December 05, 2006
Howard Kurtz: "Richard Engel, top administration officials, as you well know, have repeatedly criticized correspondents like you for painting an unnecessarily negative picture of what's going on in Iraq, staying in the Green Zone, and all of that. Now that this -- even the private doubts and reservations of the White House and the Pentagon are coming out, do you feel vindicated?"Got that? Conservative and administration critics are endangering reporters by calling them on slanted and faked news.Richard Engel: "No. It's been very frustrating all along to be at the receiving end of that criticism with acquisitions like we just spend all of our time in the Green Zone....It's also, in some degree, dangerous. I mean, I know reporters, colleagues of mine who have received so much criticism over the last three and a half, four years, that they felt they've had something to prove. And so they put themselves in extraordinarily dangerous situations. And I know one reporter who was kidnapped as a result of it. So it's not a sense of vindication, but it is good that people are finally starting to see that the situation in Iraq is tremendously difficult, and it is not just reporters who are looking for bad -- bad news stories."
Here's a tip for you Richard, and you don't have to leave your Green Zone hotel bar to take advantage: go here. This is the official CENTCOM page. In the right sidebar you'll see a link called "Press Releases." Here you'll find all the stories that you and your "journalist" comrades never, ever give any air time to. Each week there are scores of stories about Coalition operations, dead and captured terrorists, weapons caches discovered and destroyed, even US casualty lists for you to gloat over - maybe you could start a trend, reporting everything that's happening in Iraq instead of just the stories that our enemies and the Democrats want reported.
It's even easier than getting stories from al Qaeda moles, like the Associated Press.
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You just know that Ernie Pyle is spinning in his grave and wondering whatever became of patriotism and journalism.
Posted by: Buzzy at December 05, 2006 12:30 PM (CXz7T)
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at December 05, 2006 02:14 PM (vBK4C)
Posted by: Gleep! at December 05, 2006 02:59 PM (Zlbra)
Posted by: Gleep! at December 05, 2006 03:03 PM (Zlbra)
Posted by: davec at December 05, 2006 03:05 PM (yaQM4)
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at December 05, 2006 03:17 PM (vBK4C)
These gutless MSM reporters are no different than the limo-liberals who hire illegals to do their housework and gardning and watch their kids. Friggin' Posers are what they are, sitting enshrined in the hotel bar, holding court with open laptop and making up copy as the mood strikes them. I even look at a copy of the NYT and I feel I need a shower.
CNN? Gimmee a break. Dyed-in-the-wool, foam-at-the-mouth Anti-American drivel mongers are what they have become, with their stories so full of sh*t it's amazing they haven't been considered as the source of the New York Taco Bell E-coli infections.
Naw, any news source that refuses to embed isn't worth a teaspoon of warm spit as far as I'm concerned. The only thing Engel and his cronies deserve is a warm winter coat of hot tar and chicken feather, liberally (of course), applied.
Respects,
Posted by: Gwedd at December 05, 2006 03:47 PM (pDOVp)
Posted by: Darth Vag at December 05, 2006 06:45 PM (HSkSw)
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at December 05, 2006 07:54 PM (vBK4C)
I feel vindicated.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at December 06, 2006 12:59 AM (bLPT+)
It's anyone who is winning an argument with a lefturd.
You're a pathetic piece of shit. You think you'll enjoy the triumphal
march when your beloved muslims take over? Lefturds like you will be
the first to hang, because they hate queers, liberals, and pretty much
everyone else of your kind, because the one thing that muslims hate
above all is a man without the balls to fight. I may die fighting, but
you'll get your head sawed off with a dull knife or left dangling and
kicking from an overpass for their amusement. In fact, I think I could
actually make a truce with muslims just to have the pleasure of joining
them in killing off the lefturds before returning to the main event,
because I wouldn't want to miss seeing lefturds turning blue and
shitting themselves at the end of a rope for any reason.
Of course, you could always get lucky and be taken as a wife to some lonely jihadi, which, I suspect, would suit you just fine.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at December 06, 2006 07:10 AM (v3I+x)
Posted by: Greyrooster at December 06, 2006 09:35 AM (ezJiI)
Posted by: courtney at December 06, 2006 10:50 AM (dw9Ki)
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at December 06, 2006 02:03 PM (vBK4C)
Actually, living in Iraq is less dangerous than many places here in the states. Of course, you wouldn't KNOW that from reading any MSM pieces. Did you know that you are more likely to die from a firearms related injury in Washington, DC, than in Baghdad? Did you know that there are nearly 10 times more young people (18-25) who die on American highways and roads each year than total US deaths in Iraq since we went to war?
Dearest Courtney, Engel is a hack, a tired, jaded, propagandist who loaths his own nation and whose only courage comes from a bottle of gin. He is a product of more than 5 decades of liberal control of our colleges, newspapers, and airwaves. In short, he is a turd. His value to society is less than a turd, because a turd at least nourishes the earth and helps grow life. His reporting only encourages defeatism and death, destruction of the very constitution and nation whose laws he would hide behind to protect his faceless, nameless, sources, and himself from charges of aiding and abetting the enemy.
Respects,
Posted by: Gwedd at December 06, 2006 02:50 PM (pDOVp)
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at December 06, 2006 06:43 PM (bLPT+)
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