Media Matters - Conservatives have repeatedly questioned the courage...

bridgit

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Sat Jun-03-06 04:12 AM
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Media Matters - Conservatives have repeatedly questioned the courage...

...of journalists in Iraq, even with continuing casualties

'Nationally syndicated radio host Laura Ingraham:

On the March 21 broadcast of NBC's Today, Ingraham decried NBC News for "report only on the IEDs , only on the killings ... only on the reprisals" in Iraq, and for "reporting from hotel balconies" instead of in the field. She defended her comments on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor later that day, stating that "before the segment began ... I actually was watching a report by their NBC reporter, Richard Engel, who was doing one of those from the balcony reports, reporting on the bombs going off, reporting on the difficulties in Iraq." When host Bill O'Reilly characterized NBC as "the most anti-Bush network right now," Ingraham replied that "they seem invested right now." She later criticized "a group of people" in the media "who are invested in America's defeat" in Iraq, further stating that although NBC reporter David Bloom -- who died in Iraq in April 2003 -- "was over there covering the war when he died," she didn't know whether NBC News was -- in O'Reilly's words -- "actively trying to undermine the war in Iraq," and she added that "the media obviously has an element underneath it that really despises Bush, and it's blinding them."'

http://mediamatters.org/items/200606020001

their breath MUST stank of rotting meat, Laura Ingraham made great efforts to broadcast from a safe Iraqi base while in full body armour, as attentive soldiers handed her hamburgers & fries cooked by Halliburton x( liars all

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Selatius

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Sat Jun-03-06 04:22 AM
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1. If the Corporate News Networks were anti-Bush, there'd be NO WAR NOW!

It is as if the corporate news networks never even acted as a megaphone to catapult government propaganda about Saddam WMDs. It doesn't exist! It never happened! It was tossed down the memory hole to be incinerated as George Orwell wrote!

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bridgit

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Sat Jun-03-06 04:27 AM
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2. never asked a single question of any substance, far too ready to get...

those embedded passes & get those war stories & pics of burned out buildings for their corporate advertisements to play-over...disgusting

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Sat Jun-03-06 05:48 AM
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3. I distinctly remember them calling me a traitor, and telling me to shut up

while they carried out their dirty little illegal invasion.

And it wasn't just FAUX. It was society in general, but spurred on by ALL broadcast outlets. There isn't one of them that questioned the bogus intel used to 'justify' illegally invading a sovereign nation.

Not one.

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Sat Jun-03-06 06:25 AM
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4. If the MSM actually reported half of what ShrubCo does, there'd be riots

reporting the truth = hating Murka

How these swine at the various networks sleep at night I do not know. How most of the people who work in the upper echelons of the U.S. government sleep at night is an even bigger mystery to me. I guess a lot of them are sociopaths. A lot of them are probably afraid for their lives, or are being blackmailed and have little choice. A lot of others probably do not sleep.

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bridgit

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Sat Jun-03-06 09:10 AM
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5. that i believe to be absolutely true, then this nation would burst into...

flames...hey, greekspeak, tell yer old man i said, "sup homey" sup, homey to you too :hi: :donut: it's till :donut: time out here :-)

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greekspeak

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Sat Jun-03-06 12:01 PM
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6. I will be certain to pass along your regards to dear Clintmax

Thanks! :hi:

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johnaries

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Sat Jun-03-06 12:08 PM
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7. Hello! If they leave the balconies THEY GET KILLED!

So much for "good news" out of Iraq. THERE AIN'T NONE!

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TahitiNut

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Sat Jun-03-06 12:18 PM
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8. Laura Ingraham: Media Necrophile

Corrupt to her core.

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bridgit

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Sat Jun-03-06 12:27 PM
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9. that's not possible to disagree with, TahitiNut...

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ComerPerro

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Sat Jun-03-06 12:27 PM
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10. so get her ass over there, without any military escort or protection

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bridgit

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Sat Jun-03-06 12:37 PM
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11. sure, let little house on the prairie laura jam out of a troop transport...

all fleet of foot, and onto a landscape exploding with deathly grim IED's; maybe she'll post THAT report someday

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