Propaganda Machine Signs Media Enlistees: LA SLIME DOGS DISS "LET'S ROLL" HEROES

LA Times ^ | Nov. 12, 2001 | Howard Rosenberg

[Cinnamon Girl]

Propaganda of all kinds, from newscasters saluting themselves to national leaders lobbying the public, is the furniture of TV. Commercials start at the top these days, notably Bush's nationally televised speech Thursday that many commentators correctly labeled a "pep talk" by a president understandably selling wartime confidence and his economic stimulus package.

It was a masterfully designed sales pitch before a boisterous and supportive Atlanta audience of uniformed military, law-enforcement officers, firefighters, postal workers and health-care workers who spent as much time on their feet applauding as in their seats.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Hugh Hewitt is discussing this article by Howard Rosenberg, a writer for the Times who has been consistently anti-President Bush and relentlessly cynical about the goodness of good Americans.

Whoever heard Rosenberg's special e-mail address, please post it.

[San Jacinto]

Whoever heard Rosenberg's special e-mail address, please post it:

slimeball@irrelevant.com

[Cinnamon Girl]

I don't know how to bump the Hugh Hewitt listeners, but I hope anyone who hasn't written a letter to Howard yet does about this.

[backhoe]

That should do it-

[Cinnamon Girl]

Thank you, backhoe.

[habs4ever]

What a cynical a**hole Rosenberg is...this column is contemptible, and what a poisonous creep.

[Cinnamon Girl]

I wrote him a letter not long ago when he criticized President Bush's speech after the Sept. 11 attack. If I recall correctly, Rosenberg gushed about how much better Clintoon would have been giving such a speech and said that President Bush doesn't "fill the screen." It's all about the show in Hollywood.

[Penny1]

ping

[L.N. Smithee]

This doesn't surprise me. Rosenberg was a jerk back when I was still on the plantation.

[Toidylop]

These pressholes are American haters "PURE and SIMPLE".

This story was reported by a 911 dispatcher. It wasn't President Bush's invention like any story coming out of the congenital "liars" including the PRESSHOLES. DUH!!!

[okiedust]

Rosenberg doesn't fill the column. He's not big enough to understand any emotion beyond cynicism. Must be hell to be Howard.

regards

[TwoStep]

**Bumpity Bump**

[Cinnamon Girl]

That is Rosenberg's contention, in a sense, isn't it? That President Bush must have made it up, or some Right Wing conspirator. Where is Rosenberg's humanity, suggesting that the quote "let's roll" was never said, and worse, to suggest that the handful of great Americans who demonstrated incredible bravery to throw themselves on the terrorists NEVER EXISTED. Rosenberg would probably not hesitate to admit that he doesn't like himself, and that would explain why he can't believe that such self-sacrificing people could exist.

[Cal Riptide]

Rosenberg typifies the LA Times. It has gone from being one of the great newspapers of the world to left wing fish wrap. Their circulation is down, and they have been clobbered by the Orange County Register in Orange County.

[CdMGuy]

Rosenberg is just one of the many reasons I cancelled my subscription to the Left Angeles Times some time ago. Ever since they keep calling and asking me to come back. I say, "Sorry, I can't handle your totally left wing reporting."

[RonDog]

Hugh Hewitt is discussing this article by Howard Rosenberg, a writer for the Times who has been consistently anti-President Bush and relentlessly cynical about the goodness of good Americans.

Whoever heard Rosenberg's special e-mail address, please post it.

From today's "Message of the Day" at www.HughHewitt.com:

November 12, 2001

Morning Glory and Evening Grace!

Unless conclusive proof is produced demonstrating that the crash this morning was the result of other than a terrorist attack, the assumption must be that bin Laden has struck again. The "coincidence" of another airplane crash two months and a day after the first attack seems far fetched, though possible. The chill that will result will increase pressure on the economy, and another round of recriminations will begin directed at airport security operations. Another 300 funerals will take place. The urgency of pacifying Afghanistan will increase.

There is not much to be done other than to take seriously requests by the government for cooperation when those requests are received. The movie industry responded well yesterday to a talk by Bush senior advisor Karl Rove, which is reported by Dana Calvo on the front page of the Los Angeles Times. There are hold outs, however, voices so bitter in their disappointment over something that they cannot bring themselves to rally to the country.

The shrillest, most cynical voice is that of Los Angeles Times media critic Howard Rosenberg. Rosenberg long ago left the trail of the pointed but stable critic. He is simply a hater. Rosenberg's attack on President Bush two days after the first set of terrorist assaults brought a world of counter-criticism down on his head and cost the paper thousands of readers. In another display of great timing, Rosenberg chose this morning to attack the country's "Propaganda Machine." Rosenberg blasts everyone, but reserves special venom for President Bush and his "commercial" which was actually another triumphant speech last week. He noted that Bush quoted Todd Beamer at the end of the speech, employing Beamer's now famous "Let's roll." But Rosenberg sees it differently: "Bush ended with a bang, shrewdly adopting the reported last words of Todd Beamer, one of the passengers said to have heroically fought terrorist hijackers on the jet that crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11."

Wow, what a sentence. Of course Rosenberg projects his own poisonous cynicism onto Bush, but what is with the words "reported" and "said to have?'" Evidently Rosenberg believes there is some doubt as to these events.

There is much more hatred throughout, including an attempted knock-down of O'Reilly. It would have been pathetic, but for the backdrop this morning of another airplane crash. Now I am angry again that the Times employs such a little man full of hate and bile, and provides him with a platform that he could not earn for himself in a thousand years. The Times can't cut him loose for fear of being charged with an imagined journalistic sin of love of country, just like ABC is stuck with the dreadful Maher. But neither does the public have to take it. Cancel your subscription and let advertisers know you will be seeking products elsewhere. The Times can call love of country "propaganda," but the audience doesn't have to agree.

Here are the familiar numbers and addresses: John Carroll, editor of the paper: (800) 252-914; john.carroll@latimes.com; John Madigan, CEO of the Tribune Corporation: 312-222-9100 x 3123; master-webmaster@tribune.com.

And from the L.A. Times article,

Howard Rosenberg's column appears Mondays and Fridays.
He can be contacted via e-mail at howard.rosenberg@latimes.com.

[Toidylop]

What's with these pressholes? Can't they ever STAND THE TRUTH for once???

[mombonn]

Unless my memory is playing tricks, the Operator with whom Todd was speaking reported his last words as "LET'S ROLL."

I'm not sure she'll be happy to be doubted about her account of her conversation with him.

[Penny1]

This guy hates America, hates Americans, and can't stand the fact that we love our fellow citizens and our country and that we have a President who truly loves this country too.

Too bad, Mr. Rosenberg, your time is SO OVER.

-penny

[Cinnamon Girl]

Was that you who just called in to Hugh's show?