Rumsfeld says terrorists manipulate media

Associated Press ^ | ROBERT BURNS

[dufekin]

Let's quietly quash this wretched Rumsfeld speech. The American people understand the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth--they believe the enemy propaganda that The New York Times publishes with their whole heart, mind, and soul. Bush cannot attack the media; he lacks the political capital even to issue vaguely defensive statements against wretched Democratic attacks. To gain even some minor degree of legitimacy or moral authority, Bush absolutely must placate those who divine the Truth and disseminate it to our enemies (formerly called journalists).

To give just a single example of the importance of the hearts and minds of the media in fighting the war on terror, consider one time that The New York Times attacked the Bush Administration. They published details of our terrorist surveillance program and shrouded it in a cloud of legal doubt, bestowing great legitimacy and the moral standing of innocent civilians upon the enemies of the United States who really seek, plot, plan, and even occasionally succeed in massacring hundreds or even thousands of our beloved compatriots. Because Bush lacked the necessary credibility with the media, the media decreed the Truth upon Bush that he committed a grave offense in violating the sacrosanct Constitutionally protected rights of the American people, including illegal immigrants and terrorists embedded among us, to converse with terrorist enemies of the United States abroad in absolute privacy. Earlier this month, an almighty federal judge--relying solely upon the Truth printed in The New York Times, an enemy newsletter--thoroughly endorsed this seditionist view and halted all technological surveillance of terrorists. She effectively ratified the Terrorist Bill of Rights on behalf of the several States, and her word reigns eternal over this land.

Bush cannot afford to make any more enemies in the press. He probably and perhaps rightfully soon faces impeachment proceedings regarding his dastardly violations of the solemn rights of terrorists to plot to end our very lives in secrecy. No president can enjoy the benefit of the Truth and the legitimacy to command the land and naval forces of the United States unless he first win and maintain friends in the socialistic, surrender-minded pro-terrorist press.

[cibco]

I hate the DBM also. They aren't any better.

[cibco]

You sure have that right!

[ConservaTexan]

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

That quote came to mind as I was reading this article. Funny how the MSM did not pick up that they are the weapon being used against the USA. The MSM thinks that their (willing) participation only hurts the Bush administration; they fail to see that it hurts the entire country. The Bill of Rights is not a suicide pact! IMHO, freedom of the press only works when the press has the interests of the nation ahead of its own interests.

This enemy (Islam) knows that they cannot defeat the United States, so they are using the First Ammendment, both freedom of the press and freedom of religion, against us. They are counting on us to defeat ourselves.

[pissant]

You are sorely mistaken. Bush's press conference after th etimes leak showed he was visibly pissed and he said so in no uncertain terms. He has also launched investigation into that leak and others.

When the judge-shopped ACLU supporting judge ruled in the eavesdropping case, it was immediately set aside pending appeal. There is no way on God's green earth the courts will uphold that dingbats ruling. And even if they did, Congress already has a plan in place to bypass the courts on this issue. Bush's criticisms of the media have been dead nuts on and he has not let up. He does absolutely, positively NOTHING to appease the democrats or the MSM and their crusade to curtail our WOT. Whether it is Iraq, Guantanamo, NSA spying, banking records, he has not changed a thing. He has done nothing in his 6 years that pleses the appeasers, and he ain't about to start now.

[hsalaw]

"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.

Finally someone came right out and said it. And I'll go even further: the MSM is either a mindless dupe or a willing collaborator with our enemies.

[Jet Jaguar]

http://www.greenhelmetguy.com

[Challenge]

If today were WWII - you'd see all the big "stars" rushing to get Hitler's "side" of the story......

[uncbob]

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

Well maybe that is because of Compassionate Conservatism and not any cleverness on the part of the terrorists

[uncbob]

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.

I know it is the thing for conservatives to do in blaming the media for Vietnam

BUT that was only a secondary cause

The real reason for the defeat was the failure of Johnson and Nixon to win the war by not fighting it like a war

[DakotaRed]

The real reason for the defeat was the failure of Johnson and Nixon to win the war by not fighting it like a war

While I will, agree to a point, that both could have prosecuted the war better, had either actually allowed us to fight as we should have, can you imagine the public outcry about it?

Consider the outcry of when we went into Cambodia and the bombings that finally convinced North Viet Nam to return to negotiations.

Now, think about who was leading the outcry ....... the MEDIA!