Belmont Club quotes Pat Dollard’s film from Iraq;
Welcome to the only thing sleazier than overbilling lawyers, overprescribing doctors shilling for pharamaceutical companies, greedy coporate executives, and used car salesmen: the American Journalist. Flawed and crooked and self-centered as the rest of us, but riding around on a high horse, pointing out everyone else’s sins, but ignoring their own. This is the last great industry-wide scandal left uncovered in America. Because of course, they’d have to cover it themselves. And none of them have the bravery to take their own inventory, to list their own pathologically self-centered faults. They’d rather just go after yours. mine and those who disagree with them politically.
Dollard’s website – he’s the “Hollywood Agent/Producer turned Gonzo Filmmaker/Journalist in the Sunni Triangle of Iraq.”
All I can say is thank God for the Internet & Bloggers like Kate.
Otherwise we would be lost in a fog of leftist puppet masters.
With no real information & just there ideologicaly tainted ideals of despotism , masked as democracy.
I mostly stopped watching the nes by 94. Even by then it was totaly comprimised.
Zactly…………..
Haditha Media Errors Exposed
Riehlworldview.com ^ | 6/8/06 | Dan Riehl
Posted on 06/09/2006 2:53:43 PM PDT by pissant
To keep this straight-forward, I’m taking this item by item. It proves there are false reports being told by some Iraqis as regards Haditha. Unfortunately, the AP and the MSM appear to be gleefully reporting them without checking their facts.
From the AP today:
At about the same time, a man who stepped out of his nearby house to see what was happening at Ayed Ahmed’s home was shot and wounded, according to al-Hadithi. Aws Fahmi, 43, was left to bleed on the street for about two hours before a female neighbor dragged him to safety, al-Hadithi told the AP. Fahmi’s family was not able to take him to a hospital until two days later, al-Hadithi said.
Someone must have forgotten that Aws Fahmi was quoted ten times in this WaPo piece from May27, as a witness. Not once did he claim to be involved, let alone shot. Are we to believe he forgot? Or that the WaPo wouldn’t tell the story of a man shot and left to die in the street by our Marines?
Aws Fahmi, a Haditha resident who said he watched and listened from his home as Marines went from house to house killing members of three families … After the killings, Fahmi said, more Americans arrived at the scene. They shouted among themselves. The Marines cordoned off the block; then, and for at least the next day, Marines filed into the houses, looked around and came out.
In the WaPo piece Fahmi also claims to have observed events in part from his roof.
Then one of the Marines took charge and began shouting, said Fahmi, who was watching from his roof.
But if you look at this account from the AP on June 3, you’ll see that it is now an Iraqi lawyer looking for cash, Khaled Salam Rsayef who is bringing all the new information out and claiming to have been the observer on the roof. The names are changed but the accounts are the same.
Rsayef said his account of what happened was based on his personal observations from the rooftop of his home and windows.
Now look at these two different accounts below, both from the same eyewitness, the young girl who survived and was filmed by ABC calling for the execution of the Marines. She’s told at least two versions of her story and possibly as many as four.
AP June 3rd – In an off-camera conversation with the cameraman, Iman, the 9-year-old survivor, told of hiding under a bed for hours after the shootings. She said Marines finally found her and initially took her for dead when they pulled her out. … The Marines later flew her and her brother Abdul-Rahman to a nearby hospital for treatment of their minor wounds. They were later moved to a Baghdad hospital.
But look what she had already told Time.
Eman Waleed, 9, lived in a house 150 yards from the site of the blast …
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1646512/posts
Off with the pj’s/pyjamas/pajamas in Vegas. Supporting the Mafia $$$$
Coin washing at Vegas….$$$$$
Not just Bush-haters in bathrobes [Salon article on lib-blogger’s convention]
Salon ^ | June 9, 2006 | By Michael Scherer
Posted on 06/09/2006 2:53:13 PM PDT by johnny7
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — The first thing you notice about a liberal blogger convention is that everyone is wearing pants.
Despite the popular perception of online activists, these are not the angry, unkempt youth of the Internet left, ranting for impeachment from their bedrooms and squinting in the cold glare of “offline” reality. Most of the attendees at YearlyKos, a four-day gathering of about 1,000 bloggers and activists in Las Vegas, appear to be over 40, the sort of crowd you would see gathered at a PTA meeting, not at a World Bank protest. “We are liberal, moderate and conservative Democrats,” announced Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, aka Kos, of DailyKos.com, the chipmunk-faced leader of liberal blogs, who keynoted the convention Thursday night. “Popular movements are rarely so practical.”
Hours earlier, at an afternoon breakout session for West Coast bloggers, Moulitsas’ pragmatic description had been confirmed. More than a hundred gathered to strategize for the 2006 election in a conversation that veered repeatedly to cover the most cynical, non-ideological concerns. There was discussion about the need to recruit “law and order” Democrats to run against illegal immigration in Southern California. “You have to be individual to the district,” said one blogger. There was apparent agreement about the importance of allowing Democrats to embrace gun ownership, so as not to rile the National Rifle Association. By a show of hands, the group voted down a proposal to push for government subsidies of “nationwide broadband” because it might raise suburban soccer mom fears of Internet predators preying on their children. One blogger even suggested rebranding Democrats in the slogan of libertarian conservatives, as “the party of personal liberty.”
At every session, every panel, and every hallway conversation, the underlying motivator had less to do with ideology than victory. These political neophytes and outsiders have passion and a high-tech soapbox to use it. They have come to Vegas to try to prove that they matter. Over the coming days, four possible presidential contenders will come to the decaying Riviera Hotel to woo the online multitudes — Gen. Wesley Clark, former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. (Sen. Russ Feingold is attending a Democratic conference in Wisconsin.) “I think there is the case that somebody missed it by not being here,” said Joe Trippi, the former campaign manager to Howard Dean, referring to the missing White House aspirants like Sens. Hillary Clinton and Evan Bayh. “Will people look back on this and say they skipped Iowa or they just skipped the winter DNC meeting?”
To date, of course, liberal bloggers do not have much to show for themselves in terms of victory, with the exception of Howard Dean’s election as Democratic chairman. Candidates endorsed by the so-called netroots regularly fail to best other Democrats in primaries or Republicans in the general election. (In 2004, Moulitsas handpicked 13 candidates, including several long shots, without a single victory.) But the medium is still in its adolescence…
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1646511/posts
“Progressives” Definitely Not Supporting the Troops
The “diaries” at Daily Kos are where the Nutroots base gets to test new ideas and see if they’ll float in the wider moonbat community, and two new diary posts (prompted by the Zarqawi smash) are jumping right out there and admitting they (get ready for a shock) don’t support the troops at all!
I know. Hard to believe. But here are the posts. (Hat tip: Killgore Trout.)
Daily Kos: Half Of You Will Hate Me For This.
All this carefully calculated discussion of Zarqawi’s death is revealing just what a dialectical stranglehold the Right has over us right now. It’s great that a scumbag like that is dead, lord knows he deserves to rot in hell, but do we have to pour it on extra thick just to satisfy the Right’s bloodlust? Just to prove that We Support the Troops too? I’m sick of hedging every argument through their prism that being liberal means being anti-American. It’s a semantic albatross. The only way to get it from around our necks is to rip the sucker off, not to keep petting it and hope that it will fly away and leave us one day.
As far as wishing the soldiers a safe return, who the hell doesn’t want that? But when it comes to the day-to-day operations of occupation I can’t condone what’s going on over there and I won’t pretend I do.
If you have the stomach for it dip down below for more.
Daily Kos: Support No Troops
“Zarqawi felt my son’s breath on his hand as held the knife against his throat. Zarqawi had to look in his eyes when he did it. George Bush sits there glassy-eyed in his office with pieces of paper and condemns people to death. That to me is a real terrorist.”
—Michael Berg
Those who oppose the war in Iraq but who nonetheless feel compelled to express “support” for “our troops” might reflect that, without those troops, there would be no war.
Simply put, if today’s troops would behave only as George II did during his own military service—that is, go AWOL—there would be no one available to prosecute the war.
Press-ganged troops, like any prisoners, deserve support. But none of these troops have been press-ganged. This is not Vietnam. There is no draft. Anyone now in the American armed forces is there because s/he volunteered.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
They are so pathetic.
Like a dog chasing it’s tail, ’round and round.
Dollard’s internet writings have been hosted at the Hollywood Interrupted Web site. There are five direct-from-the-front postings there, including photos, that I highly recommend. NWS.
The root canal I got on Tuesday cost me $729. Do you find that a bit steep?
I felt justified in taking the waiting room copy of Macleans Magazine home with me.
Ouch! and that*s not my jaw hurting. TG
Actually it’s Hollywood, Interrupted (wtih a comma, for Googlers).
Actually it’s Hollywood, Interrupted (with a comma, for Googlers).
In the Ring – Iraq documentary
The Washington Times | June 9, 2006 | Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough
Posted on 06/10/2006 6:30:23 AM PDT by maica
Conservative filmmaker Patrick Dollard, a former Hollywood agent and manager, is working on a major documentary highlighting the heroism and bravery of U.S. Marines and soldiers in Iraq. The series is expected to counter much of the liberal press’ view of the war and the troops fighting it. Mr. Dollard tells us he spent a total of seven months in some of the hottest zones in Iraq and was nearly killed in an improvised explosive device attack on a Humvee. “I was going because it was obvious how left-leaning and biased the coverage of the war was, and because I wanted to get to know what was going on over there, and what these American kids, who I felt were making the world a much better place, were all about and what they thought about what they were doing,” Mr. Dollard said. He covered military operations in Fallujah, Ramadi and the Triangle of Death south of Baghdad and, unlike most journalists, stayed only about a half-day in the secure Green Zone in the Iraqi capital.
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From Comments:
Mr. Dollard, who once represented cutting-edge Hollywood director Steven Soderbergh, said he was shocked at the anger most U.S. troops feel toward the press for misreporting the Iraq war.
“Not only were the media not reporting the good news from Iraq, but they wouldn’t even lift an intellectual pinky to analyze for America how important to the world’s security a victory in Iraq is,” he said.
“Most journalists I met were anti-Bush, and could barely contain their hope for an American loss in Iraq that would sway the next elections to the Democratic Party. And when I taped several Marines and Iraqis telling me stories about outright lies and false quotes by some very big American media players, I got really, really mad.”
Hollywood has not warmed to Mr. Dollard’s project, and he was the subject of a critical New York Times report. His 600 hours of tape are being developed into a major series of reports for cable television. …
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1646793/posts