House Defense chair asks Pentagon to remove embedded CNN reporters…
CNN has become “the publicist for an enemy propaganda film” by broadcasting a video showing an insurgent sniper in Iraq apparently killing an American soldier, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said here Friday.
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-El Cajon) called for the Pentagon to oust any CNN reporter embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq.
“I think Americans like to think we’re all in this together,” Hunter said. “The average American Marine or soldier has concluded after seeing that film that CNN is not on their side.”CNN said it broadcast the brief video to show the threat that insurgent snipers posed to U.S. troops.
“Whether or not you agree with us in this case, our goal, as always, is to present the unvarnished truth as best we can,” CNN producer David Doss wrote in a blog on the network’s website.
Tony Snow, President Bush’s press secretary, said the insurgents were hoping to “break the will of the American people” by giving the video to CNN.
The footage was shown first on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360″ program, of which Doss is executive producer, and then on several news shows. It remained on CNN’s website Friday.
Doss said CNN Baghdad correspondent Michael Ware received the video after communicating ” through intermediaries ” with Ibrahim Shammari, a spokesman for the Islamic Army.
Doss said the decision to broadcast the video came after hours of “intense editorial debate.”
Yes, they debated on when to show it to maximise coverage…
October 21, 2006 - 04:30 PM on October 21st, 2006
Let the CNN reporters stay, but encourage our troops to “frag” them, a just tradition started in Viet Nam. I suspect that they’d remove themselves very quickly.
October 21, 2006 - 05:02 PM on October 21st, 2006
We don’t need to frag them. simply dress them in US Army uniforms with bright shiny fake rank insignia. I recommend stars or oak leaf clusters, as they catch the light best. The Soldiers will ignore them and the Marines will salute them. CNN’s buddies, the terrorists, will take it from there. There is a reason why the US military stopped using shiny insignia in combat theatres. They seemed to be bullet magnets.
October 21, 2006 - 06:26 PM on October 21st, 2006
I don’t get the big deal. I’ve seen so many insurgent videos of American Soldiers being killed. I’ve also seen so many videos of ‘terrorists’ in Iraq being killed. It’s all on the internet for anyone to see.
“Simply dress them in US Army uniformsâ€
You don’t even have to do that. Many fundamentalists are already killing doctors, engineers, journalists, etc. Anyone who might disagree with their stance on religion.
October 21, 2006 - 06:34 PM on October 21st, 2006
My god?!?! CNN is the problem???
Honestly; don’t you guys ever grow mentally? Doesn’t it bother you that 3 years after Saddam was captured; Iraq is an even bigger mess and threat to America than ever? CNN isn’t the issue here. We, as Americans have got to figure out a better way to deal with the current mess in Iraq. Even President Bush is starting to see that.
We can never kill our way to victory in Iraq. I’ve been saying it for years.
When some moron Democrat is elected President of the United States of America, I will blame you idiot Republicans the most.
October 21, 2006 - 06:44 PM on October 21st, 2006
Don’t you ever grow tired of your ignorance Zelda? Did you even take the time to read what it is that this is about? The CNN reporters were not with our soldiers as they were being shot at, they were handed the videos by the insurgents, so yes Zelda, CNN is a big part of the problem!
October 21, 2006 - 07:01 PM on October 21st, 2006
“Don’t you ever grow tired of your ignorance Zelda?â€
Yes. I am very tired of being ignorant. I wish the rest of you were.
Iraq is a freaking mess.
What can really be done to deal with it? CNN isn’t even remotely important in the grand scheme of Iraq. Why focus on CNN instead of the actual mess that is Iraq? How is America going to deal with this problem? Blaming CNN isn’t going to get us anything but a moron Democratic President in January 2009.
October 21, 2006 - 07:14 PM on October 21st, 2006
Seriously.
American policy in Iraq isn’t working. We need to change things.
For Republicans not to accept what I stated is a sure fire way for moron Democrats to take the Presidency and the Congress in 2008.
October 21, 2006 - 08:19 PM on October 21st, 2006
So the solution to solving the problems in Iraq is to be shown propaganda tapes provided by the insurgents? Funny, sounds like the press during Vietnam….
October 22, 2006 - 04:22 AM on October 22nd, 2006
CNN in bed with Terrorists
Let your friends, family, neighbors, co-workers and anyone that you come upon know how much the liberals are trying to destroy this country, to the point they’d bed with terrorists just to tape a US Soldier being killed.
Excuse me now while I go …
October 22, 2006 - 06:25 AM on October 22nd, 2006
Just have the janitor take out the garbage
October 22, 2006 - 08:42 AM on October 22nd, 2006
its time to frag ( remove by law ) the enemy here inside the USA Before the muslim population starts to attack us here, the fact is many muslims want one thing the death of all non monkey muslims, CNN Is just s enemy of the free world and people who don’t see that fact will someday be-beheaded by a evil muslim government with the help of the third worlds people,
frmrartyoffer is right on the money. but also understand that bush is helping in all things to take us down as a country and make us mexico and iran and iraq, bush is as much a enemy as bin laden. see open borders see mass political liers see the government of guys who like boys and see your money go to the drug cartel’s inside mexico city, see the evil corruption for what it is. kill bin laden win the war kill 50 million muslims win the war, it takes will not words to win against evil doers, long live the U.S. Army Long Live the bill of rights. arrest the CNN guys and behead all on pay-for-view, make some money, have some fun!:roll:
October 25, 2006 - 06:56 AM on October 25th, 2006
[...] Allah has Video: Hunter asks Blitzer, “Does CNN want America to win this thing?”Refresh your memory by watching this video that started the firestorm. CNN took this video from the insurgents and chose to run it…Wolf wants to know : Are you at least open to this notion that good people, like you and General Grange, can disagree on this, without questioning the — the credibility, the patriotism of CNN? [...]