Posted on 03/23/2006 5:52:31 AM PST by eeevil conservative
Sleep tight- and thanks for todays work.
I hope she keeps her hair the way it is now and doesn't color it for camera eye-candy like she used to. Her points come across as somebody that needs listening to seriously that way. She should drag the fat sloppy Tim Russert around the place and show him how to get his next meal while she blows a few rounds from an AK-47. I liked that part of her trip.
A little trip back in time [via Instapundit archives]:
DR. BOB ARNOT HAS LEFT NBC:THIS IS FROM FEB, 2004---over 2 years ago! Unfortunately, the linked story at the New York Observer is in a paid archive now.In his letter to Mr. Shapiro, [Arnot] wondered why the network wasn’t reporting stories of progress in Iraq, a frequently heard complaint of the Bush administration. "As you know, I have regularly pitched most of these stories contained in the note to Nightly, Today and directly to you," he wrote. "Every single story has been rejected." . . .The network's excuse is that it was cutting back on coverage. This just serves to underscore blogosphere complaints about the lousy job Big Media outfits are doing.A number of high-ranking military officials contacted by NYTV complimented Dr. Arnot’s superior reporting skills, especially in light of what they perceived as the chronically negative war reporting on TV in the United States. Larry DiRita, the Pentagon spokesman for Donald Rumsfeld, said that Dr. Arnot captured Iraq as he experienced it when he visited there himself. "It was complex and nuanced and uneven then, and you had to get around to see it that way—and he does," Mr. DiRita said. "I think his coverage provided an aspect of daily Iraqi life that is being missed by a heck of a lot of coverage."
Maj. Clark Taylor e-mailed NYTV from Baghdad to state that Dr. Arnot "highlighted what is really happening over here …. He generally reported positive things because, generally, that is what is happening. Of course there are occasional bad things … and he reported those as well. The fact was, he reported what he saw—which generally was positive."
But isn't it interesting that one of NBC's own reporters told them way back then the same thing Laura "shocked" them with this week?!
Some enterprising reporter/blogger/radio host needs to go find good ole Dr. Bob for an interview. His comments should be interesting in light of the media's defensive reaction to Laura and President Bush.
(And, while I'm on the subject, why didn't some smart network---cough, cough, FOX---pick up Dr. Bob after he left NBC?! The man speaks fluent Arabic, for cryin' out loud!)
Do you remember when good old Saddam released ALL of his criminal prisoners from jail before the war? Assume they are just like street gangs here. Scumbags like in our country. They will align themselves with whoever feeds, pays, waters, drugs them. Put the peaceniks in with that bunch.
WOW. Thanks for that. I do remember now after your reminder that Dr. Bob did do that kind of reporting. Your reporting this is why the MSM is obsolete! If you would send it to Rush, Hannity et al FYI. Great Thanks.
I think that they numbered was about 100,000.
Every time I hear them talk that way, I'm reminded of that scene from "Raiders of the Lost Ark":
a thug challenges Indy, brandishing his sword menacingly---confident that the rightness of his cause ensures he will prevail. Indy calmly pulls out his gun and shoots the fool.
The peacniks and "Realists" are like the thug. Their distorted view of reality prevents them from seeing the danger standing right in front of them.
Nothing will change soon unless you get an enterprising individual to place a teargas bomb in the hotel bar they are getting loaded at and film the whole thing while they are drunk and play it on TV. Better if they blow that gas that makes them throw up! Maybe mix it with teargas for the cameras. That's the real fix for this. I smelled both and they are potent while alert and physically fit.
OK. So let's say 33% of them are gangsters. The rest are surviving. The solution is to REQUIRE every law-abiding Iraqi citizen to carry a firearm on their person at all times and everywhere they go. Women and men. The bigger the better.
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