thinkprogress.org — Today on CNN Headline News, anchor Chuck Roberts discussed the impact of the foiled British terror plot with Hotline senior editor John Mercurio. Roberts asked Mercurio, "How does this factor into the Lieberman/Lamont contest? And might some argue, as some have, that Lamont is the al Qaeda candidate?"
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sciencedocAug 12, 2006
CNN is a part of Time-Warner and therefore is part of the new right-wing conservative media. CNN has become infotainment and is all about making money and not about unbiased news reporting. The news networks are all owned by large companies and have become tools of the republicans. Note that CNN frequently cite Gallup polls and Gallup has become a propaganda front for the neocons.
Closed AccountAug 12, 2006
luckily we have a distinct choice in america.John Jackson: "It's time someone had the courage to stand up and say: I'm against those things that everybody hates."Jack Johnson: "Now, I respect my opponent. I think he's a good man. But quite frankly, I agree with everything he just said."John Jackson: "I say your three cent titanium tax goes too far."Jack Johnson: "And I say your three cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough."
quashAug 12, 2006
Complain about Chuck Roberts at this link update: he will get a copy of the email!!:<a class="user" href="http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4b.html?76">http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4b.html?76</a>Post in this thread that you've sent a complaint. Let's see how many we can get. It's important he and his bosses take note of this.Flaming him won't be helpful, though. Reason is the best response to weak reporters like him. Q.
d00ley_Aug 12, 2006
H. Clinton, not that I'm a big fan, also admitted when the war was progressing poorly despite her support for it. Lieberman, as well as most of the Bush administration, denied the realities even when they became obvious to most Americans.
jes63Aug 13, 2006
Any candidate that chose to fight the war against Islamic radicals would be opposed by the same type voters that chose to vote for Lamont. Lieberman voted against all the tax cuts, for same sex marriage, against drilling ANWAR, in favor of Kyoto, was the VP candidate six years ago, but he just does not have what it takes to be elected as a Democrat. He won't cut and run. He won't abandon Iraq. He won't abandon Israel. He won't abandon the battle against people who intentionally murder civilians to attain political power. He won't sit quietly as regimes based on this Islamic radical doctrine oppress all of the groups liberals have been struggling to empower for 30 years. What is astonishing is how quickly a majority of Democrats are willing to abandon the fight to protect these various groups. One would think that all that would need to be said is a few sentences to get Democrats and true liberals on board, but they would rather scratch their anti-Bush Jones than stay true to themselves.They keep their women ignorant and treat them like chattel. Nobody has the right to vote for anything. There is no freedom of speech. There is no freedom of religion. All matters of public policy are decided by religious fiat. They kill gay people (by crushing) for no other reason than being gay. They kill people who convert to other religions. They kill to silence debate if they disagree. They murder to cower opposition and intentionally kill civilians randomly to change public policies they do not like. They may make a treaty when they are weak, but abandon it when they are strong. They are permitted any transgression if they can make a case that it furthers the cause of their ascendancy because theirs is the "true religion" and they are "god's chosen." Opposing them is a good thing.When ideologies that are this ruthlessly evil are not opposed, they grow. American-style freedom is an anomaly in history. We think it is normal because we have always known it. It isn't. This battle will take generations. I am from the American South. I know when a racist, for example, is brought up a racist and lived that way for his entire life, he won't change. It is the same with these radical Islamists. They won't change. We can kill them and oppress them, but they won't change. We can, however, help empower the moderates and give them a better more free alternative. They will, as is true in the American South now, vastly outnumber the evil people in their midst. Evil may still exist, but it will be whispered instead of yelled.Iraq was an attempt to shorten the time it will take to reach the goal where moderates with the alternative of freedom, choose it instead of the radical islamist path. It may or may not work. But it will take years to know. After we have spent so much in treasure and lives, it would be insane to abandon the field to the enemy. Lieberman knows that too.
jellygraphAug 13, 2006
how is that related? ??
Closed AccountAug 22, 2006
When you run from a fight you are defined as a coward. When you work to assist the desires of an enemy you are defined as a traitor.When you cannot see what people around you are doing you are defined as psychotic. Democrats want to redeploy our troops far enough away that it would take 7 hours to get a fighter/bomber back there, and over 1 day to get a few troops back into the areas where they are needed. I define those politicians as damnfools.