Posted on 09/14/2005 6:25:25 AM PDT by Chickenhawk Warmonger
On Tuesday September 13, there was a momentous press conference at the White House. President Bush and Iraqi President Talabani, fresh from a private meeting, stepped up to the microphones to deliver their statements to the waiting media. Luckily, the Roberts Confirmation Hearings were on break when the statements began so the news networks shifted the coverage.
President Bush reiterated our commitment to finishing the job in Iraq. He told the media “America will always be proud that we led the armies of liberation.” President Bush vowed to bring the troops home but sadly for the liberal media, he did not give a specific date and time for the withdrawal.
President Talabani began his statement with thanks to the United States and the soldiers. The defining moment of President Talabani’s statement was when he turned to face President Bush and said “We salute you, we are grateful to you. We will never forget what you have done for our people.” The Iraqi President’s voice and expression conveyed the gratitude more so than his words. It was a “10” on the chill bump rating scale and the pride-meter.
President Talabani issued a warning to the terrorists in Iraq that freedom would win, not the terrorists. He also encouraged those that had doubts about the United States’ role in the liberation to come see the new Iraq and the people. A pair of speeches that lasted only 20 minutes conveyed more than any news report could. It was so nice to hear some positive news after being bombarded day in and out with reports of the “federal government’s failures” in Louisiana.
As usual, the press was permitted to ask a few questions. After such an emotional and heartfelt moment, what did first reporter ask? You guessed it – a question about the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina. She completely brushed aside the thanks and gratitude that President Talabani had offered to the United States, our President and our military. But why would a reporter focus on anything positive out of Iraq? Isn’t Iraq still a quagmire? Or was that title transferred to Louisiana? Better yet, how about TWO quagmires at the same time?
It was not just the reporter that shifted the focus from a positive and uplifting moment for our country. The rest of the media took up where the reporter finished. Headlines across the Internet blared “Bush Takes Responsibility for Blunders” and “Bush: I Take Responsibility”. Scanning the articles revealed that President Talabani was an invisible man at the press conference. For someone that did not see the event, it was if President Bush walked up to the media and said, “Blame me”. Most of the Internet mainstream media sites made no mention at all of President Talabani’s comments – not a separate little blurb, nothing. Do you know where the Iraqi President’s comments made headlines? If you were thinking Fox News, you would be incorrect. It was on FreeRepublic.com. Once again the bloggers, the Pajamahadeen, the non-professional journalists- reported news that the mainstream in the media failed to report.
Once again, the media bias against President Bush and 51% of Americans reared its ugly little head. Did the media just overlook the information since there were other pressing news stories? Not possible – the one little snippet that everyone was trumpeting came from the exact same press conference. Was it intentional? You bet it was. How better to make the President “look bad” than to report that President Bush took responsibility for Katrina failures.
The media has made a conscious effort to slant the news in a negative direction. If it is good for President Bush, his administration, Republicans or God forbid, America, it will not be the lead story or even on the front page. How sad that the media has stooped to such a level of dishonesty and unethical behavior. Twisting the news to make it fit their agenda is one thing – deliberate non-reporting of news is a whole other issue. It is a travesty and a disgrace to all Americans.
Does anyone have a video of that speech? I read it, but I would love to see it.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/#
scroll down to the 13th and click on the video. it's awesome!
"Just another example of why they are the Dinosaur Media."
You'll be happy to learn that most of MSM newspapers are struggling to stay afloat. Some have concluced that moving a little more to the center might be more profitable.
Ping
What would happen if the President would speak up and say something like, "President Talabani is visiting our country and thanking us for our help. If any of you would like to ask questions about our accomplishments in Iraq we will be glad to answer them, otherwise we will end the newsconference"
Is that an impossibility? I mean I get so frustrated with our press that they need to be knocked down a notch or two!
The MSM needs a good old fashion baseball bat whipping!
Translated...They need some hard sense knocked into them...
But how? That's what I mean. If the President would do something like that it might help. The reporters are showing a total disregard for the person who is visiting!
I blame the MSM and the Rat party for continued deaths of our hero's and the Iraq people. Not a bold statement but the truth.
"What a stupid comment..."
Why is Piquaboy's comment stupid? It is to a significant degree the fault of the leftist public school systems in this country. These lamestream reporters are products of those systems.
You just don't get it do you...fix the leftist school systems around the country, fix the problem. These reporters are products of those systems.
We never ever watch broadcast news or CNN, and less and less of Fox.
Talibani and Bush was a moment of lump-in-the-throat life-the-way-it-oughta-be.
As for Katrina and the coverage by the chickenshitters--simple: Nagin and Blanco were criminally negligent and ought to be doing time for manslaughter--plus a laundry list of RICO charges.
Reality exists totally independent of the crappy yapping pack of "reporters"--the snide, the snotty, the bratty, flatulent goebellsian geese.
Their press conference "questions" should win them a year's supply of loaded Pampers, applied to their faces with a good wrapping of duct tape.
After all, the great and glorious Pulitzer went to the New York Times' Walter Duranty for covering up Stalin's murder of ten million Ukrainians.
The press has no shame and should not be permitted to moon the president and his guest.
Actually I would be happy if they just reported the facts with no rewriting, nor hype and no spin. After watching how AP edited their pieces about the National Guard (a topic I knew something about) to fit the Hurricane response DNC spin lies, I am convinced that they will only evolve if they fire 3/4s of their current staff.
"You just don't get it do you...fix the leftist school systems around the country, fix the problem. These reporters are products of those systems."
Maybe not. How 'bout we neuter the offending reporters if they are lying or deliberately misleading? The idea of holding some leftists third grade teacher responsible for his misdeeds seems a little stupid.
D'ya have any other "earth-shattering" ideas while yer at it?
"...holding some leftists third grade teacher responsible..."
The 3rd grade teacher is only a small beginning to the problem. And they are not all caught up in the system. However, it is a systemic problem that continues on through the college years, expecially in the curriculums to which the teacher, journalist, political science major, economist, lawyer are exposed. So it is a problem with the educational system.
"So it is a problem with the educational system."
Having declared it so,it became the law of the land.
Wrong. It continues to be a silly notion advanced by those who have latched onto a favorite notion of "How -to-fix-the-World".
Having fallen in love with themselves for being the parent of the ridiculous notion they drift in and out of conciousness rejecting all attempts to revive them from their self-induced trance of supriority over all sub-beings.
My tolerance or lack thereof has nothing to do with any issue at hand. We are asked to stick to the subject of threads not throw in pointless remarks expressing pet peeves. That was the point of my comment. You, of course, ignore all that and try and defend the violation of express wishes of the forum. Then attack ME for expressing displeasure at the initial violation.
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