[goldstategop]

Bimbettes who have never served a day in the military are best advised to refrain from making pronouncements on matters of which they have no first hand knowledge.

[backhoe]

katt, maybe I just have a bad attitude, but I have never taken Kicky Katie Couric seriously since she showed Congress that movie of the insides of her bowels...

For God's sake, some things ought to be kept private.

[TomGuy]

Saddam doesn't need Iraqi TV, when he's got ABC/CBS/CNN and NBC.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Unfortunately, there is no penalty for pundits being wrong. It's still full employment fro them, no matter how biased or inane.

[binreadin]

My hudgand is with the Marines in the ME, and I can tell you that they were repeatedly cautioned that this would not be an easy war.

[bullseye1911]

As I was spinning the dial the other day, I unfortunately came upon Katy-did as she was interviewing another talking head in Iraq. She said this (before I fast forwarded) "So, it can be assumed the reporters 'imbedded' with the troops will become 'in bed' with them, ultimately?

To paraphrase the words of Dan Ackroyd on SNL: "Katy, you ignorant slut!"

[Nick Danger]

My clock radio went off this morning at 6. There was something new. They were going to have a newscast, from ABC News. This is something they don't normally do. I assume it is because we are at war.

"Heavy fighting overnight in Iraq. In Sydney, Australia, thousands demonstrated against the war. Other protests were here, here, here, and over there. At the UN, opposition to the American..."

I am not a big fan of leaping out of bed first thing in the morning, but this was an exception. I just don't want to hear the leftists' crap any more. So off it went, and I'll find another station to set my clock radio on. I'll listen to the Dixie Chicks before I'm going to have some ABC News announcer read me a fax from Baghdad.

[LS]

You must all remember, PLEASE, that in 1864, AFTER Vicksburg surrendered and AFTER Gettysburg, the northern anti-war press was calling for Lincoln's head; and after Cold Harbor were screaming for Grant's removal. This about seven months before the utter surrender of the Confederacy.

The media is liberal, it has always been liberal, and despite some "Yellow Press" in the Spanish American War and some carefully controlled journalism in WW II, it has seldom reported wars accurately.

[nicmarlo]

Ever since the first "bad day" for America on Sunday, March 23, the media anti-American propagandists have been shocked and euphoric that the enemy their comrades actually fired back.

The corrections make the statement more accurate.

[atomic conspiracy]

The whole Hollywood/Madison Avenue Cultural Axis needs a long vacation, with non-Axis media to take their place. I hate to keep harping on it, but the post-60s left-wing media culture is the real enemy. Without their particular set of assumptions and values to shape public opinion, terrorists like Osama bin Laden could never hope to succeed, and Saddam Hussein could not hope to survive. If this were a matter of principle, it would be one thing, even if we feel that the principles are hateful, foolish, and destructive. It is not a matter of principle, however; it is part of a very specific strategy for increasing advertising revenue. For the full story, read Thomas M. Franks' landmark book, The Conquest of Cool. Did you know, for example, that the counterculture as we know it today, and the hippy movement, were invented at Doyle-Dane-Bernbach in 1963?

[peeve23]

And yet, the press seems fixated by American casualties and POWs. Don't get me wrong. Every American life is precious. But can we at least acknowledge that 39 deaths (as of this writing) among a force of 250,000 ,while attacking an entrenched and brutal enemy in a police state that has had at least a year to prepare and while gaining 300 miles in the process is pretty amazing? I mean, am I missing something?

I'm going to guess that 39 deaths in a town of 300,000 is not an unusual occurence in any given week. Considering that most of those are accidents (friendly fire, mechanical issues with helicopters, etc.)

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

I saw on MSNBC where a poll indicated that 45% of americans now think that the war will take months. I think that they also reported that 17% think it will take weeks and 7% think it will take years.

Sounds like the reporting in Afghanistan, where 2 days before the break throughs in the north, "quagmire" was often heard in the press.

Personally, I think that we are just days away from a victory.

[js1138]

Speaking of Basra, what's going on there?

[Copernicus]

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[aged]

as i said on another post, i think that the news anchors should be leading this war. they think just like saddam, maybe could win it in a day or two.