Posted on 08/10/2014 2:14:07 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Ol Hunter pretty much nailed it.
Different taglines, but the same meaning.....
Martha Raddatz? Martha Raddaz??
You mean the "propagandist who hosed Romney in the last presidential debate? That Martha Raddaz? She asked about the state of journalism? Oh that's rich. See, they are so utterly devoid of balance, and so clueless, that Martha Raddaz has the audacity to ask about the state of journalism. Who's next? Candy Crowley? Ed Schultz? Dan Rather? George Stephanopoulos?
Man these dolts have gall.
If it had been Democrats NOBODY TODAY WOULD HAVE ANY IDEA WHO THOSE TWO REPORTERS ARE, NEVER HEARD OF THEM.
With absolute certainty.
Not backward, but FORWARD! in the best Comintern sense.
Korean War in part.
Some of the press was enamoured with “Uncle Joe” Stalin and were right upset that we weren’t curling up and conceding to the “clear superiority” of Stalin and communism.
They didn’t go too far with commie luv until Cronkite or so.
Part of the reason is that liberal “journalists” are really liberal activists who spend much of their time trying to recreate their glory days when they helped drive Richard Nixon from the presidency.
The rest of their time they spend protecting liberal politicians from anyone who is interested in truthful, unbiased reporting.
Looking at your Moniker (tet68), I think you may have forgotten what the three networks did for the Kennedys and how they reported Tet '68 - We lost , if I remember correctly
A few years ago, PBS was going to run a fundraising show featuring "Laugh In", and one of the producers/writers involved with the original was on Dennis Miller promoting it.
The guy turned out to be a looney vicious liberal. He said that he was the one that let Nixon on the show, and regretted it afterward, since it showed Nixon to be human.
That was about the nicest thing that guy said.
It was all down hill from that point. He must have thought he was on leftist PBS/pMSNBC/Air America connecting with the elite and fellow travelers, rather than a show with a mostly conservative/libertarian leaning audience.
I had to stop listening for a while, and when I came back, Miller had cut the promotional interview short, and was apologetic about letting it go on for as long as it apparently did.
“That’s letting journalists off too easy.”
Nixon was a Republican. The press would hound him today, just like then. Obama is a Democrat, so the kid gloves are on. The rest is just a dodge.
Nixon could never win an election today; the media would “Palin” him before he got out of the gate.
In WWII the media sold its soul by burying the first encounters between the French and Americans (in North Africa 1942); the French mowed down the Americans with machine guns, determined to maintain their neutrality which we violated.
Yes Woodward did... Now if only someone can tie this to people losing faith in the print media...
Hmm. Interesting. Haven’t heard that before.
Hard to imagine that France was “neutral” (maybe for show but not really, it seems to me). Also hard to imagine that America was ‘violating” whatever neutrality France claimed to have. Seems like America was in North Africa to fight the Germans and the Axis to make way for Italy, as part of America’s and the Allies’ goal to defeat Germany and the Axis.
I mean America probably “violated” something about Italy too when we invaded Italy, but it was something we had to do as part of winning the war and the Italians were actually glad we did.
Things work out when you do the right thing.
bttt
I agree.
In the movie “The Big Red One”, the French resistance against the Americans was portrayed as one misguided officer’s reaction at one beach; the History Channel goes further and details tank battles between the French and Americans in the days following the invasion of North Africa. In the book “Kasserine” (about the battle of that name between Americans and Germans in North Africa), the US officers are concerned that the American troops have let their guard down because of the ease with which they defeated the French (the Renault tanks weren’t very good, and they were going up against Tigers later).
Italy was part of the Axis, and a legitimate target.
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