God, doesn't the media know they were conned???

They did launch the sarin from this base and the traces and evidence had to be destroyed.

Hey Donnie, can ya do me a favor comrade?

100 Million to blow up a small part of an empty airfield.

AMERICA CANNOT AFFORD TRUMP"S FOLLIES!

They had no evidence that Syria dropped the gas or even what type of gas it was? They didn't take the time to find out. It was an impulsive reaction by all sides.

"It is a step into a dangerous unknown and its full impact is impossible to predict, especially in the immediate wake of the first strike."

This impulsive childish fool scares the hell out of me.

What were they thinking---that Chris Matthews is some sort of role model, i.e., that aggressive war actions by this country should create instant hard-ons? Like their new-found hero likes to say: Sad!

"How many of these commentators and Trump lovers dicks are hard because of missile drops,they love war MFKERS!

Garry Trudeau had that nailed 40 years ago.

-- Mal

If a right-wing politico starts some military aggression, it's a safe bet that Tweety will be uttering spittle-flecked praises of his new mancrush. What a shame to see respected commentators like Zakaria and Williams descending to the same low level.

Little boys love to watch things go BOOM! From the safety of their own armchairs, of course.

-- Mal

TOTAL metaphor.

...but on the other hand, the vagina-shpaed prototype missiles didn't work too good.

Geez why is everything military so glamorous in this country?

with it all. Then the media becomes critical of military operations. How quickly they forget the war fatigue of Iraq and Afghanistan, conflicts that never really ended. I'm sure there is plenty of "glamour" in those countries, but I guess that is old glamour now.

and the gop would be Shitting their pants.

And mass media are owned by the same people.

It is what I call 'the Rush Limbaugh effect'.

Pay someone a whole bunch of money, and they will say EXACTLY what you want them to say.

Your choice (as the media personality) is to toe the line, or accept that they're gonna ruin your life.

This is why TV personalities can always be counted on to fawn over war. It's why we need a news media not dependent on, or influenced by advertising.

"military-industrial-congressional complex" but was talked out of it just before his speech.

....... it was the military-industrial-scientific complex. (I just finished a Biography of his). A very wise president, not regarded highly enough these days. There's no way he could be elected in these times though. An passage from the speech :

Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present
and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.
It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system -- ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.

media hosts war is not to be glorified. Also we don't see tRump saying Syrian refugees can come to the US.

Geez, I wonder if they told tRumps father Fred he couldn't bring in his wife so many years ago????, the country welcomed everyone back then, this is not normal. The USA is not Russia, what don't these SOB's get???

launching V2 rockets into London. *Sarcasm* Most in the media are vile.

Granted, Mr Rather is a bit long in the tooth to engage in those. Too bad he doesn't have access to Tomahawk missiles.

-- Mal

I am kind of sick of CNN with it's Brady Bunch style little boxes of people yelling at each other.

Just like Pavlovs' pups.

100%. Bush set the precedent and the hopelessly servile media follows like a little puppy licking the soles of the boots of their fuhrer.

I was just waiting for this response from the media and sure enough, it came through...

He will always be a conman. Why would seasoned veteran journalists buy into the notion that drumpfanov is suddenly acting or could be presidential. The preannounced missile attack was just another con.

And I agree 100%. I worked a phone bank for Mr. Carter in Denver when he was running for President after being inspired by his speech that day. Truly a man of conscience.

I remember him when he confronted Nixon again and again. These pretend muscle-men sitting smugly behind their desks and glorifying war and the idiot who launched it aren't fit to shine Dan's shoes.

Obama.. they and the gop would be shitting in their pants.

Yes, it would be a whole different story now, Riff, if reporters like Walter Cronkite were still reporting the news.. instead of those who now currently manufacture it.

A ratings bonanza with video loops.

So fuckin predictable.

Thanks Dan Rather for speaking up.

The media's approving coverage will encourage 45 to be more reckless, more war-like, more trusting of his late night impulses. More violent in every way.

The media encouraging him is lethal. Do they forget that this is the spoiled child who could mindlessly start WW3?

I hate them for their shortsighted greed and group-think.

My gawd if he was golfing again as usual and his golfing partner fell and the cameras caught him helping up that person he'd be lauded a hero.

The MSM are just dying to have any excuse to go back to the way things were..when both parties were forced into boxes of being equally good and equally bad. Where they could divide stories up so that one day it was Democrats being bad and the next it was Republicans. And then have on reps where the Republican gets to yell over everyone else with BS, and the host just smiles, ignorant of the facts, and ends the show with a chuckle and a "who knows who is in the right here?"

He is right on!

Can you start a war?

I'm glad there's at least you shouting the truth from the mountaintop.

I guess Dan Rather is the only one.