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Schorr told the Wall Street Journal's Matthew Rose "I had to eat a little crow. I have never been in Afghanistan and know nothing about Pashtuns and the rest of it."

That wasn't enough to stop him ...

Of course not! They will never learn and they will never stop!

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. " ~ Daniel J. Boorstin

1 posted on 12/27/2001 11:06:45 AM PST by SusanUSA
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To: susangirl
"All things considered" my a$$. "All Democrat bs considered" is what they really mean.
2 posted on 12/27/2001 11:16:01 AM PST by smithson
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To: susangirl
It has nothing to do with the facts of the situation. The war wasn't the issue. These people are America-haters. No matter what the US does, to these people it is wrong. They just bad mouth everything America does, and everything a Republican President does in the belief that once in a while, they will be right. These neo-marxists were stunned when the media's attempt to steal the election failed. They were content to bad mouth Bush and then, came the Holocaust. Bin Laden's success has pained these neo-marxist media types more than anyone will ever know. Doesn't matter what the issue, America is NEVER right as far as these guys are concerned.

And, how they must secretly hate Willie. He had the opportunity to destroy or damage America and didn't do as much as he could because he couldn't keep it in his pants. Image were we'd be if Willie had been as constant in his hate-America mode as any of these guys.

3 posted on 12/27/2001 11:17:07 AM PST by Tacis
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Imagine these LEFTIST-NAYSAYERS actually admitting that they don't know anything about what they are expressing such strong opinions about!!Will this ever happen again?We live in HOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4 posted on 12/27/2001 11:18:07 AM PST by bandleader
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One must take the opinions of these "journalists" for what they're worth. (Nothing.)

These fools are blind to the intelligence and brilliant leadership of George W. Bush.

Aw hell--they're just plain blind--and stupid--locked in their Liberal paradigm--blind to all else--unable to see anything other than their groupthink dilusions.

Who cares what they think!

5 posted on 12/27/2001 11:18:54 AM PST by Savage Beast
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The quick and decisive victory in the Afghanistan war left some of the most celebrated liberals among the media elite scurrying for cover after having been egregiously wrong in declaring that the war was going badly in its earliest phases.

Unfortunately we aren't at war with Afghanistan, we in a "War on Terrorism". I think it is a little premature to declare ourselves victorious. To steal a quote -- "This isn't the beginning of the end, this is the end of the beginning"

6 posted on 12/27/2001 11:19:19 AM PST by 74dodgedart
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This is why they are considered liberal blowhards. It amazes me that these people are so negative. How do they accomplish anything?
8 posted on 12/27/2001 11:25:22 AM PST by NC Conservative
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One of the best parts about what has happened in A. is to see the carping press "eat crow". But most of them are unphased. You are right...they will never stop. The only hope is for their ratings to dive so badly that they lose their jobs. One can only hope.

By the way, nice home page. I particularly like the pics of France. Makes you want to go there.

9 posted on 12/27/2001 11:25:54 AM PST by B.Bumbleberry
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I'll never forget Daniel Schorr's sense of foreboding the weekend before the Gulf War. His tone was "I fear we are about to make a very big mistake." LOL

Same old same old. What a Clymer.

11 posted on 12/27/2001 11:28:29 AM PST by litany_of_lies
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14 posted on 12/27/2001 11:35:38 AM PST by VinnyTex
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I guess that these libs never got over Bill Clinton "missing his chance" at fighting a war.
15 posted on 12/27/2001 11:36:11 AM PST by Redcloak
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I think they were just looking for their "Glory Dayz" back in the 60's. Anti-war protests, free love, LDS trips, you know all the great stuff the leftist love.
16 posted on 12/27/2001 11:37:36 AM PST by SolitaryMan
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I simply hate the fact that so many leftist and cowardly America haters have the microphones and cameras in their faces.
Expecially grating is the fact that many are paid with American taxpayer funds...or paid salaries in inverse relationship to their contribution to enlightment or factual REPORTING of the news...

Most of those PBS and major network bastards like Jennings, Rather, etc.... have been wrong and wrong headed in most important instances.... They were also not just a little guilty of defending the undefendable "rapist in denial"...
Semper Fi

17 posted on 12/27/2001 11:40:32 AM PST by river rat
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By far, the most amusing laments, coming from nearly-all experts were:

- Omigod, the RAMADAN is coming and we MUST stop all military activites then.

- And... Omigod, the WINTER is coming and, somehow, people flying airplanes were going to be more incovenienced by the cold and snow than those on the ground.

- And, of course, those elaborate, computer-generated 3-D 'cave simulations' which were assumed to be real, just becuase someone made them up, on a computer - the way to bust a simulated bunker was, of course, using a bunch of simulated bombs and missiles.

18 posted on 12/27/2001 11:54:12 AM PST by A Vast RightWing Conspirator
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Islamics and leftists, never believe what they say.
19 posted on 12/27/2001 11:54:43 AM PST by hsszionist
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Then there was the LA Times editorialist Jacob Heilbrunn who a few days later declared the first round of the war a failure: "The United States is not headed into a quagmire; it's already in one.". . .

It would appear that their real target, G.W. Bush, showed by his conduct of the war just how biased and wrong his leftist critics in the media were in warning America that he was leading the nation into a humiliating and long-lasting Vietnam-like quagmire. . .


There's that word that litter the press in the early War in Afghanistan. The more things change, the more they remain the same. Look for more in the continuing saga, As the Stomach Churns! Stay tuned, in the LIEberal biased press, ya ain't seen nuttin' yet!
Nice post Susangirl. Thanks!
20 posted on 12/27/2001 12:18:26 PM PST by MeekOneGOP
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The media could not understand why it did not go like Vietnam.

The media has never understood the reasons for our defeat in Vietnam. JFK and LBJ bought into the belief that war was too important to be left to skilled generals. Both LBJ and Nixon thought super bright WHIZ kids or Germans accents named Henry should run our military strategy. Robert MacNamara was the chief WHIZ kid for LBJ. He had run Ford Motor company and knew how to make cars at a profit. He hadn't a clue about how to win wars. Henry Kissenger and Eva Braun have one thing in commmon. They both could understand Hitler wiht out the services of a translator. They were also equally good military strategists.

Time after time in Nam the military view was dismissed and the latest intellectual fad war theory was followed. It was a disastor.

Bush Sr, an experienced combat veteran, did it right in the gulf a decade ago. He defined the goals and told two military pros named Colin Powell and Norm Swartzkoff to get it done. The military will always pick the plan with the highest chance of success at the lowest cost in American lives. That is very natural. The military wants to win and they don't want to die. In case you haven't noticed armies that lose tend to die a lot.

Dubya to no big surprise decided to follow in the footsteps of his Dad rather than LBJ and Nixon. And as it did for his Dad, the strategy of picking good commanders and delegating the autority to fight as they see fit worked. It is the one thing that Lincoln, Roosevelt and the Bush family have in commmon. The Bushes and Roosevelt have a better track record at picking commanders than did Abe Lincoln.

Wining a war is rather simple. It takes ground troops to win a war. The media does understand that fact. What they fail to understand is that if the air attack is good enough the ground attack doesn't have to be all that good. And if there is no air defense, the best ground troops are not worth much of anything. It is the lesson that Hitler taught the world when his airforce backing Franko defeated a better ground force in Spain prior to world war II. They failed to understand that even a corporal named Hitler knew he could not defeat England with out air superiority. Churchill, Eisenhower, and MacArthur have all expounded on the need for air superiority. It did not dawn on teh media that the Taliban had ZERO AIR power after the first day.

The other fact is the media believs that Russian troops and more importantly Russian tactics are a winning formula. They are not. Sadam used Russian tactics and they weren't even close to being match to ours. Again they fail to understand that total air makes total ground easy.

The media is convinced that the Taliban defenders were motivated well trained troops. But they fail to understand that even a supurb ground force can't beat a pretty poor gound force with a superb air force behind it.

Let me put it this way, when Allah goes up against B-52's bet on the B-52s. And as to the media, they are what they always are Clueless. Just remember this true statement about the press. The guys who run the presses could write the news. But the guys that write the news cannot run the presses.

21 posted on 12/27/2001 12:20:34 PM PST by Common Tator
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" . . . This is journalism, not history."

Journalists love to style journalism as "the first draft of history." It is not that, not at all. Say rather, journalism is the first draft of the Democratic Party platform.

Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate.

27 posted on 12/27/2001 1:33:03 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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Many of those who portray themselves as liberals in the media are really Marxists. The only hope the marxists have to rescue their broken and disproved theories is to issue a stuning defeat to capitalism - which means defeating the USA and by whatever means necessary - even if this means empowering and giving support to retrograde and fascistic terrorists. The lust for power of the intelligensia never sleeps.
28 posted on 12/27/2001 1:46:35 PM PST by Diogenez
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Why Surprised?<--Me)

What does this mean?

34 posted on 12/29/2001 12:08:46 AM PST by Rudder
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37 posted on 12/29/2001 12:11:55 AM PST by Fiddlstix
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