It’s interesting to listen to Ted Koppel, with his synthetic erudite enunciations, rationalize the one-sided, attack America, “news” reports fed day in and day out to the world. In his stuffy manner, Koppel admonishes Hannity, “You’ve been in this business long enough to know that…” Hannity was questioning Koppel about all the negative news coverage of the military, the war and why there aren’t any reports of good things the military is doing. Koppel then uses this illustration to justify his behavior and that of his colleagues; “If a plane takes off from St. Louis and lands safely in Abilene it isn’t reported, but if the plane crashes then it’s big news.”
Now I may be just a redneck from the hinterland, but plane crashes and attacking and disparaging the U.S. military on a non-stop basis while ignoring the despicable and heinous behavior of the terrorists, renamed ‘insurgents’, and their hosts is hardly a legitimate analogy. Aiding and abetting the enemy is not comparable to planes routinely taking off and landing safely. Sorry Teddy boy. And you know, as I think about it, the “plane crashes” that get reported are very selective. It seems only the “plane crashes” that harm America (read Bush) get reported.
If Koppel really believes what he said to Hannity then he is either so brainwashed as to be useless as a “news” presenter and editor or he is totally unwilling to see. It is like someone who cannot see turning down eyeglasses because they are very content with blurred vision. They like to see things very blurred. It also is an indication that Koppel and his fellow “news” readers live in a very closed world, controlled by group think, and are unwilling to leave the compound for fear of reprisal by the other members of the cult.
Ted, people are dying… innocent people… because you folks in the media stir up the enemy, never condemn their heinous, murderous acts, aid them by attacking everything American to try and get Bush, make up stories… lies… about America, while aiding the enemy. In short, you sit there with blood on your hands, now dripping on your desks, from the deaths you have caused by your relentless, contrived, distorted and anti-American “reporting”.
And for that treasonous activity you give yourselves awards. Ted, if you have an ounce of integrity, please put on the glasses and have the guts to come off the compound. People are dying because of your blindness. Real lives are being destroyed while you so smugly attack the only country willing to stand up to tyranny. If it wasn’t for this country Ted, you would be in a gulag somewhere. Stop acting like we are the enemy.