talk.politics.misc

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:57:45 -0500, Jim Alder
wrote:

>"Lamont Cranston" < @ > wrote in news:faum6u
>$vt2$1@ :
>
>> "Jim Alder" wrote...
>>> "Peacenik" wrote:
>>>> "Harry Dope" wrote...
>>>>
>>>>> MSM Twists President's Message Once Again
>>>>> I was driving in my car earlier today listening to Sirius radio and
>>>>> Larry
>>>>> Elder when at the 4 o'clock hour (PST) ABC News came on with their
>>>>> hourly update. They led it with the host saying things like "Bush
>>>>> dodged going to Vietnam but today he compared Iraq to that war" and I
>>>>> had to smile. This is our "unbiased" MSM.
>>>>
>>>> Sounds like accurate reporting to me.
>>>
>>> Of course it does. Big dumb suckers like you are ABCs target audience.
>>
>> Q: Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President, April [2004] is turning into the
>> deadliest month in Iraq since the fall of Baghdad, and some people are
>> comparing Iraq to Vietnam and talking about a quagmire. Polls show that
>> support for your policy is declining and that fewer than half Americans now
>> support it. What does that say to you and how do you answer the Vietnam
>> comparison?
>>
>> Bush: I think the analogy is false. I also happen to think that analogy
>> sends the wrong message to our troops, and sends the wrong message to the
>> enemy.
>
> This has nothing to do with the subject at hand, of course, which is the
>MSM, which reports Bush's statement with this matter-of-fact lie; "dodged
>going to Vietnam but..." You, of course, zip right past it as just another
>'truism', having already been brainwashed as they intended.
>

You mean he DID serve in Vietnam!? Quick! Notify the major media!
They must be told that he didn't get a cushy position in the toy air
force of Texas!

>>>> Bush the chickenhawk DID compare Iraq to Vietnam.
>
> If I say Kerry was comparable to Hillary, it's not because he had a fat
>ass. War has many aspects, and Bush saying that early withdrawal would cause
>the same kind of bloodshed that our early withdrawal from Vietnam does not
>mean our presence there is the same.
> I wonder if Bush was demonstrating to the people something about the media
>with his statement. If he was, it worked perfectly and the message was lost on
>you completely. Just as the MSM before took any mention of Iraq and 9/11 in
>the same speech and said he was blaming Iraq FOR 9/11. And now, by comparing
>one aspect of the two wars, he is 'contradicting himself' for before denying a
>different comparison entirely.
>
> Like I said, you guys are big dumb suckers, ABC's target audience with
>this kind of crap.