NewsBusters.org – Exposing Liberal Media Bias

Bryan Preston at Hot Air, who recently returned from a trip to Iraq with Michelle Malkin, caught the misleading headline (still there) in a story by newly-promoted AP Baghdad news editor Kim Gamel:

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….to this blatant lie by the AP. (You have to see it to believe it.)

Does this need any comment? We already know the AP is ……

During the Civil War, the Union Army’s efforts were also plagued by ignorant reporters blabbing anything and everything they could. Military secrecy was almost impossible.

In fact, Rebel President Davis and Gen. Robert E. Lee had all the major northern newspapers regularly delivered to them, for analysis and intelligence purposes. It was that bad.

Instead of today’s anti-America, anti-Bush New York Times, Lincoln and the military had Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Herald. Greeley wanted to end the Civil War by defacto recognizing the independence of the Rebel states. An appeasing defeatist, in other words. “Wayward Sisters, Depart in Peace” was his famous headline when the Rebel Congress met. His constant attacks and vilification of Lincoln throughout the war were every bit as nasty as the attacks on George Bush.

(Does all this sound vaguely familiar?)

The situation became so bad that when Gen. William T. Sherman was made Commander of the Western Army, he threw out all the reporters from his headquarters. He considered their incessant rabid, ignorant critiquing and blabbing of military secrets as treasonous. Lacking arrest and prosecution powers, he did the next best thing and kicked them all out of the Army Headquarters. My personal guess is that this security measure is what made possible his successful Georgia campaign, the capture of Atlanta and the subsequent March to the Sea, culminating in the capture of Savannah.

(Another fascinating subject for another post: the Civil War Copperhead Democrats, then the Party of Treason. Plus ca change…)

He would have backed out troops not court martial them

me bad. should have read “He would have backed OUR troops not court martial them”

If FDR were president today, he’d kick the AP out of Iraq and shut them down for broadcasting propaganda for the enemy.

Well, maybe not. If FDR were President this would have been over long ago. He would have let the troops fight. He would have backed out troops not court martial them. Do you think General Eisenhower had to call FDR to get permission to take a dump?

This country is unable to win any more wars. If Bush gave the orders to go in there, kick ass, throw out the media and win this thing, could his popularity drop any further? What is he worried about?

I got wrapped up in getting my new toy up and running and put off mentioning some things, then TypePad crashed before I got around to them. Some things I should have linked to last night: Baghdad through very different…

Hot Air has a post with screen captures in which [AP] headlines a story about clashes between Coalition forces and……

I have to say, I no longer trust a single word the AP reports from Iraq. Not. One. Word. I’ve been there.

Now you see why most soldiers HATE the media. I talked to a infantry grunt who escorted a CNN reporter when we were in Iraq in ‘05-’06. She kept asking the locals “How do you feel about the Americans?”… positive response. She wasn’t happy… “Now that you have no electricity How do you feel about the American’s in Iraq?”… again, positive response… she STILL wasn’t happy. She kept asking the same question 10x, different ways until she got a moderatively negative answer and ran with that. Those poor soldiers just sat there shaking their heads.

After my second tour there, I am convinced the MSM is incompetent or biased or both. If it’s not Bill Roggio or Michael Yon…it’s probably bullshit.

Me neither.

It has been apparent to me for a long time that the AP (which feeds most of America’s newspapers and even the networks) deliberately lies.

It ain’t right to stifle Obvious Truths, Bryan

I have to say, I no longer trust a single word the AP reports from Iraq. Not. One. Word. I’ve been there. The AP’s methods and its overt bias call into doubt every single story it has published from Iraq since the war began. Its entire method of operation over there is fatally flawed, and it’s clear that the editors outside the country are just waiting to paint every single event as a disaster for our troops. They’ll even write up lies in their headlines to do it.

I ain’t braggin’ and I ain’t all that smart, but I knew it a long long time ago.

This IS a war and they ARE on the other side, and all of you reading this know what that makes the Asswipe Press

…yes, the e-word

U.S., Iraqi troops kill 30 militants By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer
31 minutes ago

AP is just being flexible; first they were confused, then they focused on insurgents, who later morfed into militants. It’s all nuance of the trade and we just don’t get it, dunces that we are…

Read that post title again. That was the Associated Press (AP) headline on a story this afternoon. I saw it on my Yahoo News feed and did a double take….

Their propaganda works well and it has for years. In Vietnam, we were allied with the people and the government of Vietnam against a communist invasion but the perception the media created is that we were at war against Vietnam. If you sympathize with communists, you simply assert them as the rightful inhabitants and define any military action against them as a military action against the nation as a whole. Works the same for jihadis who AP sees as the rightful inhabitants of Iraq.

Betcha nothing happens,

Well… whatdya know?

If AP is following this on Hotair, perhaps they can respond in detail on Jamil Hussein.

U.S., Iraqi troops kill 30 militants

…not sure if they changed anything other than the headline.

One does wonder if they did change anything else in the story…not that they would let their readers know.

I cannot imagine why anyone who might buy product from them would continue to do so. Their credibility is non-existent.