Wednesday, June 22, 2005
When credit is due
Wow. In an all-too-rare moment of light on MSNBC's Hardball this evening (Wed. June 22), substitute host David Gregory allowed two mothers of Iraq quagmire casualties to talk about their experience.
Without interrupting her or implying she was unpatriotic, Gregory actually let the mother of a dead GI voice her family's belief that the war was wrong from the beginning. She expressed an antiwar view with a clarity not heard from any Dem allowed on cable news.
This is not to excuse David Gregory's general function on cable news as a whore to the powerful.
It just makes you wonder what life might be like if the major media gave such views significant airtime over a sustained period, as opposed to the constant stream of Perles, Frums, FoxNews 'military analysts' and ball-less liberals we have been subjected to since the drive to war began.
To make the point sharper, former UN weapons inspector and US Marine Scott Ritter--the guy who said Iraq had no WMD stockpiles, programs, or even program-related-activity-thingies --appeared on television for the first time in about a year last night, with a slot on Fucker Carlson's new MSNBC show. Fucker, of course, used the time to berate and belittle Ritter, but again we must ask, how come no major media outlet has seen fit to put the guy who was RIGHT about WMDs on air in over a year?
Without interrupting her or implying she was unpatriotic, Gregory actually let the mother of a dead GI voice her family's belief that the war was wrong from the beginning. She expressed an antiwar view with a clarity not heard from any Dem allowed on cable news.
This is not to excuse David Gregory's general function on cable news as a whore to the powerful.
It just makes you wonder what life might be like if the major media gave such views significant airtime over a sustained period, as opposed to the constant stream of Perles, Frums, FoxNews 'military analysts' and ball-less liberals we have been subjected to since the drive to war began.
To make the point sharper, former UN weapons inspector and US Marine Scott Ritter--the guy who said Iraq had no WMD stockpiles, programs, or even program-related-activity-thingies --appeared on television for the first time in about a year last night, with a slot on Fucker Carlson's new MSNBC show. Fucker, of course, used the time to berate and belittle Ritter, but again we must ask, how come no major media outlet has seen fit to put the guy who was RIGHT about WMDs on air in over a year?
