***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 23 - LIVE THREAD***

Everywhere! | 11 APR 03 | An.American.Expatriate

[Norman Arbuthnot]

Well, he's in Gen. Brooks' deck of cards. Maybe he's the Jack of Spades.

Baghdad Bob?

He has got to be the Joker. That is the perfect card for him.

[retrokitten]

Morning, Prairie!

Citizenship proposed for survivors of dead soldiers

[Abigail Adams]

Hey, I just saw some Heroes on the CBS Bagcam! Wonder what they're doing on that balcony??

[Abigail Adams]

Something about "controlled access on that side"?

[retrokitten]

Upside-down U.S. flag spurs complaints

[Jackie-O]

Freepmail call!

[Hila]

I saw that about the GI in the stretcher and keeping watch over his brothers who are helping him. It was awesome!

[retrokitten]

Back at ya!

[retrokitten]

Sick "peace" activists...

Mystery Callers Lie About Fate of Troops

[dead and gone]

rofl...good for a few votes each! I still love it that Democrats argue "racism" if we try to purge the voting rolls of the dead.

You livies hate us deadies....

[retrokitten]

LOL!! The dead still vote in record #'s here in north eastern IL.

[retrokitten]

Weapons Cache for Saddam's Son Odai Found

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

GAZPAAAAAAAAAACHO!

[Fracas]

I could not agree more. They were not neutral - they were actively anti-war. Look at the analysts they hired...Wesley Clark the chief culprit. Remember Christian Amanpour's rant against GWB in a college speech?

Why publish this now? My guess is a belated effort to soothe the people with a brain who refuse to watch CNN because of their bias.

OTOH, in all honesty I will never watch CNN even if they line their network with wall to wall conservatives. Ditto the major networks. It's time to stop shrugging off their bias and 'send them a message' the best way possible: vote with the remote.

I feel exactly the same way about MSNBC. They hire two token conservatives because they're getting whipped in the ratings - big deal. They haven't changed their stripes. This is still the network that hired Peter Arnett as a war correspondent, and whose network lineup was built around Chris Matthew. MSNBC only added the token conservatives to boost their ratings - not because they had a change of heart and saw the error of their ways.

Is FOX perfect? No, but their network was fair and balanced BEFORE the war, and when they were BEHIND in the ratings. I will not be seduced by the temptation to see a live report 5 or 15 minutes before FOX. What good is a picture if the person describing it has a political agenda? About 80% of the time, FOX has been there at the same time, or ahead of the competition. The analysts are not only experienced and smart, they are human ... alternately witty and serious, appropriate to the occasion.

And while I'm ranting..LOL...do you think the incessant anti-war, anti-Bush, anti-Pentagon will change at the NYTimes, the publisher of the CNN article? Will they issue an apology for Friedman, Apple, Dowd and the rest? Somehow I don't think so.

Working in the media made me cynical; watching it makes me sick.

[null and void]

I'm going to cry.

I've been replying to posts on Day 22 for THREE HOURS that are useless, because you're all over here now.

Bloody fingers. :-((

You could copy them to this thread.

Just for future reference, thread change is at midnight EDT, 6 AM Swiss time, 9 PM on the left coast...

[retrokitten]

Good rant. I can't disagree with any of it. The other night I was flipping channels before bed and passed by MSNBC and then went right back. They have this guy who looks like Chandler from Friends and he was giving some kind of commentary. The set up was EXACTLY like O'Reilly's Talking Points! I didn't even listen to Chandler, I just stopped long enough to see what was going on, shake my head and move on.

[BillM]

Jow Scarborough

[retrokitten]

His name is Jow?

[Consort]

The dead still vote in record #'s here in north eastern IL.

Those are the Underground Democrats that the Democrat Underground won't admit to.