New Firefight in Baghdad

Fox News | 4/13/03

[areafiftyone]

Its on TV Now you can hear the firefight in Baghdad!

[areafiftyone]

Steve Harrigan is on a balcony with a front row seat! What a story I guess MSNBC is on the other balcony! Hey Steve blow a spitball at them and watch them pee their pants!

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

Let Harrigan talk, Rita.

[nicmarlo]

ooops...sorry, that was CNN I was turned to, lol; their screen said that, not NBC....obviously, CNN has this on, too.

[nicmarlo]

Shut up Rita!!!!

I switched channels...Rita annoys me.

[tazman3]

Red shots ours; green shots theirs.

From the book of "Snipers for Dummys":

Sniper rule number one:

Don't use tracer rounds

[dawn53]

Rita always seems to border on hysteria. I have a hard time watching Fox when she's on. The General was good, but I've also come to like Arnot's reporting.

[renosathug]

They would rather babble than let the pictures speak for themselves.

Having to ask if the M-16s are "ours" is inexcusable.

[callthemlikeyouseethem]

I saw that... had to go feed a "bottle lamb" and when I came back in, they already have at least three in custody. Amazing. This IS reality TV. God bless our soldiers and all who support them.

[Exit148]

"Good thing Fox has all their crap blocking almost all of the relevant portions of half the video shots."

Looks pretty clear of the usual pile of stuff they have. Oops! I spoke too fast. I once e-mailed them to ask them to get rid of the stuff. It is the one big thing about Fox that I have a problem with.

[Cultural Jihad]

Bob Arnot and MSNBC are talking about 4 snipers now...

[nicmarlo]

Yes; three were already in custody when a fourth surrendered on the other side of building...he put his weapons down and raised his hands....then the cam went dead...or they shut it down out; perhaps military ordered to, so if the guy was a suicide bomber, that would not be televised live.....now they're looking for more snipers...

[callthemlikeyouseethem]

JMHO... Rita has pulled some good scoops in the past, however, I do get tired of "my sources tell me"...:)

[Republic]

I absolutely love Rita. I think she is more than smart-she is dead on in her interviews-not releasing people from their dodges and she loves our troops and the feeling is mutual. I like that she isn't perfect-and I like that she listens to her guests.....and I bet they are the FOREIGNERS that Geraldo speaks of so often....imagine having Syrians or Yemeni's or whatever in your nation as it undergos the stress of a war towards freedom and out in your streets creeps fighting for Saddam that are not even your fellow Iraqis are trying to smash those who lost lives to free you. Rita and the general (Mac) ( who also obviously admires Rita's questions) are doing a great job dissecting this----her commentary is wonderful!

You go RITA and ALL of the FABULOUS FOX NEWS CABLE FOLKS! YOu RULE in this American house!!!

[Arkinsaw]

Good thing Fox has all their crap blocking almost all of the relevant portions of half the video shots.

Brian Williams was on during a fight the other day and asked the producer to please get all the crap off the bottom of the screen and they did.

[tazman3]

How long do you think it will be before an RPG round or two hits the Palestine Hotel and the media screams that the US isn't protecting them?

Palestine Hotel; why is a Hotel with THAT name still standing? Must be one of those political things.

[Orlando]

We need to take the fight to Syria, because there will be no
peace in Iraq and puts our troops in great danger.

[Amelia]

I've been unable to see Rita as anything but stupid since she covered the USSC ruling. She drives me up the wall.

[CedarDave]

Exchange of gunfire again. Then quiet. Journalists run to safety of Amtrack.

[areafiftyone]

OMG Rita thought the AK47 shots were us too.

[Exit148]

She was especially good with Asner, last night!

But there are times when the 'on the spot' person is the one to do the talking. I know she's the anchor - but let someone else do the color. (especially when she's wrong, as she just was.)