Posted on 08/17/2005 5:08:14 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Today Show: US Soldier in Iraq Zaps Media - "I'd be Depressed Too if I got my News from the Newspapers"
When The Today Show sprung a surprise this morning - an unannounced trip to Iraq by Matt Lauer - one US soldier had a little surprise of his own for Today and the media at large.
Lauer interviewed a group of soldiers at Camp Liberty in Baghdad, and at one point asked about the state of morale. After getting two responses to the effect that morale was good, Lauer had this to say:
"Don't get me wrong, I think you're probably telling the truth, but there might be a lot of people at home wondering how that might be possible with the conditions you're facing and with the insurgent attacks you're facing."
If Lauer was the advocate for the anti-war case, he then made the cardinal mistake that no advocate should make: asking a question to which you don't know the answer.
Asked Lauer: "What would you say to people who doubt that morale could be that high?"
Captain Sherman Powell nailed Lauer, the MSM and the anti-war crowd with this beauty:
"Well sir, I'd tell you, if I got my news from the newspapers I'd be pretty depressed as well!"
Bada-bing!
Powell went on to add that, while acknowledging the difficulties the media face in getting out into the field in Iraq,
"For those of us who have actually had a chance to get out and meet the Iraqi Army and Iraqi police and go on patrols with them, we are very satisfied with the way things are going here and we are confident that if we are allowed to finish the job we started we'll be very proud of it and our country will be proud of us for doing it!"
Finkelstein has degrees from Cornell University and Harvard Law School. He lives in Ithaca, NY where he hosts "Right Angle," a local political talk show. Finkelstein specializes in exposing liberal bias at NBC's Today Show.
"really flogging "
I think his flogging is more self-inflicted.
"Well sir, I'd tell you, if I got my news from the newspapers I'd be pretty depressed as well!"
Captain Powell must be talking about drivel like this from the P-D resident moonbat. (major barf alert.)
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/ericmink/story/CE157956D05596D686257060003297EC?OpenDocument
Way to go Captain!
They say Vietnam was the 'first televised war', and that is true to a point -- a day or two later we got to see highly edited reports on the alphabet networks of some of the action. In the Gulf War, the technology moved a step further to where the American people could see some of the events in nearly real-time while the MSM types supplied their spin.
But this war is different. Not only do people sitting in in front of their TVs and computers get to see things in real-time, but the soldiers in the theater of operations also get to see the same thing at the same time, and it is very obvious that they do not care for the spin that the MSM voices over the images and those GIs are using the available technology to go around the MSM and give Americans the true perspective of the war.
The MSM just can't get away with the crap that Walter Cronkite got away with 40 years ago.
BTTT
What a jerk.
What a great response from that fellow!!! Love it.
"Well sir, I'd tell you, if I got my news from the newspapers I'd be pretty depressed as well!"
We have GOT to find an e-mail address for this hero and send him an 'atta boy'!!!
ping
Please see #14.
bttt
Not good enough
WTF ARE YOU CALLING HIM A LIAR?
I'm suprised the plug wasn't pulled..... heresy, heresy I say.
Mat Lauer should be drug all over Iraq to see his lies.
Conversation would have ended right there with my boot up Matt's @#$. Smarmy little punk.
Lying Matt is an object for any soldier to wipe his boots on.
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