Peter Arnett's Baghdad Dairy [sic]INTERVIEW CONTENT
Posted on 03/31/2003 5:28:17 AM PST by Dont Mention the War
Edited on 03/31/2003 5:39:08 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
March 31 — NBC and MSNBC on Monday said they had terminated their relationship with Peter Arnett after the journalist told state-run Iraqi TV that the U.S.-led coalition’s initial war plan had failed and that reports from Baghdad about civilian casualties had helped antiwar protesters undermine the Bush administration’s strategy.
“IT WAS wrong for Mr. Arnett to grant an interview to state controlled Iraqi TV — especially at a time of war — and it was wrong for him to discuss his personal observations and opinions in that interview,” NBC News President Neal Shapiro said in a statement. “Therefore, Peter Arnett will no longer be reporting for NBC News and MSNBC.”
Arnett, who won a Pulitzer Prize reporting in Vietnam for The Associated Press, appeared on NBC’s “Today” show Monday to apologize for his statements. (MSNBC.com is an NBC News-Microsoft joint venture)
Peter Arnett's Baghdad Dairy [sic]
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| Peter Arnett, center, had been reporting from Baghdad for NBC News and MSNBC while on assignment for "National Geographic Explorer." |
Of course, the exact opposite is demonstrably true. Every day, more Americans have been awakened to the true threat, and every day, the communist agitator's strength has waned.
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NEW YORK (AP) - NBC fired journalist Peter Arnett on Monday, saying it was wrong for him to give an interview with state-run Iraqi TV saying that the American-led coalition's first war plan had failed because of Iraq's resistance. Arnett himself called the interview a "misjudgment." Arnett, on NBC's "Today" show on Monday, said he was sorry for his statement but added, "I said over the weekend what we all know about the war."
"I want to apologize to the American people for clearly making a misjudgment," Arnett said.
NBC had defended him on Sunday, saying he had given the interview as a professional courtesy and that his remarks were analytical in nature. But by Monday morning the network switched course and, after Arnett spoke with NBC News President Neal Shapiro, said it would no longer work with Arnett.
"It was wrong for Mr. Arnett to grant an interview to state-controlled Iraqi TV, especially at a time of war," NBC spokeswoman Allison Gollust said. "And it was wrong for him to discuss his personal observations and opinions in that interview."
Arnett, who won a Pulitzer Prize reporting in Vietnam for The Associated Press, garnered much of his prominence from covering the 1991 Gulf War for CNN. One of the few American television reporters left in Baghdad, his reports were frequently aired on NBC and its cable sisters, MSNBC and CNBC.
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How Anti-American does a reporter have to be to get fired by CNN? How Anti-American does a reporter have to be before before NBC refuses to hire him?
Make no mistake Kouric, Brokaw and many others at NBC are not very different from Arnett. They hold similar views. They are just a bit smarter. But if they felt they could get away with it they would express similar views to Arnetts on Nightly news and the Today show. In the last 7 days they have used puppets to express similar views on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC.
NBC has fired Peter Arnett not for what he said, but for getting caught saying it. If it were not for the Internet and Fox, Peter would still be with NBC.
The Fascist Left During the 1930s and 1940s
AMERICAN BOLSHEVIKS DURING THE 1930S AND 1940S sought to turn the USA into the USSA. With slogans of brotherhood and justice, these individuals would have supplanted the American Way with Marxian dogma.The modern version of this:But Stalinists in America weren't the only subversive group during this period. While these anti-Americans aspired to a dictatorship of the proletariat (or the vanguard thereof), other anti-Americans aspired to a dictatorship of race in which pigment would determine one's freedom. The latter, borrowing Paul Johnson and David Horowitz's phrase, constitute the Fascist Left.
The Islamofacist Left.
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