Aron Brown just pissed me off big time, a rant and a nasty letter!

[maggrwaggr]

Just got home from a long hard day of work, lying in bed, turn on the TV to see if anything blew up while I was completely out of touch today .....

And there's two fucking psychopaths on the screen, Richard Perle and that Frum guy talking about their book. Oh I have to see what they're saying, so I unmute. They're being "interviewed" by Aron Brown and he is basically sucking their assholes and treating them with the kind of respect you'd reserve for grandfatherly saints. I couldn't fucking believe it.

Finally he gets done with that and he starts showing headlines from tomorrow's paper. I'm wondering if any of them will even mention the helicopter being shot down killing 9 of our Americans and finally there's one and he wants to ignore it but can't and kind of mumbles "and here's one about the helicopter crash in Iraq" and he waves the paper which CLEARLY SAYS "Blackhawk helicopter shot down in Iraq".

There I was all ready to go to sleep and I just about hurled. I got up and wrote the following letter to CNN/Aron Brown:

Keep in mind I'm tired and probably not even coherent, but goddamnit these people have to know somebody somewhere is calling them on their shit.

After I wrote the letter I wrote this rant. I originally came to DU to rant, so I wouldn't kill anybody, so forgive me if you think "what the hell, this is just a stupid rant".





Hi, I am shocked and disgusted with your show.

A. You have two warmongering psychopaths on your show, Richard Perle and Frum, who have just written a book advocating playing military CHICKEN with North Korea, advocating invading three more middle eastern countries, and telling us that our enemy in the world is FRANCE! And you lob them softballs and treat them like they're something OTHER than warmongering psychopathic fools. These men deserve absolutely no respect, in fact they deserve nothing but humiliation and derision. You should be ashamed of yourself.

B. At the end of your show you showed headlines in papers and you actually had one with a headline about the Blackhawk Helicopter getting shotdown in Iraq killing 9 Americans. You said (and I can't fucking believe this) "oh, and here's one about the Iraqi helicopter crash" when in FACT the headline you showed said "BLACKHAWK HELICOPTER SHOT DOWN IN IRAQ"

You are a scumbag, sir, you are a media whore and you do not deserve your position as a "journalist" in our nation. Journalists have a big responsibility to uphold, not unlike members of the Supreme Court and the Congress and the Executive Branch. Without a free press, our nation collapses, and you, sir have abdicated your responsibility and should be REMOVED from your position.

I am sick and tired of you and everyone else at CNN trying to out-whore Fox news.

May you rot in hell.

By the way I am a middle class white guy, 42 years old, and I make 100K a year. I am one of those "angry democrats" you hear about and I'm about ready to drive me goddamn SUV to Washington and throw you motherfuckers out on your EARS.

You are a disgrace.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Good shooting!

By the way the local paper had the story as front page news.

[truthseeker1]

2. *Applause*

Nicely said! Thanks for taking the time to write that letter. After watching an hour of CSPAN (the Carnegie Endowment) I made the rounds on the whore networks and found nothing but Scott Peterson, the guy who killed his baby daughter and kidnapped the three girls, the space program, etc. etc. What crap. Finding nothing worthwhile I turned off the TV in disgust and headed for DU. Thanks again for speaking for many of us.

[bpilgrim]

3. APPLAUSE!

:wow: that was one hell'va good rant :toast:

thanks, i needed that.

i cancelled cable a while ago, i just couldn't take it anymore.

:hi:

peace

[necso]

4. Write, rewrite it, toss it.

If you send anything even remotely threatening to any of these people, at the very least you will go on a "watch" list. You may get a knock on the door or your employer may get a visit or call.

These pr_cks and their lapdogs take themselves very seriously and Gitmo (actually more likely a military stockade) is a short ride away.

I like your way with words though.

[bpilgrim]

6. he mght even call you at home

just ask willPit...

they would have to be knocking on a LOT of doors might keep'em too busy to illegally invade any other countries :evilgrin:

peace

[grasswire]

8. are you nuts?

A ride to Gitmo for criticizing Aaron Brown?

We're not that far gone.

[necso]

11. Threats are the issue.

"and you, sir have abdicated your responsibility and should be REMOVED from your position."

"drive me goddamn SUV to Washington and throw you motherfuckers out on your EARS"

The latter is a line that can be taken as a threat to those in power. I have a friend who had the FIB come looking for him for something similar.

The number of citizens who have been treated to military custody to date is small. If and when the time comes to expand their catch, you can be sure that they will turn to their watch lists. Do you really think that they would hesitate to do this if they thought it necessary for their survival and that they could get away with it.

[ClintonTyree]

5. The lines have been drawn..............

the media will give Bush another pass in 2004 and attack Democrats relentlessly. It's as plain as day already. Get used to it, four more years of Bush because the media whores are a wholly owned subsidiary of BushCo.

[Cocoa]

7. something that may help...

check out Terry Gross's interview at the Fresh Air website, I'm not sure if it's up yet.

I'm pretty sure she's one of the very few real interviewers these fucks will face during their book tour.

I wonder, did Brown bring up Perle's conflicts of interest?

[grasswire]

9. I'd like to know that, too

Did Brown mention Perle's holdings?

[LeighAnn]

10. Bombsey Twins doing the circus

This would be their third appearance together, last nite on O'Reilly, then today on, I think, Assman's show, now this.

Puke.

This morning they were talking about the value of pre-emptiveness, and I'll be darned if I didn't hear Richard Perle say, "We took care of Iraq, next we need to look towards Iran" or something to that effect.

You'll be seeing more of these two, they're always on together. I suspect there's ventriloquism involved.

[necso]

13. Actually they are robots.

It is all part of some weird league of robots, death to humans, kind of thing.

But seriously, if we had the resources these idiots would drag us into more wars. They may succeed in this even though we don't.

[maggrwaggr]

22. They both look like aliens from Men in Black, come to think of it

Especially Frum, he's got this weird face that keeps moving around and looks like some alien head is ready to pop right out of it.

Perle looks just like an evil pile of goo.

[bpilgrim]

14. do they ever talk about france?

that was the only thing i was dissapointed with in the npr interview...
http://freshair.npr.org

peace

[burrowowl]

12. Bravo!

Nice RANT!
May you rant somemore!

[durutti]

15. Check out this Democracy Now! segment...

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/2156256&mode=thread&tid=11

[shance]

16. Good letter* Heartfelt and shows the betrayals we witness every day

Its a very honest, moving, and strong letter, which is understandable and valid - because exactly how does one write a polite letter after what you watched, which was yet more of the continuous barrage of misleading stories, lies and suppression of important information that greets us everyday from the television, revealing to us only what the networks want us to see and hear, not what we need to see and hear.

Perhaps a few others have a point - if you want Mr. Brown to read the entire letter, its probably best to edit some of it, but its an important and very worthwhile letter to send because it reveals the difference between what is true integrity (taking the time to get out of bed to write a letter which will pay you absolutely nothing but will give you a knowledge that you did what was right by confronting what was wrong - its an act of integrity, courage, caring and principle)

versus essentially no integrity whatsoever,

which is employing a willingness to promote and/or avoid granting journalistic information to citizens for financial gain, substantial income and uh, employment, however, at the total expense of ones integrity and character. (Brown)

Whats equally impressive to me is that you cared enough to get the bootie out of bed and write it out. Kudos to you!

Bottom line: Aaron Brown sold Americans down the river one more time tonight by minimalizing, almost dismissing the 9 Americans who died, and as we in America watch from the comfy confines of our homes, far from what is happening in Iraq (not sure how many Iraqis, but that seems irrelevant to CNN).

I think that warrants a little anger too.

More than anything, I think those 9 soldiers would greatly appreciate the care and concern you showed in writing this letter tonight.

I appreciate that you shared it here as well. Thanks.

[JasonDeter]

17. I've done that in the past and he's responded by saying

"Tell me how you really feel."
All your doing by writing him or anyone on those shows is letting them know you watch. As long as you watch they don't care how much you hate them.

[LTR]

18. See today's front pages

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/

(NOTE: Requires Flash)

Scan many of today's major front pages. Most of them are nuts about Bush's far-fetched Moon/Mars juggernaut, but not many are pushing the Balckhawk crash in Iraq.

Unless you're in Chicago, Miami, Denver, Fort Worth or Des Moines.

:wtf:

What has happened to news in America?

[calimary]

19. The most significant thing about this is that you got off your butt and

did something. You wrote in. You didn't just sit there simmering, somewhere out there in TV Land.

Maybe what's needed is a WHOLE BUNCH of letters like yours, or in the same vein as yours, so he knows you are not an isolated case or just one crackpot out there.

For those like him who frequently say - they get angry letters from the left saying they slant too far to the right, and from the right saying they slant too far to the left, so that must mean they're doing their job correctly - I'd add this:

Well, then, we need to hear a WHOLE BUNCH MORE complaining from the left about a right-ward slant. We need it to be rather lopsided, don't we, so that even lunkheads like Aaron Brown get the idea that they're pissing off more people than they're pleasing.

I've written complaints to him also, but never got any response at all.

[Killarney]

21. I totally agree

I wish more people did this. Good for you!

[NicoleM]

20. That

was one hell of a rant. :thumbsup:

[maggrwaggr]

23. thanks for the feedback everybody

it felt good to wake up and have all that waiting for me.

I had a nice midwestern upbringing, father a military officer, and we were always taught to keep our emotions in check and be careful about what we say, so I always have this weird guilty feeling when I let somebody have it.

I actually don't enjoy being angry, but with these people, I'd probably bust my aorta if I couldn't let it out.

Thanks DU for letting people like me vent.

And I'm self employed, so I sure as hell don't have to worry about any employer.

And if they think what I wrote was a threat, so be it.

I'm amazed how many people are scared! Sometimes I'll be telling people about DU and they'll say "aren't you scared?" like they think John Ashcroft and the secret police are gonna come knocking on my door for writing on DU.

Well, if they do, I guess that's the risk I took. It's just ridiculous that people are actually afraid of speaking out in this country!

[The Backlash Cometh]

24. Kick

loved it.