I heard what Shep said, but I have a problem with him treating it as if it has anything to do with our founding fathers and the rights they preserved for OUR nation. These people are not on American soil. They don't have the same rights over there as they do here.
BUT, that still doesn't take away the fact that the context in which Shep was talking was in regards to emails from people saying that they deserved to die.
It is indeed sad that some of them died and were injured, however that is war. If they weren't part of the media, they would be referred to as 'collateral damage' and there wouldn't be any talk about the Geneva convention.
As far as the emails go, right or wrong, these people are just expressing their first amendment rights which is something else our founding fathers rightly preserved for us.
The United States government and military wants these reporters there.
I disagree. I think they are doing more to help the other side by virtue of not being able to speak freely about what is going on over there. How is anything that Baghdad Bob is saying helping us?
Which is what Shep did. He brought up comments from viewers and he exercised his right to speak and indirectly showed how ignorant they were to write such a comment.
How is anything that Baghdad Bob is saying helping us?
Have you ever wondered why he's still on the air? He's on the air because we are letting him stay on the air. The Iraqi people, and subsequently the Arab community, have been lied to. They have been told even as soon as day before yesterday that no troops were in Baghdad. All of a sudden these people in Baghdad see troops come in.
At this point there is a credibility problem. On one hand you have CNN/Fox/MSNBC/BBC/Al-Jazeera/etc. showing video footage of troops inside Hussein's palace and rolling down the streets. At the same time you have Baghdad Bob on tv saying "there are no troops here." This guts the credibility of the Iraqi government with their own people. Even if they don't have the other news outlets, they see the tanks in their city, and they see the ONLY governmental official saying it's not true.