Rep. Reyes Asks Joint Chiefs to rethink Embedded Reporters

House Armed Services Committee - C-SPAN 3 | 17 Nov 04 | Racehorse

[Bikers4Bush]

A Dem saying what a republican should be saying. They should yank all the embedded right now.

[pissant]

Hey, I dem I can agree with. Better yet, have the Pentagon approve all video before it is released and don't put the dem toads in the Pentagon in charge of the screening.

[Dubya]

Very well said.

[alpowolf]

Yeah, God forbid that we get any news that isn't to the Emperor's liking.

[finnman69]

Wake me up, I'm dreaming, a Democrat sees the light.

[SouthernFreebird]

Pull em...they're doing more harm than good for our men.

[newgeezer]

If a Rep said it, the Dems would be whining about freedom of the press, the DoD wanting to hide their atrocities from the people, etc., etc.

[demlosers]

Yank those punks.

[JeeperFreeper]

They can use combat correspondents in that branh of the service just as easily without nearly as much risk, but that won't make the perfumed princes look as good in the public eye and in the MSM. And, after all, which is more important, Americans lives or making preening generals look good to the public?

Flame away but watch what happens to that poor Marine on the video. He'll be a political scapegoat for the Pentagon's knob polishers.

[cripplecreek]

The embedding doesn't bother me. It's the ability to run with any video without it passing approval of the military that is causing the problems.

[Morgan in Denver]

Sorry, I have to disagree. Embedded reporters proved the lies of the MSM during the Iraq war, and they provide information today that repudiates the leftist media. Without embedded reporters telling the truth, press like the NY Times would be able to report lies without our being able to counter them. The war information was totally different between networks like FNC and CNN.

The problem is one anti-war reporter who can, and should, be thrown out. Besides. Never, NEVER, trust a Democrat unless it's Zell Miller.

[nothernlights]

It would seem that people in Washington got a few emails and calls lately!!! About that,I've been trying to get onto the Marines site but it always disconnects. I figured it was too much traffic. I"m looking for the page about phonecards for troops.

[Bikers4Bush]

The embedded are a distraction under the best of circumstances. The job our soldiers have is hard enough, we shouldn't allow anyone to compound it for them.

[GovernmentShrinker]

I think the embedded reporters are a good thing. They get a better understanding of what it's really like, and largely succeed in passing that on to the viewing/reading public. I expect the Marine in this latest flap will be cleared, and even the embed who shot and publicized the video has made some clarifying statements to the effect that the Marine apparently didn't know this was a prisoner, and that under the circumstances his actions were probably understandable.

[injin]

"It's the ability to run with any video without it passing approval of the military that is causing the problems."

I whole heartedly concur....we got stung with this one .
Why throw fuel on the enemy's fire?
Besides , the American people don't need to know every minute
detail , what purpose does it serve?
A great number of them are ungrateful hyper critical idiots
anyway.
And as for the fools abroad ; Americans techies should hack al Jizzera and run some things we want them to see each day!

[Dubya]

The embedded are a distraction under the best of circumstances. The job our soldiers have is hard enough, we shouldn't allow anyone to compound it for them.

That is 100% correct.

There should be no one else there.

Let them do their job without PC people messing them up and costing some of them their lives.

[texasmountainman]

Reyes is from El Paso and seems very supportive of our troops, despite being a Democrat.

After this Sites character trying to start Abu Ghraib II, the embeds need to go.

[Racehorse]

It would seem that people in Washington got a few emails and calls lately!!!

Rep. Robin Hayes, a Republican, just told the Chiefs he was receiving email even during the hearings. I blinked, and did not catch the intensity, but the traffic seems to be heavy and is expressing great unhappiness over the MSM's treatment of the Marine.

[nikos1121]

I thought during the early stages of the war all news and film correspondences was screened by the military.

I'm for a free embedded press, but there is psycho-political war over there too. Releasing the photo of the marine killing the insurgent in the mosque was wrong.
Completely wrong.

nick