Michael Ware is apparently a left wing Aussie, who hates America and our military:
Video: Hunter asks Blitzer, “Does CNN want America to win this thing?”posted at 7:04 pm on October 23, 2006 by Allahpundit
Hunter asked Rumsfeld on Friday to disembed CNN’s reporters as punishment for airing pointless jihadi snuff. Blitzer had him on today to talk things over.
A meeting of the minds was not in the cards.
I had to cut a lot, including Blitzer’s repeated assertions that CNN didn’t show the moment where the bullet went in, as though lead piercing skin and not the network’s intent in running the segment was the objectionable element here. In any case, they did show the soldier wounded (dying?) and slumped forward. See for yourself.
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"Gunny" Bob asked listeners: "Do you think radical liberals get a kick out of watching our soldiers get shot on the CNN videos?"
Summary: During his Newsradio 850 KOA show, "Gunny" Bob Newman accused CNN of showing an Iraqi insurgent propaganda video "in an attempt to influence the election in favor of the liberals, and to increase their TV ratings." He asked listeners to respond to his online poll question: "Do you think radical liberals get a kick out of watching our soldiers get shot on the CNN videos?"
On October 20, after accusing CNN of showing an Iraqi insurgent propaganda video "in an attempt to influence the election in favor of the liberals, and to increase their TV ratings and the number of website visits they get," Newsradio 850 KOA host "Gunny" Bob Newman asked his listeners to respond to his daily online poll question: "Do you think radical liberals get a kick out of watching our soldiers get shot on the CNN videos?" Newman then clarified the question: "Normal liberals, like [Sen.] Joe Lieberman [CT], you know, middle-of-the-road liberals, they will not get a kick out of it. But the radical liberals, will they?" On October 23, announcing the results of the unscientific poll, Newman reported that 96 percent of respondents answered "Yes" to the question of whether "radical liberals get a kick out of watching our soldiers get shot."
Newman also asserted on October 20, "CNN is having a good laugh and believes it has found a way to make more money and get more liberals in power. And if that means exploiting our wounded and killed-in-action troops then so be it, they say. I mean, my God, do radical liberals have any sense of morality and decency at all?"
The CNN video to which Newman referred first aired on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 during an October 18 report on insurgent sniper attacks in Iraq. According to an October 19 statement by David Doss, the executive producer of Anderson Cooper 360, CNN Baghdad correspondent Michael Ware received a videotape, apparently "through intermediaries," from the Islamic Army of Iraq that "documented 10 incidents of insurgent snipers attacking U.S. military personnel." During a portion of the tape aired on CNN, a U.S. soldier was shown sitting in a vehicle while insurgents discussed an imminent sniper attack. As a gunshot was audible, CNN briefly blacked out the video feed. The soldier then was seen slumping over, apparently having been struck. Cooper and others repeatedly referred to the video as "propaganda" during the program. Brief segments of the video subsequently were replayed on the October 19 editions of Anderson Cooper 360, American Morning, CNN Newsroom, and Your World Today; and on the October 23 edition of The Situation Room.
From the October 20 broadcast of Newsradio 850 KOA's The Gunny Bob Show:
NEWMAN: CNN under fire for heavily promoting its terrorist-produced sniper videos of terrorist snipers shooting U.S. soldiers. CNN claims that such videos are needed to show naïve, ignorant, stupid, uncaring Americans that our troops are under fire in a war zone. As if we had no clue that gunfire is part of war. I mean, how stupid does CNN think we are? In reality, of course, CNN is showing the videos in an attempt to influence the election in favor of the liberals, and to increase their TV ratings and the number of website visits they get, which means they can charge more money for advertising. It's a business decision, and a political decision. Make no mistake, CNN is showing you these videos for, well, political gain and monetary gain, nothing else. I don't know about you, but I'm not going to buy any product or service advertised on CNN. This is a matter of principle. I mean, you do what you want, I don't care. CNN is having a good laugh and believes it has found a way to make more money and get more liberals in power. And if that means exploiting our wounded and killed-in-action troops, then so be it, they say. I mean, my God, do radical liberals have any sense of morality and decency at all?