CNN Fuckers are falling for the Drudge crap

[jezebel]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/26/iraq.explosives/index.html
And they are spinning Lockhart's statement. Read the last line. The Kerry campaign needs to get them that quote from the anonymous Pentagon official.

[NVMojo]

1. don't journalists verify stories anymore?

One more reason to keep CNN blocked from our TV.

[jezebel]

3. The Kerry camp needs to get on top of this now and feed them the info.

The media is just looking to turn this into poor poor Bushie ATTACKED by Kerry. Next they'll be saying should Kerry apologize?

Fucking CNN will be happy to have the story be "troops secure site one day after liberation". Everybody should just forget we were in there since March.

[sandnsea]

2. We secured oil fields with special ops

Why not these known IAEA locations. It's inexcusable. And they say they tried to secure locations, give me a list because I've been wanting that special ops list for a very long time now. Where did the special ops people go to find the WMD that they said they "knew where they were".

[MattP]

5. CNN

Why don't they call NBC instead of Sludge, what the hell is wrong with that network!! Can't they just check the msnbc website.

[high density]

4. The explosives where there in mid-March before we

told the weapons inspectors to leave. Between then and this NBC News report they probably weren't guarded and were stolen.

What a bunch of dumbasses over there at CNN. Does Joe Lockhart have to do their jobs for them?! As Jon Stewart said: LAZY!

[jezebel]

6. Yep, but since the Bush camp or Drudge didn't remind them of that,

they are just going with the spoonfed "one day after liberation" story.

[geek tragedy]

7. It's not Drudge crap, it's NBC crap.

We need to hammer the statement of the Iraqi government and the fact that the US took its sweet time in securing facilities like this while guarding oil fields and the oil ministry.

[Nordic]

8. Interesting. The Pentagon says otherwise

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2004/oct/25/102504973.html

By WILLIAM J. KOLE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
VIENNA, Austria (AP)
<snip>
At the Pentagon, an official who monitors developments in Iraq said U.S.-led coalition troops had searched Al-Qaqaa in the immediate aftermath of the March 2003 invasion and confirmed that the explosives, under IAEA seal since 1991, were intact. Thereafter, the site was not secured by U.S. forces, the official said, also speaking on condition of anonymity.
The Iraqis told the nuclear agency the materials were stolen and looted because of a lack of security at governmental installations, Fleming said.
"We do not know what happened to the explosives or when they were looted," she told AP.

[jezebel]

11. CNN is being spoonfed straight from the Bush campaign and instead

of investigating, they are just running their spin.
CNN's Suzanne Malveaux and Elise Labott contributed to this report.
Suzanne Malveaux is the reporter with the Bush camp.
"But in the wake of the NBC report, the Bush campaign fired off a statement saying that Kerry's criticism of the president over the missing material has "been proven false before the day is over."

"John Kerry's attacks today were baseless," Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt said. "He said American troops did not secure the explosives, when the explosives were already missing."

Schmidt also said that Kerry "neglects to mention the 400,000 tons of weapons and explosives that are either destroyed or in the process of being destroyed" in Iraq."


See, Bush camp tells them story is false and they say OK.

[high density]

17. God, this makes me so mad!

I do not want to imagine what our media will act like if Bush gets a second term. They already set up one war for him and I hate to imagine what they'll conspire on next.

[Nordic]

22. it makes me see blood-red

This is one of the worst crimes I've seen CNN commit.

And I've been watching them do this for quite some time now.

They need to be taken DOWN for this one.

This should be the straw that breaks the camel's back for everybody.

The PENTAGON ITSELF contradicts what they're saying.

[juliagoolia]

12. debunked.. should we tell them>?????

http://www.dailykos.com
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83252,00.html
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/

[juliagoolia]

16. FREEPERs will hate this link comes from foxnews

and for that i am so happy in my heart

[Roland99]

27. Great find on the FAUX News site!!

[SoCalDemocrat]

14. bump

bump for the truth

[Barney Rocks]

9. a Republican

friend has already gleefully called me to rub this in my face. If this is true, I suspect it was the work of evil genius KKKarl Rove.

This has parallels to the rumors of Rove breaking in to his own office--and blaming his opponent. He PURPOSEFULLY put out this story--knowing the Democrats would respond by attacking Bush--then when we do--he leaks out the rest of the story--andthe Republicans look like innocent victims.

I can hardly wait to get rid of this sleazy cabal! But I am sure that Kerry is a few steps ahead of this--he is playing chess not checkers. I bet Kerry has something planned that will turn this around so that it bites KKKarl in the ass!

[LynnTheDem]

13. Your rightwingnut friend is wrong.

At the Pentagon, an official who monitors developments in Iraq said U.S.-led coalition troops had searched Al-Qaqaa in the immediate aftermath of the March 2003 invasion and confirmed that the explosives, under IAEA seal since 1991, were intact.

Thereafter, the site was not secured by U.S. forces, the official said...

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2004/oct/25/102504973.html

Go rub that in HIS face...and ask him if he gives a shit about the dead & wounded American men, women & teenagers now and the ones that will be dead or wounded tomorrow,...and the day after that...and the day after that...because BUSH didn't BOTHER to do what he'd been warned PUBLICLY MANY TIMES to do; SECURE Al Qaqaa.

[Barney Rocks]

33. This rightwing wing nut

is ALWAYS wrong. But he annoys the hell out of me quite successfully. And I don't seem to be nearly as skilled at getting under his skin. He knows just how to push my buttons. I may need anger management before this is over.

[no1bodyspecial]

30. Part !!

Well, I see now...
Can a man not say a word or two!
KKKarl Red propaganda too much!

I am not a NAZI, I wish I was black...
Then I might know what oppress one might feel like!


No Worries, except war ringing in my ears!

[newyawker99]

36. Hi no1bodyspecial!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Chimpanzee]

10. a bit disturbing, but

We need a NEW STrong FCC.

[msanthrope]

15. Suzanne Malveaux is a brainless twerp----

She probably got woken up in the middle of the night and was told to file this idiot story, without actually checking on it....

Suzanne!!! You are a Jackass!!!

[ThePhilosopher04]

18. It really doesn't matter whether they were there or not...

the fact is, these explosives were documented by the IAEA at a known location and we obviously didn't have a plan to deal with the possibility they could be removed or looted once the invasion began.

No matter how you spin it, the Bush administration was incompetent.

[Nordic]

20. exactly. They successfully guarded the oil ministry and the oil wells

So why not the goddamn explosives?

A pound of this stuff is enough to bring down an airliner.

And Bush is running on this "Ah mayk Amerikkuh safer" bullshit

[Nordic]

19. [e-mail]

[e-mail]

is their news chief.

E-mail him. He reads them because he's written me back.

This thing REALLY FUCKING PISSES ME OFF.

They are deliberately reporting something they KNOW is directly contradicted by THE PENTAGON. Yet they are doing it anyway.

I want to sue these fuckwads for journalistic malpractice at the very least.

[high density]

21. I'm pissed as well

I'll see if I can calm myself down a little to write a civil email to him.

[Nordic]

23. I say to hell with civility

Let them know that you and thousands of others THAT YOU KNOW OF are extremely pissed off about this.

That's just my two cents worth.

Maybe I'm wrong for lambasting them.

I've told him before I'm ready to sue him if only I can find a lawyer to take the case. They are NOT a news organization. They are deceptively advertising themselves as a news organization while spinning government propaganda.

[blitzen]

24. I've already e-mailed him to say "F-you" n/t

[HelpIsOnTheWayDamnit]

25. geez

I still wonder why people actually pay attention to the dribble that spews from the major news networks. It's so awfully painful to watch! The endless stupid ads and moronic blowhards. I'm boycotting prime-time tv until Nov 2, except for football I'm still watching that.

[Nordic]

26. well that's great that YOU are but

most Americans still go to that thing called "the American free press" for their information and MOST of them still think it's "liberal".

Nobody is gonna tell them it ain't liberal no more except us.

Just today I was downtown Santa Monica talking to some wonderful ladies who were handing out Kerry/Edwards literature and such, and a 77 year old guy walked up and started spouting about how he's never seen anything so awful in his 77 years as this guy Bush. Then we got to talking poll numbers and everybody was saying like "how can so many people still support Bush?" and I said "it's the media!"

The 77 year old fellow said "yeah, but the media's liberal, look at those guys like Rather and Brokaw ...."

I did my best to set him straight. He seemed amazed. He asked me if I was joking, he seemed shocked that I would be deadly serious about this. And he HATES Bush, had on Kerry pins, was complaining bitterly about Bush.

I gave him a few examples for him to digest.

It's sad. Most people have NO IDEA about the media.

We at DU are way way way ahead of the curve. We were on Iraq, we are on most things.

The MOST important thing for us to do in the next four years is to completely change the media. Make it, force it, to tell the truth.

Jon Stewart is the ONLY person on the planet doing this in public so far. Thank God for Jon Stewart, he's the pebble that can start the avalanche. Hopefully.

[novadem]

28. I hope that since CNN picked this up

we won't spend the next few days seeing the MSM go back and forth over whose right or wrong. That will in effect bury the sting of the story and Rove will have won this battle.

Also the repugs will also no doubt argue that if insurgents were able to loot all of these munitions they could have just as easily made off with WMD.

[high density]

29. Yup, this is definitely direct from the Bush campaign

via Drudge. It's so transparent that I can't believe what I'm seeing.

[LynnTheDem]

35. Nope.

Coz BOTH of bush's own hand-picked Republican weapons experts with the ISG say Iraq didn't have any 'WMD' since 1991, and Iraq DID NOT HAVE THE ABILITY to produce, purchase, or possess 'WMD' since 1994.

Then again, most rethugs think we already found 'WMD' in Iraq (and Iraq did 911, and the world supported the invasion). Rightwingnuts are so incredibly ignorant.

[no1bodyspecial]

31. Not a NAZI, hater, or pig!

To: all that fear A. S.A.P.
No help from U
This is Justly THEE!

You all ASPed! Snakes!
So to speak!
But now eu might G.W.
OFF___ed the SHEEP!

Hear yee haw!
As the water falls,
100 years of Rocky Fellar’s Call.
So to: do evils,
Hali burton’s small?

The big old three,
Still two: belong to thee!
U.S. and them?

The soldiers said it Saul!
What about our
Cars too Paul!

All I want is re
Searching done!
Kill the holy oil,
Not the fun!

Cars and spam,
Is that G.W.’s plan?
Oil it up,
Now… hit the fans! TO: The religious GOATS!

Just Ice and olden ages,
How CEO’s pass on sages,
When they get the F pages!
The engine was designed by a conglomerate monopoly!

Why do we use petroleum,
When the son is much more fun!
Forget the wind, water, and See
The Earth as the SHE belongs
to: thee!



Carry Mr. Edward’s words!
Not a horror film,
Now it means for US not THEM!

Play “it” on me,
That religiousa way,
That is why I can not stray?

On that lucky 7th day,
She was made For:
Only US to play.
In our very own little ways!

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Without judging eve n caulk!

A11 lie thee truth?
BUll’s are SHhh
It I say!

Not Chris Cringle,
Merry men before,
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Motha’ Earths no WHORE!

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Wash yOUr brains!
Not selling person able fame?

I know what gils are for!
We may have them ONcE more,
In thy womb, under our nose
Fish use to: perfum ehh?

The air in my head,
Will piss off et too: instead!

In this place,
No pleasure 4,
That witch es
Bumbled for!



Fee dominance must end,
Freedom with it,
Beauties send.

Business is…
old and grey,
Ransom left for:
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Question me for:
I may kNow.
The paths of lies,
Where monies go!

Talk to: me
About response I bility!
Who am I but a fly.
Who climbed the wall,
So the monarchy would fall!

Hold on too
The older ways?
Is that what keeps,
U.S. ASTRAY!

[SoCalDem]

32. CNN-DarynKagan-Rush Limbaugh-Drudge

See the connection:)

they'll be wiping egg off their faces by tomorrow :) (maybe)

[SideshowScott]

34. It really amazes me that Drudge has ANY Credibility WHATSOEVER!

I mean what passes for reporting today is a disgrace! So basically CNN will run with a story gotten from a guy who prints the GOP talking points verbatim and will has been proven to be a liar more than a hundred times! ( Anyone remember that Kerry had an affair lie? )
Drudge is nothing but a hack but yet CNN will take what he says at truth?
GOD, HEY LURKING CNN Employees! Please give me a job there..Ill take less than what you pay those high paid lazy " Reporters" and i WILL work for my money unlike who you have working there now..Thats a promise!

[mzmolly]

37. Regardless, Bush kicked out inspectors and failed to secure these

areas. None of the nitpicky details should matter.


BUSH KICKED OUT WEAPONS INSPECTORS SO THAT SO CALLED WEAPONS WOULD NOT FALL INTO THE WRONG HANDS.... all this proves is that CONTAINMENT AND INSPECTIONS WERE SUPERIOR TO WAR!

"Prior to the Iraq war, the high-grade explosives at Al Qaqaa had been under the control of IAEA inspectors because the material could be used as a component in a nuclear weapon, IAEA spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said. IAEA and other U.N. inspectors left the countryb](BECAUSE BUSH KICKED THEIR ASS OUT) ... in March 2003 before the fighting began on March 19."