Posted on 04/08/2008 6:25:31 AM PDT by ConservativeMajority
Members of the military are prohibited from engaging in political activity, but ABC News convinced a few soldiers in Iraq to go before the cameras to discuss their choices for president. It is well known that the troops generally support Republicans because of their pro-military credentials, which is the reason Al Gore tried to have ballots from overseas military bases disqualified during the 2000 recount. However, Martha Raddatz could not find a single soldier who supported Sen. John McCain, a Vietnam War veteran for Commander in Chief. Most of those Raddatz interviewed backed Sen. Barack Obama with one favoring Sen. Hillary Clinton and a few undecideds.
Equally revealing was the that issues most inportant to the soldiers were education, the economy, the environment and fear of war with Iran. None of those interviewed mentioned completing the mission or national security.
ABC News is suggesting that the military is against the war in Iraq and back the most antiwar candidate seeking the nomination. It is likely that when patriots saw the liberal Raddatz and her camera crew coming, they went in the opposite direction.
The headline says it all: "Surprising Political Endorsements By U.S. Troops". It is not a surprise that ABC News would produce such a biased piece and try to pass it off as news. Raddatz should get a Pulitizer Prize for investigative reporting since she probably really had to talk to alot of soldiers to find that many Obama supporters.
I watched this segment last night and it was absolutely disgusting. The DBM are so disingenuous and transparent in their bias that it makes one want to upchuck.
Liberal media ping!!!
Those a55hats couldn’t report a straight story if their lives depended on it.
One of the scariest and most difficult things to comprehend on the planet is a military liberal...
ruefully,
I saw this segment last night and it was just trash journalism at its best. Soldiers are not suppose to be politically active, BUT ABN managed to find two Obama and one clinton supporter to interview, but just mananged to “mention” that there were a few McCain supporters around also.
Want to bet the McCain supporters were the ones that KNEW it was wrong for a soldier to go on national TV supporting a political candidate and told ABC to go fly a kite?
I have to wonder if they posted ads seeking Obama supporters....
We’ll see who the military supports in November.
Sicko probably went to a makeshift morge.
“See no one is saying they like McCain.”
Foxnews was the friendliest news organization to the military during the seizing of Baghdad.
ping
I think it is far more likely that ABC deliberatly excluded McCain supporters. And Martha Radish gives me an acute rectal pain. Cannot stand the woman.
Same crap happended in ‘04. They amazingly found no Bush supporters, only those for Kerry.
The 74% who vote conservative must hve called in sick the day Martha was slopping for a story.
I admit I read the article pretty quickly, but do recall that the folks interviewed (as reported in print) all seemed to PFCs and similar.
Not unusual for the grunts to have ‘simple minds’. ;-)
I also noticed (IIRC) she did not report ANY interviews with ANY Marines, any NCOs, or any butter bars and up.
I am ready to be corrected and reprimanded by FReepers who read more carefully.
No body armor or helmet, I guess the Surge has failed.
Cherry picking their targets.
I can’t believe I caught that POS on ABC news.
Excellent observation.
Remembering how homesick I was, I might have told a reporter “McGovern”. Of course I voted for Nixon - my brain wasn’t that far gone.
As an Iraqi Vet I can say there are only two words to describe that report BOVINE EXCREMENT!!!
ABC =All Biased Crackheads
That'd be me, if I was there.
Whenever I see a "news" camera, I go the other way.
Not that Raddick isn’t a socialist hack (she is) and that this isn’t agenda reporting at its finest (it is) but the military has been trending away from the Republicans in recent years, at least in declared affiliation. The last Military Times poll found that only 46% of military members considered themselves Republican. More military members than ever consider themselves independent.
From armytimes.com:
“While Bush fared well overall, his political party didn’t. In the three previous polls, nearly 60 percent of the respondents identified themselves as Republicans, which is about double the population as a whole. But in this year’s poll, only 46 percent of the military respondents said they were Republicans. However, there was not a big gain in those identifying themselves as Democrats — a figure that consistently hovers around 16 percent. The big gain came among people who said they were independents.
Similarly, when asked to describe their political views on a scale from very conservative to very liberal, there was a slight shift from the conservative end of the spectrum to the middle or moderate range. Liberals within the military are still a rare breed, with less than 10 percent of respondents describing themselves that way.”
ABC to soldiers: So who do you support?
Soldier: John McCain
ABC: Ok, thank you for coming, we will let you know if we need you.
That's exactly what SurveyUSA did to me. I answered the phone and answered their questions such as age, sex, etc... then they asked my party affiliation and I said Conservative... They said thank you and hung up.
Yea, I caught this propoganda piece... I have no doubt there are some supporters of HillBilly and Fauxbama in the military.. but if you saw this piece you would have thought they were a rarer occurrance than Bill Clinton keeping his fly up.
This piece was a joke... the only mention of McCain at all was a little “there were some McCain supporters” after watching 5 or 10 folks endorce one of the dems. The presentation and reporting here was pure unadulterated propoganda. You’d have thought Republicans were in the minority of support from the troops after watching this hit piece instead of enjoying overwhelming support as they always have from the military.
“More military members than ever consider themselves independent.”
Part of that is the growing culture of a professional military that stays out of politics. Party affiliation runs counter to that mindset, but voting doesn’t. At least that is how some of my friends who served explained it.
Trust me, though - the group these people hated most, with a white hot passion, was the MSM (even over the jihadists), closely followed by those jihadist, with libscum following up...
this wasn’t a work of journalism, it was a campaign commercial. pure and simple.
No question the MSM are biased.
But I’ll bet it IS hard to find troops supporting McCrazy.
He’s been stabbing our troops in the back with his criticism of the President, Mr. Rumsfeld, the CPA and the military commanders practically since the war began. He helped fan the flames of the trumped up Abu Ghraib “scandal” which probably cost our men’s lives in the months after.
Better to see Obama or Hitlery coming than to be betrayed by one of your “own.”
restating the obvious
I just can’t seem to work up the outrage that would be there if a real Republican (A.K.A. conservative) was the nominee of my party.
Martha Raddatz somehow managed to become a star ABC reporter despite never graduating from college. She admitted this in a C-Span interview she did with Brian Lamb last year. I was amazed. Journalism truly has no standards.
This just in....ABC news can’t find their asses with both hands and a flashlight.
They don't like communists either.
“Part of that is the growing culture of a professional military that stays out of politics.”
I think that’s part of it. Also, I think a lot of people in general are tired of the extreme partisanship of the two parties and as a result tend to identify themselves as independents. I’ve had it up to here with the Republicans, and if I didn’t live in one of the few closed primary states, I’d reregister as an Independent.
Also, the military is increasingly female and minority, two groups that trend Democrat, or at least moderate. I knew several active duty Dukakis voters back in the day. They were either women or black.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.”
——Thomas Sowell
HAHAHAHA.... Maybe Operation Chaos?
I believe this. The Republican party has shifted far from the conservative principles and ideals that Ronald Reagan held up for us all to gather around while individuals remain true to those beliefs. I switched to independent when the Republicans ran such an ineffective campaign against Clinton with Bob Dole, but remain strongly committed to conservative principles. The party has left the building, but many of us remain.
Some are on LSD and others are on heroin, indeed I am sure that a news organization the size of ABC has a staff on a variety of drugs...
If we want to try and hold these guys to a standard of accuracy, we need to be accurate as well ;)
well you just have to go to the PAO , JAG or talk to African-Americans. BTW I checked the names in the article only 2 were listed in AKO Dion and Nicholls, maybe she changed their names?
of course they can’t find any McCain supporters... they are all out fighting rather flying desks and peeling potatoes...
Don’t those Obama supporters realize that other Obama supporters are currently shooting at them and laying IED’s?
I was this piece of Goebels-like piece of propaganda and lies right before the game last night. It made me want to scream.
I am with you my friend. I dont know how Mccain won, some say it was us bickering over Julie and Romney. I think most of us perfered Tancredo or hunter but even those fell into the trap of...oh they will never win, of course they wont win if the base thinks they wont, instead the rino wins.
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