How about that Peter Arnett feller?

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Not to make it sound "fuzzy", but the guy looked like he was saying it to save his life...

Nothing surprises me nowadays...
 

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I hope he wasn't after ratings. I keep hearing about it, at the store, phone calls, news and here but I have yet to see it. Everyone I talked to is unhappy with him, (I am being very nice) some were complete strangers that brought it up to me. I gotta see it, sounds ugly.
 

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I don't like what he said, "maybe" he said it under duress? Another thing to consider, maybe "we" are using him to get further "inside" to gather info for us? Perhaps he's letting them build up their "trust" in him for our advantages...

If he did it for "the story"...he can join the Dixie Chicks!
 

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Raven,
I used your link, thanks I guess. I wish I wouldn't have read it. It reaffirms why I don't watch NBC news or look at MSNBC. NBC praised him, I find that as amazing as his comments. I must be blinded by my support for our President and troops. I can't believe he did that.
 

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Let's see the guy left after being reprimanded for airing a story that didn't get it's facts checked, and now he (a civillian news reporter, without any military knowledge, and without the information sources that the military is getting) is judging the outcome of a military action. Yeah, sounds like the guy is an expert, and it's up to the news to determine whether we win a war or not.
 

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Arnett has been anti-American in his reporting for quite a while- He has already published totally baseless lies about our military for some years----- Including accusing American Special Forces teams of mass murder using sarin gas in Laos back in the days of the Vietnam war.

He was a New Zealand native who became a citizen of the USA 12 years ago. I sincerely hope that his citizenship is revoked, and that NZ refuses to take him back too.
 

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I haven't liked him since GW1. I watch Fox News Channel (called FNC on cable) now, and except for Jerry Rivers*, it's been very good. Ollie North has been outstanding, one would suspect he knows a bit about the Marines /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif


*he now calls himself Geraldo Rivera, but he's an a$$^01e under either name.
 

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I never liked "HERAAALLLDO" and will never forgive him for his being a clinton defender (or for suckering me into watching the opening of Capone's "Vault": /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif ,) but I'm starting to not turn off the TV when he comes on anymore.

Not that I like him or would trust him, but I do like his recent conversion to being a pretty good cheerleader for our troops. His enthusiasm, even though probably faked is kind of a nice change.

Even his performances in Afghanistan were a joke, but the last week or so he has been much less slimy than usual.


Beats the heck out of Peter T*. arnett

(*T for Treason)
 

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Hi Guys,

I hope Peter was saying these things under duress. If he wasn't, would somebody please give Peter a gun so we wouldn't have to shoot an unarmed man!!!!!

Cheers,
Kev
 

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Silviron said:
(or for suckering me into watching the opening of Capone'S "Vault")


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Oh yeah, that was a farce..."classic television"!
 

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And now Geraldo's been kicked out as well.
Yeah!!!!!!!
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[ QUOTE ]


GJW said:

And now Geraldo's been kicked out as well.
Yeah!!!!!!!



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Details?

Raven
 

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Uh... yes... where did you hear this? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 

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I watched CNN earlier and they said that Geraldo was on "Larry King Live" and when Larry asked him to point to a map as to where Geraldo was embedded with the military, Geraldo pointed. This upset the Pentagon because it was giving away troop position...and so the military yanked him out of his embedment.
 

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Hmmm...most strange...
I was out to lunch (really, just to eat) and heard on the radio that Arnett was fired and Rivera was a gonner too. While eating lunch, 20 mins later, I saw Geraldo Rivera giving a report on FoxNews live from Iraq. As of noon EST Geraldo was still reporting. I wonder where this one got started? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon3.gif
 

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From Drudge:

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DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE?: U.S. military to expel FOX NEWS CHANNEL's Geraldo Rivera from Iraq after violating rule, rival CNN claimed Monday morning, for giving away 'crucial details of future military operations during live broadcast'... Rivera drew a map in the sand indicating the position where the unit which he was embedded with was located, where they were going... Members of the 101st Airborne Division will escort Rivera to the border with Kuwait, said CNN, quoting a Pentagon official... Geraldo Rivera said live on FOX this morning that he had not been expelled, and rival media outlets were spreading rumors... Developing...


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