Mainstream liberal biased media caused the fall of Iraq....

[healthmyths]

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2005
SOME SOLDIER'S MOM: MSM Anti-war Bias - What Milbloggers Have Been Saying All Along!

TV’s Bad News Brigade ABC, CBS and NBC’s Defeatist Coverage of the War in Iraq
This conclusion is based on a Media Research Center study of broadcast network news coverage of the Iraq war so far this year. MRC analysts reviewed all 1,388 Iraq stories broadcast on ABC’s World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News from January 1 through September 30. (In 2006, the MRC will release a similar analysis of cable news coverage of Iraq.) Among the key findings:

■ Network coverage has been overwhelmingly pessimistic. More than half of all stories (848, or 61%) focused on negative topics or presented a pessimistic analysis of the situation, four times as many as featured U.S. or Iraqi achievements or offered an optimistic assessment (just 211 stories, or 15%).

■ News about the war has grown increasingly negative. In January and February, about a fifth of all network stories (21%) struck a hopeful note, while just over half presented a negative slant on the situation. By August and September, positive stories had fallen to a measly seven percent and the percentage of bad news stories swelled to 73 percent of all Iraq news, a ten-to-one disparity.

■ Terrorist attacks are the centerpiece of TV’s war news. Two out of every five network evening news stories (564) featured car bombings, assassinations, kidnappings or other attacks launched by the terrorists against the Iraqi people or coalition forces, more than any other topic.

■ Even coverage of the Iraqi political process has been negative. More stories (124) focused on shortcomings in Iraq’s political process — the danger of bloodshed during the January elections, political infighting among politicians, and fears that the new Iraqi constitution might spur more civil strife —
than found optimism in the Iraqi people’s historic march to democracy (92 stories).

One-third of those optimistic stories (32) appeared on just two nights — January 30 and 31, just after Iraq’s first successful elections.

■ Few stories focused on the heroism or generous actions of American soldiers.
In contrast, 79 stories focused on allegations of combat mistakes or outright misconduct on the part of U.S. military personnel.

People... do you understand that the MSM and the Democrats WANTED Iraq to fail and "reported" and praised successes of the terrorists while telling the world and Americans our troops were the bad guys!
When our own representatives help the terrorists by saying:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(D) "The war is lost, the surge is not accomplishing anything "

U.S. Rep. John Murtha(D) "Our troops killed innocent civilians in cold blood,”

Senator Kerry (D) "American soldiers going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children."

Durbin (D) "must have been done by Nazis, Soviets"--action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.
Senator Obama said "troops are air-raiding villages and killing civilians,"

and when these statements are made most normal intelligent people would say..."geez doesn't this just help the terrorists in killing more troops"?
FACT:LOOK at this Harvard study found here THE "EMBOLDENMENT EFFECT"

asked: "Are insurgents in Iraq emboldened by voices in the news media expressing dissent or calling for troop withdrawals from Iraq?

The short answer is YES!!! according to Radha Iyengar, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy
research at Harvard and Jonathan Monten of the Belfer Center at the university's Kennedy School of Government.
Are insurgents affected by information on US casualty sensitivity? Using data on attacks and variation in access to international news across Iraqi provinces, we identify an “emboldenment” effect by comparing the rate of insurgent attacks in areas with higher and lower access to information about U.S news after public statements critical of the war. (wouldn't you conclude the next president accusing the US military of methodically and systematically air raiding villages killing civilians.. dissent???) We find in periods after a spike in war-critical statements, insurgent attacks increases by 5-10 percent.

 

[Kosh]

Well the far left media had more to do with the deaths in Iraq than the actual war.

Could you imagine how different things would be if the far left media was silent like they are now?

 

[Mr Natural]

No, the Cheney/Bush unnecessary invasion of Iraq caused the fall of Iraq.

 

[occupied]

No, the Cheney/Bush unnecessary invasion of Iraq caused the fall of Iraq.

Blaming Iraq on the media is like blaming your car accident on rain when you were driving 90 mph on bald tires.

 

[healthmyths]

No, the Cheney/Bush unnecessary invasion of Iraq caused the fall of Iraq.

These Democrats voted for the:
The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 is a United States Congressional statement of policy calling for regime change in Iraq.
It was signed into law by President Bill Clinton, and states that it is the policy of the
United States to support democratic movements within Iraq.
The Act was cited in October 2002 to argue for the authorization of military force against the Iraqi government.

The bill was sponsored by Representative Benjamin A. Gilman (Republican, NY-20) and co-sponsored by Representative Christopher Cox (Republican, CA-47). The bill was introduced as H.R. 4655 on September 29, 1998.
The House of Representatives passed the bill 360 - 38 on October 5, and the
Senate passed it with unanimous consent two days later.
President Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act into law on October 31, 1998.
Iraq Liberation Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And these 32 democrat quotes indicate even before GWB that Saddam was a threat!

"..deny Iraq the capacity to develop WMD".Bill Clinton,1998
"..most brutal dictators of Century", Biden,1998
"Iraq compliance with Resolution 687 becomes shell game"..Daschle 1998
"He will use those WMDs again,as he has ten times since 1983" ..Berger Clinton Ntl. Secur. Advr 1998
"posed by Iraq's refusal to end its WMD programs" Levin 1998
"Saddam has been engaged in development of WMDs which is a threat.."Pelosi 1998 WHERE'D SHE GET THIS INFORMATION BEFORE BUSH?
"Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building WMDS.."Albright 1999
"Saddam to refine delivery systems, that will threaten the US..."Graham 2001
"Saddam has ignored the mandate of the UN and is building WMDs and the means to deliver.." Levin 2002
"Iraq's search for WMDs ...will continue as long as Saddam's in power"..Gore 2002
"Saddam retains stockpiles of WMDS.."Byrd 2002
"..give President authority to use force..to disarm Saddam because an arsenal of WMDs..threat our security"..Kerry 2002
"..Unmistakable evidence Saddam developing nuclear weapons next 5 years.."Rockefeller 2002
"Violated over 11 years every UN resolution demanding disarming WMDs.."Waxman 2002
"He's given aid,comfort & sanctuary to al Qaeda members..and keep developing WMDs"..Hillary 2002
"Compelling evidence Saddam has WMDs production storage capacity.." Graham 2002
"Without a question, we need to disarm Saddam. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime .... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction .... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ...."Kerry , Jan. 23. 2003.

 

[dannyboys]

No, the Cheney/Bush unnecessary invasion of Iraq caused the fall of Iraq.

These Democrats voted for the:
The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 is a United States Congressional statement of policy calling for regime change in Iraq.
It was signed into law by President Bill Clinton, and states that it is the policy of the
United States to support democratic movements within Iraq.
The Act was cited in October 2002 to argue for the authorization of military force against the Iraqi government.

The bill was sponsored by Representative Benjamin A. Gilman (Republican, NY-20) and co-sponsored by Representative Christopher Cox (Republican, CA-47). The bill was introduced as H.R. 4655 on September 29, 1998.
The House of Representatives passed the bill 360 - 38 on October 5, and the
Senate passed it with unanimous consent two days later.
President Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act into law on October 31, 1998.
Iraq Liberation Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And these 32 democrat quotes indicate even before GWB that Saddam was a threat!

"..deny Iraq the capacity to develop WMD".Bill Clinton,1998
"..most brutal dictators of Century", Biden,1998
"Iraq compliance with Resolution 687 becomes shell game"..Daschle 1998
"He will use those WMDs again,as he has ten times since 1983" ..Berger Clinton Ntl. Secur. Advr 1998
"posed by Iraq's refusal to end its WMD programs" Levin 1998
"Saddam has been engaged in development of WMDs which is a threat.."Pelosi 1998 WHERE'D SHE GET THIS INFORMATION BEFORE BUSH?
"Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building WMDS.."Albright 1999
"Saddam to refine delivery systems, that will threaten the US..."Graham 2001
"Saddam has ignored the mandate of the UN and is building WMDs and the means to deliver.." Levin 2002
"Iraq's search for WMDs ...will continue as long as Saddam's in power"..Gore 2002
"Saddam retains stockpiles of WMDS.."Byrd 2002
"..give President authority to use force..to disarm Saddam because an arsenal of WMDs..threat our security"..Kerry 2002
"..Unmistakable evidence Saddam developing nuclear weapons next 5 years.."Rockefeller 2002
"Violated over 11 years every UN resolution demanding disarming WMDs.."Waxman 2002
"He's given aid,comfort & sanctuary to al Qaeda members..and keep developing WMDs"..Hillary 2002
"Compelling evidence Saddam has WMDs production storage capacity.." Graham 2002
"Without a question, we need to disarm Saddam. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime .... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction .... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ...."Kerry , Jan. 23. 2003.

OUCH!!!!!! Next thing you'll be claiming George Wallace was a LIB!!! LOLOLOL
Speaking the truth "don't go round here" pal.
Stick to blaming BUUUUUUUUUUUSH. LOL

 

[Peach]

No, the Cheney/Bush unnecessary invasion of Iraq caused the fall of Iraq.

Blaming Iraq on the media is like blaming your car accident on rain when you were driving 90 mph on bald tires.

Yes, or blaming the Driver's Ed class you took 20 years ago for not teaching you how to stop fast enough.

 

[healthmyths]

No, the Cheney/Bush unnecessary invasion of Iraq caused the fall of Iraq.

Blaming Iraq on the media is like blaming your car accident on rain when you were driving 90 mph on bald tires.

Obviously you don't comprehend what Paul Joseph Goebbels a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. His observations about the news media, perceptions..

“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people
concerned that a square is in fact a circle.
They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.”

“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

So again... here are the FACTS as to how the MSM altered "perceptions"... repeating a big lie...
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2005
SOME SOLDIER'S MOM: MSM Anti-war Bias - What Milbloggers Have Been Saying All Along!

TV’s Bad News Brigade ABC, CBS and NBC’s Defeatist Coverage of the War in Iraq
This conclusion is based on a Media Research Center study of broadcast network news coverage of the Iraq war so far this year. MRC analysts reviewed all 1,388 Iraq stories broadcast on ABC’s World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News from January 1 through September 30. (In 2006, the MRC will release a similar analysis of cable news coverage of Iraq.) Among the key findings:

* Network coverage has been overwhelmingly pessimistic. More than half of all stories (848, or 61%) focused on negative topics or presented a pessimistic analysis of the situation, four times as many as featured U.S. or Iraqi achievements or offered an optimistic assessment (just 211 stories, or 15%).

* News about the war has grown increasingly negative. In January and February, about a fifth of all network stories (21%) struck a hopeful note, while just over half presented a negative slant on the situation. By August and September, positive stories had fallen to a measly seven percent and the percentage of bad news stories swelled to 73 percent of all Iraq news, a ten-to-one disparity.

* Terrorist attacks are the centerpiece of TV’s war news. Two out of every five network evening news stories (564) featured car bombings, assassinations, kidnappings or other attacks launched by the terrorists against the Iraqi people or coalition forces, more than any other topic.

* Even coverage of the Iraqi political process has been negative. More stories (124) focused on shortcomings in Iraq’s political process — the danger of bloodshed during the January elections, political infighting among politicians, and fears that the new Iraqi constitution might spur more civil strife
than found optimism in the Iraqi people’s historic march to democracy (92 stories).

One-third of those optimistic stories (32) appeared on just two nights — January 30 and 31, just after Iraq’s first successful elections.

* Few stories focused on the heroism or generous actions of American soldiers.
In contrast, 79 stories focused on allegations of combat mistakes or outright misconduct on the part of U.S. military personnel.

 

[NYcarbineer]

So once things began to deteriorate in Iraq after the invasion, the reporting of the situation began to contain more negative stories?

Well, duh. You don't report that it's sunny and warm in the middle of a blizzard...

 

[NYcarbineer]

Normal Americans know who fucked up with Iraq.

 

[healthmyths]

Normal Americans know who fucked up with Iraq.

WWI, WWII, Korean war.. NONE of these stories would have made it through!

Network coverage has been overwhelmingly pessimistic. More than half of all stories (848, or 61%) focused on negative topics or presented a pessimistic analysis of the situation, four times as many as featured U.S. or Iraqi achievements or offered an optimistic assessment (just 211 stories, or 15%).

Only idiots would have to ask BUT let me explain again PERCEPTIONS!!!

When the general population gets biased presentations of the news frequently and UNFAIRLY imbalanced.. decisions are made by politicians.
These idiots like Reid, Kerry, Obama et.al. wanting to be on the politically correct rather then principled side put out comments that
absolutely HELPED the barbarians.. saying the war is lost, air raiding killing villages, US troops terrorists!

YOU absolutely DON"T think that helped encourage the terrorists?
THE MSM then reports more negative stories and people at home get the same damn video of troops being blown up repeatedly and
of course then idiots like you say we are losing!
Did that in Viet Nam during Tet Offensive!
"Shaken by Tet, he planned to seek terms for a conditional surrender, the North Vietnamese commander, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, wrote in his memoirs. But our news media's complete misrepresentation of what had actually happened "convinced him America's resolve was weakening and complete victory was within Hanoi's grasp," Mr. de Borchgrave said.

Again..
and when these statements are made most normal intelligent people would say..."geez doesn't this just help the terrorists in killing more troops"?
FACT:LOOK at this Harvard study found here THE "EMBOLDENMENT EFFECT"

asked: "Are insurgents in Iraq emboldened by voices in the news media expressing dissent or calling for troop withdrawals from Iraq?

The short answer is YES!!! according to Radha Iyengar, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy
research at Harvard and Jonathan Monten of the Belfer Center at the university's Kennedy School of Government.
Are insurgents affected by information on US casualty sensitivity? Using data on attacks and variation in access to international news across Iraqi provinces, we identify an “emboldenment” effect by comparing the rate of insurgent attacks in areas with higher and lower access to information about U.S news after public statements critical of the war. (wouldn't you conclude the next president accusing the US military of methodically and systematically air raiding villages killing civilians.. dissent???) We find in periods after a spike in war-critical statements, insurgent attacks increases by 5-10 percent

How much proof do you have to have to show that the MSM influenced the perceptions of BOTH Americans and the barbarians...
Americans... War is lost... our troops terrorists...
Barbarians... yippee Americans KNOW and Press is telling them "WAR IS LOST!!! We are right Americans admit THEY are terrorists!
Geez why is it so f...king obvious that idiots like you HELPED the barbarians Murder our Americans as well as 100,000 Iraqis?
YOU people really really hate America don't you?

 

[BlindBoo]

Another round of lies and made up stories based on incomplete quotes taken out of context again.

How many times a week do you post these lies?

 

[JT8691]

No, the Cheney/Bush unnecessary invasion of Iraq caused the fall of Iraq.

The Democrats were elected into office in 2006 with the main reason being ending the Iraq War.....that was EIGHT YEARS ago.....what ever happened to that? Are you sure that all of the blame of the Iraq War rests solely with the Republicans?

 

[KNB]

All of the blame for the 2003 invasion of Iraq lies solely with the Bush administration, regardless of anything said or done by anyone else.

Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein
Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction
U.S. Intelligence and Iraq WMD
The Record on CURVEBALL
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB326/IraqWarPart1-Timeline.pdf
THE IRAQ WAR -- PART I:*The U.S. Prepares for Conflict, 2001
THE IRAQ WAR -- PART II: Was There Even a Decision?
THE IRAQ WAR -- PART III: Shaping the Debate
The Torture Archive

Afghanistan: Lessons from the Last War

 

[ClosedCaption]

The party of personal responsibility

 

[KNB]

The New Media Monopoly describes the cartel of five giant media conglomerates who now control the media on which a majority of Americans say they most rely. These five are not just large — though they are all among the 325 largest corporations in the world — they are unique among all huge corporations: they are a major factor in changing the politics of the United States and they condition the social values of children and adults alike.

These five huge corporations — Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch’s News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany, and Viacom (formerly CBS) — own most of the newspapers, magazines, books, radio and TV stations, and movie studios of the United States.

These Big Five (with General Electric’s NBC a close sixth) do not manufacture automobiles, or clothing, or nuts and bolts. They manufacture politics and social values. The media conglomerates have been a major force in creating conservative and far right politics in the country. They have almost single-handedly as a group, in their radio and television dominance, produced a coarse and vulgar culture that celebrates the most demeaning characteristics in the human psyche — greed, deceit, and cheating as a legitimate way to win (as in the various “reality” shows).

It is not just national economics that is at stake — though their power has led to the government’s somnolence of anti-trust action. Nor is it just the neglect of broadcast media giantism by the government agencies that by law are still required to operate “in the public interest.” The public interest is to have the country’s largest broadcasting system in the world provide diversity in news, opinion, and commentary that serves all Americans, right, left, and independent, as well as access to their local stations as well as true choices in national programs.

What is at stake is American democracy itself. A country without all the significant news, points of view, and information its citizens need to be informed voters is risking the loss of democratic rights. Voters without genuine choices and without the information they need to choose what meets their own needs and wishes has produced something alarming: on Election Day our voters are forced to vote for what is the narrowest political choices among all industrial democracies of the world.

The New Media Monopoly, by Ben Bagdikian, describes these dominant media giants, how they cooperate with each other in the manner of a cartel, who runs them, and how this all came to pass in such insidious ways. It reminds a whole generation that has forgotten, for example, that the public owns the air waves, not the broadcasters. The book describes how all our media grew, including the Internet (and intriguing information like the first time in history that a computer crashed).
Ben Bagdikian - Author | Journalist | Media Critic

So which of the billionaire corporations that control 80% of American media are "liberal" or "leftist"?

Remember that FOX News is the number one most-watched "liberal media" news channel.

 

[1776]

The media pushed their liberal agenda of surrendering Iraq and Obama executed it by pulling out all US combat forces.

Now Iraq is a bigger mess thanks to the liberals and losertarians in this country.

 

[Esmeralda]

The media pushed their liberal agenda of surrendering Iraq and Obama executed it by pulling out all US combat forces.

Now Iraq is a bigger mess thanks to the liberals and losertarians in this country.

 

[1776]

Oh yeah, shit for brains.

Iraq wasn't surrendered by Obama and Sunni terrorists don't own half of Iraq...

The media pushed their liberal agenda of surrendering Iraq and Obama executed it by pulling out all US combat forces.

Now Iraq is a bigger mess thanks to the liberals and losertarians in this country.

 

[kaz]

Mainstream liberal biased media caused the fall of Iraq....

Unchallenged, lies become truth. W and Karl Rove allowed it to happen by not responding to attacks by the left on what they were doing, which allowed the left to have the only microphone. W thought he looked Reaganesque, above the fray. Instead he looked clueless and out of touch. People did need to hear him defend his policies and set the record straight. I cannot for the life of me figure out how the White House refused to defend what they were doing. The unending stream of lies by the left were all anyone heard. By not standing up for what he did, it was inevitable that it would all go down the way it did.