Aaron Brown to Wolfowitz.........."Fuck You"

[bagimin]

wow he was pissed

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. When did he say this? On screen?!?

[salin]

2. Im with you.. Details - details?

a proverbial FY or an actual swearing at the man requiring bleeping on the air? Guessing it was the former rather than the latter.

[caffefwee]

15. He didn't say those words

But the tone of his voice and his face SAID IT!

[NMDemDist2]

3. what?? details please n/t

[aquart]

4. Come on, what did he REALLY say?

And what was it in reference to?

[qanda]

5. What did he say?

I've sworn off tv for a while.

[w13rd0]

6. You need to be giving us...

...a little more detail.

Was Wolfowitz a guest on Aaron Browne's show? Was Aaron just showing clips? What?

[LizW]

7. Brown speaks for millions

Please tell me he said this on the air?

Details?

[MallRat]

8. He didn't say "fuck you," but his opening to NewsNight was blistering.

He said that Wolfowitz considers the real problem in Iraq to be THE PRESS, which is too lazy to find the "real stories" of success in Iraq, and instead, likes to focus on death and chaos.

In his calm, mild-mannered way, Aaron Brown absolutely ripped him a new one. I wish I could remember his exact words.

I think it re-airs at 1am ET.

-MR

[eaprez]

12. Tivo/Tape the repeat!!!

[Scairp]

16. Hmmm

Mr. Brown finally remembering that he is supposed to be a journalist and not a pawn for the cable misinformation network? Will wonders never cease. If only all of these so-called journalists would find their backbones too. Most of them are too busy stuffing dollars into their pockets to remember that they signed up to be journalists and not patsies.

[Stephanie]

18. Thank you! Same way Rummy despises soldiers with CAMERAS

If they could only solve the CAMERAS problem and the problem of the press REPORTING the NEWS they would not have any more problems.

[Swamp Rat]

20. Did you see it?

I missed half the show. Does it come on after he talked about Clinton's book?

[BevHarris]

21. And that damn Internet...

and don't forget those pesky "people"

These are individual opinions and do not represent the position of any organization

[Stephanie]

24. It's a terrible thing to be accused of doing what you're doing

If nobody saw them doing it then they wouldn't be guilty. Right?

[BurtWorm]

40. Figures it would be an insult to the media that would get Brown pissed.

Usually he's just maudlin, but say anything bad about journalists and--WHAM!--he becomes the Avenging Media Whore!

But I'm glad a winger was the recipient of his rage for a change.

[Hanover_Fist]

9. HAHAHAHA

I dont normally watch cnn, but I caught this. Brown basically said wolfy was a jerk and his optimism about the Iraqi adventure was a joke.

[newyawker99]

25. Hi Hanover_Fist!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[MissB]

10. I was busy watching the Daily Show rerun

tell me what happened!!!

[salinen]

11. Yo bo?

are you taking a dump or something?

[Stew225]

13. Gee, and I really thought Aaron said FU. eom

[bagimin]

14. Didn't mean to freak anybody out quoting Aaron

figuratively...but for those who saw it, let there be no doubt..in his way' he told Wolfy to take his opinions of coverage of the war and shove 'em.

[DU9598]

17. More

He also said that Wolfowitz's assertion was as accurate as his claim that the US would be greeted with open arms as liberators. I don't know, but I think he also said as accurate as claims of WMD's.

He was awesome. I thought, upon hearing this, tonight is the night B**h lost his re-election. The media may have turned tonight. Well, all but Faux.

[newyawker99]

26. Hi bocajon!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[maggrwaggr]

19. here's the transcript

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0406/22/asb.00.html


AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening again.
It seems the administration has decided that among the enemies in Iraq are the media. Complaining about what he believes is a lack of balance in the coverage, the number two man at the Pentagon, Paul Wolfowitz said this before Congress:

"Part of our problem is that a lot of the press are afraid to travel very much, so they sit in Baghdad and publish rumors and rumors are plentiful." He then said too much attention is paid to violence because the violence is sensational.

First of all, we don't publish rumors. Second, reporters ours and others, travel a good deal. They went to Fallujah during the nastiness there. They were in Najaf. They're in Basra tonight.

They have also gone to schools and hospitals and a lot of other places to present the most balanced picture they can of what life is like but the fact is that life in Iraq today is dangerous.

Listen to what the Iraqis say. Listen to their fears about leaving their homes in Baghdad, for example. Listen to their new government talk about the possible need to impose martial law.

Iraq isn't black or white. It's neither all good, nor all bad, but to argue, as Mr. Wolfowitz implicitly does that security and violence are not the major story, is about as correct as his argument to Congress that the reconstruction would be self financing and that Iraqis would welcome us with flowers.

[lostnfound]

22. Wow. Thanks. nt

[TrustingDog]

23. Looks like Aaron grew some...

amazing.
During the set up for the home invasion of Iraq, he pissed me off so bad... Made some dumbass comment to mails he was recieving from the anti-war faction that there are some people who actually want this stupid war for their own reasons and not the right ones. So Aaron went on this defensive nonsense saying 'No one wants war, and if you think anyone does, then you're the stupid one'.

I sent off an email to him in a fury telling him how stupid He was with that remark. bah.

[11 Bravo]

34. Sure sounds like a "Fuck You!" to me.

Thanks for the link.

[salin]

36. yow! that last line is definitely a F*U to Wolfie

a reminder of how delusional and off base Wolfie has been all along. All he needed to add was the estimate of casualties that Wolfie gave congress last april or may that deflated the number by 200 or 300.

[Kid_A]

27. Wolfy must have missed this particular nugget...

Now that's the kind of journalism the Pentagon can get behind.

[NewJeffCT]

28. that is hysterical

Looks like a Faux News graphic

[Kid_A]

30. Here's the whole article

COALITION: VAST MAJORITY OF IRAQI'S STILL ALIVE

http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4025

Not Fox, but close.

[gasperc]

31. and 1% of 25million is 250,000

so with 99% of Iraqi's supporting we only have 250,000 to go.

[MattNC]

29. i slightly agree

that more good news out of Iraq should be reported, but any idiot knows that won't sell papers or bring in ratings. there's no 'bias' involved here.

[OKNancy]

32. Anytime says something like : more good news

needs to be reported, I always think of those people who say
"Yeah Hitler was a bad guy, but they sure had good roads."

[nostamj]

33. IF there was ANY 'good news' to report from Iraq

it would be on Faux 24/7. and CNN/MSNBC 23/7 (cutting kobemicheallaci down to an hour recap)

so, there is NONE.

[MattNC]

35. give me a break

For all of the problems currently ongoing with the occupation, to deny there is NO good news is simply wrong.

[Skittles]

37. Mr. Brown can f*** himself too while he's at it

nt

[deportivoI]

38. When Was

this interview? I am looking at transcripts of June 22, 2004 and there is nothing

[TrustingDog]

39. it wasn't an interview...

just opening commentary.