Anyone catch CNN this morning when the anchor cut through the bull

[Coexist]

being dished out by the Military rep? Sorry - I can't recall his name. He was talking about the "progress" being made in Iraq and the anchor cut him off - totally - and asked (incredulously) "how can you say that?" and gave him suicide bomber stats.

I haven't seen someone grill a military rep. like that during wartime since... the first Gulf War. Imagine that. CNN is getting more real by the day.

[Mizmoon]

1. When I saw the number of suicide bomber victims yesterday

my jaw fell.

The media can be silent no longer ...

[halobeam]

6. They shouldn't be silent any longer, but they sure "can" be...

don't let this get your hopes up. We still have to hammer them often, to be "real" journalists. Ask them if they are noticing their ratings going up because the press is "possibly" starting to wake up. That should tell them in a nutshell, what the country REALLY wants.

[wanpete]

2. no, but I sure wish I had. It's still so hard to believe that some in the

MSM are actually starting to wake up and smell the coffee! If someone has a video link, it would be greatly appreciated. It's nice to savor the even smallest slice of truth in journalism

[Coexist]

5. Wish I did - I wasn't even near a computer - getting ready for work

and I just stopped and listened. I was in awe.

[goclark]

3. God bless her - let's thank her,name?

[halobeam]

7. YES! Lets thank her.....

[Coexist]

8. It was a him - I don't know who - it was between 8:00 - 8:30 a.m.

(on edit) and it was on CNN not Headline News.

[mtnester]

4. MSM finally acknowledging the elephant in the living room?

maybe?

[goclark]

9. Yes! We have been crying about

this elephant of a unjust war for too long.

[Coexist]

10. Sorry - I tried - couldn't find his name.

[maddezmom]

12. it was Miles O'Brien...here's the transcript

O'BRIEN: Three Iraqi police officers were killed in two separate insurgent attacks this morning. Close to 100 people died this weekend in terror bombings. The worst was on Saturday when a stolen tanker truck exploded outside a mosque in the center of Musayyib, which is 45 miles south of Baghdad. U.S. forces have gone after terrorist bomb factories and launched several major anti-insurgent operations in the past few months.

Is a new plan needed, though, to slow the attacks? Brigadier General Donald Alston, a U.S. Military spokesman in Iraq, joins us live now from Baghdad.

General Alston, good to have you with us.

I know this weekend was an important anniversary. It was the anniversary of the coo (ph) which brought the Baathists into power back in 1958. Do you think that is in any way related to this uptick in violence?

BRIG. GEN. DONALD ALSTON, DIRECTOR, STRATEGIC COMM.: Well, I think that, you know, the terrorists get to pick the time and the place. That could very well have contributed to their decision to begin a surge right now at this time. But, really, I think it reflects that we've been having making progress. We have had several successful operations and weeks of pressure on the insurgency, around the Baghdad area in particular. But this is another one of those surges that has been kind of the hallmark of this insurgency, that they would husband their resources.

O'BRIEN: General . . .

ALSTON: And, of course, when you're going after . . .

O'BRIEN: I'm sorry. You say progress. Where's the proof of the progress?

ALSTON: Well, the progress from the beginning of May through roughly the beginning of July, the number of car bomb attacks in Baghdad was in the I'd say in the high teens. And then as a consequence of deliberate operations with the Iraq security forces, as well as coalition forces, that was reduced to about eight a week. So there was actually very good progress in Baghdad with regard to reducing the number of (INAUDIBLE).

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0507/18/ltm.04.html

[wanpete]

11. Miles O'Brien maybe? co-anchor of American Morning

[Ilsa]

13. I guess this military person is there when they open new schools,

but has been fortunate enough to miss out on the horrible actions such and soldiers and children being blown up when they are getting candy.

Sorry lieutenant, but them blowing up children "trumps" your newly re-opened school.