Posted on 07/07/2005 9:42:42 AM PDT by Impeach98
Conservative talkers taking radio shows on road to Iraq
Public support for the war in Iraq is plummeting at home and overseas, military recruiters aren't making their quotas, and U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians are being killed every day by insurgents.
But enough of the bad news, say a group of six conservative talk-show hosts led by San Francisco's Melanie Morgan.
They're headed to Iraq on Friday for a "Truth Tour" -- a seven-day trip designed to show that what's happening on the ground in Iraq isn't as dire as what's being beamed across the globe on network news programs and described in mainstream publications.
The talkers will stop Friday at Central Command in Tampa, Fla., to throw a thank-you barbecue for the military. Then they'll fly commercially to Kuwait and be transported by military planes to Camp Victory in Baghdad, where each will broadcast two days of shows next week. Next, they're headed to Camp Arifjan in Kuwait for three more days of shows. Throughout, many of the radio hosts are planning to call other conservative shows, like the nationally syndicated "Sean Hannity Radio Show," to spread the gospel about what they see.
Even though reporters have been embedded with military units since months before the March 2003 invasion, the talkers say that in the past year, foreign correspondents have been more comfortable reporting from their Baghdad hotel rooms about the roadside bomb blast of the day than about describing the positive developments going on in the country.
"We're going to talk to the troops who are there and get the story straight from them without the filter of the liberal media," said Morgan, who co-hosts a morning show on KSFO-AM in San Francisco.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Liberals concede they probably couldn't pull together a left-wing version of the Truth Tour."Conservatives have been working on their media machine for 35 years," said Hazen of Alternet, the progressive San Francisco-based Internet news source. "I don't even know if we have 20 talk-show hosts."
Snicker. Can you imagine Al Franken expecting the U.S. military to protect him while in-country? They'd probably give him a flack vest made from gauze.
Is Alan Colmes going? ,, It's definitely his turn.
I wish everyone well and stay hydrated. :)
Boy is that statement true! Liberals could never pull together a left-wing version of the Truth Tour. Because they don't know how to tell the truth!
Screw the mouse.
How can that be anyway, they let Rush go to Afghanistan.
""Liberals concede they probably couldn't pull together a left-wing version of the Truth Tour.""
Wel first the left would have to understand what truth is.
Once they thought they understood enough, they would have one of their major supporters pay for them to put on a hollywood extravaganza and ask all the soldiers to contribute money to abortion rights and gay mariage issues.
After everyone had a good feeling about themselves singing kumbayah, they would blame Bush for all the nations ills, call Bush stupid and then pack it all in and head off to Aspen.
There's an inherent problem in that. Once they learned the truth...they'd become conservatives...
>>>Even though reporters have been embedded with military units since months before the March 2003 invasion, the talkers say that in the past year, foreign correspondents have been more comfortable reporting from their Baghdad hotel rooms about the roadside bomb blast of the day than about describing the positive developments going on in the country.
I wonder if they will be helicoptered from the airport to Camp Victory or if they will be riding on the Airport Road.
LOL! You're right! You've got their number! LOL!
Glad you cited that part of the story... about the liberals conceding they could never pull this together. The way I see it, they couldn't because they lack the desire. To them our troops are the enemy. They view them in some circles with a lower opinion than they do the 'insurgents' whom they at times embrace with revolutionary war like imagery and comparisons.
I don't think that many civilians ride that road anymore, choppers are the routine transport mode.
I love when word of this Truth Tour (which I think is a great idea) was made public not long ago. The MSM lambasted it and called it nothing more then a propaganda tour. NOTICE THEY DID EXACTLY WHAT LIBERALS AND DEMOCRATS DO BEST - CRITICISM & DEFEATISM, BUT NO RESPONSE TO THE CHARGE OF THEIR BIAS IN REPORTING THE WAR. PICTURE THIS: AMERICAN PUBLIC TO MSM: "WHY DO YOU ONLY REPORT ONE SIDE OF THE WAR?" MSM REPLY: "BECAUSE THERE IS NO OTHER SIDE."
Well said!!! Couldn't have said it any better myself if I tried.
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Yowza! MM is hot! Thanks for the pic. I'll be listening on my morning commute.
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