"The liberal media only shows the bad things going on in Iraq"

[Philosoraptor]

You have to be mentally disabled to actually believe this, yet cspan callers ask it all the time. The president says it too, that the terrorists put carnage on our t.v. screens to turn us against the war.

Please, please, somebody tell me what media I should go to to see all the wonderful things going on over there.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. and they are right.

But, how many roof-less, book-less, chair-less, table-less, teacher-less, student-less schools with a fresh coat of paint can you show on TV, anyway?

[NewJeffCT]

2. Jim Baker of the Iraq Study Group - card carrying liberal

Didn't he lead the group that said things in Iraq are worse than what is reported in the media?

I think there is a place in Disneyworld where you can heard the good news on Iraq - it's called "Fantasy Land"

[Jacobin]

3. That is sooo 2005

Only the backwash try that anymore

[Arkansas Granny]

4. I think we should challenge anyone who makes that statement to

show us the good things that are happening in Iraq. If they know of any good news, please share it with us all. Personally, I would love to see some good news coming out of Iraq, but I suspect that there is little, if any, to report.

[Bitwit1234]

5. We need the Fairness Doctrine back right now.

[pearl]

8. They're all getting blown up

on their way to report on all this "good news" The reporters over there are heroic.

[HughBeaumont]

6. Yeah, the liberal media owned by six Far Right Republican-run companies.

Stupid shits. Who's still putting out this old canard?

It's about as tired as those thinking Iraqis ever had the capability to fly over here, organize an armed takeover of the US and burn our documents.

[WinkyDink]

7. I watch the news. Where have those scenes of carnage been?

[Philosoraptor]

13. This war is totally hidden from view, by the neo cons themselves.

We can't even see flag draped coffins, or crippled soldiers, we're too sensitive, and that only helps the terrorists.

[pberq]

9. When I hear something like this, I assume it's Rush or Hannity

who feeds these people this propaganda, and they just repeat it.

[Skittles]

10. it would not take much propaganda

see, these people think shoowing ANY destruction in Iraq, reporting ANY bad news about the war, is just plain treasonous - they truly are deluded

[Neecy]

11. it really *is* ridiculous

I never see the 'liberal media' portray anything about Iraq except various footage of vehicles burning without apparently anyone inside or near them - isn't it funny how bodies never appear with all of the 'burning car bomb' footage?

The 'liberal media' almost never covers the funerals of our soldiers who died in Iraq. If they mention them at all, we get their official US military photo and not their flag-draped coffins. Must. Keep. It. Sanitized.

The 'liberal media' does generally give a daily body count of dead Iraqis, mainly because the numbers are so overwhelming they have no choice, really. They seldom mention on a daily basis how many Americans have died on any given day.

I remember Vietnam, and the way this war is spoon-fed to the American public like they're children who must be protected - all the while, prime-time entertainment programming features graphic violence galore, so perhaps this protection only goes so far - is astounding.

[maine_raptor]

12. Well, to defend the "Liberal Media"

it's kinda bad hard on the equipment when every time you go to film some new school opening, you gotta use it to deflect all the bullets being fired at ya.

But if the Liberal Media Cabal (LMC, pat pending) wants to do a story on all the "good stuff" then I suggest they send that fearless, unrelenting investigative reporter whose Liberal credentials are top notch:


"Send Geraldo Rivera to Iraq!"


I think that we should all write nice letters to Fox News and say the he should be sent over there to snoop out all those stories of "good stuff" that the LMC is ignoring. Maybe he could take Alan Combs with him?

[Larry Ogg]

14. "The liberal media only shows the bad things going on in Iraq"

It’s a good thing there heads are in the sand. I have heard a lot of the same kind of calls on c-span, and I think if the statement were not so tragically false it would be laughable, as much of the uncensored facts and horror stories are not found on the corporately owned network news but on the not well known about fringes of the public airways and the internet. How do I know these morons are calling mainstream media liberal? Because they usually end there clueless rant with great praise of the tragic and illegal deeds of the best unelected stupid and downright evil president this country has ever seen.

[wolf66]

15. If it bleeds it leads...

.......for all the reports of violence in Iraq, beleve it or not, most Iraqis are safe. That's because, 78 percent of the violence (as measured by armed attacks), take place in Baghdad, Anbar province (west of Baghdad), and the smaller Salah ad Din and Diyala provinces. These four areas contain 37 percent of the population. In the rest of Iraq, containing 63 percent of the population, opinion surveys indicate that 90 percent of the people feel safe. The overall violence is much higher elsewhere, as the Iraqi death rate is running at the rate of about 45 dead per 100,000 population per year. This is far higher than the usual rate in Middle Eastern countries (under 10). During Saddam’s long reign, the Iraqi death rate from democide (the government killing its own people) averaged over 100 per 100,000 a year. This does not include the several hundred thousand killed during the war with Iran in the 1980s. There are other parts of the world that are more violent than Iraq. Africa, for example, especially Congo, Sudan and South Africa. Only South Africa has a sufficiently effective government to actually keep track of the death rate, mostly from crime, but it’s over 50 per 100,000. It’s worse in places like Congo and Sudan, but the numbers there are only estimates by peacekeepers and relief workers. In southern Thailand, a terror campaign by Islamic radicals has caused a death rate of over 80 per 100,000.
So yes the media does make thinks look darker then they are with "if it bleeds, it leads.."

[PassingFair]

16. Better order up some more of them plastic turkeys!

Now THAT'S Iraq!!

[BlooInBloo]

17. Au contraire. What they show ARE the good things - lol!