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Unlike the 2,000-Death Count in Iraq, ABC, NBC, PBS, MSNBC Skip 2,000 Marker in Afghanistan

Old Timer 2012/06/22 10:47:52


Unlike the 2,000-Death Count in Iraq, ABC, NBC, PBS, MSNBC Skip 2,000 Marker in Afghanistan

By Tim Graham | June 21, 2012 | 17:45



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On June 13, the CBS Evening News devoted a story by David Martin to the Afghanistan death count reaching 2,000, as Martin interviewed a mother of a fallen Marine. CBS was alone. There was no story last week on the Afghanistan death “milestone” on ABC, NBC, the PBS NewsHour – or even on the MSNBC programs found in Nexis, including Rachel “Our Military’s In a Perilous Drift” Maddow.

But the networks were all more aggressive when the 2,000 mark arrived in Iraq on October 25, 2005. The Big Three networks devoted 14 morning and evening news stories to the death toll from October 24 through the end of October, and another 24 anchor briefs or mentions. They used the number to spell “disaster for this White House.”



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  • Cognito22 2012/06/22 16:39:33 (edited)
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    +15
    Where's that moral outrage from the Left?
    They pride themselves on that stuff.
    Eerily quiet.

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  • WhereIsAmerica? ~PWCM~JLA 2012/07/01 00:28:20
    WhereIsAmerica? ~PWCM~JLA
    The liberals only care what you do if you are NOT one of them, if you ARE one of them, you can do whatever you please and they won't say a word.
  • maggiemay 2012/06/25 22:07:01
    maggiemay
    +2
    Shhh The left don't want to know they have a killer in Chief who has blood on his hands. blood on his hands obama
  • ★Calliope★ 2012/06/24 14:13:06
    ★Calliope★
    +3
    Because Obama said this was the 'good war'.

    It totally figures.
  • ScottyG - Faqueue 2012/06/23 18:38:47
    ScottyG - Faqueue
    +4
    The hypocrites can never even make up their minds. On one hand they scream for help to the countries who's people are being murdered. Then when we do offer our military aid they call us all war mongers.

    You can't stop dictators and terrorists with daisies, rainbows or eloquent words. It takes men, missiles and balls.
  • marylou5 2012/06/23 05:10:27
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    OBAMA forbid it!
  • RastaFan 2012/06/23 01:31:18
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    +6
    ~ ABC, NBC, PBS, MSNBC ~ don't deserve to be counted in the fourth estate any longer. They have earned the ridicule they get. It's great we don't need them, either.

    We need to defend the free internet like no other media.
  • ScottyG... RastaFan 2012/06/23 18:41:36
    ScottyG - Faqueue
    +4
    I wonder if I'm the only one who noticed that the lefty news sites above also have the lowest numbers of overall viewers and ratings.

    Just goes to show ya' can't fool anyone but the fools themselves.
  • RastaFan ScottyG... 2012/06/24 07:14:41
    RastaFan
    +4
    That's a fact, Scotty and it reveals an interesting truism.

    Left to their own devices, people will naturally drift toward freedom and truth and away from oppression and deception. After seeing a wide variety of opinion, people are no longer are satisfied with news that has been filtered through an ideological paper cone.

    People have a natural love of God's truth.
  • ScottyG... RastaFan 2012/06/24 15:08:04
    ScottyG - Faqueue
    +3
    To those of us on the right we know the truth will set us all free. To the left they ignore any legitimate preponderance of the truth in favor of their personal idealistic wants.

    The mantra of the left is "the wants of the few outweigh the needs of the many"
  • texasred 2012/06/22 22:51:40
    texasred
    +9
    Obama could kill their kids and the left wingers would assure us he had a very good reason for it.
  • ScottyG... texasred 2012/06/23 18:45:16
    ScottyG - Faqueue
    +3
    He already does. He fully supports planed parenthood. In the case of liberals and their collective aborted offspring, so do I.

    The idiots are too stupid to see they are allowing themselves to commit genocide on the future liberals.

    I for one am perfectly happy to see them wipe out the possibility of any future liberals in our lifetime.
  • texasred ScottyG... 2012/06/23 19:00:50
    texasred
    +4
    But they're not worried about those future liberals. They're indoctrinating all public school children to be liberals, too. That's why I'm for getting rid of the DOE.
  • ScottyG... texasred 2012/06/23 21:21:41
    ScottyG - Faqueue
    +4
    It should be renamed to the DOH. But even Homer Simpson could run it better.
  • texasred ScottyG... 2012/06/23 22:00:00
    texasred
    +4
    Now that's good!
  • ScottyG... texasred 2012/06/24 02:27:44
  • themadhare ~IJM 2012/06/22 19:11:26
    themadhare ~IJM
    +5
    The amazing part is their motivation is lost on so many Americans.
  • No nonsense NanC...don't BS... 2012/06/22 18:54:59 (edited)
    No nonsense NanC...don't BS me!
    +4
    Well, have you forgotten that Afghanistan was the GOOD war? Of course, the
    difference between the surge in Iraq, which was successful, and the surge
    in Afghanistan, which has led to the 2000th death, is the Afghan surge itself was
    not really an adequate troop surge.
  • ScottyG... No nons... 2012/06/23 18:48:27
    ScottyG - Faqueue
    +1
    And look at the result of the early pull out in Iraq. All those men both civilian and military and all that money WASTED.

    Why aren't we asking why we pulled out and blew any progress we made? A total lost cause and yet another epic fail for Oies!
  • Walt 2012/06/22 18:36:20
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    +6
    They can report or not report anything real or fictional they want. Nobody living in the real world pays attention to the liberal news networks anymore.
  • ScottyG... Walt 2012/06/23 18:50:38
    ScottyG - Faqueue
    +3
    The only reason I watch is to see just how wrong they are reporting, the lies told and the facts omitted.

    In fact I'm willing to bet the majority of their viewers are folks just like me fact checking them.
  • Pedro Doller ~POTL-PWCM~JLA 2012/06/22 17:17:28 (edited)
    Pedro Doller ~POTL-PWCM~JLA
    +6
    They pretend that never happened because it has been announced that troops will be withdrawn. Lets just forget about that. Sad. What is also sad is that won't really be any withdrawl. Military will gradually be replaced with civilian contractors. Major Bases are only now being constructed. We are there for a long haul. Civilian contractors casualty rates exceed those of the military. Keep them in your hearts also. They live on the same bases as the military, most are ex-military.

    http://www.dbacomp.com/Casual...

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/0...
  • Kane Fernau 2012/06/22 17:10:06
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    +3
    Get out of Afghanistan, we have nothing to gain there.
  • doofiegirl POTL~PWCM~JLA 2012/06/22 17:09:58
    doofiegirl  POTL~PWCM~JLA
    +9
    The 'media' is cOa 'covering Odimwit's a** ! media coa covering odimwits
  • Michaelene 2012/06/22 16:48:11
    Michaelene
    +11
    I think the media is trying to ignore war stories in an attempt to prevent Obama from being called a war mongerer like they did to Bush. He hides anything he shouldn't, and leaks the rest. The media is a disgrace, the word reporter or journalist is up there with lawyer and politician.

    In Obama's first year, August 2009, he made all verterans care center reports CLASSIFIED after two cities, one in PA and one in VA uncovered the horrific conditions of the patients, the facilities and the treatments. The two investigative reports were damning.

    Now, no one can investigate how our military is being treated.

    God bless the military and save them from their own government.
  • Cognito22 2012/06/22 16:39:33 (edited)
    Cognito22
    +15
    Where's that moral outrage from the Left?
    They pride themselves on that stuff.
    Eerily quiet.
  • Michaelene Cognito22 2012/06/22 16:52:28
    Michaelene
    +10
    Code Pink is so inactive, I looked at several of their sites where they are still talking about Bush.
  • ★Calliope★ Cognito22 2012/06/24 14:14:20
    ★Calliope★
    +2
    Eerily blind and deaf, loudly biased and merely Obama pro-active.
  • Chi~Cat 2012/06/22 16:37:54
    Chi~Cat
    +12
    The LSM have too much invested into the usurper to report anything that would be fair & balanced. Their heads are so far up ITs gazinga, they all stink.

    media bias
  • ★Calliope★ Chi~Cat 2012/06/24 14:14:48
    ★Calliope★
    +2
    very true.
  • Philo-CommieHater! 2012/06/22 16:33:26
    Philo-CommieHater!
    +13
    Huh, that's amazing (that CBS reported it, not that the others ignored it)!!

    obama news network
  • Diane Spraggs Yates 2012/06/22 16:19:14
    Diane Spraggs Yates
    +10
    Bush days we got a list of people killed named them 1 by 1 now Obama they have it hidden from the public ?????? Why Bush Not Obama ----could it be he is black???? Racist media !!!!!! Bias media is more like it !!!! Unlike the 2,000-Death Count in Iraq, ABC, NBC, PBS, MSNBC Skip 2,000 Marker in Afghanistan !!!! Media is dead sold out to Dems and Liberals !!!!!!
  • UGH...L... Diane S... 2012/06/22 16:38:21
    UGH...LIBS ~ PWCM ~ JLA ~
    +8
    That's because the MSM is mostly made up of Dems and liberals.

    Professionalism has long since gone by the boards.
  • Quietman ~PWCM~JLA 2012/06/22 16:06:22
    Quietman   ~PWCM~JLA
    +9
    Who says the MSM is bias?
  • UGH...L... Quietma... 2012/06/22 16:36:21
    UGH...LIBS ~ PWCM ~ JLA ~
    +8
    Anyone with sense.

    The MSM is a mouthpiece for liberal/progressive opinion and propaganda.
  • ScottyG... UGH...L... 2012/06/23 18:53:51
    ScottyG - Faqueue
    +2
    I'm pretty sure he was being very sarcastic in that reply.
  • UGH...L... ScottyG... 2012/06/23 19:08:05
    UGH...LIBS ~ PWCM ~ JLA ~
    +2
    Yes, that's why I raved him.
  • ScottyG... UGH...L... 2012/06/23 21:21:56

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