Media Bias Outrage of the Week - Peter Jennings Blames the U.S for Saddam Hussein's Cruelty

fairpress.org ^ | 03/24/2003 | Peacerose

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Peter Jennings Blames the U.S.
for Saddam Hussein's Cruelty

03/24/2003
Last week, the Media Research Center released a report demonstrating that Peter Jennings has offered the most consistently anti-American, pro-evil dictator reporting of any U.S. news broadcast. Not surprisingly, he continues unabated.

Friday night, March 21, at approximately 10:45pm EST, ABC presented a taped interview of four Iraqi women by Barbara Walters. These women, now living in the United States, told horrifying tales of Saddam Hussein's cruelty. Walters finished the interview with agreement by all the women that Iraqi citizens will be "rejoicing when the Americans arrive."

Following the taped interview, Walters joined Jennings live: "One of these women took part in the uprising in 1991 and waited for help, the help did not come, and she finally escaped to this country. So she has somewhat mixed feelings, you know don't ask us to rise up and then not help us."

A legitimate complaint, yet the primary focus of the women's message was an evil dictator's use of torture to keep people subjugated by fear. Rather than expand on their point that Saddam Hussein is a despicable and heinous monster, hated by the Iraqi people, Jennings had this to say:

"Yeah, I think, you know, who's to guess the future, but I think a lot of Iraqis have some mixed feeling. It's often been said by the Iraqis, we'll be greeted by bullets, the U.S. forces, that the U.S. thinks it will be greeted by flowers. But the truth is the United States enabled Saddam Hussein to stay in power for a very long period of time, led the campaign to keep sanctions on him for a long period of time which hurt the Iraqi people and when there was the uprising to which you refer in 1991, the United States, at least in their mind, encouraged them to go and then didn't support them as they had anticipated. So these are issues for the future."

Here are a few points for pompous Peter:

• U.S. 'enabling' of Saddam Hussein ended a long time ago.

• France, Germany, and the United Nations Security Council are chief among his enablers even now.

• Sanctions did nothing to hurt the Iraqi people. Misspending of 'Oil for Food' money on weapons of mass destruction is to blame for any shortage of necessities that they have suffered.

• Most Americans were not in favor of leaving Saddam Hussein in power in 1991, but if Bush 41 had sent Americans troops sweeping on into Baghdad and deposed him, Peter Jennings and pals would have been on the front row screaming about how the U.S. was "breaking the rules".

Apparently no low is too low for 'Appeasement Pete'. No matter how cruelly inhumane Saddam proves to be, Jennings finds the United States far more distasteful. I invite you to contact him with your thoughts. Below is the contact information. And further, encourage your friends, relatives and neighbors to get their news from someone who doesn't openly despise our country.

World News Tonight
ABC
77 West 66th Street
New York, New York 10023

Phone 212-456-4040
Fax 212-456-2795

Email contact page

Read more here:

MRC CyberAlert, 03/22/2003 - Jennings Promotes Protest Leaders, Laments “Quiescent” Campuses

MRC Special Report - Peter's Peace Platoon: ABC's Crusade Against "Arrogant" American Power
Executive Summary
Full Report

MRC Media Reality Check - World News Tonight's Anti-War Agenda

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[Howlin]

I acutally heard him say this. I can't print what I said to my TV.

[Liberator]

In my wildest dreams, Jennings has already been hung from the highest tree in the Sequoia National Forest about 1,047 times.

[Republicus2001]

are you speaking of Pete Jennings, the Canadian TV show host?

[Peacerose]

Jennings must be FReeped severely. He is a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, nasty old so-and-so!

[Renegade]

Sent ABC an email expressing my discontent with Peter Jennings and his anti-American mindset . Recommended he get a job making white surrender flags in a French owned company in his homeland of Canada .

[CyberAnt]

Let this jerk keep talking - he's only serving to take his network lower and lower and lower in ratings. It couldn't happen to a worse bunch!!

[demnomo]

FReeped...and good. Oh, how I detest that Canadian Peter Jennings. He hates the US, always has, and wants Saddam's Ba'athist slugs to inflict massive casualties on the Coalition Forces just so he can gloat and say, see, I told you so about Bush and American policies. Also, he is very anti-Israel. His old girlfriend (Annan Washari?) is an anti-semitic comrade of that terrorist piece of slime Yassir Arafat.

[GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY]

Peter Jennings -- A Canadian High School Dropout. Need I say more?

[EternalVigilance]

It was becaue of people like Jennings that our leaders considered it politically unfeasible to go into Baghdad then. He's a hypocrite.

[not-an-ostrich]

He's contemptible. On the evening news tonight they didn't even mention or show any of Bush's speech today at the Pentagon. Media was reporting on Sunday Bush intended to be more public this week to shore up America. I wonder if Peter has any control over what is broadcast.

[Peacerose]

Correct. Peter Jennings, the anti-American Canadian.

[Aeronaut]

I acutally heard him say this. I can't print what I said to my TV.

Stop listening to him! I implore you for the sake of your sanity...

[Peacerose]

Don't hold back on your feelings!

[MeekMom]

I didn't know the "Sad and Damned" Hussein had a brother named Peter! Let's not break up a happy family. Let's ship Peter over to Hussein!

[libbylu]

i agree, i quit watching him and abc 12 years ago. life is too short to get aggravated every day.

[Howlin]

I had just watched those five women that are with the Women for Freedom of Iraq or something like that; he slipped up on me!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Eisner needs to can Jennings!

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[MeekMom]

Pete couldn't make me any sicker of him than I am right now.