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According to the Washington Times, the military reviewed the loss of Fallujah to Iraqi insurgents and al-Qaeda terrorists in 2004 to determine how the US lost control of the city. The Marine Corps should have beaten the terrorists in a straight up fight, but the Pentagon believes that the enemy had a lot of help from a surprising source -- surprising for everyone except those who watched it happen in real time: "The outcome of a purely military contest in Fallujah was always a foregone conclusion — coalition victory," read the assessment, prepared by analysts at the U.S. Army's National...

On CNN’s Larry King Live Thursday night, Dan Rather insisted that his $70 million lawsuit against CBS was an attempt to save “our democracy” from “big government interference and intimidation in news;” claimed once again that his 2004 60 Minutes story on President Bush’s National Guard service was correct “and I think most people know by now that it was correct;” and charged that CBS’s investigation was “a fraud. It was a setup.” And when Larry King asked him about Peter Arnett — whose career at CNN ended over a fraudulent 1998 report alleging the U.S. murdered defectors and used...

To someone my age, grandchildren are terribly important because they represent the future. I’m writing this because I want to make sure that my grandchildren understand some things that will be very important to their future – and to their children's future. Any American who studies history – whether ancient history or recent history – should realize two major lessons from history: Lesson 1. You and I and the ordinary working person in this country have a quality of life that in most of the world has been available only to a very few, extremely wealthy persons of royalty. Of...

Prior to our preemptive incursion into Iraq, I overheard my teenage grandchildren spouting multiculturalism nonsense they had been taught in school. I wrote them the following letter as part of an attempt to overcome this brainwashing. It provided the starting point to what has now developed into a weblog called "From Sea to Shining Sea" that I launched one year ago. I have decided to republish this piece each year in July.

MIA Peter Arnett magically appears in Vietnam journo reunion pic In its December 2005 issue, Vanity Fair magazine manipulated a photograph to make it appear that veteran journalist Peter Arnett was among a group of war correspondents gathered on a teeming Ho Chi Minh City street during a reunion of the Vietnam press corps. In fact, according to a source familiar with the photo shoot, Arnett was not present when photographer Jonas Karlsson shot a group portrait of eight journalists last April. Instead, the former CNN star (who covered the war for the Associated Press) was subsequently photographed solo and...

Peter Arnett magically appears in Vietnam journo reunion pic FEBRUARY 2--In its December 2005 issue, Vanity Fair magazine manipulated a photograph to make it appear that veteran journalist Peter Arnett was among a group of war correspondents gathered on a teeming Ho Chi Minh City street during a reunion of the Vietnam press corps. In fact, according to a source familiar with the photo shoot, Arnett was not present when photographer Jonas Karlsson shot a group portrait of eight journalists last April. Once again the "smarter", more "civilized", and more "tolerant" MSM shows us their true stripes. TRUTH is...

About four years ago, I became extremely disturbed at overhearing conversations my grandchildren were having at a large family gathering – conversations that were obviously being fueled by poisonous attitudes being inculcated in them about America by their public school teachers. I wrote them a letter as a first step in a campaign to try to undo the harm being done to them and to their country. That letter developed into an e-mail discussion group – and then into a weblog. To read the letter, go to my site and enter the words - to my grandchildren - in the...

Peter Arnett, who was dismissed as an NBC News correspondent after he went on Iraqi TV on March 30, 2003 to boost the Hussein regime's morale by insisting that "the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces" and so the U.S. was "re-writing the war plan. The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance," told Craig Ferguson on Tuesday night's Late Late Show on CBS that he decided to stay in Baghdad because he presumed the U.S. would win quickly. But "this war is going on much longer than I thought -- it's two years...

Saddam son 'was poised to topple dad' From correspondents in Los Angeles 03-03-2005 From: Agence France-Presse THE eldest son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was plotting to overthrow his father just as US troops advanced on Baghdad in March 2003, journalist Peter Arnett claimed in Playboy magazine. Uday Hussein, known for his ruthlessness and flashy lifestyle, had won the support of the leadership of his father's Fedayeen militia to overthrow Saddam's 35-year rule, according to an advance copy of the April edition of Playboy obtained by AFP. The controversial reporter, who was fired by the US Cable News Network in...

This is the good stuff from a speaking engagement Peter Arnett had at West Virginia University: ...He seemed to tear up at first as he said that he had been "struck by the generosity of the local community." He then segued into one of his most partisan statements of the evening, which by itself does not signify bias, but does give insight into the mind of a veteran journalist. He said this as he talked about the Bush adminstration's war on terrorism (or as he perceived it, globalization): "If we could export West Virginian hospitality to the Iraqs of the...

I sent the "Moving On From the MoveOn Era" post into the DA (www.da.wvu.edu) as a guest column shortly after I blogged it. Since all letters and guest columns are submitted without titles, they renamed it "Words of Wisdom to American Voters" and published it in the November 9 edition of the DA. I received calls and IMs from friends of mine saying how much they liked my column, and opinion editor Andy Barnes forwarded me a letter he received about it. The letter's author had many good things to say about my column, but what really got to me...

Your votes are needed to determine the winners of Free Republic's Peter Arnett Awards. The awards 'honor' those reporters, news organizations and public figures whose reporting and statements have given aid and comfort to the enemy and undermined morale in the war on terrorism like Mr. Arnett did last year with his infamous interview in Baghdad saying the Americans were losing the war against Saddam.The voting will remain open until 1 p.m. EDT, Saturday, May 1. Please cast your vote on this thread, or send it to me via freepmail if you're shy. Please select up to ten winners. The...

Nominations are requested for Free Republic's Peter Arnett Awards 'honoring' those reporters, news organizations and public figures whose reporting and statements have given aid and comfort to the enemy and undermined morale in the war on terrorism like Mr. Arnett did last year with his infamous interview in Baghdad saying the Americans were losing the war against Saddam.Nominations will be accepted until 6 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 28. Voting will commence later that evening with the cutoff time to be announced when the voting thread is posted.Please provide a source link or documentation where possible.A couple nominees to get things...

Former CNN newsman Peter Arnett, 69, fired for his pro-Saddam coverage of the Gulf War, married Molly Walsh, 43, in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, in a black-tie ceremony at Georgetown University's Dahlgren Chapel of the Sacred Heart. Walsh does PR for Altria, parent company of Philip Morris. So it's Ok for uber-liberal Arnett to be anti-everything American, but it's also Ok to take money from cancer-causing cigaretts.

Saddam's silent collaborators Last week, I learned there was a children's prison in Baghdad where they locked up the kids of parents deemed disloyal to the regime. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised. As more and more information emerges about Saddam Hussein's Iraq, we're learning how awful it really was. Still, I was stunned. What kind of regime locks up and tortures children? In its scale and sadism, the regime's brutality went way beyond the cruelty of your average police state. It lasted for 20 years. Saddam's rule of terror ought to have sparked international outrage years ago. But...

<p>Former NBC correspondent Peter Arnett was sacked two weeks ago for going on Saddam's state-run television network and boasting about how the media's coverage fuels anti-war sentiment in America. Last week, CNN executive Eason Jordan revealed that his company deliberately covered up news of Iraqi brutality in order to keep its bureau in Baghdad. Just about every other news outlet relentlessly ran stories warning that the "Arab Street" would explode as a result of the U.S.-led war to liberate Iraq. As the war draws to a close, however, traffic on this street continues to flow more or less accident-free.</p>

  Free Republic is one of those groups obsessed with the Clinton era. Word's out: Protest at Hillary's tonightU.S. News & World Report (Washington Whispers) | March 11, 2003 | Paul Bedard   I'll bet that Mr. Bedard is a member of "one of those groups" so "obsessed" with voting in… and having access to… the clintons that they--ooops-- failed to notice the obvious danger of the lovely couple. Thanx for 9/11, Paul... "ONE OF THOSE GROUPS OBSESSED WITH THE CLINTONS" THE CLINTONS--AMERICA'S BIGGEST BLUNDER Hear Bush 41 Warn Us--October 19, 1992* hear *Thanx to Cloud William for text...

Israel´s leading journalists are totally confused. They simply do not understand this business about the canning of CNN´s Peter Arnett. After all, all that Arnett did was appear on TV and condemn his own country and openly, publicly support the enemy in time of war. That is all! You see, Israeli journalists find this so troubling because, for decades, the main function of Israeli journalists has been to denounce their own country and openly support the enemy in time of war. Their mantra is effectively: "The Enemy of Our Country, Right or Wrong!" Their role model has long been Lord...

Peter Arnett On Iraqi TV: The Syracuse Game Plan Has Failed Posted by Anonymous on 2003/4/10 12:06:30 (11 reads) Baghdad - Mercenary reporter Peter Arnett continued his streak of placing his foot in his mouth on Wednesday by commenting on the NCAA National Championship in an appearance on Iraqi television. Arnett's stint as a commentator on the popular Al-Jazeera sports-talk show "Pardon the Fatwa" ended on a sad note when he stated his opinion that the Syracuse game plan was a total failure. According to Arnett, "Clearly, Jim Boeheim's game plan misjudged the determination of the Kansas Jayhawks. The first...

April 10, 2003, 7:45 a.m.Hall of ShameMedia recriminations after VB Day.By NR Staff o many pundits, pols, and, yes, celebs, said so many wrong — and downright silly — things about the war in Iraq, prewar. We knew that back then, but now that Baghdad has effectively been liberated by the U.S.-lead Coalition, we provide a handy snapshot of what was said by some of those who should be looking down and making their apologies. Included here are Maureen Dowd, Chris Matthews, and Barry McCaffrey, the latter one of the retired-general second guessers Vice President Dick Cheney dubbed “embedded...

REJOICING MINORITY FREE AFTER 35 YEARS I WAS at the centre of a popular uprising in Baghdad yesterday.At 10am I drove through the city with two Iraqis I have known for many years. They are both Shi’ites.We headed to Saddam City in the east of Baghdad, where about million people live in slum areas. It is a hotbed of discontent and Islamic fundamentalism, and yesterday, as we arrived, the lid blew off.There were no military, no police and no militiamen around. We saw people beginning to walk from their houses, looking about. We saw one group go into the home of...

Through Japanese news sources toda, we have come up with an interesting, new development in the checkered and questionable media career of PETER ARNETT.Seems he has snagged himself another Baghdad news assignment, and has surfaced as an on-the-spot-reporter for Taipei, Taiwan-based cable TV station, "TVBS".URL (in Chinese): http://www.tvbs.com.tw/NEWS/NEWS_LIST.asp?no=kenneth20030407192855Peter Arnett (you'll see his face pop up on the right side of the screen together with Chinese text) is also passing on interesting military information. One wonders if this is of value, or whether he is playing the disinformation game for his Iraqi friends.At any rate, for what it is worth, in...

<p>Mr. Dooley was a character invented by Finley Peter Dunne, a satirist who lived from 1867 to 1936.</p> <p>In his 1902 book, "Observations by Mr. Dooley," Dunne wrote about the role of the newspaper, and in the process he unintentionally produced the creed of many American journalists, myself included.</p>

Arnett gets new job with Arab satellite TV channel 07.04.2003 Axed NBC correspondent, New Zealander Peter Arnett, is reporting for pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya. "He [Arnett] is an able reporter who has covered wars before and who knows Iraq well," the Dubai-based station's editor-in-chief Salah Nejm said. "I think he is unbiased and has a lot of experience." Arnett started reporting for Al-Arabiya on Saturday, becoming its third correspondent in Baghdad. His reports are voiced over in Arabic. Last week American network NBC fired him for giving an unauthorised interview with state-run Iraqi TV, during which he said the United...

Peter Arnett: Under Fire By Chris Jones BBC News profiles unit Sacked by his employers for giving an interview to Iraqi television, the veteran war correspondent, Peter Arnett, has become another casualty of war. The Pulitzer Prize winner says he just wants to tell the truth. "I'm not anti-military. I don't want to give aid and comfort to the enemy," says Peter Arnett. He maintained his observation that America's original timetable for taking Baghdad had fallen by the wayside was simply what everyone knew, but said giving the interview had been "a stupid misjudgement". On America's most popular morning TV...

<p>April 6, 2003 -- BILL Kristol, who helps run the Washington political magazine Weekly Standard, said on Fox TV yesterday: "It surprised me that he hasn't joined The New York Times."</p> <p>The "he" Kristol was referring to is television reporter Peter Arnett.</p>

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Peter Arnett, fired by NBC earlier this week for giving an interview to state-run Iraqi television, is reporting for pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya, the station said Saturday. "He (Arnett) is an able reporter who has covered wars before and who knows Iraq well," the Dubai-based station's editor-in-chief Salah Nejm told The Associated Press. "I think he is unbiased and has a lot of experience," Nejm said. Arnett started reporting for Al-Arabiya on Friday, becoming its third correspondent in Baghdad. His reports are voiced over in Arabic. NBC fired him for giving an unauthorized interview to...

Middle East - AP DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Peter Arnett, fired by NBC earlier this week for giving an interview to state-run Iraqi television, is reporting for pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya, the station said Saturday. "He (Arnett) is an able reporter who has covered wars before and who knows Iraq well," the Dubai-based station's editor-in-chief Salah Nejm told The Associated Press. "I think he is unbiased and has a lot of experience," Nejm said. Arnett started reporting for Al-Arabiya on Friday, becoming its third correspondent in Baghdad. His reports are voiced over in Arabic. NBC fired him for giving...

It says something about how sincere the news media is in its quest for relevance when one of the biggest stories of last week was that one of their own, Peter Arnett, got fired. A journalism professor once told me that reporters do not get rich, but they do have a lot of fun and when they die they get one heck of an obituary. As of this writing, Arnett still lives, but his termination generated more newsprint and broadcast time than any other American job loss that day. But maybe Arnett’s firing did merit the kind of exposure it...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Peter Arnett, fired by NBC earlier this week for giving an interview to state-run Iraqi television, is reporting for pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya, the station said Saturday. "He (Arnett) is an able reporter who has covered wars before and who knows Iraq well," the Dubai-based station's editor-in-chief Salah Nejm told The Associated Press. "I think he is unbiased and has a lot of experience," Nejm said. Arnett started reporting for Al-Arabiya on Friday, becoming its third correspondent in Baghdad. His reports are voiced over in English. NBC fired him for giving an unauthorized interview...

No matter how many times we hear of Americans doing or saying things that display their contempt and disdain for America it never ceases to fascinate and disgust true Americans. On March 28, 2003, the New Jersey newspaper the Trentonian reported on an interesting story entitled "Town Bans Yellow Ribbons."

Lots of folks, well some anyway, have a tendency to distrust their government. In democracies they elect people they like, or the "lesser of the evils," then spend the rest of the election term, being skeptical. People who are skeptical by nature, those who voted for the other candidate, speak the loudest, but even the ones who elected the government have a tendency to give credence to the idea that if they trust their government, they are somehow leaving a door open to disaster. For about three decades now, the trend has been increasing......

Arabiya TV hires sacked Arnett for Iraq coverage DUBAI, April 5 (Reuters) - Dubai-based Al Arabiya television said on Saturday it had signed up veteran U.S. reporter Peter Arnett to help cover the U.S.-led war in Iraq days after he was fired by U.S. network NBC. The news channel said Arnett, who won a Pulitzer prize for his Vietnam War coverage, joined its three-man team in the Iraqi capital Baghdad two days ago and that he had already appeared on live broadcasts. "Peter Arnett is a professional correspondent and is known for his coverage of the 1991 Gulf War. His...

Belgium's VTM television signs up Peter Arnett BRUSSELS, April 4 (Reuters) - Belgian commercial television station VTM said on Friday it had signed up veteran U.S. reporter Peter Arnett to provide daily coverage on the war in Iraq from the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Pulitzer-prize winner Arnett was sacked by American TV network NBC after he told Iraqi television the U.S. war plan against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had failed. Britain's tabloid newspaper, the Daily Mirror, one of the most prominent opponents of Britain's involvement in the war, earlier this week said it had also hired the reporter. New Zealand-born Arnett,...

Sentiment about the war, the economy and the stock market has swung from euphoria to pessimism in only a few days. But Peter Arnett -- and maybe Geraldo, too -- signal a turn for the better. With both reporters rightly getting busted in Iraq, the media disinformation peak -- in economist terms -- has hit a market bottom. For almost two weeks now, many in the media have spread a message of defeat. The daily drumbeat on the front pages of The Washington Post and The New York Times, picked up by some of the major networks each night, would...

Peter Arnett is off the air. Again. From now on, Arnett will be covering Gulf War II for the left-wing British newspaper The Daily Mirror. NBC/MSNBC/National Geographic Explorer fired Arnett on March 31 after the “reporter” granted an interview to state-controlled Iraqi television. One major problem was that Arnett sounded more like an Iraqi mouthpiece than a journalist. “It is clear that within the United States there is growing challenge to President Bush about the conduct of the war and also opposition to the war,” Arnett said. It’s not clear how he could have known that, since he hasn’t been...

An outraged member of the Senate Armed Services Committee said, "I hesitate to even use the term journalist" when referring to Peter Arnett, the veteran war correspondent fired by NBC and National Geographic after he was interviewed on state-run Iraqi television. "'Traitor' is a better word to describe Mr. Arnett," Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) declared Tuesday (April 1) on the Senate floor. "Saddam Hussein couldn't have written his script any better," added the senator, recalling that Arnett - with a uniformed Iraqi anchor translating - told the Iraqi people this week that the first U.S. war plan has "failed because...

A U.S. senator is calling for the arrest of war correspondent Peter Arnett on a charge of treason in the wake of controversial comments the veteran reporter made to Iraqi television. Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky. "I think Mr. Arnett should be met at the border and arrested should he come back to America," said Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky. "We all firmly believe in the First Amendment which protects the freedom of religion, speech, press and assembly. However, no U.S. citizen should be allowed to provide aid, and comfort, through false information, to the enemy during wartime." Bunning is among the...

<p>ETER ARNETT should make journalists feel uncomfortable. His performance on Iraqi state television captured, in extreme example, a time-honored tradition: the art of ingratiating oneself to a source. This happens at all levels of journalism, from small-town police reporters to White House correspondents. To gain information from people who don't want to give it up, journalists tell the information-holders what they want to hear. Normally. this is a private transaction between journalist and source. The goal is to gain access and knowledge that will, hopefully, shed light on an issue or event. The public usually gets to see only what the journalist does with the information, not how it is obtained.</p>

As The Toronto Star's media columnist Antonia Zerbisias sees it, famed Pulitzer-prize winning war correspondent Peter Arnett was fired for speaking "the ugly truth." She's not alone. Globe and Mail columnist William Houston argued that NBC should not have caved into the political firestorm sparked by Arnett's ill-fated -- and pretty bloody stupid -- impromptu weekend interview on Iraqi television. Even Toronto Sun editor Lorrie Goldstein argued that Arnett was not exactly wise to talk to Iraqi TV, but he shouldn't have been fired. Arnett himself admits he was wrong to grant an interview with state-controlled Iraqi TV -- there...

ON SUNDAY, Peter Arnett went on Iraqi TV said this: "Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces. Now America is reappraising the battlefield, delaying the war maybe a week and rewriting the war plan."

In 1995, then-CNN star Peter Arnett told The American Spectator's John Corry that "Rush Limbaugh is the king. He is also a cretinous liar, with off-the-wall opinions. And he has the audacity to call himself a journalist." Arnett was half-right: Rush is the king of all media. But the rest of that diatribe doesn't describe Rush. It fits Arnett -- to a T.You won't hear that from the princes of our press corps, now tiptoeing silently away from Arnett in embarrassment. Arnett was deified by the media establishment even after (or was it because?) he trashed America from Baghdad in...

Arnett Back on the Air From Baghdad By RAF CASERT .c The Associated Press BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Peter Arnett is back on the air from Baghdad. Only days after he was fired by the U.S. network NBC, Arnett found an unlikely new audience Thursday - the Dutch-speaking population from northern Belgium. ``Thanks Peter Arnett, we are proud to have you on our team,'' said VTM news anchor Dany Verstraeten after Arnett finished his first report from the Iraqi capital. The private network announced it will have daily reports from one of the world's most famous reporters until the end...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. The Fox News Channel and MSNBC have been fighting it out for the hearts and minds of American television viewers. Now the battlefield has spilled over from news coverage to advertising and promotions. On Sunday, Fox News covered the plight of Peter Arnett, the war correspondent for MSNBC, NBC News and National Geographic Explorer. In an interview on Iraqi-controlled television, he said, among other things, that the American war plan had failed. On Tuesday, MSNBC reported on the plight of the Fox correspondent Geraldo Rivera, who ran afoul of military commanders...

Oops. TV Guide: “Arnett is the Comeback Kid in Iraq”     Talk about bad timing. The headline over a story in the new TV Guide arriving in homes this week: “At 68, Arnett is the Comeback Kid in Iraq.” NBC severed its relationship with Arnett on Monday after he went on enemy TV to praise the enemy's resistance and boast how his “reporting” was aiding the efforts of domestic dissenters to undermine U.S. policy.     For a full rundown of what Arnett said on Iraqi TV and his record of spreading enemy propaganda, see Monday's CyberAlert Extra:http://www2.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030331_extra.asp     For how Arnett charged that...

WORD.... CRONKITE, RATHER, JENNINGS, BROKAW AND OTHER MEDIA GEEZERS AND SUFFERERS OF MEDIA SENILE DEMENTIA: WORLD POWER IS NOW AND ON BALANCE A FUNCTION OF MODERN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND THAT IS WHY THE ARAB AND ARAB LEANING EUROPEANS WILL LOOSE. Toogood Reports [Wednesday, April 2, 2003; 12:01 a.m. EST] URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ The real significance of the firing of Peter Arnett over his obviously false statements made to the world over Iraqi TV, is that it might lead some to reexamine not only their current pro-Saddam Hussein, anti-war views, but might even lead to a reexamination of their Vietnam era...

The real significance of the firing of Peter Arnett over his obviously false statements made to the world over Iraqi TV, is that it might lead some to reexamine not only their current pro-Saddam Hussein, anti-war views, but might even lead to a reexamination of their Vietnam era anti-war politically correct thinking developed in their youth by listening to Peter Arnett. During World War II, the war of my teen-age years, Ernie Pyle wrote articles and drew cartoons depicting the war through the eyes of the soldiers at the front. The Ernie Pyle Foundation reflects the feelings of those who...

Apples and Arnetts By Greg Buete Remember Afghanistan? Just one week after the U.S. began fighting the Taliban New York Times reporter R.W. Johnny Apple compared the situation to Vietnam, just as he did during the 1991 Gulf War, and warned of a quagmire to come. The blind leading the blind, the majority of the media followed. But history is not kind to the media's Vietnam in Afghanistan premonition - within weeks the Taliban had fallen and "brutal Afghan winter" became a punch line. As noted in Bill Sammon's book Fighting Back, by the end of October 2001 the media...

Propaganda Pete03/31/2003 Poetic justice played out today when foreign correspondent Peter Arnett, recently of NBC and National Geographic, managed to hang himself with his own noose - metaphorically speaking. Working from Baghdad, on Sunday, 03/30/03, he gave an interview to Iraqi TV that amounted to a heaping helping of propaganda. Here are some snippets. Judge for yourself: "The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces." The above statement is especially egregious because it could only serve to...

<p>April 2, 2003 -- IS Peter Arnett guilty of treason?</p> <p>This is a perfectly serious question.</p> <p>Arnett, who was fired by NBC and National Geographic on Monday, is a citizen of the United States. The United States is in a state of war with Iraq - an official war, authorized by the Congress of the United States. That makes Iraq an official enemy of the United States.</p>