aquapub
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On the heels of recent stunning advancements against Al Queda in Iraq, one can’t help but notice a stark contrast in coverage between the leading liberal network and FOX News. Every time I have watched CNN in the last few days, the only mention of the treasure trove of intelligence gathered from Zarqawi’s safe house-recently used MOSTLY by the IRAQI military to conduct hundreds of devastating raids on terror cells, money, and weapons across Iraq- has been when CNN’s liberal elite DISSMISSED and PLAYED DOWN the accomplishment. They have taken great pains to avoid actually reporting what a devastating blow it was or that documents were uncovered in the raids that indicate the insurgency is nearing collapse.
Their avoidance of that entire side of the story was then accompanied by their well-timed release of a one-sided “documentary” meant to undermine the legitimacy of the war called, “Dead Wrong.” It was about the WMD that “never existed,” and the “intelligence meltdown” that led us into this “flawed thinking” that Saddam needed to be taken out.
Point after sleazy, misleading point sounded just like it was coming from Howard Dean or John Kerry (depending on which day of the week it you catch him on); it was like watching someone read DNC talking points.
They portrayed Saddam as never having been a threat to us or our troops before Bush insisted on invading. They made it look like there had been no relationship between Saddam and Al Queda by showing an ex-CIA agent saying, “There was no official, state sponsor relationship,” while omitting that there were extensive connections between the two. They failed to mention that Saddam was harboring Abu Abbas when we got there, that he had sponsored suicide bombers, killed Israelis and Americans with missiles and terrorist attacks, or that Saddam had tried to assassinate one of our presidents. There were numerous, numerous gaps in their coverage of the issue, and conveniently, every account of every story left Bush looking like an evil genius or a capricious stooge.
They failed to explain why Saddam had continuously expelled weapons inspectors every time they got close to certain sites if he had gotten rid of the remaining WMD-the ones he hadn’t used to commit genocide. They ignored the fact that we gave Saddam months and months to get rid of his WMD while we were debating invading. They also downplayed the 15 years of failed diplomacy leading up to the war.
The most comical thing about CNN’s coverage was how shocked they acted that their left wing viewing audience kept writing into the show with such vicious emails against the war, that they couldn’t even air them. People tend to get more extreme when they are only getting one side of the story.
FOX, on the other hand, released their big special about new evidence more extensively linking Saddam to the Taliban, and they brought one of the liberal Democrats who write for TIME Magazine (not that that narrows it down much) to discuss the war’s legitimacy and the impact of the Zarqawi safe house discoveries. Far more fair and way more balanced.
Their avoidance of that entire side of the story was then accompanied by their well-timed release of a one-sided “documentary” meant to undermine the legitimacy of the war called, “Dead Wrong.” It was about the WMD that “never existed,” and the “intelligence meltdown” that led us into this “flawed thinking” that Saddam needed to be taken out.
Point after sleazy, misleading point sounded just like it was coming from Howard Dean or John Kerry (depending on which day of the week it you catch him on); it was like watching someone read DNC talking points.
They portrayed Saddam as never having been a threat to us or our troops before Bush insisted on invading. They made it look like there had been no relationship between Saddam and Al Queda by showing an ex-CIA agent saying, “There was no official, state sponsor relationship,” while omitting that there were extensive connections between the two. They failed to mention that Saddam was harboring Abu Abbas when we got there, that he had sponsored suicide bombers, killed Israelis and Americans with missiles and terrorist attacks, or that Saddam had tried to assassinate one of our presidents. There were numerous, numerous gaps in their coverage of the issue, and conveniently, every account of every story left Bush looking like an evil genius or a capricious stooge.
They failed to explain why Saddam had continuously expelled weapons inspectors every time they got close to certain sites if he had gotten rid of the remaining WMD-the ones he hadn’t used to commit genocide. They ignored the fact that we gave Saddam months and months to get rid of his WMD while we were debating invading. They also downplayed the 15 years of failed diplomacy leading up to the war.
The most comical thing about CNN’s coverage was how shocked they acted that their left wing viewing audience kept writing into the show with such vicious emails against the war, that they couldn’t even air them. People tend to get more extreme when they are only getting one side of the story.
FOX, on the other hand, released their big special about new evidence more extensively linking Saddam to the Taliban, and they brought one of the liberal Democrats who write for TIME Magazine (not that that narrows it down much) to discuss the war’s legitimacy and the impact of the Zarqawi safe house discoveries. Far more fair and way more balanced.
