Posted on 04/02/2003 5:59:33 PM PST by PJ-Comix
ABC's Peter Jennings again emphasized the negative on Tuesday night, passing along how one embedded reporter, whom he did not name, claimed that as the unit with which he was traveling moved into farmland outside of Baghdad, they went from “the desert where they waved at us” to an area where “they don't wave at us any more.”
But minutes later, ABC's John McWethy marveled at the “surprising development” that “a trickle of Iraqi civilians are now risking their lives to help British and American forces find weapons catches and Saddam Hussein loyalists” and that, “for first time, two Iraqis spoke out against Saddam Hussein on Arabic language television.”
Jennings announced on the April 1 World News Tonight over a map showing the progress of U.S. forces: “Countryside is changing here now, passing from desert into farmland, and one embedded reporter with the U.S. forces, beginning we think now to move forward, said earlier today: 'When we came out of the desert where they waved at us, notice they don't wave at us any more.'”
Checking in from the Pentagon, John McWethy, however, had a more upbeat look at the Iraqi populace: “Another surprising development: A trickle of Iraqi civilians are now risking their lives to help British and American forces find weapons catches and Saddam Hussein loyalists. Villagers in the Western desert showed U.S. troops to a hospital that had become a hidden arsenal. And today, for the first time, two Iraqis spoke out against Saddam Hussein on Arabic language television.” After a few words of a man in the desert speaking in Arabic on Abu Dhabi TV, McWethy added: “Joining others talking to the Western press.” Then viewers heard a man say in English: “People don't like this government. They want to finish from this government. That is all they want.”
So smarmy, so rude - he just doesn't get it!
Not much different from the usual anti-gun drivel that we are subjected to all the time on ABC Radio.
"And in other news, a man with a gun entered an office today in downtown Succotash killing one and wounding two. And a recent ABC poll shows that sixty percent of all Americans want restrictions on guns. This is ABC News [break for commercial].
They went from villages freed of Baathist control to villages still under Baathist control. They were saying the same thing about the south last week.
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