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Will The New Host At CNN Be Tokyo Rose? How About Axis Sally?

Posted by: Curt @ 9:42 pm in MSM Bias, The Iraqi War, War On Terror | 0 views

While CNN keeps trucking on with their ongoing bias, as demonstrated by this headline a few days ago:

They continue to show that not only are they biased against the Conservative portion of this country, they are also biased against our troops.

They think nothing is wrong with putting a piece of footage, shot by a terrorist in Iraq, of that same terrorist sniping one of our men. Nevermind that the footage was obviously shot to recruit other evil scumbags to their side. No, CNN decided they would help in the recruiting of those who are evil, all “to show the ugly side of war”:

Blitzer framed CNNÃ¯Â¿Â½s Sniper Theatre by asking Hunter (Curt - Congressman Duncan Hunter) “Do the American people have a right to know what war is like?” Hunter said “Wolf, the American people aren’t made out of cotton candy. They understand, when you see 2,791 battlefield deaths, that people are killed, and they are killed in bad ways.”

[...]Hunter was blunt that CNN saw the war just as a game to score profits for itself: “CNN is a world observer and they’re watching what they view to be a football game between one side and another side. They don’t see the insurgents as the enemy. They don’t see our soldiers as our friends. They see this as a — as something to be covered, to sell commercials.”

[...]“One, this is propaganda by the bad guys. It has almost no value in terms of the overall strategy of the war. It simply shows somebody being shot. Everybody who is killed in Iraq, every one of the 271 — or 2,791 — soldiers who has died is listed the next day in thousands of newspapers and media across the nation. So this isn’t — this isn’t a case of people not knowing that soldiers are being shot.

“But the idea that in the invasion of Normandy, if Hitler sent us a film, sent CNN a film showing Americans going down under .50 caliber bullets on the — on the beaches of Normandy or in Iowa Jima, the Imperial Government of Japan sending CNN images of American Marines — 5,000 of them were killed at Iowa Jima — going down under the impact of rounds as they hit that beach, or went out on Mount Suribachi would have been outrageous.”

But to CNN, this is all news.

But now a smoking gun has been found. A smoking gun which just might have some very big ramifications for the terrorist loving, lefting hugging, news channel:

This video, shot by the insurgent groups as propaganda for the Muslim world as well as a recruiting tool for a number of Islamo-fascist websites, showed terrorist snipers attacking American soldiers in Iraq.

According to CNN, the video was provided after a producer for CNN sent the group an email asking about its activities.

“I think the American public would be interested in exactly what the email contained, at least from the CNN side of things,” says a producer for a rival news network, who was made aware of the video’s existence before it aired. “My understanding is that email sent by CNN could not be construed any other way than as supportive of the Islamic militants’ position in Iraq. There are people inside CNN who are disgusted by their colleagues’ activities in Iraq and here in the United States in covering the war.”

Attempts to get a copy of the email were unsuccessful. But one CNN source familiar with the techniques employed by network producers to get the Islamic extremist perspective says that it’s common for producers to use Iraqi or Muslim contract employees to get information and access to the terrorists, and they do so by claiming sympathy or support for what the terrorists are doing.

“Anti-Americanism pays off for us over there, no doubt about it,” says the CNN employee. “Questions were raised about this video and the way we got it. Once it was confirmed that it was real, the next question was how did we get it. And the answer was, we promised to give the terrorists a fair shake. I know that we are saying there was soul-searching here about running the tape. But I didn’t see much of that. There were somber people here, but there was also a segment of people on staff, once the tape had run and created a firestorm, that celebrated. They thought they were so courageous.”

A former CNN news employee says that at that network there is a decidedly anti-war approach to what they do. “It might not be so clear from some of our anchors, but there are people here who direct the news operation who are very comfortable giving aide and comfort to the enemy. They wouldn’t call it that, but I would.”

Does anyone really believe there was no money given to get this video? That all they did was promise the enemy to show them in a good light? Baloney. And if any money found their way into the hands of these men, to aid them in their effort to kill our boys, they will have much to explain to the families of our dead soldiers.

But say no money changed hands. The fact that they actively seeked help from our enemy, in a time of war, is just wrong on so many levels.

Remember, this is the same channel that admitted they promised Saddam they would withhold information….and now this. I have to tell you, Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally have nothing on CNN now. They have turned out to be some of the worst traitors to our country in a time of war that I can imagine.

Well, Hanoi Jane still tops them, but how in the world could CNN even TRY to explain this away?

The Washington Times had an editorial out the other day that puts this into perspective:

If there had been a CNN equivalent in 1945, would it have been important to air footage of Japanese machine guns mowing down GIs as they waded ashore? Imagine watching hundreds of Americans being killed in one day of battle. Japan’s imperial government couldn’t have asked for a better propaganda weapon. The impact on a war-weary America would certainly have been emotionally crushing for those with sons and husbands still in battle, and might well have played in to antiwar sentiment. But it is much more damaging today when the nation is not as fully united as it was during World War II.

But let’s take Mr. Kerry and CNN at their word and assume that this type of footage has journalistic merit. It follows that CNN should also have shown its hours of footage from September 11. We’re talking about the people trapped in the World Trade Center who decided to jump and the other grisly images most Americans have never seen. Or what about the tape showing Iraqi terrorists beheading Nick Berg? CNN has kept this footage locked away out of some faux sensitivity for Americans’ fragile spines. The only way one can see the full horror of September 11 and other terrorist carnage is by downloading amateur videos off the Internet.

We all know what CNN’s response to showing 9/11 footage is right? “It’s too hurtful”, or “it reopens old wounds” and so on.

The American people do not need to see terrorist propaganda to get a grasp of how terrible war is. We are not stupid people (this includes most of the lefties believe it or not) but to conclude that the only way people will understand war is to watch a terrorist home movie of them killing one of our heroes…is just plain disgusting.

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