{"id":10424,"date":"2007-04-05T15:53:59","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T19:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/10424.html"},"modified":"2007-04-05T15:53:59","modified_gmt":"2007-04-05T19:53:59","slug":"hes-talking-rubbish-and-he-should-not-get-away-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/hes-talking-rubbish-and-he-should-not-get-away-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"‘He’s talking rubbish and he should not get away with it’"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNN’s Michael Ware isn’t the only major network journalist denouncing John McCain’s recent nonsense about allegedly safe areas of Baghdad; CBS News foreign correspondent Allen Pizzey<\/a> has been nearly as critical. Pizzey, who’s based out of Rome, talked to Brian Montopoli today, who asked whether the senator’s comments bothered journalists in Iraq.<\/p>\n

Yes. It’s disgraceful for a man seeking highest office, I think, to talk utter rubbish. And that is utter rubbish. It’s electoral propaganda. It is simply not true. No one in his right mind who has been to Baghdad believes that story.<\/p>\n

Now, McCain and some other senators were there on Sunday, and they claimed, “Oh, we walked around for a whole hour…and we drove in from the airport. Gosh, aren’t we great, we drove in from the airport.” Excuse me, Mr. McCain, you drove in in a large convoy of heavily armed vehicles. The last one had a sign on it saying “Keep back 100 yards. Deadly force authorized.” Every single car that they approached or passed pulled over and stopped, because that’s the way it is. When one of those security details goes by, every ordinary person gets the hell out of the way, in case they get shot.<\/p>\n

If he did walk around that market, and I didn’t see him do it, and he didn’t announce he was going to do it, you can bet your life there were an awful lot of soldiers deployed to make sure that nobody came near that place. He’s talking rubbish. And he should not get away with it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When the right went after CNN’s Ware, there was a degree of shock involved. How dare<\/i> a journalist tell an American audience that a senator is lying. Don’t reporters know that they’re supposed to simply pass along what politicians say, and let the audience that has no way of knowing the truth or all the facts come to their own conclusions?<\/p>\n

But that’s what makes the McCain story so interesting. Reporters weren’t just aware of McCain’s transparent and jaw-dropping mendacity, they were offended<\/i> by it.<\/p>\n

Good. If the media were willing to call “b.s.” more often, news outlets would probably have a lot more credibility right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CNN’s Michael Ware isn’t the only major network journalist denouncing John McCain’s recent nonsense about allegedly safe areas of Baghdad; CBS News foreign correspondent Allen Pizzey has been nearly as critical. Pizzey, who’s based out of Rome, talked to Brian Montopoli today, who asked whether the senator’s comments bothered journalists in Iraq. Yes. It’s disgraceful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}