[8mmMauser]

that's a start

[Dont Mention the War]

Peter Arnett, center, had been reporting from Baghdad for NBC News and MSNBC while on assignment for "National Geographic Explorer."

[FRgal4u]

it's about time - but who knows, cbs may hire baghdad pete and have him as co-reporter with dan blather...

lol

[8mmMauser]

Now if we can start taking legal action against enemies of our country from within............

[Neets]

Kudos to John Gibson, FOX News Network for bringing the actions of Benedict Arnett to light.

[EternalVigilance]

Arnett said it was clear that there was growing opposition to the war within the United States and a growing challenge to President Bush.

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.

[TLBSHOW]

bump

[NautiNurse]

Be alert to continued NBC/MSNBC reports citing "sources in Baghdad." Could be Arnett will be working out the rest of his contract as an unnamed source.

[Helms]

Will Walter Cronkite take him out boating off Marthas Vineyard (hey wheres Fredo Coreleone)?

[jackbill]

MSNBC was still showing his picture this morning - in a promo. They, of course, didn't mention his name, although it was on the screen.

Question; Did MSNBC replay any of the interview? I've only seen it on Fox News.

[Fighting Irish]

NBC Severs Its Ties With Journalist Peter Arnett After Interview With State-Run Iraqi TV By David Bauder Associated Press Writer Published: Mar 31, 2003

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.

AP-ES-03-31-03 0819EST --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Jalapeno]

Bwahahaha

[Common Tator]

The question is why did NBC hire Peter Arnett. Even CNN knew what Peter Arnett was doing years ago when they fired him.

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.

[samtheman]

More background:

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.

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 modern version of this:

The Islamofacist Left.

[twigs]

The other reporters left Baghdad for safety concerns. How was it that Arnett felt no such concern? Sounds embedded to me!

[capt. norm]

C.Y.A time for the "Peacock Network". They got their tail-feathers burned by waiting too long to do this. It'll be damage control time for them for the rest of the week.

I was hoping they would stick with him for a while and get stuck a little deeper.

Perhaps they took a lesson from what happened to the Dixie Chicks.

[xkaydet65]

The question MSNBC and G.E. should be made to answer is; was it wrong for a journalist to tell the information ministry of Iraq that his reports are increasing the anti war pressure in America? It's not simply a matter of harm done to the American and Allied effort, but did MSNBC consider the fact that such a statement would raise false hopes in the Iraqi leadership that continued "fierce resistance" would lead to their survival. This in turn leading to the futile deaths of thousands of Iraqi military and civilians who need not die. I do not believe this broadcast was live, thus MSNBC had time to consider its impact beyond ratings.Anti war and anti Bush sentiments may have induced management to play the tape, but common sense should have told them that while America is not going to be swayed by Peter Arnett, Iraq might be, and the false hope that America is awash in anti war fever would lead to further conflict and many more dead. DESPICABLE!!!!

[spectre]

Wonder if CNN will consider him "damaged goods"?

sw

[x1stcav]

Yessss!


Little by little, day by day, we are winning.

[freekitty]

Good, and they should try him for treason. They should also try Madonna for treason with that video of hers.