[Clara Lou]

Williams makes some very good points.

The only part of Koppel's show that I saw was the snippet that Chris Wallace showed this morning. Judging by that admittedly tiny sample, I'm thinking that the audience for the show was small and decreased in size as the hour passed.

I'll be watching Chris Wallace next week to see how he answers Koppel.

[holden]

I think it was largely one-upmanship over the "let's-show-as-many-coffins-arriving-from-Iraq-as-possible" gambit, from the same type inveigling hoodwinkers who would make us think stereotyping all our troops as wholesale, deviant torturers needs no balance to the contrary.

It's not coincidence that the Left and their media leave out all of the positive things Americans have been doing for Iraq. They're purveyors of propaganda, not the unvarnished truth.

HF

[Joe 6-pack]

I'm sure it won't be long until Koppel reads a list of Americans killed, raped or assaulted by illegal immigrants.

[blanknoone]

I don't get his point about 'influencing the primaries' The primaries, for all intents and purposes, are over. Does he mean the general election? Why does he call the elections the primaries?

[capt. norm]

I hope I'm not the only one who watched "Fox News Sunday" where Chris Wallace announced an answer to Nightline and it's entitled "What We've Accomplished".

It's a salute to our troops, living or dead, and what their mission was all about.

I think Chris has turned out to be a big asset for Fox News. I know some of us had our doubts and were waiting to see some results. We may get our wish next Sunday.

[Tall_Texan]

When I found out that the Washington Post and U.S. Today both came out with similar photo spreads at the same time Koppel is running this, it's clear to me this is a DNC fax machine coordinated stunt. It's really no different than the "pro-choice" march or the Million Mom march. It's the "dead soldier march" and the media is ramped up to cover it and mine it for political points.

FWIW, we've lost far fewer lives in Iraq than what I first imagined when we went there but what has been frustrating to many is that we took Baghdad so easily but are losing so many in trying to hold our ground and snuff out the last remnants of resistance while trying to keep the infrastructure intact. War means deaths and nobody knows that better than soldiers but they still go and more sign up to the follow them. Godspeed to all our brave soldiers, alive or dead.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

It's a terrible thing when people refuse to learn from history and even worse when they learn the wrong lesson from history. Much is given to the idea that when Walter Cronkite returned from Vietnam and declared it was over, it was then the beginning if the end. Methinks that Koppel wants to be the modern Cronkite and announce the similar turning point. The only problem is that Cronkite and the media made the Tet offensive the turning point and in managing imagery and its interpretation they convinced the public that Tet was some sort of strategic victory for the Vietcong. In fact it was a terrible defeat for them. It was a case of winning the battle and losing the media interpretation war. That isn't going to happen this time - due to the proliferation of media channels from which the public can receive information. Ted's just trying to have his moment, and he's wrong, and it's shameful that he would utilize the images of war dead for his personal (career) purposes.

[ChevyZ28]

I have always thought Koppel looked and acted like he has been constipated for a very long time, all though he has been spewing feces at the American public for years. In one show, he was able to eliminate all of the feces that has built up inside him. Unfortunately, he will build up again, and spew again.

[McGavin999]

Anyone know what their ratings were?