Confronting right-wing hysteria [Is this an apology? You decide!]

The Newspaper Guild ^ | June 17, 2005 | Linda Foley

[68skylark]

Linda Foley, President of the Newspaper Guild, said recently that U.S. troops are "targeting" journalists for death. Our troops, in short, are murderers.

Some people objected to this view, and I guess this push-back has upset Ms. Foley. I guess this is her attempt to put the matter behind her. I guess this is how the MSM reacts when they're challenged.

[NormsRevenge]

In other words, the essence of my message is: Don’t kill the messenger.

Kill the editor instead. (/sarcasm)

[68skylark]

Spanish journalist Jose Couso was killed when the Palestine Hotel, a known headquarters for many unembedded journalists covering the war prior to the occupation, was shelled by a U.S. tank on April 8, 2003.

This incident seems to have upset the MSM more than any other. It's been independently researched -- the fact are here: Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad. But I don't think she likes the conclusions, since the facts don't make U.S. troops look like murderers.

[Michael.SF.]

The Left always believes that freedom of speech means freedom from repercussions.

[Michael.SF.]

maybe you could summarize the conclusion for those of us who are not going to rush out to buy the book.

[ReadyNow]

The Newspaper Guild is a left-wing labor union. Their sympathies and their integrity are on a par with those of other left-wing labor unions. They are less honest than Dan Rather.

[struggle]

WHATEVER!

[Americanexpat]

If journalists want to run with terrorists to get a story and are shot during battle then they have no right to bitvh about it. If I am under fire I am going to return it and if the journalists is in the way tough sh*t.

[theDentist]

Spanish journalist Jose Couso was killed when the Palestine Hotel... was shelled by a U.S. tank on April 8, 2003.

Returning fire. When some scumbags were in the same hotel and firing at our men. Pity some journalists were nearby, but in battle, you don't have time to ask non-combatants to leave the area. You shoot back. She forgets to add that little tidbit.

[68skylark]

The left are weenies -- they call names, and can't handle any reply. And they use stupid phrases like "speak truth to power," whatever that means.

[Brilliant]

The fact that the president of the Newspaper Guild comes forward to attack the rightwing just proves what we already knew: The US media is run by leftwing elitists.

[68skylark]

I haven't read the book for a few months. As I recall, there was no direct fire coming from the hotel, but troops were looking for an Iraqi forward observer who was calling mortar fire on them.

The description they received matched the hotel exactly, and they saw a man with an optical device (later shown to be a camera, not a spotting scope). Given all the circumstances described in the book, I think their actions were reasonable and appropriate.

[hipaatwo]

She's getting a lot of heat
Check this site out:

http://www.radiobs.net/mediaslander/archives/2005/06/a_call_to_actio.php

[Criminal Number 18F]

An unacceptable number of journalists are being killed in Iraq, most of them by insurgents, many of them brutally. Fourteen of those deaths, involving U.S. forces, have been inadequately explained or investigated by the U.S. military. One, the April 8, 2003, bombing of the Al-Jazeera studios in Baghdad, never has been explained at all. As a result, many journalists around the world wonder if the U.S. military is targeting journalists.

Linda, you ignorant slut.

If we were targeting journalists they would be about as common as Republican Guard formations (or Imperial Japanese Navy fleets). Instead, your people are all over the place like cockroaches (both in numbers and in their value to society).

So no, we are not targeting journalists. If, for some reason, the National Command Authority were to issue such a targeting order, I would take great pleasure in carrying it out. But unfortunately such an order is unlikely, because President Bush is a good man, and unlike us rough guys in cheap lowest-bidder DCUs, he doesn't have the badness in him to understand that you are the enemy. But you understand, and I understand.

Fourteen, huh? It's a start.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[68skylark]

That's a good point. If we were targeting journalists in Iraq, there wouldn't be any journalists in Iraq.

[Texas_Jarhead]

She can go to hell!

"In case you missed it, for about a month I have been subjected to what I would characterize as a right-wing screed over some comments I made at the National Media Reform Conference in St. Louis on May 13. The comments (which I won’t repeat here) were about journalists getting killed in Iraq and criticized how the U.S. military has dealt with those deaths."

Ah the poor, poor victum of those nasty right wingers. She is flatout a liar. The nature of her comments were not as she describes here and that is why she "won’t repeat [them] here".

[68skylark]

Well she's still getting some heat. I don't know if it's a lot. Here's a recent update from instapundit.com:

http://instapundit.com/archives/023766.php

[Fee]

I follow a blog page for a Korean telecom stock. It was funny that one of the bloggers posted a very partisan politcial viewpoint on an investment board. I politely challenged his post, and he responded with "I have the right to express my viewpoint" and I responded with a polite counterpoint why I disagree and support GWB. His response along with the prior responses kept addressing me as a super patriot, blind to GOP propoganda, a stooge and I should post political viewpoints somewhere else. I politely reminded him that he was the one who started the partisan post on an investment post. He comes back and repeats his diatribe that I am stupid, and thick, and that I do not see the ramifications of GWB hardline on Korea and how it would start a war on the peninsula. I notice that his postings on the board indicated that his sentiments on the Korean stock was a "strong buy". So I ask him how come you recommend buying a South Korean stock on one hand and then politically predict impending war and destruction in the Koreas. He really got pissed off and I was LOL. I did get a website that gives me a good insight on why the left is freaking out. Many leftist feel that the US has become a facist country (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4113.htm). The website lists 14 characteristics of a facist state and claims the US possesses all the traits of one. Believe it or not many in the active left (and Democrat Party) probably believe in it and it is motivating their political views. I recommend all freepers to read it to get an insight of the opponents' mind and perceptions.

[GOP_Raider]

Ok, you can go right ahead and "confront" right wing "hysteria" while we point out that Mz. Foley is merely a bitter, menopausal union thug who forgot to take her Midol today.

[SuziQ]

Frankly, my dear Ms. Foley, I don't give a damn!