Is ABC's Bill Weir a TV journalist -- or a recruiter for Team Defeat? You had to wonder, watching his interview on today's "Good Morning America" of Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tn.). Alexander has co-sponsored legislation that would make the Iraq Study Group recommendations the basis for future U.S. strategy in Iraq.
GMA CO-HOST BILL WEIR: You have introduced an idea now that really centers around redeploying our troops over there. What would it take for you to get behind a timetable for withdrawal?
This could be an MSM first: breaking out a variation on the old used-car salesman line: "what would it take to get you to buy this car today?"
Later in the interview, Weir returned to his effort of luring Lamar to the surrender side.
WEIR: The Democrats say your proposals don't have enough teeth. They really want to see some movement here. But as you watch the President this week, "stay the course," yet again [bad, bad, intransigent President!]. You're defying him in a way just by introducing this. Do you hope that he'll come around to you, or are you eventually just drifting towards an eventual [support for] withdrawal?
View video here.
When's the last time Weir asked a defeatist Senator "what would it take to convince you the tide is turning in our favor in Iraq?"
Mark was in Iraq in November. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net
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Better quesiton to memebers o
July 14, 2007 - 08:06 ET by PeskyDaneBetter quesiton to members of the Anitque Media: "What would it take for you not to support the enemies of your country?"
Invested In Defeat
July 14, 2007 - 08:11 ET by P.J. GladnickLike Rush said, the MSM and the Democrats are invested in defeat in Iraq. The WORST thing to happen from their POV is victory. That is why they are now DESPERATE for a pullout because the Surge is working. Check out this victory over Al-Qaeda video from Anbar Province:
US Army and Iraqis Celebrating victory over AlQaeda in Anbar Province
Here is what Lamar should have responded with...
July 14, 2007 - 09:24 ET by c5thenWhat would it take for ABC (and the rest of the Old media) to actually go back to journalism and attempt to ballance the bias on their shows? What would it take for them to not take what the enemies of liberty say as absolute truth wth no investigation and to stop forwarding the terrorist's propaganda in their daily and nightly reports?
Because the answer to those questions will also answer what it will take to stop their accelerating loss of viewers.
The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic
Just once I'd love to hear a
July 14, 2007 - 10:05 ET by drillanwrJust once I'd love to hear a Republican grow a pair and respond to one of these idiot network hacks:
"Withdrawal is the least and most dangerous method of contraception in a war. You leave yourself open to being infected by disease from all areas, and you run the greatest probability and possibility of becoming impregnated with massively multiple terrorist fetuses that you will find it impossible to abort ... even in a back alley with a hanger ... without endangering the life of the country."
The LMSM just might understand it in those terms. Hell, say it on the floor of the House and Senate.
Prime Minister Nouri al-M
July 14, 2007 - 17:05 ET by BlameTheMediaPrime
Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday that the Iraqi army and police
are capable of keeping security in the country when American troops
leave "any time they want," though he acknowledged the forces need
further weapons and training.
The
embattled prime minister sought to show confidence at a time when
congressional pressure is growing for a withdrawal and the Bush
administration reported little progress had been made on the most vital
of a series of political benchmarks it wants al-Maliki to carry out.
Al-Maliki said difficulty in enacting the measures was "natural" given Iraq's turmoil.
But
one of his top aides, Hassan al-Suneid, rankled at the assessment,
saying the U.S. was treating Iraq like "an experiment in an American
laboratory." He sharply criticised the U.S. military, saying it was
committing human rights violations, embarassing the Iraqi government
with its tactics and cooperating with "gangs of killers" in its
campaign against al-Qaida in Iraq.
Oh, cripes! LMAO! My bad ...
July 14, 2007 - 18:15 ET by drillanwrOh, cripes! LMAO! My bad ... I had to read that twice ... I thought I was reading something about the democrats in our congress. I knew it was funny the names Kennedy, Durbin, and Reid were missing ...
This exchange by Weir sort of
July 15, 2007 - 14:54 ET by Prez RudyThis exchange by Weir sort of reminds me of Kevin Nealon's character "The Subliminal Guy" ( I think that's what he was called) on the old Saturday Night Live skits.