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CENTCOM Briefing in 15 minutes
Brit Hume Special Report FNC | 4/1/03 | Yankee

Posted on 04/01/2003 3:04:10 PM PST by Yankee

Hume just announced a briefing in 15 minutes


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: centcom; iraq; iraqifreedom; live; war; warlist
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To: rumrunner
IMO, they built this up with all the hype...I thought for sure it was Speicher.
1,361 posted on 04/01/2003 4:34:59 PM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
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To: Timesink
Did CENTCOM announce that? (Sorry, I'm trying to follow online...)
1,362 posted on 04/01/2003 4:35:02 PM PST by k2blader
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To: dep
well, that pretty much sucked. i think i'm beginning to see why the d.o.d has some serious p.r. problems. you do not awaken the entire friggin news corps and read them one news-free sentence.

Maybe you do.

First you drop hints that cause them to rave that the troops are bogged down, meeting fierce opposition and taking an operational pause. Then the next day, you casually mention that the Battle for Baghdad is underway.

Maybe the DoD are the scientists, and the feckless journalists are little white rats that keep pressing the food bar earnestly, never knowing if they'll get a food pellet or a nasty shock on their little rat feet...

1,363 posted on 04/01/2003 4:35:06 PM PST by Interesting Times (Eagles Up! Join the Rally for America...)
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To: yonif; Timesink
Yoni, I love that Ronald Reagan quote. It's one of my favorites.

"Republicans believe every day is 4th of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15." - Ronald Reagan

1,364 posted on 04/01/2003 4:35:23 PM PST by TaxRelief
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To: lmavk
Moron!
1,365 posted on 04/01/2003 4:35:25 PM PST by fml (freedom begins with W!)
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To: vikingchick
Just logging in, VC, what's up?
1,366 posted on 04/01/2003 4:35:28 PM PST by CheneyChick (Lock & Load)
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To: Right_in_Virginia
You'd think we, of all people, would be more suspicious.
1,367 posted on 04/01/2003 4:35:34 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Right_in_Virginia
Shep sure did sell that story...not that it wasn't great but I think he overplayed the hand a bit unless there's more going on we don't know yet...
1,368 posted on 04/01/2003 4:35:40 PM PST by GOPrincess
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To: lmavk
I'm beginning to wonder how Brooks got this job, uhhh, could this be affirmative action at work?

That was a totaly uncalled for comment.

1,369 posted on 04/01/2003 4:35:44 PM PST by SeeRushToldU_So ( Something witty, etc, etc....)
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
Heard earlier Pentagon triple checks everything. Shep said they are also going to triple check before they release it.
1,370 posted on 04/01/2003 4:35:45 PM PST by valleygal
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
Yes, how do you know that?

NBC,MSNBC, and CNBC.

Also independent confirmation from another network's internal email.

1,371 posted on 04/01/2003 4:35:46 PM PST by Timesink (Six hundred and four, Toxteth O'Grady, USA.)
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To: aristeides
She was in 507th Maintenance Company, listed as missing. Rescued by successful special forces operation.

That's great. I'm glad that a 19 year old American female is not going to be subject to a bunch of creepy Muslim misogynists.
1,372 posted on 04/01/2003 4:35:50 PM PST by aruanan
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To: PhiKapMom
Sounds like they have been unable to get in touch with the family and wonder if that was the delay!

the cheapest p.r. agency in the smallest backwater mud-hut village anywhere on the entire planet would tell you that you take care of that before you call the news conference. (though it was hilarious just now to hear wolf blitzer refer to it as "dramatic," because he has no idea whether it was dramatic or not. might be that the bad guys drove him/her to the front line and said, "take. drive us crazy. talk talk talk all the time.")

anyway, the pentagon does not need a pissed-off press corps in doha right now, but that's certainly what they have. and i don't blame the press corps in the slightest in this case.

dep

1,373 posted on 04/01/2003 4:35:55 PM PST by dep
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To: rumrunner
You obviously know nothing about the military -- General Brooks briefs what he is told. He doesn't plan the briefing!
1,374 posted on 04/01/2003 4:35:59 PM PST by PhiKapMom (Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US)
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To: amused
but is this the best briefer they could find in the whole military?
1,375 posted on 04/01/2003 4:36:11 PM PST by lmavk
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To: two23
WHere'd you order the bracelet????
1,376 posted on 04/01/2003 4:36:13 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Timesink
Thank God and those that rescued her!
1,377 posted on 04/01/2003 4:36:19 PM PST by ruoflaw
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To: Interesting Times
Maybe the DoD are the scientists, and the feckless journalists are little white rats that keep pressing the food bar earnestly, never knowing if they'll get a food pellet or a nasty shock on their little rat feet...

You would think after several times they would catch on to the "rope a dope" strategy.

1,378 posted on 04/01/2003 4:36:21 PM PST by amused (Republicans for Sharpton!)
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To: Howlin
Oh, I gotcha. Yeah, you're right. Shep and everyone got so excited, and we went right along with them! :) The perils of following live news, huh?
1,379 posted on 04/01/2003 4:36:25 PM PST by GOPrincess
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To: McGruff
Freeeeeeeedom !

Freedom !!


1,380 posted on 04/01/2003 4:36:26 PM PST by ChadGore (288,007,154 Americans did not protest the war today)
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