Posted on 11/02/2005 4:51:57 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
November 2, 2005 - 07:22.
Ah, Abu Ghraib! Good old days for the MSM, when for months on end they could justify displaying salacious photos, confident that every time they did, Pres. Bush took a hit.
Is there hope for Abu Ghraib redux? The Today Show is clearly doing its best to promote the notion. In its coverage of revelations in the Washington Post that the CIA maintains secret prisons around the world to confine top Al-Qaida members, Today at least twice displayed an Abu Ghraib photo. This despite the absence of any allegations that the US has engaged in any similar activities in those prisons.
An aside: if the locations of these prisons have surely been keep secret, just how secret has their existence been? Haven't we been told from the start that captured Al-Qaida are being kept at various secret locations around the world? What could those locations be other than some form of prison? Did people expect that Khalid Shaik Mohammed was being kept in Paris under an alias at the Ritz?
In a subsequent Matt Lauer interview, Jimmy Carter - on to plump his new book "Our Endangered Values" - was so quick to accuse his his own country and government that even Lauer was taken aback.
Said Carter: "The news this morning about torture around the world by Americans is going to [make a lot of news]."
To his credit, Lauer corrected the record for our Blame-America-First ex-prez:
"Well, the report as I read it this morning does not say that torture is going on but does say that there are some secret prisons being set up around the world."
Why do you think that So. Baptist are so pro conservative and Republican today????? Because we voted for Jimmy and what we thought was his Evangelical faith. Sure cured me!!!!!!!
Carter never finished his job of destroying the country and its spirit. He means to do that before he dies.
I was in service when Jimmy boy was our CinC. Pay was terrible and our enemies, foreign and domestic, didn't seem to have too much respect for the military. Things changed fairly quick when President Regan took over.
Between Gore, Slick Willy, and him, they give Southerners a bad name.
Did you see her nearly salivating as she said this? Did you also hear her say something to the effect of [paraphrasing], "doesn't this endanger [US assets] by inciting more violence against Americans from disgruntled Middle Easterners?"
Is she hoping to incite them by making something out of a non-story?
Because conservatives stayed home thanks to the hapless and equally inept Ford.
Consider the despicable cunning that Today employed in choosing this photo. On the one hand, shows the prisoner in a degrading position and is so lurid as to be sure to draw viewers' attention.
On the other, Today avoided using one of the man-on-a-leash people would have immediately realized it was from Abu Ghraib. By using this less-circulated, more generic, photo, it was easier for Today to dupe people into thinking it was a new photo from one of the secret CIA prisons.
Contemptible.
How the hell was Carter ever elected president?
1. Because after the Clintons helped crucify Nixon for little to nothing offenses no one would be caught dead voting repub.
2. T.Kennedy killed a girl and screwed his POTUS shot.
3. Good ol southern boy who farmed peanuts, but later everyone realized his family got wealthy on nut subsidies. Agriculture has yet to recover from that reputation.
Using that photo on the right would have blown Today's cover this morning. I have no doubt they avoided it to dupe people into believing the photo they displayed was from one of the CIA prisons, not Abu Ghraib.
Carter gave confidence to a fledgling islamic revolution by screwing up the Iranian hostage situation. His inability to act decisively and quickly gave islamic facists the belief that America was indeed weak and would not take a stand against their terrorist cause.
Didn't Carter also sell arms to Iraq?
Carter also presided during oil embargos and extreme inflation because of oil price escalation. That was the beginning of the end for America's ability to produce domestic energy and become dependant on foreign oil, which we now pay a dear price for in both monetary, military, and loss of human life.
Thank you Jimmy Carter. Your legesey can include the weakening of America. I bet that foot note is not included in your new book.
No doubt at all.
He was the best they could come up with out of this group:
Birch Bayh - Senator from Indiana
Lloyd Bentsen - Senator from Texas
Jerry Brown - Governor of California
Jimmy Carter - Former Governor of Georgia
Frank Church - Senator from Idaho
Fred R. Harris - Former Senator from Oklahoma
Hubert H. Humphrey - Former Senator, Vice President from Minnesota
Henry Scoop Jackson - Senator from Washington
Ellen McCormack - New York
Robert Byrd - Senator from West Virginia, "favorite son" candidate
Terry Sanford - Former Governor of North Carolina
Milton Shapp - Governor of Pennsylvania
R. Sargent Shriver - Organizer and first director of the Peace Corps
Adlai Stevenson III - Senator from Illinois, "favorite son" candidate
Mo Udall - Representative from Arizona
George Wallace - Governor of Alabama
Watergate left the GOP in tatters. The press absolutely went to town, and used the scandal to indict the entire Republican party, to the last man. After Watergate, it was clear that, in 1976, the Republicans didn't have a prayer. That's why there were so many Democrat candidates; they knew whoever got the nomination would be president.
An explanation in detail of the mediocrity of each of the people on the above list would take too long. They weren't all serious, either. The front-runners as I recall (I was 21 and not very political then) were:
Jerry Brown, a kooky Californian who's nickname was "Moonbeam" and who, it was widely known, was doing the horizontal bop with Linda Ronstadt,
Hubert Humphrey, a retread from the '60's (he was LBJ's VP)
Mo Udall, the original "amiable dunce"
George Wallace, one of the best-known racists in America, who got shot and paralyzed at a rally in a shopping-mall parking lot during the campaign.
And, of course, Jimmy "Peanut" Carter, who's campaign plane was called "Peanut One." He spoke somewhat slowly, came off as sincere and down-to-earth, and had a geeky-looking teenaged daughter (well, she may have been a pre-teen during the campaign). All in all, he came off like the kind of guy-next-door President that might have been invented by the writers of one of the popular sitcoms of the time, say, Laverne and Shirley, or The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
He didn't generate much enthusiasm in the public, but the MSM wanted him, and, in those days, the MSM ruled.
(steely)
"We think Carter's bad - wait til Clinton is his age and still trying to find a legacy."
I don't think Clinton will make it to his 80's. If his bad ticker doesn't get him, one of his other mystery ailments will (or a buxom young woman in his bed!)
The Geneva convention only applies to sovergn nations and the uniformed soldiers serving those nations. Since when did a islamic terrorist have a rank and a serial number? Or a uniform?
Those terrorists know nothing about humanity or compassion for human dignity. They only know random acts of violence, killing of women and children, hacking off the heads of news reporters and civilians, and the likes.
Where does it say we must show compassion to barbarians who follow no laws of any land?
The only basic human right those barbariabns have is to be kept alive long enough to be convicted in a court of their peers in a civilized proceeding. And then executed, although amnesty international and anti capital punishment opponents still would not be granted their merciful desires.
GWB, keep em locked up and do whatever it takes. They do not deserve whiny liberal Oreos and milk treatment. I say no mercy and I applaud those who are "extracting" pleasure from their interrogations!
...they'll be waving red hammer and sickle flags...
One thing is clear. The woman who had the biggest boobs in Amerrica was "Miz lillian"; She had Jimmuh and Billy!
I whole heartedly agree.
No. In all seriousness, in terms of conducting himself post-presidency, he makes Clinton look good.
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