[tgslTakoma]

This is what I said in my email:

Dear NBC/MSNBC:

I have two televisions at home, with one always tuned in to Fox News and on the other I started watching MSNBC again during this war, because you at first glance, appear to have good coverage.

However, with the news today that your recent hire reporter, historic anti-American traitor Peter Arnett, gave an in-depth interview with Iraq state television - in which he criticised and condemned our US military actions in Iraq - I have now changed channels on my television from MSNBC to CNN... and I WILL NOT return to watch anything on NBC/MSNBC until I hear that you have fired this traitor.

Peter Arnett has a long and troubled history of giving aid and comfort to enemy regimes - from his bogus "Tailwind" story about our US military using poison gas on our own troops who were deserting, to his unconscionable lie story on the US bombing of a "Baby Milk Factory" during the first Gulf War. I was stunned to see that NBC had apparently forgiven Arnett of his previous sins while with another network, and had contracted with him to report on this war; and now, with Arnett's latest sleeping with the enemy episode I am incensed!

How can NBC believe that any American will trust your reporting, with this latest revelation about Peter Arnett's allegiance to an enemy government?

I have friends who are in the Middle East, who are prepared to die to protect my freedom, and sadly, Peter Arnett's right to be a traitor to this country; and I cannot tell you just how outraged I am that you (NBC) are trying to downplay Arnett's act of treason, declaring it in a NBC-issued statement, simply Arnett offering his "expert" analysis as a "professional courtesy" to Iraq's propaganda arm of their war effort. With that latter comment by NBC, are you saying that NBC and Iraqi TV are colleagues? That the two "news" agencies are equivalent?

If so, NBC is as bad as Arnett.

If you consider your network to be a truly objective news reporting source, then you must fire Peter Arnett, traitor, immediately.

Sincerely, xxxxxxx

[Thane_Banquo]

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

[LouisianaJoanof Arc]

Very good letter.......

[wardaddy]

I've already hit all 4 corporate entities involved here....GE/MBC/MSNBC/NG

[The Raven]

My wife is standing behind me now saying she is going to cancel the order for the Monogram kitchen and the National Geographic subscription.

[mrfixit514]

I emailed National Geographic and told them that I was the Social Studies Dept. Chairperson at a local high school and had taught Geography for 10 years. I will make sure that none of their products ever get into our school unless they fire Arnett and issue a statement condemning his actions.

[mrfixit514]

I emailed National Geographic and told them that I was the Social Studies Dept. Chairperson at a local high school and had taught Geography for 10 years. I will make sure that none of their products ever get into our school unless they fire Arnett and issue a statement condemning his actions.

[JimRed]

...Peter Arnett's right to be a traitor to this country;...

I may be wrong, but I think thar Arnett is a New Zealander. Since NZ is part of the coalition, he may be a traitor to them, but to us he's just an enemy shill.

[FR_addict]

Thank you for gving out the email addresses. Bagdad Pete is a traitor, aiding and abetting the enemy.

I am very surprised at this interview.

[dts32041]

You actually have it wrong, he is not working for MSNBC, he is working for National Geographic.

They should be the ones that should be recieing your letters.

[ChadGore]

Here is a convienient link:
bob.wright@nbc.com; phil.griffin@msnbc.com; erik.sorenson@msnbc.com;

[SwinneySwitch]

Petah, Petah, Petah...

[geedee]

Great letter. Mine wasn't as well written, but I did my part.

[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.

V

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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...