Media Bias &National / World Politics 25 Feb 2007 05:33 pm
In the News February 25
Sunday February 25
If you watched the 60 minutes episode tonight on “grass roots” anti-war movement in the military, go to this URL and check this out:
http://www.mudvillegazette.com/archives/007574.html
Mudville Gazette spends a lot of time debunking this particular “astroturfing” (a fake grass roots movement). This site (link above) has documentation about the origins of this group by a PR firm for Moveon.org.
60 minutes first advertised a spokesman from the group as an Iraq veteran, when he never actually went to Iraq.
Jonathan Hutto is a spokesman for the anti war group. He’s a 2 year Navy man who is against the war and this is his recent resume as posted on the URL above: Hutto works for “non-profit organizations” including Amnesty International
2001: In his capacity as an Amnesty International spokesperson he appears as a speaker in an event touted as a “Militant Labor Forum” by the “socialist newsweekly” The Militant.
2002: Hutto has risen to the position of Amnesty International’s Membership Program Coordinator for the Mid-Atlantic Region (seen here – with megaphone – “rallying the troops”). When his university considered honoring President Bush he wrote a letter opposing the decision.
2003: The United States invades Iraq. Hutto is involved in anti-war demonstrations.
2004: Hutto joins the Navy, and serves as a Mass Communications Specialist and Photographer aboard the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt.
Summer, 2006: He is recognized as the Theodore Roosevelt’s outstanding “Blue Jacket of the Quarter (BJOQ)“ NONE of this was mentioned on the 60 minute episode – but there’s much, much more at the link above.
Saturday February 24
ICE ICE ICE…. a great weekend to try to catch up on some reading! If you’re in Iowa, keep an eye on this http://www.iowaroadconditions.org/.
Why does it appear that Al Qaeda and Iran use Democratic talking points when posturing about President Bush and US politics. Click here to read this article and tell me I’m nuts.
Quote of the week from VP Chenney:
“I’m not sure what part of it is that Nancy disagreed with. She accused me of questioning her patriotism. I didn’t question her patriotism. I questioned her judgment.”
The Vice President went on to say
“You also have to be accountable for the results. What are the consequences of that? What happens if we withdraw from Iraq?,” he said. “And the point I made and I’ll make it again is that al-Qaeda functions on the basis that they think they can break our will. That’s their fundamental underlying strategy, that if they can kill enough Americans or cause enough havoc, create enough chaos in Iraq, then we’ll quit and go home. And my statement was that if we adopt the Pelosi policy, that then we will validate the strategy of al-Qaeda. I said it and I meant it.”
Asked if he was willing to take back his criticism of Pelosi, Cheney replied, “I’m not backing down.”
Please tell me, is it me, or is all we get from the Democrats is ”we support the troops but not the war”, ”you can’t question my patriotism” or “we were duped by Bush”.
Toward that end, the runner-up for quote of the week:
“You know, it must be really tough for candidates for president to come before the American people and complain that they were tricked, deceived and misled by George Bush.”
(Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio)
Another good article I found on NewMedia website click here to read an article titled: We’re at War. It’s time to Chose Sides.
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