CBS to Ingraham: Get your ass to Iraq, beeotch

[warrens]

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If Ingraham feels, despite all of the violence against members of the press, that journalists are too cautious in covering the war, I encourage her to get out on the streets of Baghdad for an extended tour.

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Really worth the read, btw.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2006/05/31/publiceye/entry1672140.shtml

[Ganja Ninja]

1. Sounds good.

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"One thing I don't want to hear anymore," Steve Capus, the president of NBC News, told The New York Times's Bill Carter in the wake of the car bomb attack in Iraq that left two CBS News personnel dead and one critically injured, "is people like Laura Ingraham spewing about us not leaving our balconies in the Green Zone to cover what's really happening in Iraq."


You know, if you don't want to hear from these blowhards STOP PUTTING THEM ON THE AIR!

[wordpix2]

2. now THAT was a great piece & I'm glad Ingraham was slapped down

Beeotch Ingraham has a lot of nerve complaining about the reporting from Iraq with her big "eight days" of experience there as she sits in her cushy air-conditioned office in the U.S. talking at her microphone. I am really glad the longtime reporters in Iraq who have lived through the daily risks and horrors are slapping her down for her outrageous statements. :mad:

snip: Ingraham had gone to Iraq for eight days, and while she was there, she says she "wasn't in a hotel balcony. I was out with the U.S. military." CBS News' Lara Logan, appearing on CNN's "Reliable Sources," called Ingraham's statements "outrageous" in an interview two months after ABC's Bob Woodruff sustained serious injuries while reporting in Iraq. "I think it's an outrage to point the finger at journalists and say that this is our fault. I really do. And I think it shows an abject lack of respect for any journalist that's prepared to come to this country and risk their lives," she said.

[tenshi816]

3. I liked one of the comments following the piece:

"Bottom line: if reporters risk their lives merely by leaving their hotel rooms, it ain't the flowers in the streets we were promised."

[originalpckelly]

4. I don't usually call women this...

but Laura Ingraham is a a flat-out bitch. I hope that isn't over the line or anything, but this lady is completely nutty for saying what she did. Good to see someone fighting back.

[VolcanoJen]

5. KICK

An excellent must-read.

:dem:

[pointblank]

6. I wish Ingraham

would go play in Fallujah for a few days. Stupid ass *****

[Mr_Spock]

13. Me too

"Shut up and walk onto that mine"

:evilgrin:

[Octafish]

7. CBS News is home to a lot of good people.

Here's something from the files, the summer of 2001, when CBS News reported Ashcroft stopped flying commercial avaiation. For some reason.

Ashcroft Flying High

WASHINGTON, July 26, 2001
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Attorney General Ashcroft, with President Bush (AP)


Quote: "There was a threat assessment and there are guidelines. He is acting under the guidelines." -- FBI spokesman

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(CBS) Fishing rod in hand, Attorney General John Ashcroft left on a weekend trip to Missouri Thursday afternoon aboard a chartered government jet, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart.

In response to inquiries from CBS News over why Ashcroft was traveling exclusively by leased jet aircraft instead of commercial airlines, the Justice Department cited what it called a "threat assessment" by the FBI, and said Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by private jet for the remainder of his term.

"There was a threat assessment and there are guidelines. He is acting under the guidelines," an FBI spokesman said. Neither the FBI nor the Justice Department, however, would identify what the threat was, when it was detected or who made it.

A senior official at the CIA said he was unaware of specific threats against any Cabinet member, and Ashcroft himself, in a speech in California, seemed unsure of the nature of the threat.

"I don't do threat assessments myself and I rely on those whose responsibility it is in the law enforcement community, particularly the FBI. And I try to stay within the guidelines that they've suggested I should stay within for those purposes," Ashcroft said.

Asked if he knew anything about the threat or who might have made it, the attorney general replied, "Frankly, I don't. That's the answer."

CONTINUED...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/main303601.shtml

ANOTHER COWARD

[cally]

8. Recommended for the great quotes from the left blogospere

I'm surprised by the credence they give to all the lefty's in this article. Now, maybe they will wake up and see how many lies the RW hacks spew since their own have been attacked by them. Nah, probably not.

[ellenfl]

9. from the link in the article to the talk show hosts' truth tour . . .

“We have talk radio hosts who have paid upwards of $15,000 out of their own pockets just so they can have the chance to be in the middle of a war.

they could have gone for free if they had enlisted!

ellen fl

[warrens]

10. Here's your "Bring it on!" t-shirt, Ingraham

May I drop you in Fallujah, so you can get some man-on-the-street interviews? You know, the ones the cowardly press figure aren't worth dying for?

[stepnw1f]

11. Send the Fascist Party Doll Straight To Hell

where she belongs.

[TexasLawyer]

12. Good article

"The Iraq war is now considered by some to be the most dangerous in modern history for journalists, with 71 journalists and 26 support staffers killed, more than in Vietnam, Korea or World War II. Iraq is, without a doubt, an extraordinarily dangerous place.

And particularly in light of what has happened to journalists in this war, one can't help but note that Ingraham decided her eight-day Iraq tour qualified her to judge journalists who risked their lives for long periods covering the conflict. Kimberly Dozier has just had shrapnel removed from her head. Paul Douglas and James Brolan are dead. And they are just three of many."

[T Roosevelt]

14. h/t to Atrios

After the attack involving CBS News personnel, blogger Atrios dredged up Ingraham's comments and wrote the following:

Journalists tend a bit too much to bask in the reflected glory of the accomplishments and activities of their greatest colleagues, but there's certainly reason to have a great deal of respect for people who are actually trying to get the story in Iraq. The truth is it is extremely dangerous for journalists to go out in Iraq - something the right wingers sitting in their basements covered in cheetoes like to attribute to cowardice as they wank away - but it's also the case that some journalists are getting out there one way or another.

Another few millenia in hell awaits Ingraham, I think.

[SeattleGirl]

15. Great article. Did you read any of the comments people posted?

"Librul media". "Bush haters." "You misconstrued Ingraham's comments." Blah blah blah, all the usual Freeper bullshit. The ignorance, stupidity, and just plain hatred these people display is astounding.