Posted on 09/11/2002 7:53:23 AM PDT by irish guard
I remember watching TV late in the afternoon on the 11th and hearing Peter Jennings wondering out loud where our President was. Didn;t we all feel a bit confused and concerned about if or when another plane might hit another building? Yet, here is the great (sic) Peter Jennings blathering on about how in a time of crisis we need to see our President.It still raised the bile in my throat when I think of it.
Earlier today, CBS elected to "politicize" or at least substantially editorialize what had otherwise been a decent 9/11 memorial by talking about an attack on Iraq.The media in this country drives me crazy. They no longer wish to simply report the news, instead, they continually wish to grandstand with little (or big) snippets of their own spew.
Sorry for the vanity rant, but I will never forget or forgive Peter Jennings for his idiocy that day!
The interesting thing about the newscasters and newscastresses is that no one ever holds them accountable or better yet, no one has any means by which to hold them accountable. Remember how everyone in the "hallowed" media chastized Bush for calling Adam Clymer what he truly was?
Jennings is indeed our Lord Haw-Haw.
You are so right and it's the reason I quit watching the major news networks. I can't stand Peter Jennings when he talks and closes his eyes, then flutters his eyelids. And isn't it Rather that whistles through his false teeth. I can't stand that!!!
I saw it too, and had the same reaction. Here was extreme tragedy happening at the moment and Jennings had to work his Red underwear into a knot over where was Bush. As former air defense, I knew where the CIC was and what he was doing. Unlike Clinton, the CIC was in the Command Post, wherever that was and doing his duty as circumstance demanded.
Let's face it, it will be a day of celebration when Jennings is off the air, for good.
Well said!
If Jennings was in drag, he'd be our "Toronto Rose".
Fortunately, it didn't hurt President Bush.
However, good 'ol Adam has a new legacy: When I point out that Jennings is a "Clymer", you know exactly what I mean!
It's part of a developing new vocabulary that won't make you sound overly crude in polite company. Monica has made a contribution, too. Hope their contribution to the culture lasts a longggg time. They earned it.
There was a line in that movie that I'll never forget. It came at a time when the true blow-hard (Jennings type) threatened to drop the hammer on Gable. A third party (former quisling type) who was the nephew of the blow hard screamed at the blow hard to "Shut up!" He ended the sililoquy with the admonition, "Don't you know some men have to do more than just talk?" That advice would fit well on Jennings, but he is too stupid to hear it. That's why I put him in the same class as Jerry Springer i.e. to be ignored at all times.
And "Catty" Katie Couric, in a overtly snide tone said, (paraphrasing) "President Bush will make his first trip to Shanksville PA today." OK Catty, maybe this will be his first trip to Shanksville, but can't you for one day put away your claws and let us remember and memorialize those lost without hearing your bitchy attitude?
You see it's not always what they(the media) say but how they say it. Even when they speak the truth their facial expressions, tone or emphasis on certain words give away their bias.
Amen to that and Katie Couric is the master at the snide, cynical comment.
Hey, on a separate note, I heard a clip of GWB today from last year talking about the policeman's badge he carried (remember that quote to Congress?). Any idea if he still carries that badge?
Wonder what it's like to be "on the rag" 365 days out of the years.
(pardon the expression)
I don't watch ANYTHING on ABC. Haven't for the last couple of years. I'm writing a letter to ABC about repeating this disqusting broadcast by Jennings.
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