Posted on 12/17/2010 5:40:20 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
"Why is the press accepting [Obama Afghanistan policy] at face value?" Good question, and one posed by Richard Haas this morning. The president of the Council on Foreign Relations and Joe Scarborough ripped a "compliant press" on Morning Joe today for failing to ask the tough questions about Pres. Obama's prosecution of the war in Afghanistan.
Scarborough suggested a theory as to why the press is punting: "it goes against a decade-long narrative that George Bush chose the wrong war and that Afghanistan was the right war." True, no doubt. But perhaps the more fundamental explanation of the MSM's current acquiescence is that George Bush was president then, and Barack Obama is president now.
View video after the jump.
Scarborough-Haas rip MSM for not asking tough questions on Obama’s Afghan policy. Ping to Today show list.
Just this week, our local cable provider here in Ruston, LA (Suddenlink) added MSNBC to the lineup. So here I sit this morning watching Joe, Mika, Barnacle, et al.
Usually on Friday, I wait until late afternoon to fix my Montgomery (martini mixed at 15:1 ratio of gin/vermouth).
I may have to have it a bit earlier today.
At first blush, I note that Fox & Friends (which I usually watch) has a much higher content of hard news than does Morning Joe.
Where’s the link?
Thing is there is NO coherent policy. Every time the maoist speaks he tells a different tale.
I also tasked Mrs. abb to watch. She could handle but 10 minutes of it...
“Where’s the link?”
Good question. Sorry about that:
“Other entities deserving inclusion would be global media outlets (al Jazeera, the BBC, CNN), militias (Hamas, Hezbollah, the Mahdi Army, the Taliban), political parties, religious institutions and movements, terrorist organizations (al Qaeda), drug cartels, and NGOs of a more benign sort (the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Doctors Without Borders, Greenpeace).” - The Age of Nonpolarity Richard Haass
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/04/the_age_of_nonpolarity.html
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