The News We (CNN) Kept To Ourselves [must read]

The New York Times ^ | 04/11/03 | EASON JORDAN

[moodyskeptic]

Civilization: born in Fertile Crescent 4,000 years ago, and reclaimed this month on the very same real estate.

CNN: born in Gulf War I and died in Gulf War II.

[laz17]

CNN has proven once and for all that it is Satan's mouthpiece and the Left's biggest propaganda machine. It is a completely corrupt and criminal organization. It's license should be pulled and it should be shut down. There is absolutely NO excuse or rationalization for the way they operate.

CNN sycophants are spinning hard, trying to convince us that CNN did what it did regarding Iraq to protect the lives of its reporters. To them, I say: All CNN had to do to protect the lives of its reporters was to remove those reporters from Iraq. Instead, CNN chose to collaborate with Saddam's ruthless regime in order to keep their reporters in Baghdad. And there is NO way they can justify keeping their reporters in Baghdad. Any sacrifice they might have been compelled to make to keep their reporters in Baghdad could only be justified in order to report the truth. But since the price they had to pay to keep their reporters in Baghdad was to SUPPRESS the truth and report Saddam's propaganda instead, there was no justifiable reason to keep the reporters there.

News organizations always have to play ball and make concessions in order to report. They are never totally free. When they sit at a Pentagon press briefing, for example, there are rules they must adhere to, and they must respect these rules in order to report the truth. But if the concessions they are asked to make force them to SUPPRESS the truth, as was the case with CNN and Iraq, then their entire purpose of reporting the truth is sabotaged. So why, in such a situation, would CNN continue to play ball? Because they had no objection to playing the role of Saddam's whore, and were perfectly willing to be his propaganda service. They knew damn well they weren't reporting the truth, and now they try to justify their actions by claiming they had to suppress the truth in order to report it. What crap!

Remember when ABC had the gall to complain they weren't getting enough information from the CENTCOM briefings in Doha, and they pulled their reporter out? This is how the corrupt and evil liberal media operates. When they are given the truth by the US government, they throw a hissy fit and leave. But when they are forbidden to broadcast the truth by anti-American dictators, they gladly remain and broadcast lies. A pox on them all.

[KingKongCobra]

Excellent

[laz17]

WHAT DID CNN KNOW AND WHEN DID THEY KNOW IT?

Bumper stickers with this need to be spread far and wide.

[Brian Allen]

<< You should win post of the day for that rant. >>

Yep.

But the bbc's liars are only any of the above when I am having a really good day, you unnerstand?!

And don't get me started on any of our own gummint/media-complex propaganda organs!

[HehHehHeh ..... ]

[laz17]

From your profile page:

I am an insurance defense attorney, who has high integrity and honesty.

In case you're not aware of it, you have displayed neither high integrity nor honesty on this thread. Are you on the CNN payroll?

[laz17]

They should have just left...

As I sit here and re-read this article, I find myself laughing because I just don't want to cry. Every fiber of my being is so utterly disgusted and revolted that I cannot express it, so instead of shedding tears, I am laughing. A morbid laughter which is the only thing keeping me sane in the face of this incredible glimpse into pure corruption and evil.

All CNN had to do was leave. It's as simple as that. That was the simple solution to their moral dilemma. Just leave. Pack up their bags and go. Just as Georgie Stepalloverus did when ABC ordered him out of Doha because they found fault with General Vince Brooks. Throw a hissy fit, whine about censorship and freedom of the press, and take off. But they didn't. They stayed. They stayed, allowed Saddam to censor them and crush freedom of the press, and prostituted themselves. For years and years. They knew he was lying, they repeated his lies to the whole world, and they excoriated everyone who dared tell the truth. They bowed before Saddam, serviced him like a whore, and called Bush a liar at every opportunity.

The full depth of what I feel toward CNN cannot be expressed here. I really have no way to express it properly with words. I can only growl. Suffice it to say that this is one of the most stunning examples of selling one's soul to the devil that I have witnessed in my lifetime. They didn't sell out for ratings; they didn't sell out for greed. They sold out because it was convenient to them, because it fit right in with their intention to be biased. To me, they are a non-entity. They are utterly worthless. They are a black hole, a bottomless pit. The liberal subhuman mutants who work there are the lowest form of life ever to have crawled out of the slime. They don't even deserve to have their existence acknowledged. They have no souls, they have no conscience. They are empty carcasses animated solely by poisonous bias. They are nothing, the sum total of nothing.

[laz17]

Thank you for your support among a mob of angry, irrational people.

Mob? Angry, irrational people? Get the hell out of here, you filthy troll. The name demon6 would fit you better.

[The Right Stuff]

Dear Laz;

I concur, wholeheartedly.
I hope these people receive what's due them. They are unbelievably sick.

[laz17]

I hope these people receive what's due them. They are unbelievably sick.

If there's a God in Heaven, they will receive their due. And there is, and they will.

[laz17]

Where did you go to school, in Mexico? Did you get past the 1st grade?

Insulting Howlin now, are we? I think you're teetering on the edge of getting banned. Keep it up. You're disgracing yourself on this thread.

[Nogbad]

Bump

[Ken H]

I want to know if CNN warned their Iraqi employees that by working for CNN, they were going to be targeted for imprisonment, torture, and death from Saddam's agents.

CNN: Did you warn the Iraqis you hired over the years of the danger they would be in?

[laz17]

Good night. Flame away. Have fun. But I've outargued much more difficult foes in the courtroom then I've faced here. Facts and objectivity have always been my greatest assets. You might try it sometime.

You're absolutely certifiable, are you aware of that? Like Baghdad Bob, you have no idea what an utter fool you've made of yourself. You'd feel right at home in an alternate universe, because you certainly aren't compatible with this one.

[laz17]

Looks like diamond dude, has declared victory a victory in his own head and left.

I'll say one thing for him/her/it. From now on, whenever I read a thread on FR, I can save a little time by simply skipping over every post by diamond6. I'd rather read the hallucinations of Robert Fisk. They're funnier.

[laz17]

His brilliance is so obvious that he felt compelled to tell us about it, and victory is his because he said so.

No, his brilliance is so obvious that he made every effort possible on this thread to hide it, certain that it would shine through anyway no matter how deeply he buried it. ;-)

[laz17]

"I mean we work very hard to report forthrightly, to report fairly and to report accurately and if we ever determine we cannot do that, then we would not want to be there."

My God... This guy could teach Satan how to lie.

[nicmarlo]

yw. : )

[blastbaby]

"I am an insurance defense attorney, who has high integrity and honesty"


Isn't that an oxymoron?

[Timesink]

CNN does not need a "license" to exist. Check out the First Amendment sometime.

The way to destroy them is by noting their crimes over and over and over every time their name ever comes up.