Pundit Review Radio Recalls The Events of September 11, 2001
Our great producer Rob compiled sound clips from 911 phone calls, from NORAD air traffiic controllers and from flight attendants on Flight 11. It is tough to listen to but important to remember.
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America’s Media Watchdog The Media Research Center has just released this new report entitled The Media vs The War On Terror
In the five years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans, ABC, CBS and NBC have tilted their coverage of anti-terrorism efforts in favor of critics like the American Civil Liberties Union who claim the U.S. government has been too heavy-handed. In their coverage of the USA Patriot Act, the Guantanamo Bay prison for captured terrorists, or the NSA terrorist surveillance program, most broadcast news stories have portrayed our government’s policies as dangerous, abusive or illegal.
Here is how the study was conducted:
MRC analysts analyzed 496 stories that aired on ABCâ??s World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News between September 11, 2001 and August 31, 2006. They examined all evening news stories about three major elements of the post-9/11 war on terrorism: the treatment of captured terrorists at Guantanamo Bay (277 stories); the National Security Agencyâ??s program to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists calling to or from the U.S. (128 stories); and the USA Patriot Act (91 stories). Major findings:
Annotated major finding included:
Most TV news stories about the Patriot Act (62%) highlighted complaints or fears that the law infringed on the civil liberties of innocent Americans.
ABC, CBS and NBC heavily favored critics of the Patriot Act.
Most of the network coverage of Guantanamo Bay focused on charges that the captured al-Qaeda terrorists were due additional rights or privileges (100 stories) or allegations that detainees were being mistreated or abused (105 stories).
Network reporters largely portrayed the Guantanamo inmates as victims, with about one in seven stories including the word “torture.”
Most network stories (59%) cast the NSAâ??s post 9/11 terrorist surveillance program as either legally dubious or outright illegal.
ABC, CBS, and NBC were five times more likely to showcase experts who criticized the NSAâ??s surveillance program…The CBS Evening News has so far refused to show any pro-NSA experts.
Read entire report here
This type of biased agenda driven journalism in my humble opinion is treacherous, anti-American, and outright treasonous and these organizations should be ashamed of themselves.
Pundit Review Radio
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Sunday, 7-10 pm EST
Every week on Pundit Review Radio we cover some aspect of the war on terror. The reason is simple, we believe it is the most important issue we face. Sunday night we will take a look back at that horrible day, and examine what has transpired since. How did we get from a unified country to one in which 1 out of 3 of your fellow citizens think 9-11 was an inside job? How did the political class go from united to bitterly, hopelessly divided?
7pm: We will be using sound from that terrible morning to take you back, to help you remember how awful it was, how bad you felt. Our great producer Rob has worked all week compiling clips. You don’t want to miss this.
8pm: We are happy to announce that one of the most influencial members of the new media, Scott Johnson of Powerline is returning to Pundit Review Radio to discuss the political events since 9-11, what has gone right, and what has gone wrong. Of course, we will also discuss the emergence and impact of the blogosphere since 9-11.
9pm: We return the focus to the men and women fighting for us around the world. Matt from Blackfive will join us, as he does every week, for another edition of Someone You Should Know. We will also be discussing his great new book, Blog of War: frontline dispatches from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week Kevin and Gregg give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Hailed as â??Groundbreakingâ? by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to your radio every Sunday evening from 7-10pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Bostonâ??s Talk Leader.
I have not seen the ABC 9-11 Docu-drama but have heard that it is neither kind to Clinton nor Bush.
Having said that, I can understand why Clinton is fighting through surrogates such as Sens Shumer and Reid who are threatening to pull ABC’s licensing if they air the 9-11 program. If I were Slick I’d be a concerned myself.
For anybody who is not intimately familiar with Clinton’s total incompetence and derelicition of duty in dealing appropriately with terrorism as president and preventing future attacks such as 9-11 (which he had more than one opportunity to do), this movie is likely to be another reminder of how the Clinton Administration failed to protect and defend our nation. Not something Clinton wants to come out as it will likely tarnish whatever “legacy” he believes he has and not something Democrats want to come out with an election right around the corner which will be largely about who can better defend our nation against Jihadism.
As I recount in my book “Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies,” the 9-11 Commission Report details clearly:
How Clinton treated terrorism during the 90s as a “law enforcement” issue ignoring the vast majority of the terrorist attacks (USS Cole, Khobar Towers, World Trade Center, Embasy Bombings, etc…)
How Clinton failed to capture and/or kill Osama bin Ladin on more than 2 ccasions when he had the chance. Once in May of 1999 in Khandahar when Senior military officials claim the White House told them not to fire (on Osama) despite nobody at the Pentagon or CIA who thought it was a bad gamble. Now we know from Buzz Paterson who worked for Clinton that it was b/c Clinton was on the golf course that day and could not be bothered. Clinton himself admitted at a fund raiser in Long Island that he had the chance to extradite Osama from Sudan and didn’t feel he had proper “legal justification.” (Hmmmm, the fact that he declared war on our country seems to be “justification” enough for me but what do I know)
How Bill Clinton only met with the CIA twice in the White House in 8 years (less than he met with the most frequent guest- other than Monica- to the White House- one of the biggest terrorists in the world Yassar Arafat.
How Bill Clinton’s Justice Dept under Reno and Goerellick constructed the infamous “wall of separation” which impeded the CIA and FBI from sharing important and actionable terrorist related intelligence information which could have enabled us to “connect the dots” and which would have led to the apprehension of Mohammud Atta- titular leader of the 9-11 terrorists.
We now know that when all the Clinton obsequious toadies were saying that the Clinton affair with Lewnsky was just about “sex,” that it had far more serious implications for our country. While he played hide the salami with paid interns his daughter’s age, the terrorist threat grew culminating in 9-11 Attacks.
That is why Clinton doesn’t want the movie to be shown and that is why we can not trust liberal appeasement cut and run Democrats with our national security.
Show the movie and let the people decide. Funny how I don’t remember hearing too many liberals complaining about the totally fictitious “documentray” “Farenheit 9-11” from being aired. Where were they then? Oh that’s right. They were at the opening of the movie kissing Moore’s fat a– and inviting that Communist loving traitor to their private box at their Democrat Convention in 2004. That’s were they were.
Payback’s a bit–.
Another terrific review for Gregg’s book Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies: Issue by Issue Responses to the Most Common Claims of the Left from A to Z
Gene Lalor has an extensive review over at his excellent site, Citizen Journal,
Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies is not a handbook to be consulted halfway through a college debate. Itâ??s more a reference textbook, to be studied and cited in order to refute the peculiar and disturbed fantasies, the canards, the maliciousness of Americaâ??s liberals. If nothing else, liberals are often very well educated, very prepared, and very intent on tearing down what is good in America. To insure that they fail, Conservatives must become better educated, more attuned to their wiles, and better prepared to defend what we hold true when liberals launch their offensives.
I think we should always keep in mind Reaganâ??s â??shining city on the hill,â? that prosperous, powerful, united, safe and secure America that once was and which can be again. My personal hope, (a modest one, I think), is that my grandchildren grow up in a nation that is as great as, or better than, the nation I once knew.
Conservative Comebacks can help with all of the above.
While you are at Citizen Journal, take a look around, it is a group blog with lots of sharp and insightful commentary.
Have you bought the book yet? You should and you can by clicking here.
Press Release–Hollywood-September 9, 2006
ABC Entertainment announced today that it has decided to pull its controversial film The Path to 9-11 in the wake of searing criticism from former Clinton administration officials who have yet to see the film. Former president Bill Clinton applauded the move saying that ABC made the, “right decision” and took “courageous action”, which he went on to compare to his relentless pursuit of Osama Bin Laden.
ABC also announced that a second film will replace The Path to 9-11. The new film, slated for airing next month, will be a two-part, four hour epic recreation of the dozens of phone sex calls between the president Bill Clinton and his intern, Monica Lewinsky.
The former president’s only complaint about the new film is that the part of Monica Lewinsky is being played by John Travolta.
Would the Clinton’s prefer this look at the administration’s legacy, or did that not happen either? This whole episode is an embarrassment.
ABC Gets More Pressure to Toss 9/11 Film
Former national security adviser Samuel R. Berger and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, whose depictions are at the center of the controversy, asked Thomas Kean, the Republican ex-governor of New Jersey who led the commission looking into the attacks, to use his influence with filmmakers to pull it.
You can’t fix it,” Berger said on CNN. “You gotta yank it.”
Sandy Burglar (If the slacks don’t fit, you must admit) knows something about yanking it, after all it was he who yanked highly classified national security documents from the National Archives, by stuffing them down his pants, taking them home and then destroying them, all the while claiming it was an inadvertent mistake. Sandy Berger has tons of credibility on this topic. About as much as Paris Hilton doing a public service announcement for humility and abstinence.
This whole episode is tailor made for the blogosphere. On the left, righteous indignation that their boy Bubba would even have his legacy questioned. Don’t we understand that the 1990’s was an era of peace and prosperity?
On the right, Gateway Pundit offers up a reasonable theory for the white nuckle fear on display by the Clintonites over this movie.
Tom Blumer of BizzyBlog has a couple of very interesting posts on the housing situation.
One post argues that while the froth has left the housing market, we have simply returned to historical price appreciation growth rates.
I think Tom is right, but there are still a lot of people, who either bought at the top, or financed with no money down, interest only mortagages, who are feeling some serious pain right now. Maybe it isn’t a bubble bursting according to the statistics, but it sure feels like it to many, many people. That being said, those people should have known better than to buy too much house or finance it in such a risky manner. Either way, we are definitely seeing a correction in housing, especially in the formerly hot areas, like Boston.
The second post is an interesting email exchange with Dow Jones Marketwatch housing reporter Rex Nutting.
Make Tom’s blog a regular destination for interesting coverage and analysis of economic news, I do.