News Hounds Blast Neil Cavuto

   I really love the people over at News Hounds, the people who watch FoxNews so that we don't have to!

   Here is a piece from them, just for you!

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Memo to Neil Cavuto: Go to Iraq and Show Us All the Good Things You Claim the "Liberal Media" is Ignoring

Reported by Melanie - February 7, 2007

The first segment today (February 7, 2007) on Fox's "business news" show, Your World w/Neil Cavuto, was essentially a repeat of segments Cavuto has been airing several times a week for the last few months: The "liberal media" is, (1) trying to bring down poor George by not reporting how good the economy really is, or it's (2), demonizing our troops by not reporting all the good things that are happening in Iraq.

Cavuto's guest was Vince Micco, alternatively identified as a sergent in the U.S. Army (Ret.) and as a "counter-intelligence agent." We know Micco as a Republican who ran for Congress last year who Fox practically endorsed.

Cavuto, broadcasting from Pebble Beach, California, opened the show and the segment with:

Well, when a lotta these guys aren't hitting the links, they're hitting the media, wondering why all they hear is bad news about an economy they say is soaring and even an Iraq war a lot of them insist, you know, we aren't losing. The trouble they say is you wouldn't know it reading the day's headlines or looking at the day's images. ... Well, Army Sergeant Vince Micco says it is part of a widespread media agenda to demonize our troops.

A baby-faced Micco came on and said he was in some "pretty volatile areas in Iraq," but nothing affected his sleep after he "got home though, like the media's coverage." For "every bad story that we're force-fed night after night on television or read every day in the paper and the New York Times, there are 99 heartwarming stories about what a blessing the U.S. troops are to the people in Iraq."

Unphased by the huge ratio of bad versus good stories, Cavuto said, "It's not so much that we see these images. I don't even mind that. I think what's causing some consternation in the military is that these are the only images certainly that Americans are subjected to. I don't see a similar zeal on the part of a number of major U.S. newspapers to show good stuff. You know, either helping kids, building schools, building bridges, building hospitals; the kind of stuff that I know guys like you were and are doing."

Of course Micco, who spent a year in Iraq, agreed: "Neil, these children in Iraq love us...I was treated like a movie star...I don't know how many U.S. dollar bills I pulled out of my pocket as a little gift to these kids...that's the legacy we leave in Iraq." Some of the "gullible" people in Iraq who have "nothing better to do," know that "our television cameras are looking for bloodshed and sensationalism and they wait for the cameras to come by before they detonate that roadside bomb or that suicide bomber pulls a cord" because they "know they're going to be on Al Jazeera," and American TV stations.

In closing Cavuto said, "Well, we'll make sure we cover some of those good images. Sergeant, thank you very much."

Comment: On October 3, 2006 Cavuto aired a segment featuring a wounded Iraq war veteran who complained that there weren't enough jobs available for returning vets. At the end of that segment the guest urged Cavuto to do more "good news" stories about Iraq and Cavuto said he would. It didn't happen. Now again today, Cavuto promises to cover "those good images." I'll be watching. In the meantime Neil, you're "the media." Why don't you gather all the resources News Corp. can muster and get yourself a contingent of Humvees and get your ass over to Iraq and spend a week in country visiting all those hospitals and schools and bridges that we're building. If you're so pissed off about this, do it yourself!

 

 

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U.S. Didn't Sign The Ban On Disappearing Detainees

   Did you know that on Tuesday, more than 60 countries signed a treaty which bans governments from holding people in secret lockup?

    There were a few countries that did not sign this treaty. Can you guess who a few of them were? Can you say " United States"?  Some of the others were the usual Bush Crime Family European allies.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007 by the Associated Press

"Our American friends were naturally invited to this ceremony; unfortunately, they weren't able to join us," French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy told reporters after 57 nations signed the treaty at his ministry in Paris.

"That won't prevent them from one day signing on in New York at U.N. headquarters - and I hope they will."

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack declined comment except to say that the United States helped draft the treaty, but that the final text "did not meet our expectations."

McCormack declined comment on whether the U.S. stance was influenced by the administration's policy of sending terrorism suspects to CIA-run prisons overseas, which Bush acknowledged in September.

Many other Western nations, including Germany, Spain, Britain and Italy, also did not sign the treaty. France introduced the convention at the U.N. General Assembly in November and it was adopted in December.  Article

   I can well understand why the Bush administration would not want to sign this treaty. It would be called a criminal defense move on the Bush teams part. To many skeletons in the closet to go along with anything that would be humane and moral.

 

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