I don’t know what to believe from the Main Stream Media any more. Time after time, they either don’t check their facts, they don’t check statistics handed to them, or in some cases, they just lie.
Remember Mitch Snyder? He was the nut cake homeless “advocate” back in the 1980s that kept telling us there were millions of homeless people and how the entire MSM kept repeating it like a mantra until Ted Koppel decided to fact check. There are people still today that believe Snyder and don’t realize his numbers were made up.
How about Clinton finding some pebbles on the beach at Normandy? The only rocks around and he just happens to walk by them and fashion a cross in the sand. How about the GMC pick-up rigged with explosives to prove there was a problem with the fuel system? More recently, Dan Rather and Mary Mapes tried to use phony documents to influence an election.
Hurricane Katrina is another prime example. How many horror stories did we get? 10,000 dead, rapes and murders in the Superdome, The city would be unlivable for years, and others. A city official speaks and no one checks. Most journalists don’t venture from their hotels and prime sources of lattes and booze. By and large, we don’t have journalists, we have “bubble-headed bleach blonds” that stand before us and regurgitate. I’m willing to bet, despite some problems involved with a disaster of Katrina’s scale, FEMA performed as well as they ever had, maybe better.
Next I see some bleach-blond paddling a canoe and telling me how difficult it was to do such a thing. Meanwhile, two guys wade past her showing us it was only six inches deep.
Now they tell me that some press conference between the president and some soldiers was staged. I don’t believe it and here’s why:
Yesterday, I (bottom right corner in the picture) was chosen to be among a small group of soldiers assigned to the 42ID's Task Force Liberty that would speak to President Bush, our Commander-in-Chief. The interview went well, but I would like to respond to what most of the mass-media has dubbed as, "A Staged Event."
First of all, we were told that we would be speaking with the President of the United States, our Commander-in-Chief, President Bush, so I believe that it would have been totally irresponsible for us NOT to prepare some ideas, facts or comments that we wanted to share with the President. We were given an idea as to what topics he may discuss with us, but it's the President of the United States; He will choose which way his conversation with us may go.
We practiced passing the microphone around to one another, so we wouldn't choke someone on live TV. We had an idea as to who we thought should answer what types of questions, unless President Bush called on one of us specifically.
OK Liberal, I have a question for you. Let’s say you were scheduled for a little Q&A with your CEO and this event was going to be seen company wide. Tell me you wouldn’t prepare so you wouldn’t look like a huge fool. If you say you wouldn’t, you’d be lying and we all know it. What is the difference here?
A participant tells me it wasn’t staged, but some news puke regurgitates a party line. Some idiot blond news regurgitater paddles around in ankle deep water to show how difficult and bad the flood is, but that's OK. The other somehow, isn't. All the lies from New Orleans, all the non-reporting in Iraq, the idiot in the canoe -- tell me why I should believe one damn thing you people report.
“Fool me once” as the saying goes, I'm just a tad bit weary of all of them
Hat Tip Michelle Malkin
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