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"Harry Hope" |
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01 Jun 2006 01:02:39 PM |
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Rightard Laura Ingraham gets bitchslapped and her fanny booted. |
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2006/05/31/publiceye/entry1672140.shtml
May 31, 2006
In The Wake Of The CBS News Tragedy, What To Make Of The Critics?
by Brian Montopoli
"One thing I don't want to hear anymore," Steve Capus, the president
of NBC News, told The New York Times's Bill Carter in the wake of the
car bomb attack in Iraq that left two CBS News personnel dead and one
critically injured, "is people like Laura Ingraham spewing about us
not leaving our balconies in the Green Zone to cover what's really
happening in Iraq."
Ingraham has come under quite a bit of fire for her March 21 comments
on NBC's "Today," where she said the following to David Gregory:
David, to do a show from Iraq means to talk to the Iraqi military.
To go out with the Iraqi military, to actually have a conversation
with the people, instead of reporting from hotel balconies about the
latest IEDs going off.
Ingraham had gone to Iraq for eight days, and while she was there, she
says she "wasn't in a hotel balcony. I was out with the U.S.
military."
CBS News' Lara Logan, appearing on CNN's "Reliable Sources," called
Ingraham's statements "outrageous" in an interview two months after
ABC's Bob Woodruff sustained serious injuries while reporting in Iraq.
"I think it's an outrage to point the finger at journalists and say
that this is our fault. I really do. And I think it shows an abject
lack of respect for any journalist that's prepared to come to this
country and risk their lives," she said.
After the attack involving CBS News personnel, blogger Atrios dredged
up Ingraham's comments and wrote the following:
Journalists tend a bit too much to bask in the reflected glory of the
accomplishments and activities of their greatest colleagues, but
there's certainly reason to have a great deal of respect for people
who are actually trying to get the story in Iraq.
The truth is it is extremely dangerous for journalists to go out in
Iraq - something the right wingers sitting in their basements covered
in cheetoes like to attribute to cowardice as they wank away - but
it's also the case that some journalists are getting out there one way
or another.
Another few millenia in hell awaits Ingraham, I think.
It's important to note that while Ingraham's critique was the most
high-profile, she was not alone.
Ralph Peters wrote in the New York Post on March 5th that while many
journalists are brave and conscientious, "some in Baghdad - working
for "prestigious" publications - aren't out on the city streets the
way they pretend to be."
He continued:
"They're safe in their enclaves, protected by hired guns, complaining
that it's too dangerous out on the streets. They're only in Baghdad
for the byline, and they might as well let their Iraqi employees phone
it in to the States."
In 2003, new White House domestic policy appointee Karl Zinsmeister
said that many of the journalists covering the war are "whiny and
appallingly soft." He added:
The journalists embedded among U.S. forces that I’ve crossed paths
with are fish out of water here, and show their discomfort clearly as
they hide together in the press tents, fantasizing about expensive
restaurants at home and plush hotels in Kuwait City, fondling
keyboards and satellite phones with pale fingers, clinging to their
world of offices and tattle and chatter where they feel less
ineffective, less testosterone deficient, more influential....
In July 2005, a group of six conservative talk show hosts organized a
"truth tour" to Iraq to combat what they considered the dire portrayal
of the war coming from the liberal media.
Their belief that they could simply get the real story on the ground,
unlike the mainstream media -- one host, Melanie Morgan, said she
planned to "get away from my military minders and talk to people" --
prompted liberal talk show host Al Franken to say,
"That's how stupid these people are. They think they can walk around
and talk to shopkeepers. They don't realize how dangerous it is over
there."
The Iraq war is now considered by some to be the most dangerous in
modern history for journalists, with 71 journalists and 26 support
staffers killed, more than in Vietnam, Korea or World War II.
Iraq is, without a doubt, an extraordinarily dangerous place.
And particularly in light of what has happened to journalists in this
war, one can't help but note that Ingraham decided her eight-day Iraq
tour qualified her to judge journalists who risked their lives for
long periods covering the conflict.
Kimberly Dozier has just had shrapnel removed from her head.
Paul Douglas and James Brolan are dead.
And they are just three of many.
Members of the press corps in Iraq are risking their lives trying to
bring the story of the war to Americans, and the trivialization of
those efforts strikes me as offensive.
War reporters deserve our respect and admiration, but some in the
conservative media criticism echo chamber have seen fit to slander
them in order to argue that the situation in Iraq is far better than
it appears.
They take metaphorical shots at the messengers as the messengers do
their jobs among very real bullets.
However: We shouldn't forget that there are legitimate issues worth
considering when it comes to the news reports from Iraq.
In September, the Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens, Time magazine's
Michael Ware, National Review Online's James Robbins, and CBS News'
Randall Joyce talked to me about whether the news from Iraq was being
reported accurately.
While they disagreed, they engaged the issues in a way that went
beyond the standard partisan rhetoric, and certainly didn't resort to
implying that reporters in Iraq are cowards.
Stephens, who believes events in Iraq are better than they are
portrayed in the media, still went out of his way to note that
"overwhelmingly, most of the American reporters who are out there are
doing a heroic job."
It's also important to remember that the media isn't monolithic, and
that reporters have to make decisions all the time about whether a
particular story is worth the risk.
CBS' Harry Smith, who left Baghdad roughly 48 hours before the attack
on Brolin, Douglas and Dozier, wrote the following:
The whole time you're in Baghdad, you think about risk.
You assess risk. Is the story you want to do worth it?
Can you tilt the risk a little more in your favor?
You use your brains, your experience.
You ask yourself a lot of questions, and then you do the story.
We said no to a story last week and have no regrets about it.
Does saying no to a story mean that you're an "appallingly soft" wimp
who is "reporting from hotel balconies?"
No.
It means that you opted not to put yourself in harm's way so that the
next time, when the risk is less and the reward greater, you're still
around to do the story.
There are reporters who are more willing than most to get out amongst
the people and the fighting, folks like recent CNN hire Ware, who has
been lucky -- he could very well be dead.
If the majority of journalists aren't as aggressive as Ware, the fact
that so many have died suggests that they're constantly taking serious
risks.
It's true that if reporters were more willing to go out into the
streets, we might be getting a slightly more complete picture of the
situation in Iraq.
We would also have more dead reporters.
Considering the situation on the ground, I think most journalists have
gone above and beyond the call of duty to do their jobs well.
Several months ago I asked my bosses to go to Baghdad in order to
report on the press corps there, and was turned down for safety
reasons.
I'm not sure I would make the same request today.
If Ingraham feels, despite all of the violence against members of the
press, that journalists are too cautious in covering the war, I
encourage her to get out on the streets of Baghdad for an extended
tour.
_____________________________________________________
Manchild Laura Ingraham.
Harry
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| User: "z" |
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| Title: Re: Rightard Laura Ingraham gets bitchslapped and her fanny booted. |
02 Jun 2006 01:22:11 PM |
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Harry Hope wrote:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2006/05/31/publiceye/entry1672140.shtml
Ingraham had gone to Iraq for eight days, and while she was there, she
says she "wasn't in a hotel balcony. I was out with the U.S.
military."
Gee, how did she ever fit that into her busy life? From her online
biographies, (transcribed Jan 24 2003 by me):
"Laura Ingraham
Visit Her Official Web Site:
www.lauraingraham.com
At age 26, she became the youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Biology for her work in isolating the key proteins involved in the
breakdown of nerve cells in degenerative diseases. "
<http://www.jerseygop.com/RepublicanBabes2.html>
"Miss Ingraham's path to a career in the media took many unconventional
turns. She completed high school in Connecticut at age 13, and at age
15 became the first person to ever win gold medals in both the winter
and summer Olympics. After graduating at the top of her class at
Dartmouth one year later, she decided to take time off to write her
memoirs for which she won the Pulitzer in 1985. Miss Ingraham,
recruited by various intelligence branches of the government,
eventually signing on with the CIA, rising to the position of Director
of the Agency's Middle East operations. Later Miss Ingraham returned to
academics at Oxford University, where she received a Ph.D. in Molecular
Biology. At age 26, she became the youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Biology for her work in isolating the key proteins involved in
the breakdown of nerve cells in degenerative diseases."
<http://www.wnis.com/shows/LauraIngrahamBioPic.shtml>
The same biography is now up on her radio show webpage, but now she
provides an introduction that it is "embellished" (in the Google cache
version you can still see the glitch where Word autoreplaced "..." with
a non-ASCII character when she spliced on the intro
<http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:zk9z76_e6ioJ:www.wtar.com/shows/LauraIngraham.shtml+%22At+age+26,+she+became+the+youngest-ever+recipient+of+the+Nobel+Prize%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5&client=googlet>)
OK, so it's only a little weird for a public figure to post a sarcastic
biography. She obviously shares with Ann Coulter the Connecticut Blond
Fascist Hitwoman's lack of understanding of "what is this 'humor' of
which you speak?". How many times has it been said that you can't write
something so sarcastic that it can't possibly be taken for serious by
some rightwingnut? But what makes the hair rise is that the rightards
of the time refused to believe that it was sarcastic and defended it as
evidence of Rightwing Genius
<http://groups.google.com/group/or.general/msg/0d1eefdae21b8e83?hl=en&>
..... the Freepers were still falling it for it, even with the
disclaimer, last October!
<http://209.157.64.201/focus/f-chat/1508496/posts> These Einsteins get
to vote for President (and obviously did...) It's as scary as the
Andrew Dice Clay fans who took his act seriously. Except that he had
the integrity to get scared by the phenomenon and bail out, whereas the
Rabid Right see being at the head of a mob of angry unquestioning
morons as a terrific career builder.
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| Title: Re: Rightard Laura Ingraham gets bitchslapped and her fanny booted. |
02 Jun 2006 02:05:21 PM |
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z wrote:
Harry Hope wrote:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2006/05/31/publiceye/entry1672140.shtml
Ingraham had gone to Iraq for eight days, and while she was there, she
says she "wasn't in a hotel balcony. I was out with the U.S.
military."
Gee, how did she ever fit that into her busy life? From her online
biographies, (transcribed Jan 24 2003 by me):
"Laura Ingraham
Visit Her Official Web Site:
www.lauraingraham.com
At age 26, she became the youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Biology for her work in isolating the key proteins involved in the
breakdown of nerve cells in degenerative diseases. "
<http://www.jerseygop.com/RepublicanBabes2.html>
It's sad she still has such low self-esteem. According to her REAL
official, seriously, no kidding, this one is authentic, personally
sanctioned by Laura herself, bio.....
"She hopes to become the person her dog Troy thinks she is. "
You would think someone would explain to her why the dog keeps humping
her leg ......
"Miss Ingraham's path to a career in the media took many unconventional
turns. She completed high school in Connecticut at age 13, and at age
15 became the first person to ever win gold medals in both the winter
and summer Olympics. After graduating at the top of her class at
Dartmouth one year later, she decided to take time off to write her
memoirs for which she won the Pulitzer in 1985. Miss Ingraham,
recruited by various intelligence branches of the government,
eventually signing on with the CIA, rising to the position of Director
of the Agency's Middle East operations. Later Miss Ingraham returned to
academics at Oxford University, where she received a Ph.D. in Molecular
Biology. At age 26, she became the youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Biology for her work in isolating the key proteins involved in
the breakdown of nerve cells in degenerative diseases."
<http://www.wnis.com/shows/LauraIngrahamBioPic.shtml>
The same biography is now up on her radio show webpage, but now she
provides an introduction that it is "embellished" (in the Google cache
version you can still see the glitch where Word autoreplaced "..." with
a non-ASCII character when she spliced on the intro
<http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:zk9z76_e6ioJ:www.wtar.com/shows/LauraIngraham.shtml+%22At+age+26,+she+became+the+youngest-ever+recipient+of+the+Nobel+Prize%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5&client=googlet>)
OK, so it's only a little weird for a public figure to post a sarcastic
biography. She obviously shares with Ann Coulter the Connecticut Blond
Fascist Hitwoman's lack of understanding of "what is this 'humor' of
which you speak?". How many times has it been said that you can't write
something so sarcastic that it can't possibly be taken for serious by
some rightwingnut? But what makes the hair rise is that the rightards
of the time refused to believe that it was sarcastic and defended it as
evidence of Rightwing Genius
<http://groups.google.com/group/or.general/msg/0d1eefdae21b8e83?hl=en&>
.... the Freepers were still falling it for it, even with the
disclaimer, last October!
<http://209.157.64.201/focus/f-chat/1508496/posts> These Einsteins get
to vote for President (and obviously did...) It's as scary as the
Andrew Dice Clay fans who took his act seriously. Except that he had
the integrity to get scared by the phenomenon and bail out, whereas the
Rabid Right see being at the head of a mob of angry unquestioning
morons as a terrific career builder.
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| User: "z" |
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02 Jun 2006 02:55:32 PM |
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z wrote:
Harry Hope wrote:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2006/05/31/publiceye/entry1672140.shtml
Ingraham had gone to Iraq for eight days, and while she was there, she
says she "wasn't in a hotel balcony. I was out with the U.S.
military."
Gee, how did she ever fit that into her busy life? From her online
biographies, (transcribed Jan 24 2003 by me):
"Laura Ingraham
Visit Her Official Web Site:
www.lauraingraham.com
At age 26, she became the youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Biology for her work in isolating the key proteins involved in the
breakdown of nerve cells in degenerative diseases. "
<http://www.jerseygop.com/RepublicanBabes2.html>
It's sad she still has such low self-esteem. According to her REAL
official, seriously, no kidding, this one is authentic, personally
sanctioned by Laura herself, bio.....
"She hopes to become the person her dog Troy thinks she is. "
You would think someone would explain to her why the dog keeps humping
her leg ......
"Miss Ingraham's path to a career in the media took many unconventional
turns. She completed high school in Connecticut at age 13, and at age
15 became the first person to ever win gold medals in both the winter
and summer Olympics. After graduating at the top of her class at
Dartmouth one year later, she decided to take time off to write her
memoirs for which she won the Pulitzer in 1985. Miss Ingraham,
recruited by various intelligence branches of the government,
eventually signing on with the CIA, rising to the position of Director
of the Agency's Middle East operations. Later Miss Ingraham returned to
academics at Oxford University, where she received a Ph.D. in Molecular
Biology. At age 26, she became the youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Biology for her work in isolating the key proteins involved in
the breakdown of nerve cells in degenerative diseases."
<http://www.wnis.com/shows/LauraIngrahamBioPic.shtml>
The same biography is now up on her radio show webpage, but now she
provides an introduction that it is "embellished" (in the Google cache
version you can still see the glitch where Word autoreplaced "..." with
a non-ASCII character when she spliced on the intro
<http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:zk9z76_e6ioJ:www.wtar.com/shows/LauraIngraham.shtml+%22At+age+26,+she+became+the+youngest-ever+recipient+of+the+Nobel+Prize%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5&client=googlet>)
OK, so it's only a little weird for a public figure to post a sarcastic
biography. She obviously shares with Ann Coulter the Connecticut Blond
Fascist Hitwoman's lack of understanding of "what is this 'humor' of
which you speak?". How many times has it been said that you can't write
something so sarcastic that it can't possibly be taken for serious by
some rightwingnut? But what makes the hair rise is that the rightards
of the time refused to believe that it was sarcastic and defended it as
evidence of Rightwing Genius
<http://groups.google.com/group/or.general/msg/0d1eefdae21b8e83?hl=en&>
.... the Freepers were still falling it for it, even with the
disclaimer, last October!
<http://209.157.64.201/focus/f-chat/1508496/posts> These Einsteins get
to vote for President (and obviously did...) It's as scary as the
Andrew Dice Clay fans who took his act seriously. Except that he had
the integrity to get scared by the phenomenon and bail out, whereas the
Rabid Right see being at the head of a mob of angry unquestioning
morons as a terrific career builder.
"She hopes to become the person her dog Ann Coulter thinks she is. "
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