[Rhodes22-list] Politics Geraldo Rivera reports

[Steve]

Interesting Ed.
I have always thought that Fox was well balanced for
new.  ABC, CBS & NBC are all liberal networks.  Or at
least, I think so.  I also think we are doing a good
job over there.  In the good old days, helping poor
abused people to achive freedom was a liberal cause. 
But Clinton did not think to help those people so now
the dems. have to opose it.  At least we are helping
them.  That whats important.
Steve


--- ed kroposki <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
> Hey mark, check this out in scopes.  It was just
> sent to me.
> 
> The buildings that AREN'T burning in Iraq
>  
> "They have a saying in the news business," Geraldo
> Rivera related this
> week. "Reporters don't report buildings that don't
> burn." And with that
> introduction, he told a TV audience about the story
> that is being
> systematically denied to our entire nation: the
> success story of
> post-Saddam Iraq.
>  
> Are we losing some soldiers each week? Yes,. Is
> there some frustration
> in the public about electricity and water service?
> Yes. Are some Saddam
> Hussein loyalists throughout the land, making
> trouble? Yes. Has this
> opened a window for some terrorist mischief? Yes.
> But that's ALL we
> hear. No wonder the country is in a mixed mood about
> Iraq. If you hear
> about the buildings that are not burning, though, it
> is a different
> story indeed.
>  
> Rivera is no shill for George W. Bush. But Bush,
> Condi Rice and Colin
> Powell together could not have been as effective as
> Geraldo was Thursday
> night on the Fox News Channel's Hannity and Colmes
> program.
>  
> "When I got to Baghdad, I barely recognized it," he
> began, Comparing his
> just-completed trip to two others he made during and
> just after the
> battle to topple Saddam. "You have over 30,000 Iraqi
> cops and militiamen
> already on the job.
>  
> This is four months after major fighting stopped.
> Can you imagine that
> kind of gearing up in this country? Law and order is
> better;
> archaeological sites are being preserved; factories,
> schools are being
> guarded." But what about the secondhand griping that
> the media have been
> so efficiently relating about power, water and other
> infrastructure?
>  
> "To say that Iraq is being rebuilt is not true,"
> answered Rivera. "Iraq
> is being built. There was no infrastructure before;
> we are doing it. I
> just think the good news is being underestimated and
> underreported." At
> this juncture, one must evaluate how to feel about
> the voices telling us
> only about the bad news in Iraq, whether from the
> mouths of news anchors
> or Democratic presidential hopefuls. At best, they
> are underinformed. At
> worst, their one-sided assessments of post-Saddam
> Iraq are intentional
> falsehoods for obvious reasons. 
>  
> If I hear one more person mock that "Mission
> Accomplished" banner
> beneath which President Bush thanked a shipload of
> sailors and Marines a
> few months back, I'm going to spit. That was a
> reference to the ouster
> of Saddam's regime, and that mission was indeed
> accomplished, apparently
> to the great chagrin of the American left. No one
> said what followed
> would be easy or cheap, and that's why the
> dripping-water torture of the
> cost and casualty stories is so infuriating.
> Remember we pay our
> soldiers whether they are in Iraq or in Ft Bragg,
> North Carolina. We
> should all mourn the loss of every fallen soldier.
> But context cries out
> to be heard. Our present news media is not
> performing this task. As some
> dare to wonder if this might become a Vietnam-like
> quagmire, I'll remind
> whoever needs it that most of our 58,000 Vietnam war
> toll died between
> 1966 and 1972, during which we lost an average of
> about 8,000 per year.
> That's about 22 per day, every day, for thousands of
> days on 
> 
> 
>  
> Local elections are under way across Iraq, Rivera
> reported. "Where Kurds
> and Arabs have been battling for decades, things
> have been settling
> down. Administrator Paul Bremer is doing a great
> job." So does Geraldo
> think his media colleagues are intentionally
> painting with one side of
> the brush? "I'm not into conspiracy theories, but
> there's just more bang
> for your buck when you report the GI who got killed
> rather than the 99
> who didn't get killed, who make friends, who helped
> schedule elections,
> who helped shops get open for business, who helped
> traffic flow again.
>  
> "The vast majority of Iraqis are very happy to have
> us there. I would
> like to see a bit more balance." This needs to be
> reported to the
> American Public who are presently being duped. I
> expect the dominant
> media culture to nitpick and attack Bush, and
> Democrats to blast him
> with reckless abandon. But when that leads to the
> willful exclusion of
> facts that would shine truthful light on the great
> work of the American
> armed forces, that level of malice plumbs new
> depths."
>  
> If you have a friend that is looking for the truth,
> pass this on.
> 
> 
> 
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