US media; why the freeping rightwingnuts are so ignorant.

[LynnTheDem]

The Stupid:

Three of Four Bush Supporters Still Believe in Iraqi WMD, al Qaeda Ties

http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/iraq/2613.html

And WHY are so many so Stupid?

In Iraq Crisis, Networks Are Megaphones for Official Views

Among the major findings in a two-week study (1/30/03=2/12/03) of on-camera network news sources quoted on Iraq:

-Seventy-six percent of all sources were current or former officials, leaving little room for independent and grassroots views. Similarly, 75 percent of U.S. sources (199/267) were current or former officials.

-At a time when 61 percent of U.S. respondents were telling pollsters that more time was needed for diplomacy and inspections (2/6/03), only 6 percent of U.S. sources on the four networks were skeptics regarding the need for war.

-Sources affiliated with anti-war activism were nearly non-existent. On the four networks combined, just three of 393 sources were identified as being affiliated with anti-war activism-- less than 1 percent. Just one of 267 U.S. sources was affiliated with anti-war activism-- less than half a percent.

More than two-thirds (267 out of 393) of the guests featured were from the United States. Of the U.S. guests, a striking 75 percent (199) were either current or former government or military officials. Only one of the official U.S. sources expressed skepticism or opposition to the war.

http://www.fair.org/reports/iraq-sources.html

Study: Misperceptions About Iraq War Contributed to Support For It

A majority of Americans have held at least one of three mistaken impressions about the U.S.-led war in Iraq, according to a new study released Thursday, and those misperceptions contributed to much of the popular support for the war.

The three common mistaken impressions are that:

-U.S. forces found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

-There's clear evidence that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein worked closely with the Sept. 11 terrorists.

-People in foreign countries generally either backed the U.S.-led war or were evenly split between supporting and opposing it.

In fact, no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq. U.S. intelligence has found no clear evidence that Saddam was working closely with al-Qaida or was involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Gallup polls found large majorities opposed to the war in most countries.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1003-08.htm

ONE MORE TIME for the stupid freeping rightwingnuts; Iraq had NOTHING TO DO with 911; Iraq had NO WMD since 1991 (and your bush-god has admitted this publicly, you ignorant morons) Iraq had NO TIES to al Qaeda or any other international terrorist organization; the world DID NOT and DOES NOT support bush's invasion of Iraq.

So PLEASE dear freepingly stupid rightwingnuts; inform yourselves, and THEN do your goose-stepping brownshirting bush-apologist rhetoric, using FACTS as your base of argument. It's DAMNED DIFFICULT to do anything but laugh at you morons when you go on about Iraq's "wmd" and "threat" and "world support".

[LearnedHand]

1. Excellent rant!

I read that FAIR report a couple of months ago. It made me mad, but it also made me feel hopeless. Those who control the information are those who have total control.

Jeeeeezus, where's ol' Ben Franklin when we need him! (Come to think of it, the internet is what's taken the place of Ben's publishings -- what were they called?)

[UL_Approved]

3. You are right

The Internet will bring this mess down. We just have to keep ourselves focused and dig. This is redundant, but I feel that the RW nuts need to hear this.

Information is being posted without revision or false premise.

Video newscasts have been taken of the Neo-con leadership which show massive contradiction.

Economic and political ties exist between "terrorists" and your own RW leadership.

And besides, if you militant fools really gave a shit about freedom, you wouldn't be sitting here in the U.S. trying to remove yourselves from paying for this war. You would either be over there in the sand, or you would be trying to give as much money to the war as possible.

[BlueJazz]

2. Right-Wingers will never accept the truth of what's really...

...going down, either in Iraq or here in America.
To see the world as it truly is would mean that they would have to see Bush and his Gang for what they are....Just another group of liars, crooks and manipulators ....They would then have to blame themselves for putting such trash in public office and (ala Humphrey Bogart):
"Sveetheart..That ain't gonna' happen"