Little Green Footballs seized on a video "op-ed" posted on the New York Times website, six minutes of clips from a documentary called Meeting Resistance by Molly Bingham and Steve Connors, interspersed with anti-"occupation" text. LGF asks: "How low can the New York Times Go?" Airing what looks like a "commercial for Iraqi terrorists."
Bingham, an heiress to the Louisville newspaper dynasty, was Vice President Gore's official photographer from 1998 to 2001 and is best known for being taken hostage briefly while working as a photographer in Iraq. At the promotional website meetingresistance.com, the film is praised by former Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal: "THIS BREAKTHROUGH FILM, the single most astonishing documentary yet on the Iraq war, portrays a full range of insurgents .... explaining their motives and actions, from the first days of the insurgency onward."
The website's promotional copy clearly signals a sympathy for the Iraqi insurgency reminiscent of the American left's sympathy for the Vietnamese (see the what-if-someone-invaded-America line of Jane Fonda):
What would you do if your country was invaded? MEETING RESISTANCE raises the veil of anonymity surrounding the Iraqi insurgency by meeting face to face with individuals who are passionately engaged in the struggle, and documenting for the very first time, the sentiments experienced and actions taken by a nation's citizens when their homeland is occupied. Voices that have previously not been heard, male and female, speak candidly about their motivations, hopes and goals, revealing a kaleidoscope of human perspectives. Featuring reflective, yet fervent conversations with active insurgents, MEETING RESISTANCE is the missing puzzle piece in understanding the Iraq war. Directed by Steve Connors and Molly Bingham, this daring, eye-opening film provides unique insight into the personal narratives of people involved in the resistance, exploding myth after myth about the war in Iraq and the Iraqis who participate.
By the way, Bingham apparently also thinks our troops love killing journalists.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center
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Fools not only look like fools they are fools
October 18, 2007 - 23:23 ET by Lame CherryWhat is interesting in this is Iraq is stablizing now as Fouad Adjami and many others were observing earlier this year when even people like the Jihad Watch duo of Spencer and Fitzgerald were putting up similiar things that the NYT thinks is factual.
These people exhibit so much hate from the internalized hate they have that it never dawns on their minds that America loosing means more Americans will die by being murdered. It will not be redlands peoples but those who are in the big cities and flying in planes who have time to write books and be rich.
I submit it is a form of self suicide hoping in a cowardly way that a terrorist actually ends their misery they are too afraid to end themselves.
I just feel sorry for these people as history will either forget them or they will be a footnote in some movie like Patton where their twitish rants are like the Congressman "scolding Patton for being antagonistic to the Soviets".
Think of Molly Bingham though in all she has in this world and is so obsessed that she wastes her life making a ridiculous movie whose ship has sailed. Think of how driven she is to waste all this time........what is missing inside of her that she has no out but to do this as an addict shoving heroin up her veins.
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Louisville newspaper dynasty?
October 18, 2007 - 23:54 ET by d1carterWhat could that dynasty be worth these days?
Great! The veil of anonymity has been lifted!
October 19, 2007 - 00:07 ET by mastersofdeceitNow we know who to shoot at!
And I don't need some trust fund baby like Bingham to tell me what's going on. Believe me I know TFBBs, one "works" at the local la NPR outlet kcrw.
Oh and I already know " their motivations, hopes and goals", yeah it started sometime in the year 623 a.d. duh. Actually this "op-ed" just proved it in the first 2 min. when it acknowleged the "resistance" formed under the banner of Islam.
How about asking this question: What would you do if your country was invaded to get a Marxist dictators boot off the neck of Shiites and Kurds??
Molly Bingham and Steve Connors must be Chickenhawks
October 19, 2007 - 01:08 ET by mastersofdeceitIf they support the "insurgents" war so much they would enlist and fight right?/
What a piece of propaganda.
October 19, 2007 - 02:57 ET by Gary P JacksonWhat a piece of propaganda. What struck me was how the guy talks about patriotism. Takes me back to the days when Reagan was President.
I know there is a vast majority of Americans who are patriotic. But the President needs to do what ever possible to stir folks up, remind them what were fighting for. And he needs to tell these out of sinc dims to either get with the program, or get out of the way!
Its extremely ironic...
October 19, 2007 - 05:09 ET by Parker1227...that the Sunni insurgents (read: overlords), who once helped Saddam run one of the top 10 terror states in the world, are so horrified by the brutality of their Al-Qaeda "allies" that they have decided to switch sides and change the outcome of the war.
Moral Equivalents
October 19, 2007 - 07:44 ET by allanfThe producers represent the moral equivocators of today’s left. The begin with:
If it had been ruled by a brutal thug for thirty years, I’d probably be quite happy.
"What would you do if your
October 19, 2007 - 09:30 ET by Free Thinker"What would you do if your country was invaded?”
I'd go to the heart of the part of the world that instigated the invasion and unleash the full extent of American military power against those who invaded and those who support them. I would assert our moral authority as we have done throughout history and protect the citizens here at home from future attacks while at the same time offering hope for the oppressed people in that part of the world to live in peace and proseperity in an effort to prevent future invasions. Is that the answer the producers of this enemy propaganda film are looking for?
It's official
October 19, 2007 - 13:42 ET by MivvisThe ny times is working for the other side.