Would it be still be called "fragging"...
A group of conservative radio hosts is headed to the heavily-secured Green Zone in Baghdad on what they are calling a "Truth Tour," to spread propaganda for the Bush misadministration.
"The reason why we are doing it is we are sick and tired of seeing and hearing headlines by the mainstream media about our defeat in Iraq," clueless talk radio host Melanie Morgan told Fox News, naturally.
Morgan said the group is going to Iraq to support American troops who are suffering from "morale problems" because of a disconnection with what they experience and what`s beingtold to them by the AWOL WarMonkey reported in the United States. That and the fact there are thousands of insurgents shooting at them and trying to kill them every single moment of every goddamn day.
Critics say the trip is a propaganda mission for the US military and the Bush administration.
"This is the most pathetic thing I've heard in a long time. They should be ashamed of themselves," Peter Beinart, editor of The New Republic magazine, said. "They have no idea what journalism is, and to pretend they are journalists is laughable. You do not achieve victory by not facing reality."
"In my opinion, the mainstream media is being biased in not reporting enough of what is going on - they are not reporting the grinding situation on the ground where Iraqis are living in a state they've never lived in before," Dahr Jamail, an American freelance writer who was in Iraq until February, said.
Mark Williams, a member of thebrownshirts delegation, said "We are Americans first and journalists second, as opposed to the crop of 'pinkos' that tell us on the news every night that America is going to hell in a hand basket."
Steve Rendall, senior analyst for Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting and author of The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error, said with an attitude like that, the trip will probably be useless in terms of real news-making.
He pointed out that not a single "mainstream" newspaper has editorialized in favor of a military withdrawal from Iraq and challenged the radio jocks to get any unfiltered information during their "velvet rope" treatment.
"If these talk show hosts are going over there to find good news no matter what, their trip is useless," he said. "It would be laughable if it wasn't as troubling as it is when they call it 'The Truth Tour.'"
Morgan said the group is going to Iraq to support American troops who are suffering from "morale problems" because of a disconnection with what they experience and what`s being
Critics say the trip is a propaganda mission for the US military and the Bush administration.
"This is the most pathetic thing I've heard in a long time. They should be ashamed of themselves," Peter Beinart, editor of The New Republic magazine, said. "They have no idea what journalism is, and to pretend they are journalists is laughable. You do not achieve victory by not facing reality."
"In my opinion, the mainstream media is being biased in not reporting enough of what is going on - they are not reporting the grinding situation on the ground where Iraqis are living in a state they've never lived in before," Dahr Jamail, an American freelance writer who was in Iraq until February, said.
Mark Williams, a member of the
Steve Rendall, senior analyst for Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting and author of The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error, said with an attitude like that, the trip will probably be useless in terms of real news-making.
He pointed out that not a single "mainstream" newspaper has editorialized in favor of a military withdrawal from Iraq and challenged the radio jocks to get any unfiltered information during their "velvet rope" treatment.
"If these talk show hosts are going over there to find good news no matter what, their trip is useless," he said. "It would be laughable if it wasn't as troubling as it is when they call it 'The Truth Tour.'"
Maybe they should call it the Happy Shiny Foo-Foo Fuzzy-Wuzzy Wuv tour.
Fun fact: it would be kinda funny if one of them was actually shot at.
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