CNN's Kyra Phillips Pushes The 'Iran Is Supporting al Qaeda' Lie
By Bill W. Friday Mar 21, 2008 1:29pm
But apparently Gen. David Petraeus didn't get the memo.
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Maybe John McCain gets his foreign policy briefings from CNN, or maybe it's vice versa. In any event, CNN's Kyra Phillips was interviewing Gen. David Petraeus today and repeated McCain's gaffe from yesterday, touting a connection between Iran and al Qaeda in Iraq. Later in the interview, Petraeus gently corrected her, noting that Syria is typically the path for weapons and fighters for AQ
Partial transcript after the jump:
Phillips: ... The Bush administration has referred to Iran as the axis of evil, but it stands firm that Iran is funneling weapons and supporting al Qaeda and supporting the insurgency. Was it a slap in the face to Americans -- the fact that the Iranian president came here to Iraqi soil when you and other US troops are trying to rebuild this country, and trying to end terrorism in this country?
Petraeus: No again, I think it's very natural that Iraq should try to deal with its neighbors. .....
Phillips: Would you support a war in Iran?
Petraeus: Well, first of all (laughs) that's not a question that I would deal with at all, and I'm worried about Iraq. That's what our focus is on. We certainly are concerned ...
Phillips: But clearly the influence of Iran is huge here.
Petraeus: We are concerned very much about the lethal excellerants as they are called that do come from Iran and we appropriately raised that to those who have a broader perspective and who have a regional and then a global look in the same way we do about what comes through Syria. As you know the flow of foreign fighters and suicide bombers that help out al Qaeda typically is through Syria. ...
(emphasis mine)
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McCain gets his foreign policy-national security briefings from Kissinger and Kristol.
http://tinyurl.com/2nmauo
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Was she the CNN reporter that was on the flight deck when the US invaded, cheering on the jets as they took off?
OK, so George Dubya, the greatest and most stratergic mind since George Armstrong Custer, is on the point of total victory in Iraq, all that is left to the next prez is to wait for bin Laden to emerge from his cave, clean up Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, Afghanistan and Pakistan, while pausing the Surge in Iraq, and if anyone or any funds are left, fix up the homeland.
The corrupt news network strikes again. It's difficult getting the truth from any news outlet in the U.S. It's a good thing we have the internet and access to foreign news services and blogs. If it wasn't for these sources, the truth would be difficult to find.
Phillips, just another brainless asshat that thinks
lying will get her the 'Medal of Freedom'...or some
shit like that.
If Kyra is this anxious to fight a war with Iran citing Iranian support for Al-Quaeda perhaps she should get herself and her sons ready to go into another conundrum.
This reporter should be disciplined for pushing policy that even Patreus laughs at. Two wars in the middle east = too many lives, too many resources.
3=End of America as we know it.
YouTube Video McCain, Iran, Parsley, Hagee CALL FOR "ARMAGEDDON"
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FACTS:
John McCain falsely claims that al Qaeda is in Iran. Is McCain making those false statements because he believes the same things his spiritual guide Rod Parsley and John Hagee, who both want American son's and daughters to invade Iran to "usher in Armageddon," believe. Yes, you read that right, Armageddon.
* McCain's spiritual guide, Rod Parsley said, "Israel must be defeated by a Russian-Arab military alliance, perhaps preceded by a U.S. invasion of Iran, in order to usher in Armageddon and the second coming of Jesus."
* John Hagee said, "The United States must be in a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God's plan ... a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, which will lead to the Rapture, Tribulation, and Second Coming of Christ."
Look, McCain actively sought and fought for the endorsement of both Hagee and Parsley.
McCain knew before he actively sought and fought for their endorsement that BOTH Hagee and Parsley have wanted for YEARS for America's sons and daughters to invade Iran to begin "rapture, tribulation and the second coming of Christ." McCain knew their desires of Armageddon for years now and in spite of what he knew, McCain sought their endorsement and he named Parsley his spiritual advisor.
I mean, it wasn't like they came to McCain. No, McCain went to them, met with them and broke bread with them. The whole while McCain knew, in advance, that both those men want the world to end and they want American sons & daughters to be the first ones at ground zero invading Iran.
Now, while I think they're both crackpots, what a SCARY thought if John McCain became president and his spiritual advisor wants to invade Iran to begin Armageddon. And John McCain is walking around lying about al Qaeda working with Iran. That is the same false scare tactic Bush used to invade Iraq.
John McCain either showed WAY BAD JUDGMENT or he wants to invade Iran to being Armageddon too.
No one can say McCain was having a senior moment when on March 20, 2008 McCain said, without a flinch and without correction, that Iran is working with al Qaeda. He had said that 4 times in 1 day prior to that only to be corrected all 4 times ... then finally the 5th time he said it he said it was TRUE, no corrections, no senior moment. It was a deliberate untruth from McCain. Even the generals in Iran on the ground say al Qaeda is not working with Iran.
Does McCain have a hidden agenda to lead Armageddon? I am not sure America is safe with a President who thinks like that.
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cacamaymee
notreally
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Today's journalism, if you want to call it that, is just a hollow shell of what it once was.
Thier journalist are generally lazy, don't do their homework and just spout off whatever the latest 'talking points' are. CNN is a typical example, any high school student could do a more compentent job of reporting. But why bother today, when the media's only job is to parrot what the latest administration's pundits tell them. As a matter of fact, CNN and the rest of them could save a lot of money if they replaced their talking heads with a bunch of parrots. They do the same 'job', and at least parrots are tolerable.
Does this surprise you? She has never let a little thing like objectivity stand between her and shilling for the Bush administration.
Wow, what a maroon.
Iran = Shia & Persian.
Al-Qaida = Sunni & Arab.
The worst insult you can tell a Persian is to call him an Arab.
Osama Bin Laden considers Shias to be an even more abominable aberration than the Great Satan, aka the USA.
But sure, a fucking ignorant jackass American politician sed the two must be in cahoots, so it must be true...
For the love of...(kool-aid ?)... dont you have to be in SOME WAY qualified/informed to represent a mojor news outlet (by default that excludes the FNC, so hush up)? Why cant these dip-shits differentiate between shiite and sunni ? This Iran and Al qaeda hug-fest is almost as believable as the pope having invited martin luther to the vatican for a tea party.
I'm glad I stopped watching CNN. I blocked FoxNews a long time ago and with crap like this I'm about to do the same with CNN.
jdw @ 10:
The main problem is that the media is sending communication majors to do the job of a journalist.
ConcernedHusseinCanuck @ 3:
Yes
Kyra is positioning herself for a big offer from Fox News.
Again, why is this news? Two idiots have made the same mistake (McCain and Phillips), but that's not enough. This has to be "perpetuating a lie". Use your brain for a second. Not everything is a conspiracy. McCain is a senile old man who should not be listened to. Phillips is either misinformed or stupid - neither of which would make her unique in the MSM.
RHM
McCain is planning on bombing the terrorist group Al-Abama to prevent an attack the terrorists have labeled "Crimson Tide". McCain didn't detail much but he said he knows, and it's been reported in the media, that members of Al-Abama have been seen training in the Southern United States, wear body armor and practice formation combat training which is evident of a large scale invasion.
As a Canadian I don't watch CNN, except I happened to be in a hotel in Hawaii in March of 2003 just as the Iraq war began. I noticed that when talking about 9/11 or the war in Iraq CNN always had backdrop photos of Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein photos side by side, just as if they were partners. The impression was strong, and many people must have been hoodwinked by this subliminal strategy. CNN is obviously a way of delivering government propaganda to the American people. And they're still delivering i!
Of course, she's there to gin up the war! They've added a new element to "1984's" "perpetual war for perpetual peace," it's called "promote war to perpetuate profits" at CNN. Let's not forget how Wolf Blitzer and Peter Arnett made their names in Kuwait in 1991. She's just following the playbook for moving up at CNN.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Joseph Goebbels
CNN has no reporters IMO that know anything. Anyone with any knowledge has been long gone from CNN. They tend to get rid of anyone who might know what's going on. Didn't one date Rush? That should be a clue. CNN has no clout anymore. I stopped watching some time ago. Only tune in to see what Jack is up to now and then.
What a goof. What kind of questions are these? How dare does Iraq have dialogue with Iran? Who is this woman? Even Petraeus was taken aback and but her in her place. Twice.
McCain and Phillips get their talking points from the White House. It seems the media in this country has sold its principles looooong ago.
Bill Moyers had Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro on the show last night. They produced a documentary called Body of War which will be showing in theaters in April. In the film they show how Congress and the media were repeating the WH talking points in the run up to the Iraq invasion.
It seems that little has changed. I don't know what it is, are people incapable of thinking for themselves or are they just too trusting in the commander in chief?
What gives?!
Another 'Bush/Cheney favorite' lie! It is a known fact that foreign fighters in Iraq
are coming up from Saudi Arabia...even the troops know this. Jesus, don't these
dumb fucks ever tire themselves by lying so much? How do they keep up and keep
track of so much bullshit?
The Dude @ 15:
No offense, but I don't think the majority of them are even communications majors.
i saw this on cnn and wondered who had thier hand up kyras ass working her mouth,
A corporate news reporter in Army fatigues looks like fascism to me. They weren't even out on the battlefield.
This is the classic "let's tell two lies so one will stick". This is no proof of Iran training any terrorists, Al-queda or insurgents. If we had proof we would have brought it to the UN for more sanctions. Just like the BS proof we had of WMD's in Iraq, Bush is trying to start another war with Iran.
BUSH HAS NO PROOF AND IS LYING!
Barbara in BC @ 20:
Fer chrissakes, Canada, would you please invade us? I'll salute you at the border with a mug of Labatts if you'll just come down and get rid of the numbnuts in the White House. I'm beggin' ya!
Kyra Phillips is not smart enough to lie her way into a medal of freedom (or whatever type of award she might tend to covet). If she was that smart, she'd realize that Sunnis and Shias are different animals, just as Persians and Arabs are different animals.
What we have here is a pack of handi-tards running the cable and network news outlets. That goes for CNN, Fox, MSNBC (as witness Tweety, for example), CBS, ABC, NBC, etc. BBC still offers some Real News, but you have to send out a search party to locate it on your dial.
This is just wrong on so many levels...
L.A. Confidential @ 16:
I thought so. Watched it and wife looked at me and said "is she like 3 years old?"
Anybody else notice how THIS IS THE LONGEST QUESTION IN HISTORY OF TELEVISION INTERVIEWS.
Kyra, the Playboy bunny propagandist:
"IRAN is a tremendous problem in this country, (...) Iranian president came here (...) this is not someone you would want to shake hands with and look in the eye; the bush administration has referred to IRAN as the axis of evil, BUT IT STANDS FIRM THAT IRAN IS FUNNELING WEAPONS AND SUPPORTING AL KAIDA AND SUPPORTING THE INSURGENCY;
(short pause)
WOULD YOU SUPPORT THE WAR IN IRAN?"
The longest question asked in TV "journalism" history!
WHAT THE F**K KIND OF JOURNALISM IS THIS? WHY WOULD A US ARMY GENERAL BE INVITED TO A MEETING BETWEEN IRANIAN AND IRAQI POLITICIANS?
Why wouldn't he shake Ahmadinejad's hand and look him in the eye? What, is the Iranian president a medusa, greek mythology creature?
It STANDS FIRM that Iran supplies al Kaida and insurgency in Iraq?
Where does it stand firm - in AIPAC, PNAC and AEI "think tanks", where people masturbate to the thought that American soldiers will die in yet another war for that "small Middle Eastern country" which shall not be named?
Whenever I hear Kyra Phillips name, I'm reminded of what is probably the most shameful moment in the history of journalism, when she asks the doctor of the little Iraqi boy who lost both arms, both parents, and was horribly burned as a result of the initial U.S. bombing runs: "Doctor, does he understand why this war took place? Has he talked about Operation Iraqi Freedom and the meaning. Does he understand it?"
Why does this vile excuse for a human being still have a journalism job?
McCain and his media sycophants use qualifiers such as "it's documented," "it's well known," "it's been established" whenever they make things up. And when people believe their lies, they say "every one had the same intelligence."
Can we expect to hear Kyra give an apology for her ignorance of will it be business as usual?
My theory: Bush and Cheney are supplying al-Qaeda to keep the war alive. You heard it here first.
Nice designer fatigues. I guess Kyra enjoyed those barbecue ribs and hotdogs at the McBush2ElectricBugaloo's.
Dana @ 26:
Just to add to the point you made.....
What many seem to forget is that Iran not only sent its condolences to the U.S. in the days following 9/11, they held public vigils in solidarity with the U.S. and later helped U.S. forces fight the Taliban in Afghanistan.
And while the evidence that Iran is supporting the "insurgency" in Iraq is flimsy at best, it seems that the U.S. is quick to burn its bridges and turn on its allies in a heart beat.
I'm pretty sure the majority of Iranians would be more than happy to improve relations with the U.S. and put the toppling of their democracy in the 50s behind them, unfortunately those who are beating the drums of war against Iran don't necessarily have the U.S.'s best interests at heart.
Is Betrayus using his hands as an indicative of his appreciation for Phillips mammaries?
Kyra's about as sharp as a marble.
The General pointed out that Syria is supporting Alqaeda, not Iran, but hey why bother with the facts as a journalist? Is much better to keep repeating Bushie talking points cause attacking Iran is sure to boost all the 'nooze' ratings through the roof.
CNN, Fox and the rest of em are just cheerleaders for the Bushie wars. The more war the better. Who cares what the facts are? Who cares about the thousands of people we slaughtered carpet bombing baghdad? Who cares that they hate us for killing their mothers, children and friends? Who cares that there were no weapons of mass destruction? Who cares that the 'mushroom clouds' were meant to scare us into supporting the slaughter? Who cares that Iraq has never attacked us? Who cares if the Bushies monitor our phone calls like prisons monitoer inmates? Who cares if our government tortures prisoners the way nazis did? Who cares if the rest of the world is shocked by our behaviour? Who cares that we as a nation claim to be followers of Jesus? Who cares that we drown the streets in blood by bombing people into freedom? Who cares if we occupy a country for a hundred years while we let America and it's bridges collapse? Who really fucking cares anymore?
Not CNN, Not politicians and apparantly not the citizens whom are too busy watching american idol than to pay attention to american massecre.
I'm sure Jesus has given us his blessing of peace to all and turn the other cheeck or maybe not.
Geez. It's like CNN wants a war with Iran to boost their ratings. They've tried this before.
Barbara in BC @ 20:
And they are devilishly good at it because all the focus is on Faux Noise as the propaganda makers. CNN and MSNBC slip under the radar like the corporate War Party snakes they are.
And doesn't Syria have all of Saddam's non-existent WMD too? I love the CNN banner underneath noting the number of US troops killed is now about 4,000. Actually, it's probably much higher than that if you count Blackwater and other privatized troops, whom we're also paying. It helps hide the amounts of money being spent and the number of deaths if you're unaccountable to anyone.
What I'd like to ask Bush is how is it possible that Syria cooperated with the CIA's rendition program and did the dirty work for the CIA in torturing suspects, yet here we are calling Syria the "axis of evil" while working with them behind the scenes?
Leslie @ 46:
Blackwater mercenaries aren't necessarily all American, many are from south America and other parts of the world, as well.
Thank you, thank you, for calling it a lie.
Iran is the new Saddam, and is linked to Al-Queda and is an immanent WMD threat. That is the new big lie meme the war whores are using to infect public perception and opinion. It worked before. Why not again?
As I researched about Kyra Phillips for my blog, I came upon this gem:
Kyra Phillips was criticised for her perceived insensitivity during an April 16, 2003 interview with Dr Imad al-Najada, the doctor of Ali Ismail Abbas, a 12-year-old boy who lost 15 relatives and both arms when a US missile hit his home in Baghdad. Joan Walsh, news editor of Salon.com, wrote:
"CNN hit rock bottom on Wednesday morning, when anchor Kyra Phillips interviewed Ali's doctor in Kuwait, Dr Imad al- Najada explained that, although Ali told reporters he was grateful for his treatment, he also hopes no other 'children in the war will suffer like what he suffered'. Phillips seemed shocked by Ali's apparent inability to understand we were only trying to help him. 'Doctor, does he understand why this war took place? Has he talked about Operation Iraqi Freedom and the meaning. Does he understand it?'"
Just... WOW.
Playboy bunny pro-war cheerleader.
Journalist, indeed!
I wonder what's going to become of BetrayUs once Bush leaves the White House. Will he still have a job pandering? Or will the next president sack him and shame him for the puppet that he is?
americangoy @ 51:
Thanks for posting this. It's disgusting to think people like her have a place on TV.
Operation Iraqi Freedom my ass.
I posted this on an earlier thread, but it was on last night and looking back to when it happened, it is completely shocking to relive it.
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/lies/video.html
THE LIES THAT LED TO WAR
Too many pretty faces doing hard-news reporting... It doesn't matter much if you get the facts wrong about Brittany's latest meltdown or the name of Jlows baby but when you are talking about how the public might perceive this life and death battle you gotta get it right... It's pretty hard to understand how a reporter could make this flub after the uproar that followed McCain's recent mistake on this very same topic... and a CNN report at that... If it had happened on Fox, I'd never have noticed it along with most other thinking Americans...
liberAL @ 23:
I do have to give props to CNN War Correspondent Michael Ware. He's a good one.
CNN should not and does not matter. We are, after all, talking about the channel that aired "Cross-Fire"... Perhaps it would matter even less if we elected politicians that didn't get us into messes like this in the first place (i.e. - a broad majority of Democrats in the Senate).
Where are they getting these idiot clones? Do they understand what they are doing when they perpetuate the lies?
This sleeze-bag journalists is asking all the RIGHT questions for the neocons.....it's just that Patreaus is a little too honest to play their bullshit game in front of a camera.
Damn her....along with the rest of her clones.
Uh oh. Hmm...THIS is odd...sorry for going off topic gang, but look what I discovered
The State Department investigation of improper computer access to passport records of three presidential candidates is focusing on one remaining employee — a contract worker with a company headed by an adviser to the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080322/NATIO...
Whenever there is a pattern, one assumes the worst. there IS now an established pattern that has started pretty much coincided with Cheyney's visit to Israel. McCain's "gaffes" are NOT mistaken, but repeated deliberate attempts to sew into the sheeple's minds that the coming Iran war is justified. W've been through all this before exactly in the same way with Iraq and now it's Iran ready to go. Kyra Phillips, and there will be many more to come. Then the war that Cheyney and Israel want. Then we cluck our tongues after the damage is done and blame Hillary et al for the Kyle-Lieberman justification for war with Iran, outstretched military and it'll be all too late then. This when we have a recession, no money to wage anything, and no one is screaming bloody murder. To me the only hope is China warning the U.S. that if it invades Iran, the credit will stop overnight. Russia has also to be more forceful in warning the U.S. as well. But Bush of course doesn't care if there is a world war. He has said as much.
Another reason I don't need television "news". Is this supposed to be the "news I can trust"??? But the bimbo Kyra Phillips still has a job, and as long as she and her ilk are on television news, there is no reason that I should watch it. I don't need the crap.
Isn't this Kyra person the same one that blamed Nancy Pelosi for Katrina? Nancy got her told off that day and accused her of working for the White House. I haven't watched her since. I believe it is the same person.
Thats' not journalism, it's shameful
The media is in bed with the military.
Journalist wearing fatigues? Warmongering like soldiers fresh out of boot camp. Might as well give them guns too.
Al @ 4:
Hey, don't knock General Custer -- his only problem is that he went looking for a fight and he found one -- his famous last remark:
Holy Crap, 5,000 indians!
Why is Kyra dressed up like Fidel Castro??? In the desert????
Who was it who said recently: "The only thing we ever learn from our mistakes is that we never learn from our mistakes"?
One Foot in the Grave: Iran Attack Nearer, More Likely Than Most Suspect
Written by Chris Floyd
Saturday, 22 March 2008
A very important, very disturbing -- and almost entirely overlooked -- piece appeared on Juan Cole's Informed Comment site this week. It was a guest column by William R. Polk, laying out, in copious and convincing detail, the evidence indicating that the United States will indeed launch a military strike against Iran, most probably before George W. Bush leaves office.
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Polk is no radical firebrand; indeed, he comes toting heavy Establishment lumber: White House service (under John Kennedy), top academic and institutional posts, weighty books on history and international affairs, etc. Yet he paints as stark a picture of the situation as the most implacable dissident.
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One development that has arisen after the article was posted gives added credence to Polk's case. In recent days, both Bush and Dick Cheney have revived the scaremongering threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb that had seemed diffused by the NIE report earlier this year. Of course, that report -- in which America's myriad intelligence agencies declared their consensus view that Iran's nuclear weapons program is moribund -- was itself a more subtle piece of scaremongering. Because the report asserted -- without any credible evidence -- that Iran HAD been building a nuke until 2003. While the headlines focused on the overall conclusion, the Bush Administration made hay with that latter assertion: "See, we told you Iran has been building a nuclear weapon! We were right."
They weren't, of course, but this assertion was a propaganda weapon just waiting to be picked up: and now it has. Bush and Cheney refer to the NIE report as "proof" that Iran has been surreptitiously building nuclear weapons in the recent past -- and therefore could be secretly building them again right now. Cheney was very explicit about this during his recent tour of Iraq and other stops in the Middle East -- a trip that many have noted carries sinister echoes of a similar jaunt he made around the region just before the invasion of Iraq. As AP notes:
Vice President Dick Cheney retained his tough stance against Iran on Wednesday and said the U.S. is uncertain if Tehran has restarted the nuclear weaponization program that a U.S. intelligence report says it halted in 2003...Critics of the Bush administration said the report should dampen any campaign for a U.S. confrontation with Iran.
But Cheney that that while the NIE said Iran had a program to develop a nuclear warhead, it remains unclear if it has resumed that activity.
"What it (the NIE) says is that they have definitely had in the past a program to develop a nuclear warhead; that it would appear that they stopped that weaponization process in 2003. We don't know whether or not they've restarted," he said.
Bush too has been pushing this line, most recently in an interview with a government-funded Farsi-language radio station piping White House propaganda into Iran itself. As Dan Froomkin notes, Bush repeated the lie he has often told, asserting that Iran has "declared they want to have a nuclear weapon to destroy people." Iran has always declared the opposite, of course. Bush also echoed Cheney's provocative "mystficiation" about the current state of the alleged Iranian weapons program. As Bush put it: "They've hidden programs in the past and they may be hiding one now, who knows?"
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You must read Polk's entire piece to get the full weight and impact of the facts he marshals.
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read on:
http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1461/135/
Here´s the link to the guest column by William R. Polk:
http://www.juancole.com/2008/03/iran-danger-and-opportunity-polk-guest.html
I love hoe she echoes the Bush/Cheney re-imagining of why we went there to begin with
" trying to end terrorism in this country"
we introduced terrorism to Iraq.
There was no terrorism there before we invaded.
Nor was our goal to rebuild that country.
mystic @ 66:
I don't know, but I remember it as "The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history.
dumb insidious c**t
Wow! John King pushing McCain talking points and now this. We the people cannot let McCain/Bush, CNN, FOX, and the MSM lie us into another war. Thank god for Bill, Maher, Olbermann, and Rachel Maddow. We have to continue to call the media out. Thank god we will have a convention in August and three debates in the GE, McCain will be called out by Obama.
America's friends:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/787766.html
Is this woman supposed to be a journalist? Her questions sounds like they came straight from Bushs propagandamachinery.
Wow what an idiot, MSM, thats how they enabled them to go to war Saddam+AQ=WMD
I don't know how many people have seen this but here is an interview from morning Joe with Brezezinski. insightful, powerful commentary.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX1JGJAc5hg
I saw this earlier this week and I was disgusted.
She practically fawns over him like he's a rock star and pretty much pushes a war agenda.
CNN is worse than fox because people take CNN seriously. Everybody knows fox is a fucking joke.
But CNN is more about subtle propaganda than anything.
I gotta stop watching this station.
The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it. The problem that the administration and CNN, Fox and all the rest have is that the lies have become so formulaic and so numerous that they can't keep them straight in their own minds. They keep mixing up the villains and the victims. Of course that assumes that they took the time out from applying makeup and adjusting the lights to study the Who's Who of modern Terrorism in the first place. "Hey kids, I'm not a journalist but I play one on TeeVee!"
al-Qaeda-in-Iraq is planning on opening a Starbucks and a McDonald's in Baghdad by the end of the year with funding from Iran.
LINK
If we don’t fight them Here we will have to fight them There!
and vice versa!!!!
Watched "Why we fight" and they had a New Yorker that lost a son on 9/11. He was all for occupying Iraq, even wrote the Pentagon to name one of the bombs that missed and aborted children after his son.
Then he saw w spew Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and got mad and called w a liar.
"Why we fight" shows how easy it is to lie to the gullible masses, waste their lives and money, yet Americans still trust them.
They don't deserve our trust, they deserve justice.
If two foreign wars are not enough Kyra Phillips's bloody appetite, then I suggest she join the US Army, & pick up a friggin' rifle. The primary people who are in support of war in this nation are those who have never been in the military, & would never even consider joining. It's easy for people like Kyra Phillips to be a cheerleader for war, when she doesn't have to worry about her limbs being blown off, having traumatic brain injuries, or having to live the rest of her life being haunted by the horrors of war. It's people like her that spread hatred both in our nation, & beyond it's shores. She is so blood thirsty, that i wouldn't trust any children or small animals that can't fight back in her care.
Man, what are guys so pissed about? Just because she asks some questions doesn't mean she's pushing an agenda - any of you ever hear of "devils advocate"? Look at it this way - she asked some questions, and got Petraeus to contradict Mccain. The emphasis isn't on the questions asked, it's on the answers given. Sure, they do ask a lot of stupid questions, and they don't seem to be able to connect the dots any more than my 2 year old son, but I think more people need to look at stuff like this (from CNN, ABC, etc. not Fox) with an emphasis on the answer the question forced, not how the question agreed with this agenda or that agenda. Here she sounded like a cheerleader, but who comes out the loser because of her question? John Mccain.
A "reporter" dressed in military colors, pushing talk of war with Iran. Many of these people likely have past or current ties to the CIA like CNN's Anderson Cooper.
McDuff @ 52:
nothings going to change!
a few thoughts.
It looks like they're on the set of a bad porn shoot. Seriously girlfriend, what is up with the costume? One wonders if she's wearing booty shorts and camouflage platforms.
Didn't this CNN chick see McCain get taken to the woodshed recently over the Iran/A.Q connection?
Since when does C&L post anything where Petraeus even seems like a reasonable human?
Mon dieu, has Jeff Gannon had an operation?
Softball question from a bubble-headed bleach blonde (h/t to Henley, no offense to blondes). In spite of the plumbing problems it's clear KKKarl Rove will still love *her* long time!
It appears to me that Petraeus and Phillips are a little off on their appraisals. Statistics of the foreign fighters that have entered Iraq would indicate that Saudi Arabia is the country that gives the most support.
Seems to me that anytime this administration or it's sycophants, like McCain want to engage in nation building, they allege the target nation has an association with Al Qaeda. In McCain's case, he is either ignorant or willfully tried to mislead the public, much as the public was misled about Iraq's association with Al Qaeda. Of course, the media that cooperated in the Iraq misleading, soft pedals McCain's latest gaffe. I'm sure that when the time comes to attack Chávez in Venezuela, he'll surely have an association with Al Qeada as well.
Real Time with Bill Maher had an interview with Michael Ware, CNN Baghdad this week about the Iraq situation. While there are some things I didn't agree with, namely, when to throw in the towel, this interview is something I would recommend not missing.
She is definitely one dumb bitch who should be at home ironing some mans shirt !
Syria eh?
Mmm...
Well we know that Iran could cause the US some serious problems if attacked. It's a dog with real bite.
Syria, on the other hand, is a diseased, three-legged cur with a couple of rotten teeth.
'Real men' might go (or at least send real 'real men') to Tehran. But real desperate men might decide that Damascus is much easier pickings.
Of course the 'real men' will never go to where Al-Qaeda really gets most of its support. After all, if they bomb the Saudi king's arse they might blow off Bush's tongue.
CNN has become a disgrace.
where can we go for real journalism these days?
why does cnn feel it has to parrot republican talking points just so they aren't perceived as being bias? by does so they are being perceived as bias anyway
Paul @ 85:
Yes but you cant mention Saudi-Arabia. Thats pointing fingers at too close to home.
Since its Iran who is the "axis of evil" and the next on the hitlist, media needs to focus on Iran with propaganda, lies and if necessary halftruths
mystic @ 66:
Homer Simpson?
Love that "BREAKING NEWS" there at the bottom. Did the next "BREAKING NEWS" say "WATER IS WET" or "ICE IS COLD?"
And wtf is with all this Al Qaeda focus lately? AQ in Iraq is a bunch of pikers with popguns compared to the rest of the non-AQ activity that's going on there.
Kyra Phillips must be working for the I-Lobby. She seemed to be channeling Judy "I was fucking right" Miller. These sure were not the questions of an unbiased well informed reporter. This line of questioning about Iran by Phillips is pitiful... right out of the "cakewalk in Iraq" zealots play book. CNN ...fair and balanced. I don't think so
A few tid bits about Kyra
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyra_Phillips
Kyra Phillips was criticised for her perceived insensitivity during an April 16, 2003 interview with Dr Imad al-Najada, the doctor of Ali Ismail Abbas, a 12-year-old boy who lost 15 relatives and both arms when a US missile hit his home in Baghdad.[5][6] Joan Walsh, news editor of Salon.com, wrote:[7]
"CNN hit rock bottom on Wednesday morning, when anchor Kyra Phillips interviewed Ali's doctor in Kuwait, Dr Imad al- Najada explained that, although Ali told reporters he was grateful for his treatment, he also hopes no other 'children in the war will suffer like what he suffered'. Phillips seemed shocked by Ali's apparent inability to understand we were only trying to help him. 'Doctor, does he understand why this war took place? Has he talked about Operation Iraqi Freedom and the meaning. Does he understand it?'"
On a CNN segment aired on April 21, 2005, one of her guests said that research showed that it was "a proven fact" that "children in same-sex couple homes are 11 times more likely to be abused sexually." This claim has no foundation in fact. In an article explaining how dubious and misleading statistics enter the national discourse with little notice, the Wall Street Journal columnist, Carl Bialik, later determined the figure to have been derived from research published in Psychological Reports by Dr. Paul Cameron. Cameron's research has been criticized by other scientists for statistical flaws as well as for being both a researcher and an advocate for anti-gay agendas. Phillips called it a "bold statement" and gave the other guest with an opposing view an immediate opportunity to respond to the assertion.[8] Kelly McBride, ethics group leader at the Poynter Institute, criticized Phillips for failing to challenge the statement, and said it is the responsibility of the anchor to ask pointed questions when such numbers are stated as fact. "This is one of the faults of live TV," McBride said. "It is the anchor’s job to push back. You have to have the skills to question. The idea is not to say 'yes, this is right,' or 'no, this is wrong,' but to give the audience some kind of context of where the research comes from."[9]
Discussing live images of the 2006 labor protests in France, in which it was later determined that no one was killed, she said that the images of the demonstrations "Sort of brings back memories of Tiananmen Square, when you saw these activists in front of tanks."[10] CNN's Chris Burns told French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy that her comments were "regrettable."[
Kyra "clearly the influence of Iran is huge here".
Gen Petraeus looks like he wants to put a plug in her mouth. This is a good reporter? Oy Vey
As I've said before, CNN needs to get the hell out of Atlanta...we're no longer proud of you and just wish you'd go away. I mean even God tried to tell you something with the tornado last week that caused damage to your building - why don't you take the hint, pack your cameras and move on to NY and Washington?
What an absolute embarrassment. How can a moron like this live with herself as asks idiot questions like: "was it a slap in the face to american's the iranian president came to this country.. when you (Petraeus) are trying to rebuild this country and end terrorism". Is CNN doing this dumbing down to compete with Fox? How can this pathetic reporting continue? I feel were doomed...
what an Idiot
I pretty sure she's a natural blond....
Bando @ 89:
the internet... and Democracy Now
osama called kyra and asked in a husky course voice, kyra what are you wearing under thoes camos, mmmmm kaki thong panties!!!!yes yes oh my god yessssssssss
CNN .The network most trusted to bring you warmongering media whores.
tyree @ 100:
Yeah...they cover the inflation valve.
From what I heard, it didn't really sound like she was "pushing" anything. She just asked him about the White House and John McCrazy's comments about the Iranian "influence" on al-Qaeda. He told her what he knew, and that's all that needed to be said.
The Champ is out.
Speaking of Kyra Phillips, does anyone remember when this airhead went to the can (wearing a live mic) and babbled on (over live TV) about what a pain in the ass her sister-in-law was? I suspect there's video of that somewhere on this site. Some good comedy. How about when a tape of Michael Moore talking to Wolf "Elmo" Blitzkrieg appeared on a segment she was fronting and she made some snide remark about him after the tape ran? I also remember her yammering on about the church she grew up in when she was covering the fires in San Diego. There's more, I'm sure.
Maybe we should all write to CNN and make our feelings known...not that it will do any good, mind you. On second thought...
She's such an airhead.
Spock @ 98:
Cuffs and collars match?
I didn't know James Bond was into bondage.
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein @ 102:
he he
I might be showing my age, but just for old time sakes, I wish that a 122 NVA rocket, left over from the DMZ in Nam, would come screaming down and land directly between her legs, not exploding, but just showing her what could happen to her, for asking stupid questions!
What's with the pony tail coming out of the back of her ball cap? Where was this videoed taped at "Tavern on the Green" in Central Park?
Mike @ 31:
LOL That's really funny. The only alternative it for me to move to Canada
I am no fan of Nancy Pelosi and I live in her district.
Nancy and Harry are the most inept and dishonest ever Democratic leaders ever. They are the enablers of Bush and the GOP and they gratefully accept and process the droppings from the tale of the GOP elephant.
However, Kyra or Kira is a Republican whore. The GOP hope the GOP can begin a war with Iran to capture the 2008 presidential election. A nuclear blast near the US fleet in the strait of Hormuz would completely destroy the fleet. In a simulated war games, Iran won
with conventional weapons and non-electronic communications, however, the Pentagon changed the scenario and the US won.
Nancy after constant badgering and accusations by Kyra of no helping matters by the dems in the Katrina disaster told to work for the GOP.
See the transcript from CNN below.
REP. PELOSI: That is true. And i’m sorry that you think it’s unfair. But i don’t. I think it’s unfair to the people who lost their family members, their live, their livelihoods, their homes, their opportunity. And fema, has done a poor job. It had no chance.
PHILLIPS: What about all the warnings from the army corps of engineers? Years ago. Saying there’s a problem with these levees and with this city.
REP. PELOSI: Kyra —
PHILLIPS: it’s kyra.
REP. PELOSI: If you want to make a case for the white house, go on their payroll.
PHILLIPS: I’m not making a case for the white house, believe me. By all means.
Canadians still live in the BC era?
The Iran Gaffe http://mediamatters.org/items/200803190004
There seem to be a lot of people in broadcasting who need to be replaced today...
The Renoughts get their world view on all things nasty and bad from the newer fake Tom Clancy novels,
ie the ghost written ones with guns 'n' sweat and uber warrior types doing the rambo thing.
Theres no way the author of 'Red October' and 'Red Storm rising' wrote the garbage 'Rainbow Six'
McCNN
There is an easy way to let CNN know what you think of their reporting. Go to:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form.sound.off.html
You can leave an anonymous comment if you want. I just let them know what I think of Kyra's reporting, CNN's dwindling objectivity and credibility. I think if we start commenting more and more we can get these jokers to become real journalists.
In America is a nation of dishonesty.
The financial analyst gave Andrew Fastow of Enron an award as America's the nation's best Chief Financial Official.
Donald Rumsfeld said that American deaths and casualties are "just a number". General Petraeus or Betray-Us has three stars and wants more stars on his shoulder.
The "brave" retired military generals are so frightened of speaking out fearing loss of their military pension. Even general Shinseki is on the board of the company that manufacturers the Stryker armored vehicle, a deathtrap for soldiers in Iraq.
Michael Ware.
He is the only reporter that seems to have a clue about what is really happening regarding the Bush/McCain war.
dale18 @ 110:
There is the Cindy Sheehan alternative, coming soon to an election near you soon.
Who is CNN's Best? @ 117:
he was rather pro 'the surge' thursday or friday during an interview with a studio anchor.
Somebody had been drinking the kool aid (prob to get air time)
CNN does have at least one good reporter, Michael Ware. Here's a clip of an interview Ware did with Bill Maher last night...Ware makes the case that the US simply cannot pull out of Iraq anytime soon without dire consequences...I don't necessarily agree with him, but he makes some good points...the people in Iraq are gonna be fucked whenever we leave
http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=816
biodrummindieseler @ 29:
april may 2003 and those embedded 'reporters' Ollie North looking haggard and old, prob wondering wth he was there for.
and all those others doing the 'starship trooper' interviews, and 'oh what a jolly fun war this is'
one of the most sickening interviews was some 'reporter' talking to a platoon of snipers and gushingly asking them on camera and full faces shown, how many brown people they had killed? (crickets)
That was one question beyond the line of good taste and the soldiers knew it.
The US and Kermit Roosevelt overthrew the head of the Iran government in 1954 and they have sort of disliked the US ever since.
Too bad the Iranians couldn't overthrow this government in the US.
KC @ 120:
yes that was the one.
dale18 @ 122:
They are letting the US Republicans destroy everything, not much else is required by outside forces.
Without 9/11 there would have been four years of Chimpy before the bum would have been thrown out onto the garbage dump of history, with 9/11 we got to suffer eight years and prob a near total collapse of the Us economy.
GWB broke the mold, bad in the short term but maybe good int he long term, he and his cronies destroyed the Republican party for a generation or more.
ConcernedHusseinCanuck @ 3:
Actually, wasn't Kyra the anchor who left her mike switched on, went to the women's restroom, and mentioned to another woman at the sink that her (Kyra's) boyfriend's sister is such a bitch. Went out live over the air.
Maureen Meyer @ 125:
That's HER.
Seriously American cable "news" should stop this beating around the Bush, and just air 300 24/7 until the first bombs hits Iranian soil. With the nudity cut of course..
foolme1ns @ 65:
Obviously, no one told her that O.D. fatigues haven't been around since the f*ckin' Neolithic era that I was in. She musta got a helluva buy on them at Crazy Eddies Surplus store.
Seriously, we had 'em in the 'Nam, and they started phasing them out not long after that for BDU's that were better camouflaged. Not that Kyra, the Playboy bunny pro-war cheerleader could understand the value of wearing desert cammies in the f*cking desert.
The irony is obviously lost somewhere between her left and right earholes.
Ugh-This makes me so Ill.I am so tired of these people who have no ideas what's going on.Last Night Bill Mahr had
CNN's chief Bagdad correspondence.This guy knew what was going on.Top to bottom.
Kyra probably has a gig waiting for her at Fox news when she finally gets the ax at CNN
Peace, JM
Hi. My name is Kyra. Watch as I spew bogus hate propaganda out of my mouth at the speed of light, not letting anyone get a word in edgewise.
Kyra, you are a slap in the face of thinking people.
KC @ 120:
i was glad to see him again... it had been a while...
my first impression was that he seemed loopy...
and then, when talking about the iran connections, i was very disappointed...
it seemed to be another attempt to propagate that piece of propaganda...
maybe i was mistaken... but when it was over, i wished he hadn't said most of what he said...
stupid Kyra needs to be fired.
Mike @ 128:
Could be that CNN are cheap and issuing Vietnam surplus equipment for their staff, safes a penny or two in these economic climes.
cnns mike wares just another cnn douchbag spouting that same irans the big prick in the region, hes kyras pimp!
Journalism is in such a low estate now that we have journalists who are misinformed advocating for war on national TV by asking leading questions. How pathetic is that? She's an embarrassment. However, I cancelled my cable TV along time ago so I don't have to listen to idiots posing as journalists any longer. However, this Kyra Phillips woman is really stupid!
meh, they're all brown aren't they ? al qaida-Iran- Iraq-saddam-ahmedinejad-bin laden who cares.
lol. She wants to be PR spokesperson for the military. She's already got the fashion choice correct.
Kathleen @ 99:
democracy now comes from a point of view as well
i guess the closest to real unbiased news would be the bbc but as for america ?
Amazing. Even the general Traitor Betrayus gets it right for once.
a real follower of the fleet, our kyra: In 2003, she was an embedded journalist during the 2003 invasion of Iraq...
Kyra Phillips beating the war drums for Iran. More blood for the neocons.
Pablo @ 7:
Here's why its so easy for so many Americans to believe..
AL-Quada = Brown
Iranians = Brown
The end.
Why is she wearing a Cuban military uniform???
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Kyra Phillips is a disgrace to journalism. Petraeus was not bowled over by her. But she certainly is aggressive and uninformed.
By the way I like CNN (corrupt news network) (corporate news network) so much that I stopped watching it two years ago. At that time I also stopped ABC, and after Media Matters most recent comment about ABC, I feel I did a good thing.
Kyra was on the other morning hailing the great success of the surge because she could broadcast live in the open in the Green Zone. This was the great success, being able to broadcast live behind heavily fortified walls. I remarked what nonsense it was and what a miserable way to start the day on my blog.
Petraeus has done good and come at this with a new viewpoint. I don't fault him for that. But the surge has failed. It's been over a year, there's no political reconciliation and there never will be as long as US troops are there.
The troops can't leave, it's no longer a surge, it's a permanent increase. The troops are exhausted, military families are on in their last throes. Now Sadr's troops are rattling their swords again. Sadr's millitia re-engaging would push the small peace obtained with the surge over the edge.
It's hard to believe there are still so many people that still cheer lead for this administration. It's time for Kyra to move to Fox and be quickly forgotten.
Jesus! This is not Fox Spews? Kyra sounds like she has a tube stuck up her a$$, coming out her mouth and the ventriliquest is the voice of Dick "International Man of Misery" Cheney. CNN. Boycott! Wah, they won't behave.
From the Wikipedia article, it says Kyra has won some journal
awards which points to the low state of journalism and news
in the US. See below.
Awards
In 1997 Phillips was named Reporter of the Year by the
Associated Press. She has also won four Emmy Awards
and two Edward R. Murrow Awards for investigative reporting.
How can someone so biased and stupid win these awards.?
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