60 Minutes - Bob Simon - GW's Propoganda machine!! Did anyone watch this drivel?

CBS News | 12/7/2002 | Bob Simon

[geedee]

60 Minutes' Bob Simon just did a slash and burn piece on how the Bush Administration is "lying" and "exagerating" and using "propoganda" to justify an unjustifiable war with Iraq.

[geedee]

I don't think I've ever seen a more leftist-slanted report yet on 60 Minutes.

[geedee]

exagerating should be exaggerating.

[Bahbah]

I watched about a minute and a half and saw where it was going so I turned it off. I don't believe I'll be watching 60 minutes in the future. They are transparent in their desparation though, and I guess that is a good thing.

[Lorraine]

I saw it and came here to see if anyone was discussing it. I know that I shouldn't be surprised at CBS's bias, but it still never ceases to amaze me. This story ranks right up there with the snowjob they did on Clinton that got him elected. I've got to stop watching this drivel.

[sinkspur]

I'm watching Charlie Brown's Christmas, so, no.

But Bob Simon is the guy who almost got his ass shot off in the Gulf War. He was missing for several days behind Iraqi lines.

He's a disgusting liberal.

[Numbers Guy]

Bob Simon needs to be taken prisoner again.

[bybybill]

We are at total war, a fight to the death. Oh, we might not know it, But the Rats and their buddies in the media are going to try to destroy GWB. We may need another Lincoln to put us back together after they are finished trying to divide the nation. And this war has already started.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

Not just CBS-you can see where the whole media is heading-Hussein is the good guy-Bush is the bad guy.

[rimtop56]

My husband watched it and believed every word. He used to be a Republican, but switched to the Constitution Party because he felt so betrayed by the Republican leadership. Now he is eager to hear anything negative about Bush. We got into a big screaming match when I tried to tell him to consider the source.

I keep trying to counter my husband's arguments, but then he comes up with some other story he heard. I know that Bush is not perfect, but he is overall such a great and wonderful president. Is there a site or source that refutes all the lies that are told about him? It sure would be a great resource. If anyone knows of something like that, please list it.

-Desperate

[geedee]

But Bob Simon is the guy who almost got his ass shot off in the Gulf War.

That's right. I forgot that. He got cocky and decided to go off on his own, right?

[aruanan]

"propoganda"

As opposed to 'propaganda'?

[geedee]

I don't, but trust me -- a fellow FReeper will give US BOTH plenty of links shortly.

[PhilipFreneau]

My wife and I watched it. Nothing new. It was typical anti-American propaganda by the liberal media.

[geedee]

Sorry, Simon was still echoing in my ear.

[Benrand]

Yeah, well, Peter Arnett is being propped up by MSNBC and that liar is just disturbing to watch, with his joviality with Hussein and star effing poses.

Talk about a person totally committed to spewing lies and subterfuge, a deeply disturbed person.

[Station 51]

I just could not believe that they would make up a story stating the First Bush Administration lied about babies being pulled out of incubators during the first Gulf War. Why would they stoop so lo as the slander the Kuwaiti Government and the Bush I Administration? Do they have no shame!

[altayann]

The reason 60 Minutes is claiming that the Kuwaiti government made up a story about babies being thrown from incubators is actually fairly simple.

It's true. Someone, with the help of Knowlton & Hill, made that story up out of whole cloth.

Do an internet search, and you'll find more than enough articles from reputable sources to confirm it.

The young woman who testified before Congress that the Iraqis were pulling babies from incubators was indeed the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S. And that's been known for quite a while...

[geedee]

Here's the teaser on Simon's piece from CBSNEWS.com . . .

Selling The Iraq War To The U.S.

(CBS) Politicians have had to sell the public on going to war since Colonial times, but they never had the arsenal of advertising and communications techniques the Bush administration is using to sell a possible war on Iraq. Bob Simon reports on those techniques and those employed by the elder Bush prior to the 1991 Gulf War Sunday, Dec. 8 at 7 p.m., ET/PT.

Simon reminds viewers that a horrible story spread widely by the first Bush administration prior to the Gulf War about Kuwaiti babies pulled from incubators by invading Iraqis turned out not to be true. The current Bush administration may be also misinforming the public in its efforts to justify a possible second war with Saddam Hussein.

One example of misinformation, according to physicist and former weapons inspector David Albright, was the Bush administration’s leak to the media in September about Iraq’s attempt to import aluminum tubes which administration officials claimed were headed for Iraq’s nuclear program.

“I think it was very misleading,” says Albright, who directs the Institute for Science and International Security. Albright says the tubes could be possibly used for a nuclear program, but were more suited to conventional weapons production. Government experts thought that too, Albright tells Simon, but administration officials “were selectively picking information to bolster a case that the Iraqi nuclear threat was more imminent than it is, and, in essence, scare people.”

Simon’s report examines the administration’s use of Madison Avenue to produce an ad campaign aimed at improving the image of America in the Muslim world. He also interviews a former CIA agent who investigated the oft-mentioned report that hijacker Mohammed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence official in Prague several months before the deadly attacks on 9/11.

Despite a lack of evidence that the meeting took place, the item was cited by administration officials as high as Vice President Dick Cheney and ended up being reported so widely that two-thirds of Americans polled by the Council on Foreign Relations believe Iraq was behind the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

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[flyervet]

Please don't let politics divide you and your husband. No matter what your political differences are, they aren't worth fighting with your spouse. Goodness knows there's enough important stuff to fight over in a marriage without adding politics to the mix. :-)

Rather than concentrating on countering your husband's arguments (and adding more fuel to the fire), maybe you should concentrate on strategies to short-circuit fights over politics. I know one couple that was on the verge of divorce during the impeachment until they agreed their marriage was more important than either one being right, and finally agreed simply not to dicsuss it again. It literally saved their marriage. Sure, the big picture's important, but the little picture counts, too.

[inflorida]

I only watched the intro and then changed it to the Charlie Brown Christmas Special. I figured that show would be better for my blood pressure.