Nominations Needed for Free Republic's Culture of Treason Media Awards

Friday, April 28, 2006 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

Nominations are needed tonight for Free Republic's Culture of Treason Media Awards to be presented tomorrow night outside the White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington, D.C.

The Culture of Treason Media Awards, aka the Benedict Arnolds, are to be awarded to those reporters and news outlets whose reporting has undermined the efforts by the United States to fight and win the war on terror.

Nominations are needed by 11 p.m. tonight. Voting will start shortly after that and will end at 2:30 p.m. Saturday (tomorrow.)

Some nominations to kick things off:

Mark Knoller of CBS News for failing to report Cindy Sheehan's remarks calling foreigners entering Iraq to wage war against Americans and Iraqis "freedom fighters." Knoller's failure to report her views led to Sheehan being dubbed the "Peace Mom" during her Crawford vigil last year, thus giving our enemies foreign and domestic a propaganda coup.

Newsweek, for its publishing of the false story that a Koran was flushed down a toilet by U.S. forces at Guatanamo, causing anti-American hatred to flare around the world and causing numerous deaths.

Dana Priest of the Washington Post, for reporting on a secret detention system for terrorists that U.S. allies allegedly allowed on their territory. DCI Porter Goss testified that report caused much harm to our national security.

James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times, for their reporting on a secret NSA eavesdropping program designed to prevent terror attacks.

Please post you nominations with source links if possible. I didn't because I'm short on time, but these are commonly known to most of us.

[kristinn]

I'm off to Walter Reed. Be back tonight.

[RandallFlagg]

Have fun, FRiend! Give 'em hell!

[kristinn]

Thanks! They've earned it.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

ABCNNBCBS for starters.

[Hi Heels]

What is the representative time span? 2005? Cuz I'd like to nominate the world famous Dan Rather....

[lormand]

Helen Thomas (please no pictures...have mercy on our eyes)

Helen seems to me, to be THE most overt traitor in "journalism" today.

[ExcursionGuy84]

I nominate......Representative John Murtha, for belittling US, Coalition & Iraqi efforts to stamp out the terrorism in the Middle East.

[adgirl]

I nominate John F. Kerry for his remarks about "letting Bin Ladin get away at Tora Bora. If I have to hear that one more time, I'm going to cry.

[kristinn]

2005 to the present. No politicians, please. This is a media award.

[rocksblues]

Dick Durbin for comparing American interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to Nazis and other historically infamous figures.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/17/politics/main702631.shtml

John Kerry Calls American Troops Terrorists
http://www.juiceenewsdaily.com/1105/news/terror.html?1133909169760

[mnehring]

• Christine Amanpour in January 2006 saying:
  The War in Iraq has turned out basically to be a disaster and journalists have paid for it, paid for the privledge to witnessing and reporting that and so have many, many other people who have been and I think that’s terribly, terribly difficult for us and unfortunately, for some reason for which I can’t fathom, the kind of awful thing that is going on there now on a daily basis has almost become humdrum.

  Ahh, hell, almost anything she says qualifies.

[rocksblues]

Media only.

Ok The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Herald News.

[Lurker]

Two words:

Robert Fiske

Two more words:

Dana Priest

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[afraidfortherepublic]

The whole gang who first published the Valerie Plame story and who continue to milk it today. That may not be the most egregious story, but it desrves an honorable mention, at least.

[Cecily]

I nominate Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair magazine and severe Bush Derangement Syndrome sufferer, James Woolcott, and Michael Wolff for their slanted and biased attacks on the decisions taken by the Bush administration during the war on terror, while never mentioning the errors and lack of action against terrorists of other administrations and their various cabinet departments and agencies. For example, the magazine has run puff pieces on those liars Joe Wilson and Richard Clarke.

[CyberAnt]

Here is my nomination:

[ncountylee]

CNN's anchor Carol Lin referring (on November 6th) to some of the participants in the Paris fiasco as African-American ignoring the obvious Islamofascist (WOT) aspect of the riots.

[Scarchin]

Sorry I don't have details - but whoever was most responsible at the NYT for blowing the NSA program? Pinch?

[cgbg]

Juan Williams' recent performance justifying Mary Quisling McCarthy's leaks has to be in the mix.

[Enchante]

Can we have public hangings? Or at least public stocks??? Doesn't seem like these nominees will receive the proper 'recognition' of their efforts otherwise.