HumanEvents...

You're at the cusp of the issue right here. If Al Gore had "won" the election, everything would be right with the world according to liberals. It's sad when one's personal enemy (and this is personal and has gone way beyond political) is the President.

I didn't like Clinton. He got a free pass from the media and the world for most of his presidency. What's sad, is I think Clinton didn't have a clue that most people (including the military and Europe) snickered at him behind his back.

Pres. Bush absolutely gets no credit for anything...Clinton got credit for a booming economy so why can't Pres. Bush get credit for the good that happens? Why is there such a difference?

Just from looking at all the negative posts at Huff n' Puff about the failed assassination attempt on VP Cheney, they went into ecstacy and then horror that he survived. That's extremely sad. This is who the enemy within is...they'd rather support the Taliban killing a sitting VP then extinguishing terrorists.

There will be no peace until these nujobs like Hersh get what they want...a sitting DEMOCRAT as president. If another Republican wins then look out...they may have to commit ritualistic suicide. Or leave the country. Promises, promises.

The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.  Air Force Motto

emjem says: When your brain's stuck on liberalism it self-destructs.

I gave up on the press in my late teens to early 20s.  It was around the time cable stations began taking off and we got cable in my neck of the woods.  Historians will note it as the demise of journalism in the US - (let's just hope it isn't also a footnote to the collapse of Western civiliazation - and I'm half serious...).

When the TV in most homes started having more than 3 fuzzy networks, you started having a lot of news shows --

--- which meant you quickly got reporters and anchors and editors and producers --- talking about the news.

The proliferation of outlets led directly to the exposure of these people to the public --- and we began to notice what should have dawned on us long before (at least it should have to me) --- people with this much passion for politics and policy are bound to end up tainting it - especially if the orgs they work for (and the people who manage them) tend to hire people who think like them...

Having these guys on all the time has been both the best and worst thing that has happened to the news media in perhaps forever...

What don't you understand Bal?  The media and many libs hate George Bush, not disagree with, not prefer somebody else for President, not have respect for an ELECTED president.  They hate him, they hate him because he has beaten those that they supported, they hate him because he ignores them, they hate him because with the surge he may be right once again.  Theres nothing to understand, it's BDS, why can't you see that?  That's what I don't understand.  Hersh would rather defend Iran with the Mullahs than a USA with President Bush.

Bal, this is typical Hersh.  Below, find just a taste of some of the heinous crap that has come out of this "reporter's" mouth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh):

Speeches

Those who criticize Hersh's credibility especially point to allegations Hersh has made in public speeches and interviews, rather than in print. In an interview with New York Magazine, Hersh made a distinction between the standards of strict factual accuracy for his print reporting and the leeway he allows himself in speeches, in which he may talk informally about stories still being worked on or blur information to protect his sources. "Sometimes I change events, dates, and places in a certain way to protect people... I can’t fudge what I write. But I can certainly fudge what I say." [22]

Some of Hersh's speeches concerning the Iraq War have described violent incidents involving U.S. troops in Iraq. In July 2004, during the height of the Abu Ghraib scandal, he alleged that American troops sexually assaulted young boys:

“Basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children, in cases that have been recorded, the boys were sodomized, with the cameras rolling, and the worst above all of them is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking. That your government has. They’re in total terror it’s going to come out.[23]”

In a subsequent interview with New York magazine, Hersh regretted that "I actually didn’t quite say what I wanted to say correctly...it wasn’t that inaccurate, but it was misstated. The next thing I know, it was all over the blogs. And I just realized then, the power of—and so you have to try and be more careful." [24] In his book, Chain of Command, he wrote that one of the witness statements he had read described the rape of a boy by a foreign contract interpreter at Abu Ghraib, during which a woman took pictures. [25]

At a Columbia University speech given by Hersh in June 2004, author Rick Perlstein reported:

“[Hersh] said he had seen all the Abu Ghraib pictures. He said, "You haven't begun to see evil..." then trailed off. He said, "horrible things done to children and women prisoners, as the cameras run." [26]”

In an interview with KQED host Michael Krasny on October 8, 2004 [27], Hersh reported speaking with a first lieutenant in charge of a unit stationed halfway between Baghdad and the Syrian border:

“His group was bivouacking outside of town in an agricultural area, and had hired 30 or so Iraqis to guard a local granary. A few weeks passed. They got to know the men they hired, and to like them. Then orders came down from Baghdad that the village would be "cleared." Another platoon from the soldier's company came and executed the Iraqi granary guards. All of them.

He said they just shot them one by one. And his people, and he, and the villagers of course, went nuts," Hersh said quietly. "He was hysterical, totally hysterical. He went to the company captain, who said, 'No, you don't understand, that's a kill. We got 36 insurgents. Don't you read those stories when the Americans say we had a combat maneuver and 15 insurgents were killed?'

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In a speech at McGill University in October 2006, after describing a video he had seen in which U.S. troops, following an attack on their convoy, had fired upon and killed a group of nearby soccer players, Hersh offered the assessment that "there has never been an [American] army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq.” [28] However, in the same speech Hersh later back-peddled and said that there were other armies that had been worse than the Americans and that he did not believe in moral equivocation, when comparing the atrocities of one army to another.

Bal, Hersh's "elaboration" would sound like this:

" He's shredded the Constitution, allowed 9/11 to happen to start an illegal war for oil on a soverign nation that had nothing to do with 9/11, suspended Habeus Corpus, spying and wiretapping on US citizens, torturing and rendering at CIA black sites, taken our civil rights,  can take anyone away in the night and hold them forever without being charged, stole the elections of 2000 and 2004, restricting freedom of the press, outing covert CIA agent, installing an "activist" Conservative Supreme Court, merging Church & State, while merging Corporate & State/Military, at the same time turning America on a slow slide towards a Fascist Theocracy. Oh and he prays to God."

Do I need to turn my sarc/ switch off?

When a Dem is back in the White House then all their anxieties will be gone like a magic wand.

Like when all the msm reports of the homeless ceased upon Sick Willie's election. The transfer of a Republican to a DemocRAT suddenly transferred the homeless into homes!

Matthews' last comment proves what an ignoramus he is. How old are you, Chris? News Flash---no one is "always right". Time to grow up.

NEVER,NEVER trust a liberal

Nothing sarcastic in that post. The guy honestly implied that we shouldn't care about fighting the militants, even though the US considers them terrorists. Needless to say, I was dumbfounded that he'd say something like that. But being the good friend I am, I promptly changed the subject as to why he was gay. :P

If said fellow gets back online, I'll see what he has to say

Oh, and I'm a he by the way, thanks ;)

...or even wrapped a fish in a newspaper that had a picture of Stalin...

Those poor fish- good thing they were already dead for the most part before they were wrapped.

Carp