Category Archives: Iraq

Philly Public TV = GOP TV?

Posted on 07/02/2010 by Peter Hart

Philadelphia Inquirer TV critic Jonathan Storm (7/1/10) noted that tonight, July 2, the city's public TV station WHYY is airing a documentary called The Surge: The Untold Story. As he puts it, what's most interesting about the documentary is who's … Continue reading →

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The Petraeus Surge Narrative Is Back

Posted on 06/24/2010 by Alex Kane

With Gen. David Petraeus back in the media spotlight after being tapped to take control of the Afghanistan war following General Stanley McChrystal's fall from grace, the corporate media are trumpeting the "successful" surge in Iraq (Extra, 9/10/08) that Petraeus … Continue reading →

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WaPo Editor Wants a War Debate–Somewhere Else

Posted on 05/24/2010 by Peter Hart

Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt wrote a piece today (5/24/10) headlined, "In the Absence of Debate, Iraq and Afghanistan Go Unnoticed." Hiatt laments the silence surrounding U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and ponders whether "the absence of … Continue reading →

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Chris Matthews, Iraq Truth-Teller

Posted on 05/07/2010 by Peter Hart

On May 4, 2010: What killed President Bush's credibility? His utter claim that the reason we went to war in Iraq was to search for nuclear weapons. Because he and his people were dishonest enough to make that claim, he … Continue reading →

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Newsweek: Stop Blaming Robert Rubin

Posted on 05/05/2010 by Peter Hart

Newsweek's Jacob Weisberg is tired of people picking on Robert Rubin. Sure, his critics to point to his involvement in the financial deregulation of the 1990s and his disastrous tenure at Citibank, but they're wrong. At least that's what Weisberg … Continue reading →

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Douthat: Green Zone Was Fictional, But Not in the Right Way

Posted on 03/15/2010 by Jim Naureckas

Offering a critique of the Iraq War drama Green Zone, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat (3/15/10) offers a "narrative of the Iraq invasion, properly told," that ends with: And you had Saddam Hussein himself, the dictator in his labyrinth, … Continue reading →

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Karl Rove, Still Lying on TV About Iraq

Posted on 03/15/2010 by Peter Hart

Former Bush adviser Karl Rove is making the rounds to promote his new book Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight. He landed on NBC's Meet the Press yesterday (3/14/10), interviewed by Tom Brokaw. Brokaw asked … Continue reading →

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Tom Friedman's Iraq War

Posted on 02/24/2010 by Peter Hart

In his New York Times column today (2/24/10), Tom Friedman presents a bizarreview of the Iraq War. Attempting to answer the question of whether Iraq is dysfunctional because of its culture (the "conservative" argument)or because of its politics (the "liberal" … Continue reading →

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One Reporter's Iraq War Lessons

Posted on 11/03/2009 by Peter Hart

On November 1, New York Times reporter Alissa Rubin has a look back at her experience as a war correspondent in Iraq. It's mostly interesting, though when she gets to the part where she draws the big lessons, things turn … Continue reading →

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Tea Party News Proves MSM Still 'Wired for the GOP'

Posted on 09/15/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

In citing how Talking Points Memo creator Josh Marshall "has talked many times about the ways in which the Washington establishment is 'wired for the GOP,'" Steve Benen (Political Animal, 9/13/09) notes that "the Washington Post offers a helpful example … Continue reading →

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Corporate Media 'Default Position': 'War Must Go On'

Posted on 08/31/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Media Monitors Network has the latest column from Norman Solomon (8/26/09), in which the longtime analyst of corporate media boosterism for U.S. wars considers a recent swath of stories that "have compared President Johnson's war in Vietnam and President Obama's … Continue reading →

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The Disproportionate Compassions of Corporate Media

Posted on 08/20/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Seeing all the press attention given to pitbull-fighter and NFL star Michael Vick's return to football, David Swanson (AfterDowningStreet.org, 8/19/09) can't help but think that Vick should have tortured humans instead of dogs. Then we would have been told to … Continue reading →

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From Lie to Official History, via 'Simple Repetition'

Posted on 08/16/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Consortium News Robert Parry (8/13/09) is citing media-promoted "'deathers' who claim that President Barack Obama's healthcare plan would promote euthanasia," along with how the U.S. "population was persuaded that Iraq was some lethal threat" and "fear-mongering about Iraq somehow sending … Continue reading →

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U.S. Paramilitary Murder Doesn't Rate on NPR

Posted on 08/10/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

National Public Radio monitor mytwords (NPR Check, 8/9/09) has observed what he dubs a "Blackwater Blackout" on the publicly funded "alternative" to corporate radio: On Tuesday, August 4 Jeremy Scahill broke the story about two sworn statements implicating Blackwater (now … Continue reading →

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Six Years On, Fox Still Can't Find Iraq

Posted on 08/02/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

In a previous post "showing Fox News' tendency to mislabel badly behaving Republicans as Democrats," one of Canadian blogger Joey deVilla's commenters has pointed out "this map of the Middle East shown on a Fox News in segment where Neil … Continue reading →

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