Posted on 06/09/2014 6:45:14 AM PDT by xzins
I have a confession. I watch Fox weekend programming...some. It's generally when I awaken too early in the middle of the night, and I have to choose between Ninja Blender and Golden Girl reruns. I move over to Fox News hoping to get back to sleep.
Somewhere in the middle of the night last night I bumped into Kurtz' weekly show that initially featured discussion on Bowe Bergdahl. He was helped along by radical liberal Bill Press and liberal Laura Ashburn. Jim Pinkerton was a lone conservative voice in a show reminiscent of every liberal "panel" on other network TV.
How dare Bergdahl's platoon consider him a deserter? (They knew better than those who were there.) How dare conservatives question his father? How dare conservatives think it only realistic that his captors imprisoned him and did not initially trust him? How dare conservatives think Bergdahl was trying to escape only after he figured he might have miscalculated the Taliban instantly falling in love with him.
I've been puzzled all week by Fox running MSNBC commercials. Maybe not so much after Media Buzz in the middle of the night.
And, believe it or not, Kurtz unfairly attacked O'Reilly. There's probably no love lost for O'Reilly on Free Republic, but FR can be fair to the man. Plante and group were all over O'Reilly for suggesting that Bergdahl's dad was coming across as a Taliban sympathizer. I agree with O'Reilly. BergDad did come across as a sympathizer. Lying through their teeth, Plante/Ashworth/Kurtz all stated O'Reilly concluded this based on BergDad's beard.
All of them knew O'Reilly had argued that BergDad went out of his way to look like a Taliban sympathizer because of a stream of Islamic praise in the language of Islam that came flowing out of BergDad's own lips. Adding to that the beard, the public statements, and the advice to his son, O'Reilly came to a conclusion.
But, ignoring all the facts, Kurtz attacked Fox's flagship and lied about it by omission.
This weekend's Media Buzz received an immediate Nielsen rating. I flipped off the TV. Don't watch Media Buzz. It's a waste.
The one thing that makes this toxic and hopefully fatal to The Regime is the boots on the ground speaking truth to power - to powerful liars.
The Regime did NOT see that coming. None of the myriad scandals have this aspect.
I trust that their security is being well attended to.
QY: Is there compilation of ALL the truth tellers' testimony?
If the guys on the ground tell you the enemy has a new weapon that shoots flaming darts from their arse, then you take them seriously. (Stolen a bit from Braveheart...a great movie in which Wallace listened to his guys on the ground.)
Swift boating is retained for Jone “I faked my Purple Heart” Kerry only so to turn it around on anyone else won’t work.
Liberals are trying to use this wording because they can’t come up with anything on their own.
That and the fact that even the Taliban never got comfortable trusting a deserter/traitor and at first kept him locked up. (I wouldn’t have trusted him either.)
That and the fact that Bergdahl was hacked that the Taliban didn’t recognize how wonderful he was right away so thought maybe he better try to get out of there. (The so-called ‘escape’.)
So, if the enemy you desert to isn’t immediately impressed with a traitor, it’s only THEN that you deserve the Medal of Honor.
Here is what some lefties told me on Friday night. He didn’t desert. He was sent in undercover to go and spy on the Taliban, while pretending to be a deserter. That is why he was promoted while in captivity. And us common peasants, nor his platoon mates, don’t or can’t know any of this, we should just trust the President.
Howard Kurtz is UNWATCHABLE!!!! FOX should be ASHAMED!!!
I agree. The old media watch show was much better.
Kurtz is a liberal and the last person who should be evaluating the media on a network that conservatives gravitate to.
That is just about the dumbest thing I ever heard.
I saw it too. I had to check the station, I thought I was on CNN or some other left wing station. It was BS for sure. I e mailed Fox News and let them know what I thought about it.
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And they know this and we don’t, why?
When Faux announced his move to their network, I shouted to self—WTF do they need another liberal? I have never liked/trusted/listened/watched this excuse for a reporter.
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