http://www.fair.org/blog/2008/10/07/the-thriving-failure-of-news-punditry/ The national media watch group Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:31:47 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.fair.org/blog/2008/10/07/the-thriving-failure-of-news-punditry/comment-page-1/#comment-10096 FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » You Don't Have to Be Crazy to Argue That the Afghan War Prevents Terror--But It Helps Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:03:03 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=484#comment-10096 [...] Dick Morris was on the O'Reilly Factor the other night (10/28/09) advocating a troop escalation in Afghanistan--and his argument was characteristically peculiar: Listen, terrorist gangs like Al-Qaeda are like HIV virus. They swim in your bloodstream. They don't make you sick. When they latch on to a cell, a nation state, and they use the DNA of that cell, they then become a threat. When they use the accoutrements of nationhood--secure boundaries, a diplomatic corps, an export and import trade, and air force and navy, a tax system, a conscript population--then they can knockdown the World Trade Center. We have got to stop Al-Qaeda from taking over Afghanistan. And that means stopping the Taliban. [...] [...] Dick Morris was on the O'Reilly Factor the other night (10/28/09) advocating a troop escalation in Afghanistan--and his argument was characteristically peculiar: Listen, terrorist gangs like Al-Qaeda are like HIV virus. They swim in your bloodstream. They don't make you sick. When they latch on to a cell, a nation state, and they use the DNA of that cell, they then become a threat. When they use the accoutrements of nationhood--secure boundaries, a diplomatic corps, an export and import trade, and air force and navy, a tax system, a conscript population--then they can knockdown the World Trade Center. We have got to stop Al-Qaeda from taking over Afghanistan. And that means stopping the Taliban. [...]

]]> http://www.fair.org/blog/2008/10/07/the-thriving-failure-of-news-punditry/comment-page-1/#comment-605 Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting » Blog Archive » Fox Pundit: Bought and Paid For Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:28:19 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=484#comment-605 [...] Lauren Auerbach have a new Media Matters exposé (11/24/08) of how, since the beginning of October, Dick Morris has repeatedly used his columns and Fox News appearances to promote and raise money for the [...] [...] Lauren Auerbach have a new Media Matters exposé (11/24/08) of how, since the beginning of October, Dick Morris has repeatedly used his columns and Fox News appearances to promote and raise money for the [...]

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