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Sawyer Supposes Mortars Fired From Inside Green Zone
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 03/27/2008 5:18:16 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

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1 posted on 03/27/2008 5:18:17 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Sawyer’s shocking ignorance ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 03/27/2008 5:18:53 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Can someone please wipe the Vaseline off the lens. Every time I see Diane sawyer my eyes start to water.


3 posted on 03/27/2008 5:19:45 AM PDT by Malsua
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Blonde?


4 posted on 03/27/2008 5:20:54 AM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: Allegra
*PING*

Thought you might find this amusing.
5 posted on 03/27/2008 5:22:42 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (feh)
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To: The_Victor

She’s blond from the old school - she can talk well, but possesses no cognitive ability ...


6 posted on 03/27/2008 5:24:31 AM PDT by Ken522
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
To state that her ignorance is beyond the pale is a given. As an aside watching her and alot of the other aging TV sock puppets in HD show their true mileage. Makeup just isn’t cutting it anymore.
7 posted on 03/27/2008 5:26:20 AM PDT by RU88
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Am I naïve to be shocked by this? Diane Sawyer, perhaps the most prestigious person within ABC News, the woman who’s traveled the world including Iraq, actually imagined that insurgents had gotten inside the US Embassy compound in the Green Zone and fired their mortars and rockets from there? Call me crazy but I’m stunned.


8 posted on 03/27/2008 5:26:41 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“militia groups associated with Moktada al-Sadr, renegade extremist factions of his Mahdi Army.”
There are no “renegade extremist factions” among Mookie’s Boyz in Da Hood!
They’re all takin’ orders directly from Iran. And so is Mookie!


9 posted on 03/27/2008 5:27:22 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

SAWYER: Alright, I want to come back to that in a second, but how much of a surprise is it that they can actually get inside the embassy?


How much of a surprise is it that your ignorance is ...breathlessly blonde?


10 posted on 03/27/2008 5:31:11 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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Well a person grace of age has no bearing on the fact that a misread statement can happen. If I remember correctly, the report stated that the attacks were “inside” the green zone......simple misunderstanding......but I do not want my name published because I am speaking on condition of anonymity because I am not authorized to speak to the world.
11 posted on 03/27/2008 5:31:45 AM PDT by Wavrnr10 (Eagles soar but weasels don't get sucked in jet engines)
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” Can someone please wipe the Vaseline off the lens. Every time I see Diane sawyer my eyes start to water. “

Actually, could you put more on? And turn off the lights. Maybe a bag over her head would help.

Oh, and some duct tape over her mouth. Yeah, that should do it.


12 posted on 03/27/2008 5:39:55 AM PDT by Humble Servant ( Keep it simple - do what's right.)
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Maybe she “mis-spoke?” She probably meant “How could the rockets be OUTSIDE the embassy” ... wait, hmmm, that doesn’t compute either does it?


14 posted on 03/27/2008 5:47:37 AM PDT by JDLinn
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Much ado about nothing. You do realize that Sawyer worked in the Nixon administration, and helped co-write Gerald Ford’s memoirs? She’s at least nominally an (R).


15 posted on 03/27/2008 5:54:42 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“stunned?” Do you mean “stuned?”


17 posted on 03/27/2008 5:58:16 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: Yo-Yo

It’s not a question of her political affiliation per se. And while I know that Diane did work for Nixon long ago, I believe she has since become reliably liberal. She’s a huge global-warming alarmist, for example.

I am shocked though by her imagining that insurgents had actually breached the embassy perimeter in the Green Zone and fired their mortars from there. To me it shows glaring unfamiliarity both with indirect fire and the extent of the security that surrounds the embassy.


18 posted on 03/27/2008 5:58:47 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: JDLinn
STFU, reporting on where the mortars hit allows the bad guys to correct. The IZ is a big place and the Embassy compound small. My dear collegues there are in my prayers.
19 posted on 03/27/2008 6:01:15 AM PDT by lajefa
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
they believe they are fired by groups that are supported, trained and funded by the Iranians.

SAWYER: Alright, I want to come back to that in a second, but how much of a surprise is it that they can actually get inside the embassy? How fortified is that?

SAWYER: Ahriiit, ah wanna come back to dat in ah second. By da waaay, just ta let ya know, Ah ain't no rocket scientist neither. Ya mean dey fly frum ah long way away?

20 posted on 03/27/2008 6:18:16 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (His middle name is NOT Hussein for being a Christian.)
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