Barbara Starr’s got a hot new video from Youtube the Pentagon that shows some five or six insurgents being blown to pieces in Sadr City by an unmanned drone. She’s like, “keep your eyes peeled so you won’t miss the blackness that envelops the picture. (No sound. Just insurgents with weapons moving around and then your screen goes black.) Wow, that’s amazing, says Starr. Just rinse and repeat everything the Pentagon tells you, Barbara. What purpose did that video serve?
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If CNN wants to run the video game type clips of insurgents being blown up, then why not show some actual footage of Basra , Sadr City and other parts of Iraq and the war zone? Why not force the PR staff of the military to give them something real—footage that helps the American people get a better understanding of the kind of suffering the innocent Iraqi people face as well as our troops because of the war in Iraq instead of useless propaganda footage to promote Gen. Petraeus and Crocker’s testimony? The only person excited by that footage was Barbara.
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That video served the purpose of giving me a hard on.
Uh, I mean…it’s terrible to see insurgents who are killing Americans get killed themselves.
An interesting perspective on the “news”.
Can’t show real blood and gore to the ‘Murican people - it would upset them, the way the footage of Vietnam did back in the ’60’s, and then the Democrats will make us lose another war. (Sarcasm)
Starr is a shill. CNN is pathetic. I only watch Cafferty File. Is there a war? They never really mention it. It’s always the election.
Show this crap but not draped coffins of dead service men. I believe some get hard ons! Too bad there’s not a draft for them. Then they would have priapism until they get blown to smitherings.
We knew they were from Iran…why? Because we questioned them? Oh, no. We blew them up. We assume they are from Iran because that’s where we want them to be from so we can bomb, bomb, bomb…
Hey, wait. How did we know they were terrorists setting up a missile launcher? It looked pretty blurry to me. Oh, right. They’re terrorists because that’s what we want them to be. Silly me.
yeah! @ 2:
War sure is fun when you get others to your fighting as you sit on your chickenhawk ass.
wow bush co.’s P.R. department is working overtime and all this just to resell an old “product”. they even had the iragi p.m. coordinate and produce a raid on the bad guys, just in time for the pentagon spring sweeps through congress. it is like a bad movie all over again.
Why do we have so many idiots on the cable news channels? Is it really that hard to find intelligent people and real reporters these days? What’s the difference between this and America’s Wildest Police Chases? There’s a story here just because there’s a video? And boy, what a video it is, huh? Wow. You just don’t see videos of guys walking around like that. What a scoop!
Great line: “what US troops are up against”. Shouldn’t that be the other way around?
That’s what you’re getting on CNN. On MSNBC all I’m seeing is that footage of those girls beating up on of their own. Sick producers we have in this news world. Like Jesse Ventura said… Who chose to air Anna Nicole footage for over a month last year? Who’s interests are served by feeding us this bullcrap. General Electric. Who profits by withholding the real news. When was the last time you heard a name of one of our soldiers killed. When was the last casket you saw coming home from Iraq.
www.StopBigMedia.com
Nobody believes anything from the Pentagon anymore, in fact, their tuning out. Americans are tired of being lied too. Bush brought nothing except destruction to everything in our government. From the Justice Dept. to FDA, by hiring incompetant lackeys to powerful positions, he screwed up everything. He has been a destructive embarassment.
what a joke. Thats not a news report, thats repeating Pentagon propaganda. How about showing pictures of Iraqi civilians killed on daily basis in US airstrikes?
Operation Mockingbird.
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I ONLY COUNTED FIVE PEOPLE
NOT SIX INSURGENTS…
This sort of thing reminds me of Heaven…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiwOVaznIZI
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galmud, Because that is depressing, and Bush and co just want us to spend, spend, and spend.
Media Consolidation.
Apparently you have to be serious to appreciate Iraqi “insurgents” getting blown up. At least, isn’t that what CNN et al tells us: serious people support the war and want to win it, whatever that means.
yeah! @ 2:
I agree that they are (at least trying to) kill Americans. And I agree that’s bad.
But is not another way to accurately put it is “local residents trying to kill occupying soldiers” ?
yeah! @ 2:
Silly wrabbit…
If the Murrkins weren’t there, they wouldn’t be gettin’ killed…
DUH!
Oh, I know, the turrists will follow us home like lost puppies…
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Wolf Blitzer has taken to often remarking about how he,his ‘Situation Room’ and CNN are being watched all over the world. Seems quite impressed with himself with this being so.
Barbara Starr does seem to be a reliable conduit for Pentagon propaganda as she often seems fully tethered to ‘five sided’ viewpoints,takes and spin.
CNN sadly is viewed around the world. For all those who get sucked in by CNN fluff and vacuous content,pov’s and simple mindedness that is a genuine travesty in/of outcome for how America and Americans are portrayed and seen around the planet.
CNN–the home of tedious screen graphic glitz,over rated ‘Blitz’ and far too much ‘fluff’ news format, pathetic propaganda throw and craven ‘junk news’ set up and portrayal.
The Best Political Team On Television? Sure Wolf. You bet.
gee, i guess we’re winning dude! yeah!
did you see that sh*t dude?! we’re f*cking winning dude!
F*** CNN, the Pentagon (and I’d add B. Starr, but she’s tooooo ugly) as to their
propoganda. And while at it, let’s just add ALL of the MSM for they too deserve a
good screwing.
what makes these insurgents less reasonable than the people remote piloting that drone?
I forgot to write that she kept saying six, but I counted five also…And she did it several times during the three hour CNN show…
Leslie @ 19:
I know Leslie,
MSMBS = Myth System Managing the Bull Shit…
If THEY(sic) weren’t on the case of educating the public, propagandists would be found in an unemployment line somewhere.
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Fuck the Pentagon. If the US military was so fucking tough they would’ve put this war in the bag four years ago. I remember at the beginning of this losing effort the Pentagon was crying foul over the internet’s showing of Iraqi snipers knocking down our kids.
Paper tigers. If it wasn’t for our nukes created by exiled German’s we wouldn’t be shit.
Here’s some Pentagon propaganda from yesteryear.
‘World’s Only Remaining Superpower’.
What bullshit!
BTW… Little Sister’s Of The Poor is looking for warm-up games on next year’s schedule.
I wonder if those “tubes” were anything like the aluminum “tubes” condibush said sadam bought, or like sen. ted’s “tubes” that get clogged when one of his staff sends an internets to him, and I wonder if the “insurgents” were anything like the 5 mexican students 4 of whom were blown to bits and one maimed (if he survives) by colombian fighters in a cross border bombing in ecuador.. maybe immediately after this drone bombing they’ll find perfect unscathed laptops that have thousands of files (most of them pork from the microsoft operating system installed on them) with a letter that reads “5 bags rice, 1 loaf bread, sugar, and don’t forget to get some milk if they have it. love, honeymunchkin” which obviously is code for “death to the infidels! - Ahmadinijad”.
One can only wonder anymore.
Every single news network has a “Pentagon Correspondent”.. they do NOTHING but parrot whatever their little sources tell them. There is no reporting going on. It’s a listening post where they can copy down whatever the Pentagon wants to release to the public.
Brian Williams just reported on NBC News that we are now officially in a recession, consumer confidence at a 26 year low.
Barbara, if that’s how you start your weekends you’ll love this Frontline doc.
‘This program contains graphic images’
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/.....iraq/view/
Doesn’t Rummy still have office space in the Pentagon?
News we are missing:
Cheney and other Bush officials “choreographed” torture:
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=4583256
and Hal Turner is not in jail after threatening a school superintendent.
http://www.metrowestdailynews......2084320886
yeah! @ 2:
Did you ever see “Silence of the Lambs“?
Who got what hardon over skinning pretty girls?
How is what you say any different?
Seeing people get killed excites you?
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“These strikes are very precise, these people know what they’re doing”
Of course you dumb cow, half the Iraqi’s working in the Green Zone are giving them the information and maps on what to hit. When you’re an occupying army, is it any wonder that half of the local “collaborators” hare really working against you?
This is the sensationalistic crap that these news networks relish because is brings
almost a video game quality to what is going on over in Iraq! God forbid that they
should show the real war with innocent Iraqi’s being killed.
“The discovery of two Iraqi truck trailers equipped with fermenters is the strongest evidence yet that Saddam Hussein had a biological weapons program, a U.S. intelligence report said Wednesday.”
“Examination of the trailers reveals … an ingeniously simple, self-contained bioprocessing system,” the report says. “Both trailers we have found probably are designed to produce BW agent in unconcentrated liquid slurry.”
Interesting timing: Bush speech, Pentagon video of Iraqis getting blown up. Can’t you smell the success?
Leslie @ 37:
Surge on…
Leslie, yeah, and today is Friday, Dump Day of the week. Now onto Monday for the latest of Bush’s follies.
How would Barbara Star feel if Iraqi’s were able to watch her family being blown away. As they say in Hollywood, that’s entertainment.
Wonder if CNN will broadcast any of the executions of Republicans convicted of treason? Keep your eye on the black hood. There it goes dropping out of sight! Isn’t that amazing?
P.D. @ 39:
And we know what the Bushies are trying to cover up this weekend too: the end run around Congress with Bush’s SOFA [see C&L’s most recent post above this one]. A**holes.
I know that I’m not trained to make video-drone analysis, but I saw nothing to convince me that these people were setting up anything.
It looked more like my friends and I setting up an outdoor prayer circle. We sometimes carry things on our shoulders, too.
What other evidence does CNN have that these people were doing anything wrong?
Is it a capital crime in Iraq to carry anything on your shoulder?
Leslie @ 42:
Whoops, C&L’s post is below this one, with Senator Lindsay Graham.
There is a lot more going on here than meets the eye. Why was the video broadcast? Remember, when news of the wiretap program was leaked, we were told that it hurt our security program because now the terrorists knew our strategy. Well shouldn’t the super-secret high-tech drones have been kept secret? By the same logic, now the all pervasive terrorist will “know” our tricks and adapt. What bullshit.
Remember when some Brit soldiers were caught in Basra dressed up in local garb and trying to incite violence by shooting at the police? And a few days ago some US soldiers were reported by the Iraqis to be running around in local dress also. Now these are only the cases that have been blatantly discovered. Can you imagine what else is going on? Don’t be surprised when we are suddenly told that Sadr’s Army is doing this and that and surprise, surprise Al Sadr himself is mysteriously assassinated by shooters in local garb. The sick psy-ops campaign we are waging is creating a level of mistrust that will haunt us for decades.
she was soooo infatuated with rummy when he was sec of defense; the flirtatious behavior during interviews was embarrassing.
i was watching her report on cnn when cbs revealed the abu ghraib story. she proclaimed that she had reported on that story months prior — the extent of her ‘report’ was — ’several guards have been accused of prisoner abuse in baghdad’. that was it. and it quickly disappeared down the cnn memoryhole, until cbs had the temerity to actually investigate and break it wide open.
she’s a whore and propagandist of the highest order. i have no doubt she’s on the payroll of sinister forces.
Why do I watch the news, by the time the week is out, I’m frazzled. Maybe I should start a hobby, this is to depressing.
I could see five or six human figures walking around on a street. I must have missed that big bullseye on their backs that said ‘hey we are from Iran and we are here to kill Americans’.
That is pure propaganda if I ever seen it. I am sure the Pentagon has all kinds of footage of people getting popped by hellfire missiles. They can say it was anything they want it to be, and not give a rats ass if anyone believes it or not. That’s their story and they will stick to it. If the President can run the country on lie after lie after lie after lie, then you can bet your bottom dollar that the Pentagon will run the military the same way. Actually I’m surprised there hasn’t been a ‘Gulf of Tonkin’ like event yet to give the WarPigs an excuse to begin carpet bombing Iran.
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