Murray Alert - Vote on WND's Most Under-reported Stories of 2002

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 10/02/2003 | Art Moore

[DocFarmer]

Which stories got 'spiked'
last year?

Readers, WND editors pick most underreported events of 2002

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Posted: February 10, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Art Moore
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

As it does every year at this time, WorldNetDaily.com has compiled its annual list of the most "spiked" stories of the past year – those major news events of 2002 that were either underreported or unreported by the mainstream media.

While most news organizations present year-end retrospective replays of what they consider to have been the top news stories of the previous 12 months, WND's editors have always found it more newsworthy to publish a year-end compilation of the important stories most ignored by the establishment press.

WND Editor and CEO Joseph Farah has sponsored "Operation Spike" every year since 1988, and since founding WorldNetDaily in May 1997 has continued the annual tradition. For the past five years, WND has invited its readers to join in and submit what they considered the most underreported stories of the past year in the site's "Operation Spike" forum.

Based on reader responses, plus input from WorldNetDaily's editors, here are WND's picks for the 10 most underreported stories of 2002:

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Sen. Patty Murray's comments about Osama bin Laden. On the heels of a media firestorm over comments by Sen. Trent Lott, the mainstream media gave little notice to Democratic Sen. Patty Murray's praise of Osama bin Laden as a nation-builder worthy of praise, in contrast to the United States.

In a session with high school students Dec. 18 in her home state of Washington, Murray asked why bin Laden is "so popular around the world."

The second-term senator said bin Laden has been "out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. We haven't done that."

Murray then asked the students: "How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?"

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[DocFarmer]

I'd highly recommend everyone vote on this at http://www.worldnetdaily.com/polls/ so that the story can get some life back into it.

[DocFarmer]

FYI

I'd highly recommend everyone vote on this at http://www.worldnetdaily.com/polls/ so that the story can get some life back into it.

[Illbay]

Why'd you "snip" the article? I'd've liked to have seen all ten of them.

[Southack]

The most under-reported story of 2002 was Bush going to Europe to sign the largest nuclear reduction treaty in world history, and getting PROTESTED by the anti-nuke Left.

Irony and consistency of ideology seem to be no longer newsworthy to the media...

[DocFarmer]

Illbay,

Space, mostly. However, if you link to the article, you'll see all the choices. Sorry for any inconvenience. Many thanks.

Doc

[Mo1]

Which story of 2002 was most 'spiked' (unreported or underreported) by the mainstream media?
Islamic jihad against Christians worldwide 19.51% (24)


Dramatic spread of homosexual agenda in U.S. public schools 18.70% (23)


Saudi Arabia's funding of terror, bribery of U.S. officials, hostage-taking of U.S. citizens 13.01% (16)


Sen. Patty Murray's comments about Osama bin Laden 13.01% (16)


'We the People's' thwarted attempt to challenge legality of federal income tax 10.57% (13)


Anti-American groups behind anti-war movement 9.76% (12)


Planned Parenthood's widespread cover-up of statutory rape 5.69% (7)


Militant Islam as factor in the D.C. sniper case 4.07% (5)


Negative impact of anti-terrorism legislation on civil rights 3.25% (4)


Faulty insulation confirmed as cause of early collapse of World Trade Center 2.44% (3)

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TOTAL VOTES: 123

[Tamzee]

voted and BTTT

[Brimack34]

I would say it was the semi-truck driver, who had a prayer meeting with 60 drivers. Then ended up catching the sniper's 2 weeks after praying for an end too it all in a wayside rest. And they still have not given him the reward money!!

[fnord]

tough to choose from. I would have voted but it requires registration, so ...

[Happy2BMe]

"Let's not let a good thang die . . da da da da..."

The Washington Republican Party Response to Patty is HERE

Hi! My Name is "Taliban" Patty Murray But You Can Just Call Me Traitor!

Listen To My Radio Show "Taliban" Patty - Live From Baghdad! [strum, strum] "Where have all my neurons gone . . ."

Patty – Doing What She Does Worst

[Republicus2001]

Individuals and Organizations Supporting Communist Party

Taken verbatim from the website of the Communist Party USA 1999

Sen. Barbara Boxer
University of California Student Association
Professor Gerald Horne, Chair, Department of Black Studies, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
Linda Chavez-Thompson, AFL-CIO executive vice president
Matt Fong
Patty Murray, U.S. Senate
Art Guzman, a member of Pipefitters Local 250 in Los Angeles
Congressman Ronald V. Dellums - United States House of Representatives
Californian's for Justice
DePaul Cuba Coalition/Junta de Accion Latina
Labor/Community Strategy Center, Los Angeles CA
Prisoners' Defense Committee
Southern Arizona People's Law Center, Tucson Az
US Peace Council, Menlo Park CA
Shiu-Ming Cheer - Asian Pacific Americans for Affirmative Action, San Francisco
Nicole Davis - Californian's for Justice
Mark Piotrowski - Center for Campus Organizing
John Martinez - Prisoners' Defense Committee
Daniel Hosang - People United for a Better Oakland (PUEBLO), Oakland CA
Paul Gattone - Southern Arizona People's Law Center, Tucson
Kimi Lee, Executive Director University of California Student Association
Martha Acevedo - US Peace Council, Menlo Ca
David Mirtz, National Coordinator - Young Communist League, USA

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[Gothmog]

Patty Murray is a left-wing idiot bump. From one of my previous posts:

Me: I wish this article came out a few months ago when the Taliban in tennis shoes made her obtuse comment about how Muslims didn't like America because we didn't do things like help them build roads and schools. Maybe one of her staffers can read this to her (really slowly) and explain it to her.

From Smithsonian Magazine, Rob Schultheis, Feb. 2003:

"Now, as we drive toward the 10,779-foot Shibar Pass, the gateway to Bamiyan [Afghanistan], we pass ruined Hazara villages, relics of Taliban genocide; our vehicle, ominously, is the only one on the once-busy road. When we arrive in Bamiyan, we find most of the town lying in rubble. Then I take a second look. Everywhere rebuilding is going on: people are making bricks from mud, conjuring their houses and shops back to life. Farmers are loading up trucks with potatoes to sell in Kabul. U.N. vehicles, too, scurry about, part of a massive international campaign to bring Bamiyan back to life. A contingent of U.S. Army Special Operations troops are helping build bridges and schools while they also keep order."

Excerpt

"On September 9, 2001, in the far northern town of Khojabahuddin, two Arab terrorists posing as journalists killed the nationalist Afghan leader Ahmadshah Massood with a bomb concealed in a battery pack. Massood and his fellow Tajik tribesmen from the Panjsher Valley had led the war against the Soviets in the 80's, turning back six major Soviet offenses and descending from the mountains to attack Soviet convoys headed south to Kabul. When the foreign Muslims of Al Qaeda and their Afghan/Pakistani Taliban allies tried to take over the country in the chaos following the Soviet withdrawal, Massood and his followers fought them too."

Excerpt

"Now that the United States, allied with Massood's fighters and other anti-Taliban forces, has swept the Taliban away, the martyred Massood is being hailed as the saviour of his nation."

Me: Sorry, no link to the article, it's a subscription.