Originally Posted By Donny you be the judge <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/04/bin.laden.legal/index.html?hpt=T1" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/...l?hpt=T1</a>
Originally Posted By ecdc Donny, you're better than that kind of baiting. I hope. In answer, he is not. Unless by "war criminal" you mean "bad-a President who took out the most wanted man in America."
Originally Posted By Donny I have to admit I got kind of a chuckle as I wrote the thread and if you watch the video experts agree he is not a war criminal.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper This does bring to into focus the media....and even the media some might call "liberal". CNN has a lead in right that says, "Bush a Now Show at Ground Zero" as if to imply he was expected and then rudely did not arrive. Of course, get into the story and they do explain he had been invited by the President but declined, as he often does, in order to stay out of the spotlight. That certainly isn't unprecedented from a Bush because his father largely avoided the press during both Clinton and W's years in the White House. But, read that headline and you can see what CNN was trying to do there. Fox is more blatant and frequent with crap like this...but CNN doesn't have clean hands either.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 I liked Now Show, Fow Show. Getting back to Bush, I seem to remember him stating he was going to pretty much stay out the spotlight during Obama's presidency.
Originally Posted By ecdc Wahoo is right on. This is such a blatant attempt at fake controversy on CNN's part. This is what our media is. Pretty much no one disagrees with killing Osama, so they're stuck trying to find crap to make controversial.
Originally Posted By Kevin Flynn I remember the good ol days when journalism was journalism. Now it's all about the ratings. It's almost reduced to a game of who (or which network) is willing to go the farthest out on a limb in order to gain ratings.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Well, the trouble is that cable and network news along with the newspapers are fighting for relevancy in the internet age. And, they are swinging away blindly.
Originally Posted By Kevin Flynn Agreed wahoo! What I find discouraging is how well packaged, well spoken, well delivered, and widely spread today's simple BLOGGER is. People quote and link bloggers all the time. You click, go to the site, see a very professional and official looking blog. Suddenly readers are taking what some 43 year old dude, living in his mom's basement, eating Cheetos is posting on the internet as Gospel Truth. It's almost scary how EASY it is to become ill informed these days.
Originally Posted By gadzuux Glenn Beck has decreed that Obama's Ground Zero speech is "obscene". Sarah Palin thanked ... George Bush for taking out Bin Laden. She never even mentioned Obama. >> Yesterday was a testament to the military’s dedication in relentlessly hunting down an enemy through many years of war,” the former Alaska governor said. “And we thank our president. ... we thank President Bush for having made the right calls to set up this victory.” << On Fox - former US judge (yikes!) Andrew Napolitano said ... >> Bin Laden was "killed on the illegal whim of the president." Moments later, he added, "Osama bin Laden is dead. And the president seems to think he has the right to kill whomever he wants so long as the person is perceived as a monster and the public supports it." And yet the judge also questioned whether officials are "telling us the truth or pulling a fast one to save Obama's lousy presidency." << Right-wing radio talker Alex Jones said ... >> After the president's announcement of bin Laden's death, Jones told his listeners in one broadcast, "My friends, this is a complete and total hoax." "Where is the body?" My White House sources nine years ago, on record, confirmed that he had been killed and was frozen on ice." << These people are beyond redemption. The extra irony is that they self-congratulate themselves on what "great americans" they are even as they're reducing themselves ever further.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 (ecdc): <Pretty much no one disagrees with killing Osama, so they're stuck trying to find crap to make controversial.> Bingo. (KF): <People quote and link bloggers all the time. You click, go to the site, see a very professional and official looking blog. Suddenly readers are taking what some 43 year old dude, living in his mom's basement, eating Cheetos is posting on the internet as Gospel Truth. It's almost scary how EASY it is to become ill informed these days.> That's a very good observation as well.
