Rumsfeld says terrorists manipulate media

Associated Press ^ | ROBERT BURNS

[NittanyLion]

I disagree with Rumsfeld. "Manipulation" implies that the media is being duped, and is an unwilling partner. Yet it's clear that they know exactly what they're doing.

[Kimmers]

Our media allows themselves to manipulated. Their hatred of the truth and the desire to bury what is good and decent about this country is their primary source of what they call news.

[kerryusama04]

Rush pointed out how differently the Media acted with Sentani and Wiig than they have ever acted with others today. Especially our precious FNC. It proves beyond doubt that the media knows what responsible journalism is and that they simply choose to operate in a way that inhibits our efforts to win the war.

[uncbob]

Exactly

Terrorists aren't clever and the democrats aren't political geniuses

MSM does all their water carrying for them and knows damn well they are covering up for them

That is why the administration and GOP has to CONFRONT the MSM on that fact and NOT BACKDOWN

They need to state it over and over and stay on message PERIOD

That is the only way to handle it

Unfortunately Bush won't do it so his people won't do it

Sad and depressing

[adorno]

I disagree with Rumsfeld. "Manipulation" implies that the media is being duped, and is an unwilling partner. Yet it's clear that they know exactly what they're doing.

Exactly what I was thinking.

"They are actively manipulating the media in this country" by, for example, falsely blaming U.S. troops for civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, he said.

"They can lie with impunity," he said

Wrong, Mr. Rumsfeld!

While the enemy may be manipulating some of our media, our media is also manipulating our enemies to do their bidding. Our media would love nothing better than the encourage and embolden our enemies to have great success on the battlefield and on their terrorist missions in order to get what they want: to destroy Bush and the republicans and to get into power.

[pissant]

This is a HUGE indictment of the MSM from the Pentagon. Note he did NOT say that the media wasn't part of the manipulation process. He knows as well as you and I that they are. I think Bush needs to come out swinging against the MSM. That will rally conservatives.

[My2Cents]

Naw. The media isn't manipulated...Being anti-American just comes naturally.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

ping to Islamic manipulation of the media. Who would have thunk it?

[Obie Wan]

Exactly right !!!

[randog]

Note he did NOT say that the media wasn't part of the manipulation process. He knows as well as you and I that they are.

Exactly. Rumsfeld knew that he had to walk a fine line, and he did just that. It's up to the talking heads and bloggers to fill in between the lines.

[Sabramerican]

But what Rumsfeld leaves out is that even knowing its a lie, Governments, including his Government acts as if the lie is truth.

So when the media lies that Israel bombed civilians at Qana, Rice demands of Israel a 48 hour cease fire.

One is forced to ask: if the Sec and his colleagues know its a lie, what do they continue to play the under enemy's ever changing rules.

[pissant]

And we have been filling in those balnks for years now. Hopefully, Tony Snow, now that he has the Prez's ear, is keeping him in touch with the blogosphere.

[MaineVoter2002]

Terrorists aren't clever

I dissagree. The whole world has watched the Iranian leader politically outsmart the present White House leadership.

The scary part is that many uninformed people in this world are blindly cheering this. They are blind because they do not yet understand that there is no political solution to end this war. There is only one solution and that's to convert to islam.

www.cafenetamerica.com

[BARLF]

This is my first time to ever disagree with Rummy on anything I've ever heard him say about anything.

If he was just being kind to the media I disagree with that also. He should do as he has always done in the past and tell it straight.

The socialist journalist hate this administration with a passion and would rather see our wonderful country destroyed than to help, agree,support our military or tell the truth about the enemy. The democrats in congress are even worse because they are in an even greater position of power to aid the enemy.

Unbelievable,unreal and scary.

[Enterprise]

I knew it wouldn't take more than one or two posts for FREEPERS to see the obvious. The media are not manipulated by terrorists. They collaborate with them.

[kerryusama04]

One Palestinian even said on FNC, "We don't have F-16's, we only have the media as our weapon".

[DakotaRed]

The media did this during the latter parts of Viet Nam as well. Walter Cronkite decided it was finished and we had lost, despite a resounding win for US Forces in the Tet 0f 68 offensive launched by the North.

After that, General Vo Ngyuen Giap knew all he had to do was play to our media and wait us out.

They betrayed us all then and they are betraying us now.

[okie01]

"[The Terrorists] are actively manipulating the media in this country" by, for example, falsely blaming U.S. troops for civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, [Rumsfeld] said.

The Secretary of Defense, one of the leaders in the President's cabinet, has just made a flat statement accusing the media of being manipulated by the enemy during a time of war.

And this isn't major breaking news? Why is this buried in an AP secondary?

Where are the howls of outrage? Why isn't the media publishing this in bold headlines and aggressively responding to the Secretary's allegation.

Could it be because...it's true?

[tobyhill]

"In his remarks at Fallon he did not offer any new examples of media manipulation"

Keyword,"new" as in meaning today but yesterdays manipulation is no longer "new" and since tomorrow has yet to arrive there can be no determination if it's "new" since the media recycles old manipulations on a frequent bases.