They WILL RULE. (Ya ha ha.)(sarcasm)
[Now, I have to go vomit. You have a strong stomach governsleastgovernsbest.]
Last night on the NBC Nightly Snooze (which I rarely watch) had this story covered in a 4-5 minute piece by the Chris Matthews wanna-be Andrea Mitchell who took the same take line as described above (while trying to appear to be 'fair & balanced', of course).
From the files of Snow Job and the Seven Media Midgets.
Richard Engel aka "Pretty Chicken."
I call BS, the first part of that statement is from an Iraqi, the second part is that reporter's opinion. It doesn't matter if they venture out of the green zone or not, the MSM will only pursue stories that validate their biases.
Now you know why,years ago, right after the merger Ted Turner wanted to use his AOL windfall to purchase NBC.
Photos of my soldier in Iraq, enjoy......
More Photos of my soldier in Iraq (Lots of photos)
Brand new photos, lots of them. This will be the last news from Iraq, my soldier is home!
I am certain that this representation of life in Pittsburgh is as accurate as NBC's representation of life in Iraq.
Mickleschevski (sorry...lol) using the same mantra this morning. Oh the Iraqi's report even more graphic and worse attack pictures than the US press ever does.
I can't help but elicit a lady-like snicker at the absurdity of a reoccurring segment titled 'Where in the World is Matt Lauer?'. Why should we care, as long as he is where he is voluntarily?
That little girlie-man Engel was on yesterday morning, yesterday evening and then again this morning. Is this homosexual sweeps week or something?
Is it just me?
Just thinking to myself, it's obvious who is the most beautiful of the two (lol), but who is sissiest of the two? ... you know what I mean?... As beautiful as Laura is, she has more ba--s than boy Gregory, in my opinion :)
"I looked forward to his reports, mainly because he spoke Arabic so well and could really tell us what was being said. But he was apparently "off the reservation" as far as NBC was concerned. Engle's end-of-the-world reporting is what they wanted."
Great point!! Dr. Arnot came back with terrific stories about what attitudes among Iraqis were, about the wonderful services our troops were doing on behalf of the lives and liberties of the citizens of Iraq; and what did NBC do? It replaced his coverage with more gloom-and-doom-anti-Bush reporting.
So much for NBC's "objective" information gathering on behalf of the "American people" they love to cite as being against the President's efforts in Iraq!
In a period of about a week (last week) I saw three strikingly posiitve reports -- two on the Evening News and one on 60 Minutes. I believe one of them was the report referred to by the president on Monday. A CBS reporter was out with the troops in a pacified town and showed a very grateful Iraqi populus and some impressive young soldiers.
Another report related to the war was a very touching account of a group of citizen volunteers who make it their business to provide a little homecoming welcome for troop planes refueling in Maine as they return to the U.S.
On the other side, CBS has been about to wet themselves with the desire to label the current situation a "civil war." I consider this extremely biased and irresponsible. They ellucidate nothing whatsoever by -- if they are successful -- reducing the complexity there to a catch phrase. In fact, they distort reality forcing it into a category that will turn some crucial, half-attentive public opinion from uncertain to dispairing. And they are obsessed with doing this.
O'Reilly tried to get Ingraham to say that the media is actively undermining the United States operations in Iraq. Ingraham wouldn't go that far, but she did agree that the MSM is blinded by their hatred for Bush, and may not be seeing the impacts of their reporting decisions.
-PJ
Clearly Ingraham struck a nerve. NBC, and MSNBC both spent an enormous amoutn of time on the nightly news and Hardball on this. Olbermann did too, but I turned him off the second the show came on.
Gregory, James Carvill and others are screaming "80 journalists have been killed in Iraq"
http://www.rsf.org/special_iraq_en.php3
Actually the actual number is 60 plus 26 assitants (translators,drivers, etc)
Out of these, only a handful are Western Journalists.
13.03.2006 - Muhsin Khudhair, Alef Ba
11.03.2006 - Amjad Hameed, Al-Iraqiya
07.03.2006 - Monsef Al-Khalidi, Baghdad TV Sat Channel
23.02.2006 - Atwar Bahjat, al-Arabiya TV
23.01.2006 - Hamza Hussein, sport journalist at private TV station Al-Diyar
28.11.2005 - Akeel Abdul Rwdha, AL-Iraqia
07.11.2005 - Ahmed Hussein Al Maliki, Tall Afar
19.10.2005 - Mohamed Haroun, Union of Iraqi Journalists general secretary
21.09.2005 - Firas Al-Maadhidi, Al-Safir
20.09.05 - Hind Ismail, Al-Safir
19.09.2005 - Fakher Haydar Al-Tamimi, New York Times
27.08.2005 - Rafed Al Rubaii, Al Irakiya
02.08.05 - Steven Vincent, freelance journalist
22.06.2005 - Yasser Al Salihy, Knight Ridder
03.07.2005 - Maha Ibrahim, Baghdad TV
01.07.2005 - Khaled Sabih al Attar, al-Iraqia
28.06.2005 - Wael Al Bakri, Al Charkiyah
22.06.05 - Jassim Al Qais, Al Siyada
15.05.2005 - Najem Abed Khodair, Al-Madaa and Tariq al-Shaab
15.05.2005 - Ahmad Adam, Al-Madaa and Sabah
23.04.2005 - Saleh Ibrahim, Associated Press
15.04.2005 - Shamal Abdallah Assad, Kirkuk TV, Kurdsat
14.04.2005 - Ali Abrahim Aissa, Al-Hurriya TV
14.04.2005 - Fadel Hazem Fadel, Al-Hurriya TV
01.04.2005 - Ahmed Jabbar Hashim, Al Sabah
14.03.2005 - Houssam Hilal Sarsam, Kurdistan-TV
10.03.2005 - Laik Ibrahim, Kurdistan-TV
25.02.2005 - Raeda Mohammed Wageh Wazzan, Iraqiya
09.02.2005 - Abdel Hussein Khazaal, Al-Hurra TV
01.11.2004 - Dhia Najim, Reuters
27.10.2004 - Liqaa Abdul-Razzaq, Al-Sharqiya
14.10.2004 - Karam Hussein, European Pressphoto Agency
14.10.2004 - Dina Mohamad Hassan, Al Hurriya Television
7.10.2004 - Ahmad Jassem, Nivive television
12.09.2004 - Mazen al-Tomaizi, Al-Arabiya
26.08.2004 - Enzo Baldoni, Diario della settimana
15.08.2004 - Mahmoud Hamid Abbas, ZDF
15.08.2004 - Hossam Ali, freelance
03.06.2004 - Sahar Saad Eddine Nouami, Al-Mizan, Al-Khaima, Al-Hayat Al-Gadida
27.05.2004 - Kotaro Ogawa, Nikkan Gendai
27.05.2004 - Shinsuke Hashida, Nikkan Gendai
07.05.2004 - Mounir Bouamrane, TVP
07.05.2004 - Waldemar Milewicz, TVP
19.04.2004 - Assad Kadhim, Al-Iraqiya TV
26.03.2004 - Bourhan Mohammad al-Louhaybi , ABC News
18.03.2004 - Ali Abdel Aziz, Al-Arabiya
18.03.2004 - Ali Al-Khatib, Al-Arabiya
18.03.2004 - Nadia Nasrat, Diyala Television
28.10.2003 - Ahmed Shawkat, Bila Ittijah
17.08.2003 - Mazen Dana, Reuters
02.07.2003 - Ahmad Karim, Kurdistan Satellite TV
07.04.2003 - Julio Anguita Parrado, El Mundo
07.04.2003 - Christian Liebig, Focus
08.04.2003 - Tarek Ayoub, Al Jazeera
08.04.2003 - Taras Protsyuk, Reuters
08.04.2003 - José Couso, Tele 5
04.04.2003 - Michael Kelly , Washington Post
02.04.2003 - Kaveh Golestan , BBC
23.03.2003 - Terry Lloyd, ITV News
22.03.2003 - Paul Moran, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
26 Media assistants killed
11.03.2006 - Anwar Turky, Amjad Hameeds driver, Al-Iraqiya
23.02.2006 - Adnane Kahïnallah, sound recordist Al-Arabiya
23.02.2006 - Khaled Mahmoud Al-Falahi, cameraman Al-Arabiya
25.01.2006 - Mahmoud Zaal, Television cameraman at Baghdad TV satellite channel
16.01.2006 - Luaay Salam Radeef, Al-Baghdadia Cameraman
10.01.2006 - Allan Enwiyah, American journalist Jill Carrolls interpreter
21.09.05 - Ahlam Youssef , Al-Iraqiya TV
17.09.2005 - Sabah Mohssin, Al-Iraqiya
28.08.2005 - Waleed Khaled, Reuters TV
23.07.2005 - Adnan Al Bayati, Rai, Mediaset, TG3 and Panorama
02.09.2004 - Ismaïl Taher Mohsin, Associated Press
25.08.2004 - Jamal Tawfiq Salmane, Gazeta Wyborcza
29.05.2004 - Mahmoud Ismael Daood, bodyguard, Al-Sabah al-Jadid
29.05.2004 - Samia Abdeljabar, driver, Al-Sabah al-Jadid
27.05.2004 - Muhammad Aldin, translator, Le Soir
25.05.2004 - Unknown, translator
21.05.2004 - Rachid Hamid Wali, cameraman assistant, Al-Jazira
29.04.2004 - Hussein Saleh, driver, Al-Iraquiya TV
26.03.2004 - Omar Hashim Kamal, translator, Time
18.03.2004 - Majid Rachid, technician, Diyala Television
18.03.2004 - Mohamad Ahmad, security agent, Diyala Television
27.01.2004 - Duraid Isa Mohammed, producer and translator, CNN
27.01.2004 - Yasser Khatab, driver, CNN
07.07.2003 - Jeremy Little, sound engineer, NBC
06.04.2003 - Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed, translator, BBC
22.03.2003 - Hussein Othman, translator, ITV News