CALL TO ACTION: Traitor Peter Arnett must be fired! EMAIL NBC/MSNBC executives now!

self | March 30, 2003 | tgsltakoma

[StarFan]

I may be wrong, but I think thar Arnett is a New Zealander Wrong. He became a US citizen just prior to the Gulf War.

[Beck_isright]

Thank you and all three FReeped in addition to Microsoft investor relations. I'm telling my mutual fund to sell all GE and Microsoft stock in that fund in my name in the morning or I'm cashing it in and transferring it to another company.

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[tgslTakoma]

Call your local NBC affiliate, too! Local affiliates HATE hearing that the home office has been misbehaving and is cositng the local stations viewers.

DC local affiliate is WRC-TV, and their number is 202-885-4000. You'll get a recording, press "1" to speak to a live person. Tell her you want to complain about Peter Arnett's abominable behavior in Baghdad. She'll put you through to the appropriate voicemail box.

[Peach]

We're all over it on the Live Situation Room thread. In fact there's betting on when he'll lose his job.

Let's keep the pressure on - he's either fired or "disappeared". Either one works for me.

[I_be_tc]

I believe it is true that reporters in Iraq are censored. HOWEVER, Mr. Arnett was not required to give an interview to the Iraqi television. Unless he comes back and declares he was forced to, as our prisoners of war have been in the past, then this is all of his own making.

TC

[Thane_Banquo]

Hmm. I was not aware of that fact.

[mdittmar]

If true,not, then he's not a reporter,he's a hostage,we don't negotiate with hostage takers.

Sorry arnett.

[Russell Scott]

If Arnett is not careful, the Butchers of Baghdad may have other plans for him, once his value as a useful idiot runs its course. Despots do very irrational and desperate things when they know defeat is only hours away.

[The Raven]

From 12/2001:

CNN: What were your impressions of Osama bin Laden in March, 1997 when you interviewed him? Back then, how much of a threat was he considered to be?

ARNETT: He was a very impressive individual, well over six feet tall. He walked into the interview wearing a camouflage jacket, and carrying an AK-47 machine gun. I had never before interviewed anyone under those circumstances. He spent one hour spelling out his dream of changing the Arab world, and his first action would be to expel all American troops and business and cultural influences. And then he would transform the Arab world into what Afghanistan was then becoming under the Taliban, which was a very primitive Islamic society.

U.S. investigative agencies by 1997 had figured that bin Laden was a major potential threat. He had not at that point established al Qaeda, but had been active in fomenting unrest and attracting young Arab people to rebel against their government. This caused the U.S. to persuade the Sudan government to expel him. So he went to Afghanistan, and most thought he was well out of the way, because Afghanistan is a long way from anywhere.

CHAT PARTICIPANT: Peter, if you could interview Bin Laden right now, what would you most want to ask him?

ARNETT: I would ask him: does he realize that by attacking the World Trade Center and by attacking the Pentagon he would in fact destroy himself and his organization? Now that is the same question I asked Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War, when I was covering it for CNN. I asked him the same question: did he realize he had made a mistake by not withdrawing from Kuwait at the insistence of the coalition? Now, Saddam Hussein said, "I don't care of the consequences, Allah is beside me in this struggle." I get the impression that Osama bin Laden would answer the same, if I asked him if he had gone too far this time.

[KC_Conspirator]

Even CNN is reporting on Arnett's sedition now.

[JimRed]

Wrong. He became a US citizen just prior to the Gulf War.

Time to revoke it, in that case. Or, better yet, publicize his time, date and place of arrival back in the U.S. and let some good citizens convince him to give it up.

[ladyinred]

The Iraqi government does monitor Arnett, however, they don't make him say those things. No way did he say that because he is forced to take their side. That is his opinion, obviously. He is so anti American, as is most of the slime media. I am fed up and beyond with the media. We need to really revolt!

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Arnett is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He is scum. He is a traitor and deserves a traitor's fate.

I was thinking that a wall and a line of soldiers armed with a rifle and one bullet each was the best approach, but why waste money on ammo when all that's needed is a few feet of rope? A traitor deserves a traitor's end.

[Illbay]

Aren't you overreacting a bit?

He's just saying what a lot of the mainstream media freaks are saying. Big deal.

They don't run the war, and no one listens to them accept their own choir members.

[Spiff]

Keep in mind that Arnett is subject to Iraqi handlers, who demand that he takes the Iraqi side when he reports from Baghdad.

Bull&#@$!! He said what he said and no Iraqi handler would have him taking credit for attempting to undermine the war effort in the U.S. - and carrying Iraqi PR water - through his biased reporting.

If it were so, NBC wouldn't have chalked up his traitorous remarks to them being "analytical" remarks. Don't you think they would have mentioned something about his words being coerced?

[BlessedBeGod]

Since NZ is part of the coalition...

New Zealand is not part of the coalition. Their worthless prime minister, Helen Clarke, won't allow it.

[BobP]

Peter... this one's for you...

[kristinn]

You're right and wrong. NBC is broadcasting his reports exclusively while identifying him as being with NG.

You'll note that NBC, not NG, released the statement this evening excusing this treasonous act as a "professional courtesy."

I've already left messages with NG, NBC, MSNBC and my local NBC affiliate. I'm boycotting all their media outlets until Arnett is fired.

[tgslTakoma]

Transcript of Arnett's traitorous interview up on CNN

[CommandoFrank]

I just emailed MSNBC stating I wasn't going to watch them until Arnet is no longer employed by them and;

I just cancelled my subscription to National Geographic.

Ah, the power of the keyboard...