"The President is Popular With the Military," NPR Reporter States as a Fact

[JPZenger]

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/

Last night, while listening to NPR, I almost drove off the road. NPR reporter Guy Raz had a story about Bush going to the Pentagon to attack the Dems for not quickly approving all the tens of billions for the Iraq occupation that he wants, without any conditions.

Raz then made this stunning statement:

"The President is popular with the military. As he walked down one of the Pentagon famously long corridors uniformed men and women shouted and applauded; some snapped pictures. Many of them agree with the President's argument that support for the troops requires unconditional Congressional funding for the war."
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So let's see, some people who are not serving in Iraq applauded. Some people who are lined up for future high-paying jobs with bloated defense contractors applauded. Therefore, it is a statement of fact that the military supports Bush and wants Congress to approve endless war with no conditions and no attempt to start to leave.

Has he actually talked to anyone who recently served in Iraq?

[bdamomma]

1. our media all stuffed in the back pockets of this filthy regime.

this media is shameful, shameful for not being upfront with the people, and not telling us the truth.

[Vincardog]

2. He is just reading from the approved script. Nothing to see here move along

[Turbineguy]

3. Yeah and Richard Speck

is still popular with Nurses

[BrklynLiberal]

4. What a crock of crapola!! I have heard similar "statements of facts" on NPR before.

There too many mouthpieces for this admin on the payroll over there. That idiot Juan Williams is pretty high up on that list.

[nashville_brook]

6. Melissa Block -- can't listen to ATC when she's on.

[BOSSHOG]

5. george bush is so popular with this veteran

that I ensured my retirement letter of appreciation from the Commander in Chief was signed by Bill Clinton instead of george bush even though I retired in 2002.

[ccpup]

7. did we ever learn

who the Soldiers overseas voted for in 2004 and 2006? Usually it's trumpeted from the rooftops (when they vote for Bush), but I don't remember hearing anything the last two times.

[lpbk2713]

8. Of course he is.

His face appears on their dart boards everywhere.

[B Calm]

9. I talked to a soldier today. He said that Bush is hated by the military!

[Kolesar]

10. nprcheck.blogspot

The Myth of Disengagement


As the Annapolis meeting draws near NPR has unloaded a barrage of nonsense about the Israeli Palestinian conflict. It goes without saying, that NPR continues the portrayal of the systematic, violent Israeli destruction of Palestinian life, culture, and society as some kind of balanced conflict between two adversaries. I now have an idea of how NPR would have covered the 19th century wars of genocide waged by the US against the American Indians. There would have been talk of peace conferences and "compromise," Indian terrorism, "legal" and "illegal" settlers, militants and moderates, and nothing of the massacres, broken treaties, brazen land thefts and ethnic cleansing.


whoa! hot stuff there!!

[shadowknows69]

11. Yeah, sure he is

He hasn't heard what some of the troops I've met have said about him. I can't repeat it, lets put it that way.

[bullimiami]

12. no shit. hes bloated the pentagon budget up to almost half a trillion a year.

in these days of belt tightening for most the pentagon has gone through unprecedented budgetary expansion.

[L. Coyote]

13. When reporters find out who writes their lines, monkeys will fly out of their ears

and the sky will fall in. :rofl:

[Orsino]

14. Well, it's the only group required by law to show him respect.

Bubble Boy just loves to mistake this for popularity, I'll bet.

[The Stranger]

15. NPR's (Neocon Public Relations) Peter Kenyon had a nice propaganda piece today seeking war with Iran

It was horribly transparent.

[Jacobin]

16. I like how they have David Frum on regularly to

rhapsodize about market forces doing good about once a week.

[SpiralHawk]

17. The just love AWOL republicon chickenhawks. NOT.

The people I know in the services wouldn't follow Commander AWOL to the shithouse if they had a choice...

[stanwyck]

18. Not true. Ask an active duty soldier or Marine

like my son. There's a reason this administration has never released how the military voted in the last election. Sure, more votes for Bush than Kerry in the presidential election. But the military vote for Republicans has been diminishing with every election since Bush took office. He is a very unpopular president - and that includes the military. The mid-terms showed that voters in the areas around military bases were increasingly voting Democratic.
The majority of active duty soldiers and Marines may still support our invasion of Iraq. However, that is not the same as saying they support Bush. My Marine son has 3 tours in Iraq. His view, which he says is shared by at least half, is that Bush is a privileged dilettante who skipped out on his Guard service who has no real understanding of military service or how to lead our country.

[frylock]

19. national propagandist radio

[JPZenger]

20. The President is coming tomorrow. Show enthusiastic support. That is all.

The President is coming tomorrow. Show enthusiastic support. That is all.