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

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[Peacerose]

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

[Howlin]

You did, and that's what's wrong with US. We keep thinking that they are going to "get it," when they're not.

I said it before today, I hope the press is one of the things destroyed by this war. I want them to be SO wrong it scares me.

[JoeSchem]

It's time we stopped calling liberals 'anti-war,' and started calling them 'pro-tyrant.'

[Hildy]

Have you actually EVER seen a full length picture of Peter. From top to Bottom? Probably not. I'll tell you why. I say him at the Republican Convention in San Diego. He's totally short. One of those guys whose torso is fine, but not in proportion to his feet. Do you know what I mean?

[Howlin]

Honestly, my list just gets longer and longer. I don't even bother flipping anymore.

I will take any person here at the word before I'll believe ONE THING any of the media says! (Well, not *any* if you get my drift......LOL)

[Ronaldus Magnus Reagan]

Ted Koppel is even worse than Peter Jennings. I still remember how differently Ted Koppel treated Dan Quayle versus Bill Clinton over their draft dodging history.

[Peacerose]

Don't you imagine they are embarrassed having to carry his foolish "news" show?

[F.J. Mitchell]

What scares me the most is the thought that they do "get it"-but since it doesn't fit their agenda, they feign insanity.

[Peacerose]

"Pro-tyrant" it shall be!

[Howlin]

I think that this time you are probably right. I just can't face it, F.J. I just can't.

[Peacerose]

ROFLMAO!!!!

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

I'm bumping your post #38!!! :o)

[breakem]

and spent millions on weapons development

[F.J. Mitchell]

"Do you know what I mean?"

Be nice now Hildy- he's not the only guy who's shoe size has been mis-leading.

[DoctorMichael]

Thanks. Freeped.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

Someone needs to INFORM Jennings that the UN enabled this farce with Saddam since 1991.

President Bush 41, keeps getting the blame, but he was appeasing the UN by withdrawing when we did. He was following UN mandate.

NEVER AGAIN!!

The Iraqi's who tried to rise up against Saddam during that period are now dead. Those remaining KNOW this,..and are waiting to see if the US and Brittain REALLY are going to do the job this time. Otherwise they are all dead too.

We won't abandon them again. We cannot afford to listen to the UN and pull out.. not before a stable government BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE.. is in place. Personally, I don't think it will take that long to have a replacement Govt. in place. Look at Afghanistan/Karzai (sp).

But our presence and that of our allies will be needed to make sure factions don't try to usurp the new government.

What all this is about with Jennings and the Aaron Brown's (of CNN) is they are so liberal they can't think of whats best for our nation and the world. Its all about HATING President Bush.. PERIOD. Sad huh?

[F.J. Mitchell]

"I just can't face it, F.J. I just can't."

I know that feeling, but if we don't face it- the next thing anybody knows we will all believe that denial is a river in Egypt.

[MeekOneGOP]

A friend of mine recently told me that Peter Jennings never graduated from college. I hadn't heard that. Just now doing a Google Search, I can't find whether he definitely graduated or not, but I did find THIS:

After attending the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, he moved on to work at a small radio station in Brockville, but thanks to a story on a train wreck that he was covering for the CBC, he was hired to work for CTV, a private Canadian TV network.

Anybody have his education background? College degreed or not? I bet he's not . . .

[Peacerose]

I've been of the impression that he did not finish high school, but I don't know where I got that idea.

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL! Maybe because he's such a whining moron ? . . .

[Hildy]

It's true! I was shocked. We were standing outside and he was walking along the promenade near the water and it was unbelievable, almost freaky.