Posted on 03/27/2003 2:07:24 PM PST by Remedy
Me too. At least ole Dan is taking this war seriously and so far, not using it to further his socialist ideas. The minute the first Saddam "tape" was aired after the initial air strike, I turned on Rather immediately to see his reaction. He looked extremely dubious about the identity of the fellow in the Saddam suit reading notes and said, "...if it is, indeed, Saddam." If Rather didn't think so, how can the rest of us?
I saw Rather interviewed on Charlie Rose before the war started but after the Saddam interview, and it seemed that he'd received so much criticsm for interviewing Saddamit that he'd had a sort of epiphanie about where his loyalties actually lie. Let's hope he doesn't revert to kneepad stance on Saddam, and Fidel, for that matter.
I caught that, at the briefing. Poor George.
By the way, the idiot from New York Magazine was Michael Wolff - the magazine's MEDIA EDITOR.
Some body have a bake sale for this poor farmer.
He says specifically, "ABC has sent it's senior correspondent home". dear me, and all along, I thought it was little Georgie being a spoiled brat. I shudda known it was the very biased ABC making a decision totally designed to discredit the military's honesty.
"NY Magazine: Top Black General Worthless
March 27, 2003
Brigadier General Vincent Brooks faces some outrageous and stupid questions at his daily Central Command briefings. Some of them deserve to be answered dead on, but because of political correctness and diplomacy and all that, CENTCOM can't always do that. I can, which is why I sometimes answer these questions in a mock briefing. On Thursday, I focused on a question by New York magazine's Michael Wolff.
Wolff said: "I mean no disrespect by this question, but I want to ask about the value proposition of these briefings. We're no longer being briefed by senior-most officers." The press pool applauded the question, which drew a rapier-quick response from Brooks who said, "I've gotten applause already. That's wonderful. I appreciate that."
Can you believe the audacity of complaining that Brigadier General Brooks isn't good enough for the press? If this had been a reporter from a conservative news source, the press would point out the fact that Brooks just happens to be the only African-American general on the scene. Charges of racism would be made, because this question's underlying meaning is clearly that Brooks can't possibly know anything.
This war is not about Michael Wolff's stupid stories in New York magazine. It's about saving lives, including his. This is not a criticism of General Schwarzkopf, but the leader of this Gulf War, General Tommy Franks, isn't going to be out there talking to these people every day. He's busy picking out targets and protecting our soldiers. By the way, Donald Rumsfeld nominated Brooks for appointment to the rank of brigadier general in June 2002. Just another example - like Colin Powell, Clarence Thomas and Condoleezza Rice - of African-Americans advancing more under GOP administrations than Democratic ones."
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