The Newsman More Terrorists Trust
Turns out, contrary to Drudge, CNN’s Michael Ware didn’t heckle McCain. He made his snide remarks later, when McCain wasn’t around. There’s nothing to indicate Ware attempted “to harass and try to disconcert with questions, challenges, or gibes (Merriam-Webster).” So the heckling charge is retracted.  Iraq, like the United States, is (now) a free country. I’d be out of business and so would a lot of other people if we couldn’t mock our pols. Michael Ware has long made it clear where he stands, and I appreciate that.
That leaves us with my reference to the “pro-al-Qaeda press.” I’m sure this jackass, consort of terrorists, does not consider himself to be ostensibly pro-al-Qaeda.  Though based on the kind of remarks I’ve heard him make in interviews over the past four years, he is so virulently anti-American and pro … “resistance fighter” … that the distinction is lost. Â
Here’s a brief report on several months he spent in 2003 with “resistance fighters” who wanted “foreign occupiers off their soil.”
Here he is on the propaganda insurgents used him to disseminate. He doesn’t mind the terrorist snuff flicks, they’re fascinating, but he draws a line at putting out the hostage tapes on people who aren’t dead yet.
Here’s a lengthy blather for PBS which makes me wonder how much useful information Ware would have to offer the U.S. military that might lead to the people who have been murdering U.S. and Iraq soldiers and Iraqi civilians.
Here’s something on hanging out with “the ‘bad guys’ as people from the West and certainly Fox News likes to call them.” That’s “you, me, a cousin, Ahmed,” not to be confused with “the American war machine” … tanks that leap out of ditches to attack him.Â
Enough from the Google search. Ware wants us to understand what this enemy is about.  But sooner or later, when you are talking about murderers of the sort Ware hobnobs with … the kind of people he wishes would just give him the ethically neutral GI snuff propaganda and stop trying to palm off those ethically challenging hostage tapes on him … sooner or later any effort to understand them that attempts to make us sympathize with them and admire them is only revolting.
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Sayanything notes the vid ends as Ware raises his hand. Conclusion: inconclusive!
Jon Swift, with a great roundup, is concerned about the reputation of Matt Drudge and incensed that many, myself included, aren’t doing enough to prop it up. Wasn’t aware Drudge needed that.
Confederate Yankee: Who giggled!?!
Good morning Hewitt readers et al. If you enjoyed reading about this moron, and some of those moron comments below, then come on down! It’s Moron Central! Â
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:42 am Comments (28) on Tuesday, April 3, 2007
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April 3rd, 2007 at 1:36 am
2007.04.03 Iraq/Surrendercrat Roundup
The speech Bush should give Murdoc If Murdoc had his way, once the emergency spending bill was sent on to the White House, President Bush would give a speech explaining why he was going to veto it. And it would
April 3rd, 2007 at 3:38 am
Oh, dear, Ware was right.
Better swiftboat him.
April 3rd, 2007 at 6:42 am
alphie:
Swift boat? I see, so just doing a goofle search of someone’s career is swiftboating him? Ware is and always been an anti military kind of guy, no doubt that is how he got this gig in the first place.
I am not surprised that the press got this little story wrong, but it is interesting to see them on the business end of their own kind of reporting. I wonder how many times Ware has misreported something the same way, only there was never a retraction?
April 3rd, 2007 at 6:49 am
As a matter of fact alphie, now that I think about it there is the whold subject of CNN’s coverage of Iraq over the years including the admission by CNN that they lied for Saddam. Just plain flat out lied. That was back in the day when there was no free press in Iraq, Back when minders followed reporters and told them who to talk to and what to say. In other words, for the Saddam Hussein fan club, those were the good old days when a tyrant could buy several thousand people in a mass grave wtihout some pesky reporter spoinling his fun.
That is why I would never hear Ware’s reporting from Iraq, because I refuse to watch CNN.
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:24 am
Alphie … Ware was not “right” … and he won’t be, until this journalist-to-the-thugs acknowledges BOTH the progress made, and the challenges remaining.
But, that would make him less of a hero to those whose objective is (and has been since November 2000, by ANY means necessary, fact and reason be damned) to tear down this Administration in order to discredit what they think it stands for … in the hopes that they will be able to replace all that with their Utopian vision of Woodstock Nation …
… validate their own worth, and save their own legacy, which is dying before them, one aging Boomer hippie at a time.
April 3rd, 2007 at 9:49 am
Jules,
Did it make sense to you that a reporter at a press conference would heckle a Senator? No, it did not make sense to you. Result: You got it wrong. Lesson: listen to your common sense before you listen to Drudge.
April 3rd, 2007 at 10:14 am
Oh, I get it. A few “snide remarks” stand in as substance for the oh-so-blaring battle cry over “heckling” McCain. A lie is a lie, Crittendon.
Also of note, using Ware’s talent as a news journalist who actually ferrets out both sides of the story against him is a non-starter in the attempt to swiftboat this guy for having the guts to stand up against Bush’s war machine. This kind of overall knowledge and truthtelling is what we need MORE of. Instead, Crittendon and his wingnut ilk prefer to whitewash the news with propaganda and villify those actually doing their jobs by calling them the enemy. What a world we live in. Oy.
April 3rd, 2007 at 10:20 am
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April 3rd, 2007 at 10:52 am
You were wrong, loudly and in public, and instead of simpily moving on you smear Ware in an attempt to prove that while the specifics were based on lies what really matters is the truthiness of your original opinion.
Lame.
April 3rd, 2007 at 10:59 am
Smearing Matt Drudge
Some people are backing away from Drudge’s report that CNN’s Ware heckled McCain, leaving the false impression that Drudge just made it up.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:07 am
Web Reconnaissance for 04/03/2007
A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:11 am
My dear Corndog, you are correct. Never in 25 years of doing this have I yet witnessed anyone in this crappy business being rude, interrupting with snide remarks … heckling. Unheard of! Only the highest standards of behavior observed. Not like lawyers, for example.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:17 am
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April 3rd, 2007 at 11:38 am
Swiftboating = discrediting an enemy of the United States of America by exposing his history as a coward and a traitor.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Now that I think of it, Jules makes a good point. Happens more often than not if the pol is being a windbag, obviously lying or stupid. Hmm, wonder which one McCain is.
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:57 pm
I posted about Ware over on Tim’s site last year. He’s been running down the war since 2002 and Afghanistan (see this link for example: The tide has very much turned in the South. I am now hearing far too commonly a statement that though it is without some basis, it is very heartfelt. More and more you are hearing people say ‘we were better off under the Russians’. As the Afghans say to me, ‘in the first twelve months, the Russians were not bombing our families… however, that’s what the Americans are doing. At the same time, there’s no sign of humanitarian assistance or roads and bridges and schools. So they’re seeing nothing from the international community except American bombs. There is no security.
Not that he’s an enemy propagandist or anything.
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Here’s the link to the thread at Tim’s place.
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:58 pm
*&^%&*^*^ Now?
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Oh hell-http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/comments/the_hugh_mike_show/
April 3rd, 2007 at 2:59 pm
2 things:
when did “swiftboating” become a term for “lying in order to destroy someone.”? The “Swiftboaters” included everyone in Kerry’s line of command, almost everyone at his level of command who was present while Lurch wandered around making up stories that won him lotsa medals (within 3 months, I might add). Maybe, just maybe, people like ‘alphie’ don’t care about reality: they care only about self esteem, and surely the cold light of reason was not good for Kerry’s ’self esteem.’
Also
I love the word “moron.” Keep it up, Jules!
April 3rd, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Rich Casebot,
Those aging baby boomer hippies you’re carping about?
100% right about the Iraq War way back in February of 2003.
Here’s some other good nicknames for them:
prescient
forward thinking
spot-on
April 3rd, 2007 at 3:29 pm
SFBert,
How do you figure that?
Seems to me those aging hippie boomer types are wrong, factually wrong, laughingly wrong, and, well, just plain wrong….
But then, I suspect that the same arguments the left throws out about Saddam and Iraq would be the same ones they would use to keep us out of WWII. Better to let the Jooooos die than to have Germany think ill of us, yes?
Sadly, the leftists are citizens, but they haven’t done a damned thing to deserve it. More and more I am believing that the “Starship Troopers” idea of citizenship is a valid model.
Respects,
April 3rd, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Re drunk remark above … commenters are asked to kindly refrain from disparagements that are (a) irrelevant and (b) potentially libelous, lacking reasonable citation. Anyway, since when is being a drunk a barrier to the highest practice of the journalistic calling?
April 3rd, 2007 at 5:00 pm
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April 3rd, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Jules,
yes, my bad. If I have offended anyone, particularly any journalists by associating them with Hemmingway, I apologise :)
Seriously, though, my remarks were intemperate and although made without malice aforthought, might be read as to cause affront, for which I do apologise. Sincerely, and without any reservations.
I may well make mistakes, but I am certainly willing to acknowledge them, and do my best to not make the same one twice. Or thrice. Depends upon the mistake, I guess.
As to drinking and writing, I must agree with our esteemed host. Some of my own best work was done with my friend Evan Williams. Certainly the ideas were conveyed well and wittily, although spelling did seem to suffer, sometimes substantially. Editing was also usefull, usually not so much for content as for the AMOUNT of content, brevity being considered worthy of emulation. Those being paid by the word, however, often disagree. Voluminously.
Thank goodness for spellcheck. And those who remind me to use it.
Again my apology for stepping over the line. I shall endeavour to stay in bounds, as befits a guest.
Respects,
April 3rd, 2007 at 5:45 pm
No problem Tim, its a brave new world. Regrets noted and potentially libelous comment removed … though it would be interesting as a legal matter to see whether it is possible to libel a member of the press thusly.
April 3rd, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Michael Ware Update
Jules Crittenden has The Newsman More Terrorists Trust. He gets a lot more morons visiting him, which comes with the territory, I guess.
April 4th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Zbig in 2007
“Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, said the Bush administration’s logic was flawed ”
Zbig in 1998
“former National Security Adviser Zbignew Brzezinski answered a question by asking one: “Which is more important in world history? The Taliban or the fall of the Soviet Empire? A few over-excited Islamists or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?”
I’d say someone seriously missed the mark on the dangers of a “few overexcited islamists”