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2003-11-28 Home Front

CNN Questions Iraq Trip Pool (Whines, Seethes)

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Posted by .com 2003-11-28 12:58:11 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 According to Fox this AM, they are the Pool reporter on Thursdays, as Ms. Kross is well aware...Traditionally, Ms. Kross, Thanksgiving has been held on thursdays, and although it might have increased your viewership by 0.04% to have rescheduled Thanksgiving to a day when CNN has the pool report duties so you could have accompanied the President to visit the troops, most reasonable people would agree that was a bit difficult at this late date to work out. In other news, scientists have discovered that the sun does not orbit CNN headquarters.... (/sarcasm?)

Posted by Frank G 2003-11-28 1:21:32 PM|| 2003-11-28 1:21:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Why should the White House feel compelled to invite along a "news" service that is little more than a Democratic Party propaganda outlet? I occasionally land on CNN while channel-surfing but every time I do, what I encounter is far more spin than news- spin aimed at gullible idiots.

If the White House snubbed CNN deliberately, I applaud.

Posted by Dave D. 2003-11-28 1:34:30 PM|| 2003-11-28 1:34:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Well... My sources tell me that they got the IR signature suppression equipment installed on AF One in time and didn't need Nick Robertson, Walter Rogers, Christaine Amanpour, and Wolf Blitzer to hang over the engine exhausts anymore.

But it could be cuz Thanksgiving happened on a Thursday, this year. Conspiracy theorists will have a field day with this one, I'm sure.

Posted by .com 2003-11-28 1:39:52 PM|| 2003-11-28 1:39:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 After years of being a willing propoganda tool for Saddam, CNN has no position to criticize anything that goes on in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Also, given this history, maybe CNN could not be trusted to keep the secret.

Question: If this was only about WMD then why did they call it Operation Iraqi Freedom?

Posted by Gasse Katze 2003-11-28 1:45:29 PM|| 2003-11-28 1:45:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 What they're really ticked about is not being able to prepare any negatve spin on the trip in advance. They're catching up ("Yeah Bush visited Iraq but the situation remains grim, all is lost, etc.") but the on-air crew yesterday looked completely clueless -- nothing coming through their earpieces except elevator music.

Posted by Matt 2003-11-28 2:13:58 PM|| 2003-11-28 2:13:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 If CNN had been told, there would have been a hundred French camera crews (and their accompanying Strela teams) camped around the airport.

Hell, I bet al'Jazeera would have had their mobile ~~SAM battery~~ camera van out to cover the event.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-11-28 2:31:18 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-11-28 2:31:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I think that CNN was not invited for the same reason Al-Jizz was not invited -- SECURITY. CNN could not be trusted not to BLAB THEIR PIEHOLE in all directions and alert the terrorists -- and loose lips sink ships.

That and the fact that CNN was not in the rotation for that day -- doh!

Posted by CrazyFool 2003-11-28 2:40:34 PM|| 2003-11-28 2:40:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Seeing as how the french stringers are working hand in hand with the terrorists in iraq, it would seem likely that someone sympathetic to them might very well tip them off. CNN should realize it's no longer a 'news' organization, rather it's a partisan flack network. As such, they should know they aren't trustworthy. It's disingenuous for them to cry 'foul'.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-11-28 3:01:33 PM|| 2003-11-28 3:01:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 WAAAHHHH WWWAAAAAAHH WWWWAAAAAAHHHHH! Poor CNN.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2003-11-28 4:00:57 PM|| 2003-11-28 4:00:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Er, has no one noticed that the even-more-disgusting Reuters was invited along? If I were Bush arranging the pool to suit me, I'd cut Reuters before I would CNN.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2003-11-28 4:02:52 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2003-11-28 4:02:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 CNN ... no longer a 'news' organization, ... partisan flack network. ... aren't trustworthy. It's disingenuous for them to cry 'foul'.

Actually, I think it would be more accurate to say they cry "fowl" - as in ChickeNN. CNN is a piece of dog mess someone needs to clean off the airways.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-11-28 4:10:35 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-11-28 4:10:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 My only regret is that CNN's whining, along with similar stuff from the NYT Wash. bureau chief and others, won't have a longer life or be more prominent than are likely to be the case. I just saw the news crawler on one of the cable networks reporting the Dem candidates' reactions, which were all wisely restrained and positive. So while there may not be any chance of massive (redundant?) self-inflicted wounds there, the major media could still cause some jaws to drop in the real America if they'd keep whining about this ..... it's hard to think of an event and reaction thereto that better define common sense vs. cluelessness.

Posted by IceCold 2003-11-28 4:58:40 PM|| 2003-11-28 4:58:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Nic Robertson was on a while ago telling us all that the Iraqis aren't impressed because (a) It's rude to show up unannounced and (b) it's also rude to leave without allowing your host to show you some hospitality.

Posted by Matt 2003-11-28 5:41:30 PM|| 2003-11-28 5:41:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 "But apparently the White House put together its own group of people to accompany the president on this trip, and weâre real interested to learn their reasons for doing that."

Basically, who cares? They didn't want you, end of story. Now get lost.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-28 10:34:06 PM|| 2003-11-28 10:34:06 PM|| Front Page Top

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