Okay, did anyone see Tim Russert's program this weekend?

[Stevendsmith]

It included a roundtable of NBC shills--Andrea Mitchell, David Gregory, and a couple of other careerist hacks. They sat and pondered aloud that Iraq "might" be out of control, that the elections in Iraq "might" be violent, that the military "might" be over-stretched, that the Pentagon "might" be packed with radical ideologues.

To use a rather hackneyed and annoying phrase...

Ya' think?!!!

It was like a bad dream.

These people call themselves journalists.

For shame.

[autorank]

1. They're the CM (Corporate Media). Regrettably, they have no shame!

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Hard to believe they actually wasted broadcast time on that crap.

[Ilsa]

3. Someone must have given those hacks this URL:

www.DemocraticUnderground.com

Folks on DU have doing their jobs for them. Investigative reporting by MSM is dead.

[coloradodem2005]

4. This site is my source for news.

I am an internet junkie. Thanks to this site.

[proudbluestater]

5. Maybe they saw this and could no longer deny the FLOP that Iraq is?

U.S. in danger of losing the war

Analysis finds troubling trends in Iraq: Rising fatalities, attacks
January 22, 2005

BY TOM LASSETER and JONATHAN S. LANDAY
FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Unless something dramatic changes, the United States is heading toward losing the war in Iraq.

A Knight Ridder Newspapers analysis of U.S. government statistics shows the U.S. military steadily losing ground to the predominately Sunni Muslim insurgency in Iraq.

The analysis suggests that, short of a newfound will by Iraqis to reject the insurgency or a large escalation of U.S. troop strength, the United States won't win the war.

Military thinkers say insurgencies are especially hard to defeat because the insurgents' goal isn't to win in a conventional sense but to survive until the will of the occupying power is sapped. Recent polls suggest an erosion of support among Americans for the war.

The unfavorable trends are clear:
continued!

http://www.freep.com/news/nw/iraq22e_20050122.htm

[Bozita]

6. They collectively acknowledged massive resentment to Bushco policies ...

... much more than they do in their network positions.

There's a lot of fodder for discussion in this CNBC show.

I give it a "thumbs up."

Replay is on now.

[okieinpain]

7. I hear you, here locally all of the news channels have been

reporting that the national guard is unable to meet recruitment goals. funny it didn't get mention before the election.