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Can You Keep a Secret? The media silence on Iran.
National Review Online ^ | August 7, 2002 | Michael Ledeen

Posted on 08/07/2002 9:24:36 AM PDT by xsysmgr

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To: monday
I see that you like "Fixtures, make them go away".

That is one of my favorites on my homepage.

Please GOD just make the vile and petty Rat Fixtures on TV, the fishwraps and radio just go away.
81 posted on 08/07/2002 9:56:17 PM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: Grampa Dave
Very interesting. I feel for these people that are living under these militant thugs.

I love your plan by the way, (the route to Iraq via Iran & Syria).

Can I vote for you for President in 2008? ;)
82 posted on 08/07/2002 10:33:46 PM PDT by terilyn
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To: xsysmgr
"Why?

I should think the answer is simple: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

Or, to deconstruct for you slow-learners out there (not on FR, right?), the anti-American mullahs are our anti-American media's friends.

BTTT

83 posted on 08/07/2002 10:34:24 PM PDT by lambo
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To: MeeknMing
It rather reminds one of the days of the Cultural Revolution in China, or the immediate postwar period in Cambodia, when millions of people were killed and the West ignored the story

That's what I was thinking. The liberal media has become lazy and irresponsible. The lack of media coverage regarding issues they don't favor fits a wider pattern of media silence: as far as we are aware, there has never been serious mainstream discussion of the Koran or Iran. Their bias, indolence, and omission in media reporting is transparently leftist.

The objective of the Media should be to engage in honest reporting so that readers can make up their own minds about the relative merits of the news, especially, given the enormity of the threats facing us.

These days, the Media is too subjective to make the effort.

84 posted on 08/07/2002 10:37:23 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: spodefly
"We should be trumpeting this news, and doing anything we can to help the people of Iran in taking back their country from the theocracy.

"The lack of coverage is mysterious."

Well, no, it's not. It's very easy to understand.

The liberal mainstream media have concluded that in a War on Iraq, the biggest losers will probably be the Democrats. Their solution to this problem is to bend heaven and earth (not to mention the truth) against the waging of such a war.

They are doing everything they can to mobilize public opinion against a War on Iraq and to bring as much political pressure as possible to bear on the Bush administration.

Publicizing a revolution in Iran suggests that Bush's approach is not only the wisest, but that it is winning. And when Bush (and the Republicans) win, the Democrats lose.

The media can't bear such an outcome. So, they ignore the events. It's as simple as that.

85 posted on 08/07/2002 10:45:21 PM PDT by okie01
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To: Alamo-Girl
You're welcomed! Glad I got my ping list back after my hard drive died!
86 posted on 08/08/2002 1:07:43 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: WaterDragon; xsysmgr; KineticKitty
You guys are one of the reasons that the uprisings in Iran are NOT a secret!
LOL!

Thanks to the FReep Press !

87 posted on 08/08/2002 1:12:07 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: Victoria Delsoul
Yes, they write Opinions as News. I have been shocked recently by the
DMN (Dallas Morning News) aricles and bias. It's outrageous how biased they
are. It appears they express their bias this time in the election cycle to sway
voters? Incredible.
88 posted on 08/08/2002 1:17:09 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: Grampa Dave
Get rid of about 10 of Da$$hole rat senators this November, and we can really start to reverse our dependency on Opecker Oil.

Thats the ticket!!!!!

89 posted on 08/08/2002 4:40:24 AM PDT by BOBTHENAILER
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To: xsysmgr
Selective media reporting shows that there is an agenda behind the news. Someone or something controls the feed for a reason. That reason is very one world government biased. Each independant nation is being reduced or degraded, marxist nations and other socialist dependant states are being lifted up. Nations are out, Empire is in. After one big war to break the power of the independants, all that is needed is a New charismatic world leader.

The sheeple of the world are being groomed for the shearing.

90 posted on 08/08/2002 5:13:14 AM PDT by American in Israel
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To: Grampa Dave
I would agree with this assessment.
91 posted on 08/08/2002 1:15:28 PM PDT by caddie
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To: Grampa Dave
I would like to see this happen, but, if it is incipient, why are we not making it happen? What are we waiting for, another September 11?

I personally would like to see all of the above you mentioned, happen, then, have all of these bright, educated Iranian professionals GO BACK HOME and straighten out their country.

Ditto all the Pakis, Syrians, Saudis, Lebanese (not that there's anything wrong with that), Yemenis, and other smelly types. Let them GO BACK HOME and take all their University of Iowa, etc., smarts and apply them in building shining Scottsdales in the Araby desert.

And don't let the doorknob smack you on the a$$ on the way out.

They can certainly cut it on their own, after having been raised in the Western tradition in the United States for a generation or more.

These sentiments are not because I am an incorrigible redneck, or because I don't like Iranians, but because I really think they can duplicate much of the material success of the United States, in Iran, without us having to house every single swinging d*ck in the world who wants indoor plumbing, right here in the United States.

Let the rest of the freaking third world GO THE HELL HOME and build up their own indoor plumbing and sewers and power plants.

We'll send them the blueprints, a transport ship full of Peace Corps hippies to help them, and a bunch of two-by-fours and beers.

Just get THE HELL OUT of our country.

Sheesh.

92 posted on 08/08/2002 1:33:56 PM PDT by caddie
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