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"Change" You Can Believe In:
"Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn’t control (the media). They didn’t try. [...] What the hell do they think we are, puppets?"Helen Thomas, describing the Obama admin's penchant for heavily scripting public appearances & press conferences - 7/1/09
Media spins Zarqawi killing into a negative
…. surprise! Visit Newsbusters and just keep scrolling for some of the absurdity our ‘unbiased’ MSM put forth in response to the killing of Zarqawi.
This one was particularly interesting. Matt Lauer questioned the timing:
Matt Lauer: “And Mik, let me just talk about the timing of this. The, the U.S. military has been rocked over the last couple of weeks by headlines suggesting an alleged massacre in Haditha. So clearly this comes at a very important time for the Pentagon.”
Jim Miklaszewski: “Well it comes at an important time for the Pentagon, the Bush administration but also for the Iraqis to sort of regain some confidence in their own security forces, Matt. And it was no mistake that the U.S. sat on this information for about 18 hours and allowed the information to be conveyed to the Iraqis and the world by Prime Minister Maliki.”
When/if OBL is captured or his remains are found, I wonder how they’ll spin THAT?
Did you hear what Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) had to say in response to today’s good news?:
“This is just to cover Bush’s [rear] so he doesn’t have to answer” for Iraqi civilians being killed by the U.S. military and his own sagging poll numbers, said Rep. Pete Stark, California Democrat. “Iraq is still a mess — get out.”
If he’s your rep, contact him and let him know how you feel about his comments.
(Hat tip: Allahpundit)
More negativity: Scott Thill at HuffPo:
Ah, the more things change, the more they remain the same. If there are any Americans left who believe that the death of Zarqawi is anything other than an orchestrated photo-op, then it’s time to start scouting out apartments in Vancouver.
Dr. Sanity points to other frowning anti-war liberals in the blogoshere here.
Confederate Yankee has a screencap of the CNN website where they posted a photo of a neighboring home that was bombed in the hit on Zarqawi. I guess CNN’s angle was ‘were civilians killed?’
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer wonders about “collateral damage” (via Democracy Project):
Source: CNN
Journalist: Wolf Blitzer (Situation Room)
In an otherwise good interview of the venerable Zalmay Khalilzad live from Baghdad, Wolf wrapped up with the final Question:
“Collateral Damage, Mr. Ambassador. Do you know if there were any innocent civilians killed as collateral damage in the double-bombing?”
All things considered, this may be the first time CNN has shown concern about the possibility of innocent Iraqis being killed.
On a much more upbeat note, Chris Hitchens provides a breath of fresh air:
If we had withdrawn from Iraq already, as the “peace” movement has been demanding, then one of the most revolting criminals of all time would have been able to claim that he forced us to do it. That would have catapulted Iraq into Stone Age collapse and instated a psychopathic killer as the greatest Muslim soldier since Saladin. As it is, the man is ignominiously dead and his dirty connections a lot closer to being fully exposed. This seems like a good day’s work to me.
Indeed.
Check out AllahPundit’s Zarqawi airstrike remix video. COOL! (Hat tip: Kevin/blogagog)
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When I blogged on this this morning I figured the MSM would spin this as unimportant. This is creepy even by their own low standards.
Do they have no sense of shame?
We knew it was only going to be a short celebration with these folks in the room. I did like the lefty who said something about an apartment in Vancouver. Sounds like a plan. To quote a famous house in New York, “GET OUT”!!! I have no problem if these people want to leave the US and go to the Mecca of Liberalism that is our friends to the North. I only ask one thing, Don’t come back. If you think things are so great up there, Go. You are only going to make this country better. What kind of individual would think that their running away is going to change matters 1 iota?? Hello can you spell delusional?? Even if 100,000 lefties left this country for Canada all they are going to do is make it easier for conservatives to win elections. Thanks Guys Now GET OUT, and take that Baldwin individual with you. He can lead the way singing “God save the Queen” and waving a peace symbol flag, while wearing his Chi Guavare’ T-Shirt. – Lorica
A bunch of lefties said they were leaving if Bush won in 2004. He did win, and they didn’t leave. Lefties are so full of bs.
- The hard left, all those deranged voices you see yammering in rabid obnoxious, outright traesonous voices on the blog sites are becoming a yoke around the Democratic parties neck. They hate the Hilldebeast, for of all things, being too Conservative.
- I’m coming to believe that some of these people are so unhinged they’re a clear danger to themselves and society. Its way past political discord, or debate of ideas. they’re into cult territory, and the more things stabilize in Iraq, the worse they get.
- At some point, the general public are going to get so fed up its going to effect the party as a whole. Today you saw the Democratic leadership really tiptoeing on the demise of Zarqawi. I think they’re starting to realize themselves a certain segment of their party is completely out of control….
- Bang
A bunch of lefties said they were leaving if Bush won in 2004.
Maybe some of them did. It could explain why Bilbray won in the Peoples’ Republic of Kalifornia this past Tuesday, and why Props 81 & 82 went down the toilet.
At any rate I suppose the MSM’s new mantra on Iraq will be: Save the Quagmire!
I knew the whole timing thing would be brought up. That’s a media/left favorite.
Can you imagine this happening:
Various high ranking military officials sitting around a table: “Well, we know exactly where Zarqawi is and we can eliminate him now. But, because of the timing, we have to let him go.”
Ugh!
Stark is an idiot representing the East Bay.
My friends on The Liberal Avenger website are among those hammering on President Bush for failing to “get” Mr al Zarqawi in 2002. I commented:
Even better Dana, lets see if we get the “progressives” erudite, well thought out position on things correct.
- When we pursue the Jihadist thugs, and bring them to justice, its either unimportant, or its a setup to bolster Bush’s approval numbers.
- When we show restraint, not killing everything in sight, Bush/Clinton are inneffective Dolts.
- Does that about sum it up?
- You guys just can’t get your screeds straight.
- What partisan, sour grapes tripe.
- Bang