'I knew what I had right away' [Kevin Sites... still promoting himself.. and lying]

The Guardian ^ | 6/1/05 | Dan Glaister

[saquin]

'This was a f---ing mess, man." Kevin Sites peers at the monitor in the bright Californian sunlight, trying to make out the images on the screen. But Sites doesn't really have to look. This is his film, his moment; the images on the screen ones that have come to define his life. [Barf Alert]

Kevin Sites is the journalist who captured the moment when a young US army marine shot an equally young insurgent inside a mosque in Falluja in November last year. Sites' video, broadcast around the world, caused a storm.

[snip]

"I knew what I had right away," Sites says. "I called the top bosses at the network, the three news officials that are responsible for foreign news. Got them out of bed. I said I've got something that is potentially bigger than Abu Ghraib. I need you to know that I have it. For the first time I watched the videotape on playback as I talked to them and I remember my words, I go, 'F---, I have it.'" [Note the excitement at what he "had"]

[snip... two paragraphs later...]

"I hoped at that moment that it had been anybody else other than me shooting that video tape."

[I'm callin' bulls--t.]

[angkor]

The man is a proven liar.

Sites had no idea whether the wounded jihadi had or had not been planted with explosives or weapons during the 24 hours since he (Sites) had last seen him.

So casting the wounded jihadi as somehow "harmless" or "innocent" was a grievous (and perhaps deadly) distortion from the get-go.

Sites is really a despicable person, and his alleged days as a "war correspondent" are over. He'll never walk with any military unit ever again, anywhere.

[Tannerone]

It would help Sites if anyone would put Sites out of his misery.

I am twice his age and half his size but would pay for 30 minutes of his time in a locked dark room. There has never been a problem in beating the hello out of cowards!

[armymarinemom]

This guy's statements should be thrown in the face of Linda Foley. Who is targeting who?

The more the left wing press whines about troops targeting them we really know who is targeting who. Do they think that a Khalifa state will allow freedom of the Press? Guess again. Fools!

[Eagles6]

"Tanned and muscled, he exudes the genial, unreserved charm that can seem almost de rigueur in southern California."

I'm not even going to comment on this. Do ya think the author may have a bias? Duh! On the other hand this was a grand slam for sites. Become a hero of the left and hurt the true heroes who trusted you and kept you from harm.

[Critical Bill]

Not sure where you got that photo from but this is the real Kevin Shi Sites.

(click image for larger view if you dare)

[Critical Bill]

When his employer, the NBC network, tried to replace him with a more traditionally telegenic frontman, the marines came to Sites' rescue, saying that it was Sites or nobody. So Sites, with his video camera, went to Falluja and the mosque and one of the biggest stories of the war.

I bet they regretted that decision fairly soon after.

[Critical Bill]

U.S. company of Marines nicknamed "Charly" at work in the north east of Fallujah. After the great attack launched on November 8, 2004, several Marine units have taken position in the whole city. Resistance pockets continue to hassle the U.S. forces who must "clean" the city, house after house.

(click for large images) Sites is very lucky he didn't end up like those scum.

[HardStarboard]

>>>We've got a Fifth Column right here at home. And now its getting stronger with the ACLU.<<<

The treasonous leftist media is trying to outdo each other in the level and seriousness of their subversive acts.

Today, The NY Times played one upsmanship by front paging a story highlighting CIA anti-terrorism air operations - giving names, airports and descriptions of the planes.

Treason! Their article has the distinct possibility of preventing interrogation of terrorists who may know of nuclear, chemical or biological attack against US cities.

[Lancey Howard]

Thanks for the update.
I read the title and the name "Kevin Sites" rang a bell.
Now I remember who he is. Is he writing a book? Signed a movie deal?

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Just what the F..K is going on in this country?!!!!
Are these MSM, ACLU, leftists trying to kill us?
I know, yes. Are they just so hatefully spiteful or just so unbelievably stupid?

And then we've got all the idiots who are tuned out totally. I went to the most moving (yeah, I cried) and inspiring Memorial Day Service in Jacksonville, FL. We had a few hundred people..that's all. BUT...right behind us( the ceremony was outdoors) in our football stadium Willy Nelson & Dylan played to a packed house at top price tickets. The irony hit me when I heard Willy in the background behind Taps.
Go figure.

Ok, ok... tomorrow I'm being put on Decaf!ha.

[therut]

I remember discussing this with my mom and family at thanksgiving dinner. I told her if I had been that marine I would have put the butt of my rifle right between his eyes. Everyone laughed cause they knew I was serious. All this from a little US gal.

[angkor]

I am twice his age and half his size but would pay for 30 minutes of his time in a locked dark room.

My sentiments exactly.

[Chieftain]

When the Marines in the field get word of what Kevin Sites words really were, he should remind himself that he could end up in someone's 'sights' (crosshairs) and that would end his reporting PERMANENTLY. Freakin' jounalists don't give crap about our guys, or our country the just want the fame for being the one with 'the story'. SHip 'em all stateside and have 'em go interview deep throat.