Fox News Keeps Wartime Coverage Lead

AP ^ | 3-25-2003 | DAVID BAUDER

[freedom4me]

I think the good colonel must have a cot in the green room. I think he just decided he'd make himself available at all hours. I love his commentary as well as General Mac and Major Vallelee (sp?). The latter two are in on Defense Department briefings with Rummy.

I tried to listen to NPR the other day. Well, it lasted about 30 seconds before I screamed, "Shut up!" and shut my radio off.

Fox rocks!

[maranatha]

You know you're getting straight stuff and wise stuff from Major Bob Bevelacqua. I remember during Afghanistan war after he had been on regularly, Shep, screwed up his name and then said something like "or whatever". It was clear Major Bob was annoyed and he didn't give him a pass. He didn't like it. Shep deserved it.

[BossLady]

The Col is always so fired up....I don't think he wants to sleep...LOL. I enjoy listening to him though. Did you see him give Greta the smackdown the other night when she was commenting on showing the video/pics of the POWs?? Cols face got red...thought he was gonna strangle her...:o

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

Thanks for the BUMP to that thread. Now lets hope people e-mail them and thank them. What Fox News is doing is extremely important. It will lift the spirits of our troops!!

God Bless them for doing it!!

[freedom4me]

The other day somebody was interviewing Major Bob about the strategy of "letting some of the soldiers go home". He said he'd never do that. "As far as I'm concerned," he said, "Everybody is a combatant". Put them in a razor wire pen, feed them, care for medical needs...but don't let them go home. Go Major Bob!

[BossLady]

It's cute when Rita Cosby calls him Major Bob...he just grins at the camera. He really gives an interesting perspective to the conversations they have about movements of troops etc.

[EdReform]

THANK YOU FOX NEWS!

[PianoMan]

Colonel David Hunt is my favorite of all the commentators. None of this slick polish. Someone should get a fan club going on FR. Also he's on a lot - maybe because they've gotten positive feedback on him?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Excellent news!

OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST

[Interesting Times]

CNN also draws viewers to its Headline News and has a greater presence overseas than Fox, Robinson said.

"We're perfectly comfortable having the biggest audience in the world," she said.

Anybody at CNN who claims to be "perfectly comfortable" getting smoked by Fox News on war coverage is lying in her teeth.

Which brings us to the important issue of credibility.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Did you see him give Greta the smackdown the other night when she was commenting on showing the video/pics of the POWs?? Cols face got red...thought he was gonna strangle her...:o

I've never seen somebody physically shrink into their chair like Greta did after he reamed her. LOL!

[freedom4me]

I've heard over and over that the troops are watching FOX...exclusively. They have enough to worry about and don't need to listen to the babble from the hate America crowd.

[arasina]

Rick Leventhal's reporting has been fantastic, as has Geraldo's and Ollie North's

And Greg Kelly, their new reporter who is embedded with troops in Iraq, is fantastic! I have admired Rick Leventhal particularly ever since I watched him reporting in the midst of a crumbling WTC tower's debris.

I worked in television for quite a few years and still receive a daily insider's newsletter. The other networks just can't STAND it when FOX wins. They always have some excuse for their own failure. Bernard Goldberg is so very correct in his assessment of media bias!

[freedom4me]

I thought I heard that Greg K. is an ex-military man. He's doing a wonderful job.

Watching war news that knocks America messes with your mind...and your heart. Most Americans sense the disconnect and are tuning to Fox.

[rabidralph]

The Colonel with the raspy voice is my favorite.

yeah, Col. Hunt. I love him. He can barely finish a sentence when he gets excited about explaining something. He sounds like George C. Scott.

[dixiechick2000]

He was a Marine Corps pilot for nine years.

[rabidralph]

The other day somebody was interviewing Major Bob about the strategy of "letting some of the soldiers go home".

Major Bob always manages to get in a comment about killing the enemy. He's great!

[rocky88]

"Fox News Keeps Wartime Coverage Lead

Tommy's pals are "saddened" by this ..."


Deeply saddened, concerned AND disturbed, all at once. It's a wonder his head hasn't just popped off yet!

[GOPrincess]

Ditto that on Leventhal, and don't forget Kelly with the tanks! :)

[Wolfstar]

Aaron Brown is completely unwatchable. I just can't stomach that insufferable half-smile and smarmy, condescending voice. I give MSNBC props for trying hard to be balanced with their war coverage, but their personnel are just not in the same league with the FOX team.

I'll never forget Rick Leventhal's remarkable reporting from lower Manhattan on 9/11. Somehow, I think he may have volunteered for Iraq at least in part because of his experiences on 9/11. Also, I love Greg Kelly, Shep Smith and all the FOX crew. Even Greta has been surprisingly patriotic in her overall attitude. I'm actually starting to like her.