"Insurgent" Whose word is that? MSM? Administration?

[panader0]

It's not my word. In their own countries, people the MSM call insurgents are called patriots. Were Paul Revere and the Minutemen "insugents"? Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys "insurgents"?
The British soldiers used to line up in rows and march straight forward in battle. They viewed the American "insurgents" practice of hiding behind trees or walls as cheating. Did the minutemen wear uniforms? I don't approve of the term insurgent. If someone is defending their homeland from occupiers, they are patriots. Insurgents are folks who don't like bush.

[Cocoa]

1. the administration tried to resist that term

they tried to call them terrorists, dead-enders, rejectionists, Saddamists, etc.

[Ian David]

2. The GOP-Mandated MSM / Wire Service Book of Standards, Practices & Style

Somewhere, there has got to be a memo in GOP Stationery laying all this out. This is how the Republicans have asked the Mainsteam Media to frame the issues:

The GOP-Mandated MSM / Wire Service Book of Standards, Practices & Style

Terrorists-- Muslims who kill American civilians on foreign soil for a political purpose.

Radicals-- Non-Muslims who kill Americans on our own soil for a political purpose.

A Lone crazy acting alone-- Muslims who kill Americans on our own soil for a political purpose.

Domestic Terrorist-- Something that only existed when Clinton was president.

Insurgents-- Kill American Soldiers.

Militants-- Kill Jews.

Militant Extremists-- Kill America's non-Jewish allies.

Freedom-Fighters and/or resistance fighters-- Kill America's enemies.

Axis of Evil-- Countries that only Halliburton and Carlyle Group can legally do business with.

American Soldiers-- Our brave fighting men and women.

Troops-- Our dead soldiers.

A Few Bad Apples-- People who get caught following Alberto Gonzales' orders.

Nuclear Proliferation-- something less dangerous than Valerie Plame.

Jews-- Fuck 'em, they don't vote for us anyway. Let's get the popcorn and watch what happens if we let them go to-to-toe with the Arab world while we "support" them.

Stem Cells-- The modern day version of Sea Monkeys.

Pro-Family-- policies that force families to have more children than they can afford to care for, while reducing the likelihood that those families can obtain health insurance or a living wage.