| Author | Message | ||
     Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) Senior Member Username: Leslie Post Number: 1976 Registered: 02-2002 |
http://www.msnbc.com/news/893115.asp http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/31/sprj.irq.arnett/index.html Did y'all see the interview he did? -L | ||
| Paul D. Morgan (V22guy) Senior Member Username: V22guy Post Number: 1375 Registered: 02-2002 |
Hell yeah I saw that!!! That made my day seeing his ass canned! | ||
| Stacey R Abend (Srafj40) Member Username: Srafj40 Post Number: 42 Registered: 03-2003 |
Good, as if 12 years ago with cnn was not enough! Is Arnett a French name? LOL. | ||
| Randy Rabalais (Randy) New Member Username: Randy Post Number: 5 Registered: 03-2003 |
I saw his interview and I read a follow up comment he made yesterday in which he said "The Iraqi people consider me to be their friend and to be on their side." Well DUH! So much for fair and honest reporting. The really sad thing is that he appears not to care that he has compromised his professional standards. I guess he might as well stay in Baghdad now.... | ||
| Brian Friend (Brianfriend) Senior Member Username: Brianfriend Post Number: 573 Registered: 09-2002 |
Rivera got fired too. Someone let him in with one of the Army units and in less than 1 day he broadcasted tactical info. No real suprise there. | ||
| Jens Störmer (Jenzz) New Member Username: Jenzz Post Number: 22 Registered: 08-2002 |
McCarthy strikes again. | ||
| TPH (Snowman) Senior Member Username: Snowman Post Number: 350 Registered: 12-2002 |
I would kick em' all out. Let the military do their job without the chance of a blundering idiot like Rivera messing up their operation. How could we possibly need to know about some of the stuff they are broadcasting? We are at war, not brushing up for sweeps week! I just don't get it. S- | ||
| Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) Senior Member Username: Leslie Post Number: 1977 Registered: 02-2002 |
Oh, but to them, it IS sweeps week.... The problem is, it's not that the war isn't going the way the Pentagon planned, it's that it's not going the way the media planned.... that's why they're asking all the DA questions that they are... I think its great that we can see what's going on in real-time, but, the media is being Iraq's best intel source.... if we're gonna put the media in with the front lines, we have to keep a safeguard in there to protect our own troops from divulging locations, tactics, etc. Arnett's comments could be taken by the Iraqi regime as an incentive to push onward with their resistance, like pouring gas on a brushfire that we're trying to put out.... we suddenly have a much bigger fire to contain than we did to begin with.... I'd contemplate considering him as a traitor for saying what he did, to whom he did, how he did.... -L | ||
| Stacey R Abend (Srafj40) Member Username: Srafj40 Post Number: 43 Registered: 03-2003 |
Leslie, I would not go as far as traitor. I think that professionally speaking that the man has compromised himself on more than one/two, now three occasions. Who knows how many other times? I am surprised that any legitimate news org. was still dealing with him. The journalist is not to give a biased interview, leave that to the editorials. Look at all the journalistic dust that was kicked up over Dan Rather and the Saddam interview. Arnett just cut off how he makes a living. Rivera, well, I remember when he was part of 20/20 and just the class of the investigative field. He must have done something back then because at the time he just disappeared, vanished. Then Al Capone’s vault! Stacey | ||
| Brian Friend (Brianfriend) Senior Member Username: Brianfriend Post Number: 574 Registered: 09-2002 |
I remember Al Capone's vault. I think I was about 12 or something and it was built up with tv hype for about a week. I could hardly wait to see the inside of the vault. And then the show came on and the vault was opened. I remember Rivera's face when there was nothing in there. Huge flop. Taking me back through memory lane. | ||
| BW (Bwallace35) Member Username: Bwallace35 Post Number: 49 Registered: 07-2002 |
Personally, I think Peter and the other reporters that have been reporting that the U.S. is on hold waiting for reinforcements and building a new plan have done us a favor. Everybody knows we prefer to fight outside the cities. What better way to draw the Republican Guard outside of the "box". After four consecutive days of reports that quote the U.S. ground commander "we didn't wargame this" the RG finally sent reinforcements to the satellite cities of Baghdad. Subsequently, they got their asses handed to them. Funny how that works huh? Put Arnett in for an award and send Rivera back to his boat. | ||
| todd slater (Toddslater) Senior Member Username: Toddslater Post Number: 261 Registered: 08-2002 |
It never ceases to amaze me the true ignorance and flaunting there of by the f'in media drones. Even after he was shit canned, Peter aka, shit for brains, couldn't admit he was just another clueless talking head. Like all media drones, they believe their own pablum. He really thinks what he said is correct. He has absolutely no more clue than the average homeless person on the street (not meaning to discredit the homeless as they by in large are less dillusional than the media) as to what the US military thinks, planned, has planned, etc..etc..etc.. This whole pontification of how long the war is supposed to last is/was and is currently being cooked up by the brain dead media. And now Rivera, another piece of video excrement. | ||
| Jason Gustavson (Prescottj) Senior Member Username: Prescottj Post Number: 533 Registered: 12-2002 |
damn traitor, deport his ass to france | ||
| Dean Chrismon (Chrismonda) Member Username: Chrismonda Post Number: 83 Registered: 12-2002 |
McCarthy strikes again. WTF. Give me a break. | ||
| Eric N (Grnrvr) Senior Member Username: Grnrvr Post Number: 1293 Registered: 02-2002 |
Na, deporting him wouldn't do anything. Put him in a maximum security prison and let him become a good wife to a few hundred inmates. That would be a fitting end for him. | ||
| Rob Davison (Nosivad_bor) Senior Member Username: Nosivad_bor Post Number: 198 Registered: 02-2003 |
it's the damn army's fault for not having a leash on these people. if they dont like what they are reporting don't invite them out on the battle field. just becasue he reports for an american news program does not mean he should be "on thier side" it should be straight down the middle reporting. i am getting sick of getting all my war news reported from the "us" perspective. Cnn, NBC, ABC all support the war. WHY? it is not thier job to take a side, but they do. i was watching Canadian brocasting on C-span the other day. very refreshing. rd | ||
| Eric N (Grnrvr) Senior Member Username: Grnrvr Post Number: 1294 Registered: 02-2002 |
Rob, why not read online news from all over the world. France, Germany, Bahamas every where has an online news paper. | ||
| Rob Davison (Nosivad_bor) Senior Member Username: Nosivad_bor Post Number: 200 Registered: 02-2003 |
because i no longer have the access that i once had. i have to get glimpses of information at my break times. i dont have internet at home any more and only get 16 channels of TV i guess it is rediculous to have fair reporting on US new channels. rd | ||
| Blue (Bluegill) Senior Member Username: Bluegill Post Number: 2165 Registered: 02-2002 |
it's the damn army's fault for not having a leash on these people. if they dont like what they are reporting don't invite them out on the battle field. CORRECT, but what do you think the uproar would be like if the media wasn't "invited" out there? "Embedding" these asswipes is the Military's attempt to keep that leash on them. I imagine that the media clowns are told very simply, "Don't report your position because you're on live tv and the viewers at home may get to see a scud hit your dumb ass and kill a buch of soldiers too." Not to mention revealing future troop movements & war plans...leave it to a cheese-dick like Geraldo to fuck up on both those issue in one teevee appearance. That arnett dude - can you blame him for wanting attention? Just look at that freaky sonofabitch... He's a "fellow warrior" LOL what a nerd. He did a great diservice to his country by furthering the Iraqi propaganda movement, but he's too damn stupid to realize it. Put him through the plastic shredder. | ||
| BW (Bwallace35) Member Username: Bwallace35 Post Number: 51 Registered: 07-2002 |
Let's keep things in perspective. Do you really think that Gen. Franks "let" Arnett in Baghdad. As far as Geraldo . . . all reporters in theater are well briefed on what not to release and what is considered reportable. Geraldo broke that trust. Blame Geraldo. Furthermore: The U.S. Army is only ONE element in the total fighting force. | ||
| Blue (Bluegill) Senior Member Username: Bluegill Post Number: 2168 Registered: 02-2002 |
Can you imagine the Commanders' string of four letter words when they saw that jackass Geraldo reporting? Geraldo reminds of that tool reporter in Natural Born Killers. |
