Calif. Republican asks Pentagon to remove embedded CNN reporters...

[bridgit]

'SAN DIEGO - The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee asked the Pentagon on Friday to remove CNN reporters embedded with U.S. combat troops, saying the network's broadcast of a video showing insurgent snipers targeting U.S. soldiers was tantamount to airing an enemy propaganda film.

The tape, which came to the network through contact with an insurgent leader, was aired Wednesday night on "Anderson Cooper 360" and repeated Thursday.

In a letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., wrote: "CNN has now served as the publicist for an enemy propaganda film featuring the killing of an American soldier."

The letter was also signed by San Diego-area Republican congressmen Darrell Issa and Brian Bilbray.

"This is nothing short of a terrorist snuff film," Bilbray said at a press conference held in San Diego.'

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/15811043.htm

[Monkeyman]

1. They don't like the truth

[bridgit]

3. they prolly had better get their last few shots in while they can...

cause they're going down

[Hav]

2. .

Why should they waste their beautiful minds with something like that?

[Webster Green]

Hunter was not content to drink the Kool-Aid.......he injects the stuff..

He is completely insane!

One of the very worst chimp-lickers out there.

[bridgit]

6. he likely rocks it up in a glass cigar tube then free-bases the shit...

x(

[Downtown Hound]

4. Yessir, anything that even remotely resembles objective journalism

is clearly an enemy propaganda film. Remember the good old days when the media did everything we wanted? How dare they try and do their jobs for once?

:sarcasm:

[bridgit]

5. they were all good with CNN when it was all, "Go Team Go!!! A war...

for our cameras and the AD dollars to pay for it = Yippee!!"

but now The Bush Doctrine is lost LIVE, coast to coast and round the world, adrift and back into what it was all along...a machine of perpetual death, induced chaos, and no-bid crony war-profiteering :thumbsdown:

[flyarm]

7. only if they send this asshole in the place of CNN real journalists

and make sure he stays out of the green zone..and with no gun or body armour!!

yep Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., this is what we want..send this mother fucker ..but do not spend our tax money on body armour or any protections..you know like what you hunter have done to our soldiers...yep send this mother fucker!! today..now ..pronto...


Armstrong Williams has to pay $34K for not pushing enough propaganda

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-10-20-will...

[bridgit]

8. that more than works for me...

:)

[0rganism]

9. remove embedded reporters, so the troops get even less coverage?

Why does Rep. Hunter hate our troops?

[Imagevision]

10. no-no-no-no-no! we'll re-address this issue AFTER the elections...

[lpbk2713]

11. And take ALL the rethuglicans out of Congress ....

for what Foley, DeLay, Lott, Hastert et al did.



Let Gawd sort em out.

[Howardx]

12. total empty threat

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The number of embedded journalists reporting alongside U.S. troops in Iraq has dropped to its lowest level of the war even as the conflict heats up on the streets of Baghdad and in the U.S. political campaign.

In the past few weeks, the number of journalists reporting assigned to U.S. military units in Iraq has settled to below two dozen. Late last month, it fell to 11, its lowest, and has rebounded only slightly since."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/15/AR2006101500386_pf.html

[Justice Is Comin]

13. These people are scum.

If we only knew the rest of the shit they have covered up, I bet it would put them in prison for twenty years.

This is what I'm waiting for. When those subpoenas start going out twenty a day.

[bridgit]

14. correct, it is all shitty news is my guess & now they want to squash it

[sarcasmo]

15. CNN will NOT behave like we told them. Kick them out.

Kick and Nom. Fox will be the only ones allowed in Iraq.

[butterfly77]

16. They have hidden so much already...

the reporter better watch his back. I believe that these people have something to do with all of these laptops being stolen, they are doing something with the databases. It is almost like an epidemic of laptop thefts since this adminstration has come into power.

[BuyingThyme]

17. Yes, truth is propaganda, and lies are Republicanism.

[bridgit]

19. Tony Blankley was yelling that last night, "That's just war propaganda!!"

well these neocon liars should know it when they think they hear i guess that much makes sense

[AlCzervik]

18. Hunter sent that letter the day after The Savage Weiner was railing

against Michael Ware and CNN, Weiner suggested that when Ware comes to America to make a speech that some marines "take him out for a beer" that was his euphemism for killing him.

[bridgit]

20. bush/hunter = hate radio...

fuck hate radio x(