Frontline Concedes [lying about Iraq]

AndrewSullivan.com ^ | October 11, 2003 | Andrew Sullivan

[Pan_Yans Wife]

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[MarkeyD]

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[vbmoneyspender]

The Frontline producer alleges that Bush said Hussein was capable of attacking with chemical weapons within 45 minutes. I don't believe Bush ever said this. These leftists are confusing what the Brits said (I believe it was either Jack Straw or Tony Blair) with what Bush said. But in any event, if Hussein's people weren't capable of using chemical weapons on our troops, why did they have bio/chem suits and gas masks at the ready when the war started?

[kitkat]

Thank you for the article, Roscoe. We have to keep saying this. People need to know the truth.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The liberals would rather believe the lie.

[EternalVigilance]

BUMP!

[Aaron0617]

Lying..aarrgggg.

I'll read after the ballgame. I am so tired of this crap from these leftist ------

[irishlass]

LOL! Frontline is by far the most biased "documentary" type program I have ever seen-and that is saying something. I gave up watching it a very long time ago!

[Humidston]

...And to think; our tax dollars pay for that bilge. They get us coming and going.

[Dako no tane]

The program showed tape of Bush saying the 45 minute thing. I was surprised, because I also did not remember him saying that. But unless they doctored the tape, he did say it.

Although this episode of Frontline was really biased and unfair, and obnoxious, I still learned a few things from it. They showed a few instances in which our soldiers appeared to be a lot more hard-nosed than I thought they were. They showed an M-1 Abrams crushing the car of a looter. They also showed a small firefight in which our GI's apparently shot an innocent bystander that they thought (erroneously) was shooting at them. As bad as it sounds (which is exactly why Frontline aired it), what it told me was that we aren't being overly cautious about returning fire. That tells me that our guys have the right, aggressive attitude that it takes to win. Better that a few innocent Iraqi gawkers get killed than that our soldiers are afraid that they'll get in trouble for being too aggressive.

It's well worth watching this Frontline episode, despite its bias. The moral toughness of Kanan Makiya and Paul Bremer shine through the Martin smog.

[Dako no tane]

The smog of Mr. Martin Smith, that is.

[mylife]

I watched this propaganda film just out of curiosity. The main thrust of the thing was that America is bad, not just GW. It also implied that no matter how noble Americas intentions they are meaningless if they are not carried out flawlessly and with no offense to anyone!

As Mark Steyn would say..."It was a real Thumbsucker!" WHaaaa!! WHaaaa! Whaaaa!

[JoJo Gunn]

"Boston, Mass: No, Martin: it's a bold face lie, an untruth from beginning to end."

I have to admit the headline is misleading. Sounds more like typical Leftist doublespeak than a concession. And the line I just quoted doesn't exist on the Compost's page, though I know they might have edited it out.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A23488-2003Sep30?language=printer

[Stultis]

Frontline is by far the most biased "documentary" type program I have ever seen-and that is saying something.

This just isn't true. More biased than Bill Moyers' stuff, or Michael Moore's?

Some of the Frontline programs in the last several years have been damn good. (They don't have a fixed staff of primary producers and journalists, so the shows vary quite a bit.) "The War Behind Closed Doors," last season, was a very fair account of the rise of the "neocons" and the doctrine of preemption. A few years back they ripped Clinton mercilessly (and justifiably) over Rwanda. Last season there was a glowing and haunting portrait -- "The Man Who Knew" -- of 911 hero John O'Neill, the FBI bin Laden expert who left the agency after it repeatedly undermined his efforts to identify and expose our enemies, and went on to become head of security at the WTC. One of the CIA's finest field agents, Bob Baer, was also profiled as part of program called (IIRC) "Tehran and Terror". Previously they have done multiple documentaries highlighting Saddam's brutality and beligerance. "Battle for the Holy Land," which profiled both an IDF unit and a Hamas cell during the current "intifada", was very fair to the Israelis. It described very clearly the rationale and criteria behind "targeted killings," and portrayed the dedication and professionalism of the Israeli army.

Even in the current show, with the producer and interviewer Smith obviously biased (he frequently argued with his subjects in the irritating and mewling way that libs have) there was still significant airtime given to truth tellers like Kanan Makiya and Richard Perle.

I've found that Frontline is nearly always worth tuning in. Yes, they still do shows that are intolerably biased, but then that's evident quickly and you can always change the channel. But by writing the show off you've missed some really good stuff.