Posted on 08/24/2004 11:02:01 AM PDT by Cableguy
I just saw a segment before the Iraq soccer match which was a hit piece on Bush. NBC criticized Bush for making an ad that includes Iraq and Afghanistan. By the way, the ad doesn't even mention soccer. The NBC hit piece had on some comments from the Iraq soccer team.
That caused me to write a nasty email to NBC Sports:
Sports@MSNBC.com
So basically NBC just used the Iraqi soccer team for political purposes.
I wish these frigging Iraqi soccer players had the balls to stay to fight for their own country instead of attending the Olympics.
With all the bias against Bush -- with media outlets, celebrities, pulp hacks, the not-so "intelligentsia", and the primate left in Washington taking shot after shot, it's nothing short of amazing that Bush is not being soundly defeated in the polls.
What do you expect from the National Band of Communists?
Hi, all I am AT the olympics now.
They just had a team member from the Iraqi team do an interview for Greek media.
He said people have no concept what it is to play for a country that is now free.
The media overhere is only reporting on what CNN says and what CBS is reporting. Ironic with all the money NBC paid.
This will be Iraq's second medal of ANY kind ever.
NBC this AM showed Iraq soccer players in some off time, not indicated where. One of them was looking at magazines on a fairly large revolving rack. I made me wonder what thoughts the Iraqi player had about various magazines which are never sold in Iraq. He had to be more than a little overwhelmed.
I only watch NBC for football and the Olympics. Sorry advertisers, you might want to go to Fox!
Roger Hedgecock (sitting in for Rush) mentioned that the Iraqi team was flown to Athens in U.S. military aircraft. He also said this will be the first time in recent history when they didn't have to worry about being killed or tortured by Uday if they lost.
Let them walk back!
I try to keep this in perspective by reminding myself that anyone who believes our country is represented by the loony lefty U.S. celebrities getting all the face time would have a very skewed perspective about who Americans are.
Earlier this year, Mounzer Fatfat, the coalition's adviser to Iraq's Ministry of Youth and Sports, described the process as "coming from minus zero."
Consider: It has been at least two years since the national soccer team has played a meaningful game on its home turf. Since well before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, it has been too risky for other teams to travel to Baghdad. Until a few months ago, the field in Baghdad's soccer stadium was a rutted mess. The grandstands still bear scars of rocket fire.
With Baghdad International Airport still closed to commercial airline traffic, an Australian Air Force C-130 provided the Olympic delegation a lift out of the war zone.
I swear I saw someone from the team (pretty sure it was the coach) interviewed on U.S. network TV within the last year or so, recounting the torture Iraqi athletes endured at the hands of Saddam's son.
Fly 'em half way back to Iraq and let em off the USA plane somewhere in N.Africa....at least the mouthy ungrateful ones. Plan B: give em a choice, Gutanamo or 30,000 ft free fall.
After Tom Brokaw's relentless, nightly attacks on President Bush and Chris Matthews' shouting tirade against Michelle Malkin, I no longer watch anything affiliated with NBC (no news, no NASCAR, no Olympics). But, I am not surprised about this latest attempt by NBC to do some Bush-bashing. They are desperate and running scared!
at 20:25 of the 1st half paraguay 1 iraq 0
CNN picked the two anti-US players and the rest of the MSM will follow. I bet those are the only two players that get to express opinions.
Fox News should have correspondents over there interviewing the rest of the team so they could relay how they feel.
IMHO it is designed to undermine support for the liberation of Iraq.
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