[FlyVet]

I watch a different Alphabet Network newscast every night and the message is the same. It might start out showing that Katushas fell on Israeli neighborhood, and then show a casualty or two. Then, it switches to a neighborhood in Lebanon, and spends a great deal more time showing Israeli bomb damage and "civilian" casualties. The message with which we are to be brainwashed is "disproportionate response," and that Israel is the bad guy because it is defending itself with too much vigor. The mediots are now obsessed with it. They want to see more proportionate response, and endless Peace Process. It will never solve anything, but it gives them enough steady tragedy to keep their ratings adequate, which is more important than a few thousand Jewish or Lebanese lives.

[Real Cynic No More]

It might start out showing that Katushas fell on Israeli neighborhood, and then show a casualty or two. Then, it switches to a neighborhood in Lebanon, and spends a great deal more time showing Israeli bomb damage and "civilian" casualties. The message with which we are to be brainwashed is "disproportionate response," and that Israel is the bad guy because it is defending itself with too much vigor.

This reminds me of Cronkite and Rather's reporting during the Vietnam war. Rather was in Vietnam (as Shep Smith is in the Middle East) and Walter was in the studios. Even when the VietCong caused the casualties, it was reported as our fault. I blame CBS News, Rather, and Cronkite for drumming up public oppostion so much that we were defeated there, especially when our President was under attack from the left.

It's real interesting that Nixon's motives for the Watergate affair were not so much that he wanted the job as that he felt the country would be doomed if his opponent won. I'm becoming more and more convinced that he was correct in his assumption.