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Critics Call Radio Hosts' Trip Propaganda Mission

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Posted by Steve 2005-07-05 11:27|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Nice to see the talk show people going over. And of course the LLL are crying 'cause people might actually hear what is going on instead of the normal defeatest bullshit.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-07-05 11:46|| 2005-07-05 11:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Couple of my favorite people on this tour (Williams and Morgan). Both are straight shooters and that says volumes about how the left is acting. They are denouncing that outcome before itâs been reported. So if they return with stories of schools opening, hospitals running, and happy campers that canât possibly be right. I know that everything is not right in Iraq but I donât think EVERYTHING is wrong as reported in the press today. At best it might guilt some of the âjournalistsâ to report something other than the body count this month. Yes terrorists are killing people but that is not the only thing happening in Iraq. Look for the spin control (and volume) from the MSM and LLL on this to rise as the reports start rolling in. Look for ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC/EIEIO to start reporting on stories other than combat related. In fact I saw a story on CNN yesterday about a Political Science school that had opened in Baghdad. This was on a prime Bush-Bashing day (A patriotic national holiday) that is normally reserved for politicians/LLL groups crying about how the world hates us.

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-07-05 12:07|| 2005-07-05 12:07|| Front Page Top

#3 One of the things talk show hosts can do is interview the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, those trying to rebuild the two countries, as well as the knowledgeable reporters living with the troops (hint: Michael Yon). Get the first hand experiences of these people to their listening audiences. It shouldn't be difficult for the hosts can set up these phone interviews and the DoD should encourage it.

Posted by ed 2005-07-05 12:17|| 2005-07-05 12:17|| Front Page Top

#4 "Waaah! It's gonna be too crowded in the hotel bar!"

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-07-05 12:27|| 2005-07-05 12:27|| Front Page Top

#5 I see it as more of an anti-propaganda mission.

I, for one, would like to hear a story by someone who has "no idea what journalism is.." Might be refreshing!

Posted by Bobby 2005-07-05 12:49|| 2005-07-05 12:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Cincinnati-based host (with a national weekend show) Mike McConnell went a couple of months ago. He came back with some interesting stories (like the phone jack inside one of Saddam's palaces that acts like a domestic line into the US) and a point I heard him beating the anti-war nuts with this weekend: The men on the ground say we're doing the right thing, so why do you say you're speaking for them when you call for us to leave?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-07-05 13:00|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-07-05 13:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Ah, but not all of the troops think we're doing the right thing! The MSM must have interviewed most - maybe all - of them.

Posted by Bobby 2005-07-05 13:12|| 2005-07-05 13:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Two comments removed for lack of taste, posters were not banned, however. Let's keep it clean, please.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-07-05 16:44|| 2005-07-05 16:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Huh? What happened? Sheesh, I missed it, I guess.

Posted by .com 2005-07-05 16:46|| 2005-07-05 16:46|| Front Page Top

#10 Obviously a trick by the AOS to magnify page count. Were whymns involved?

Posted by Shipman 2005-07-05 16:54|| 2005-07-05 16:54|| Front Page Top

#11 All these pinko, fudge packing "journalists" who are already calling this trip propaganda and dissing these folk need to have the hell beat out of them. I am sick of these rich east coast snobs running our counrty it's military and president down.

Message to Peter Beinart get youself a body guard. Some fed up human is going to pound your arse into the pavement you treasonus puke.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-07-05 17:14|| 2005-07-05 17:14|| Front Page Top

#12 loosen up Steve
jees

Posted by Mountain Man 2005-07-05 17:43|| 2005-07-05 17:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Hey, CyberSarge!

I listen to Lee and Melanie every morning on the drive into Berkeley. She was fired up about these base lies this morning, I gotta' tell ya'.

Melanie Morgan is footing a substantial dollar cost of this trip (KSFO's picking up only a portion of the tab), and (Mark?) Williams is reportedly spending $15k of his own money.

Frikkin' idiot leftist morons think the only reason anyone would go to Iraq is to support the "Bush Agenda". They have no concept that real Americans might actually want to go there and show support for our troops (or to get a story from a real, not-from-your-LLL-journalist-hotel-bar-partner, journalist).

Posted by LC FOTSGreg">LC FOTSGreg 2005-07-05 22:18|| 2005-07-05 22:18|| Front Page Top

#14 "Critics Call Radio Hosts' Trip Propaganda Mission"

Gee, they say that like it's a bad thing. Hosers.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-07-05 22:33|| 2005-07-05 22:33|| Front Page Top

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