVEMBER SURPRISE.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Ryter/jon19.htm
Guys, lets do the math.
It would take about 80+ people, at least 18 trucks, and two good weeks to move the 380 tons of explosives from Al-Qaqaa.
Now add US intel over flights, J-Star, and other surveillance being conducted to detect such actions. (J-Stars do an excellent job detecting vehicle movements)
The UN inspectors were taken to school by Sadam.
If not, then Kerry is accusing the US military of lying in after action reports which stated the exposives were gone when they searched the area during the liberation of Iraq.
My military experience says WMD and RDX explosives were moved out of Iraq before the war.
My non-military experience tells me that we watched them transport this stuff out, via satellite, while we were held at the borders by the UN and the DEMOCRATS.
Remember?
Call me slower. I just said the same thing you did.
Connect the dots from NYT to CBS to the U.N. to John Kerry
who already was evidently privy to this little media
chestnut in the last debate when he (puzzlingly) mentioned
unguarded weapons depots.
They're a diversion.
Kerry is sacrificial. They want to make this campaign as tiring and expensive on the conservatives as possible, but don't really want to win this one. The main assault comes in 08.
IMHO.
Love It!!!
I suppose without the tension we are all under and the exhaustion of all who are working this campaign, playing w/trolls could again be sport.
Right now, however, they can be grateful they are in cyberspace where the physical reaction they deserve is impossible.
I keep wondering why they aren't out there working for their ideology.
And to think Kerry put out an ad on this.
I bet they'll go ahead and show it anyway. (Their "sincere" apologies will follow a week later, after the election.)
Some people are so gullible, they'll believe anything the media wants them to.
I don't trust the main stream media, especially CBS. We'd best be prepared to counter their false claims, should they decide to air the lies on 60 minutes regardless of what they know to be true.
Let's get beyond this election.
I'm just sick of retread trolls.
When the President is re-elected, then we can start working on Hitlary on 11/3/04.
We've got four years and PLENTY on that broad!
(If she's still a broad!) LOL
They also both (puzzlingly) mentioned the Afghan Opium trade. ...????
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