Peter Arnett's MOAB

Jewish World Review ^ | April 1, 2003 | Laura Ingraham

[WaterDragon]

About five years ago I crossed paths, sort of, with famed journalist Peter Arnett. A few friends and I stopped to have an after-dinner drink at an almost-empty bar on Manhattan's East Side. He was alone and clearly wanted to be noticed. We ignored him.

Today Arnett is getting the attention he deserves--just not the kind he wanted.

That Peter Arnett would give a kissy-kissy interview with Iraq Television is no big surprise to most conservatives. Neither is the specific fact that he would describe the war plan as a "failure" to the enemy of the US. Arnett, like the majority of his peers, never wanted our country to go to war, never believed in the cause, never trusted President Bush's intentions.

These beliefs colored his reporting, affected the tone of his coverage, and finally bubbled over into the biggest boo-boo of his life. It was one thing for a Hollywood dope like Sean Penn to be used as an Iraqi propaganda tool--but a journalist "reporting" for an American news outlet?

All last week in the White House and Pentagon briefing rooms, beat reporters for the major news organizations were saying similar things as Arnett. We started hearing the Q-word (quagmire) and the phrase "bogged down" in the earliest days of Gulf War II. ABC's Terry Moran badgered Ari Fleischer about why the Administration couldn't just admit it made a mistake in the war planning....(snip)

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[JohnHuang2]

Laura Ingraham MEGA PING!

[rwfromkansas]

Conservative woman with class.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

As someone who has appeared on television opposite the stentorian Alterman, his colleague Katrina vanden Heuvel, Newsweek's Eleanor Clift, and filmmaker Michael Moore, I must say I find his "loud" charge hilarious. Plus, these media outlets that have supposedly been cowed by conservatives have fawned over Alterman's book--most recently The New York Times.

What awful people.

[EternalVigilance]

He was alone and clearly wanted to be noticed. We ignored him.

LOL...so telling. Musta galled him to no end! ;-)

Laura Ingraham defines class, and this jerk has none.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Laura's fan base knows no bounds!

[WaterDragon]

It speaks so well for conservatives that we have women of such intelligence and beauty as Ingraham.

No one with class would give Arnett the time of day.

[MHGinTN]

Listening to the leadership of the democrat despots, I'm wondering how they got a copy of their talking points to P. Arenot way over in Baghdad. I live in the U.S and still haven't been able to scoop a copy!

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: No one with class would give Arnett the time of day.

I'd give him a watch of mine that stopped running several years ago. It would be right twice a day, so does that take away from my class act?

[WaterDragon]

Yeah. LOL

[WaterDragon]

Obviously you think he can't walk and chew gum at the same time! I agree that he probably spends time memorizing the Dem's talking points prior to each broadcast. He even looks as though there's no one home inside those eyes.

[MHGinTN]

It is amazing how closely he followed the dem's talking points regarding the administration, but his self-aggrandizing comments regarding the utility of reporting the civilian deaths was way over the top. And that's what I focused on most in my correspondence to Neal Shapiro. The democrats on the Sunday talking shows will no doubt repeat his crap in their way, but the American democrat voters won't catch it. I'm astonished at the nerve of the democrat leadership in their near seditious rhetoric while our Soldiers are risking their lives! They see the prsident's polls going up and are in panic mode. Couple their bitterness at being deposed form rule over US with their panic and you get the sort of corrosive assault we're witnessing.

[YOMO]

Peter Arnett's MOAB........................................
MOTHER OF ALL BONERS.
His first appoligy was, if you read between the lines, about the fire storm he created back in the states, not about what he said.
Then after he was hired by the Brit Rag, he said he was not sorry about reporting the war facts.

[battlegearboat]

Peter'ed out.

Are not.

No more.

Amen!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[blackie]

"Laura is face in the misty light ... Bump!

Let's Rll!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Arnett's apology referred to his "misjudgment" in deciding to sit down with Enemy TV. The families of our servicemen who are dead, missing, and on active duty would probably describe Arnett's actions in a different way--it starts with a "T" and ends with an "N." Treason.

Agreed.