Crossposted from Flopping Aces
I don’t think we could find a better example of the blatant bias of our MSM then today’s story about how al-Qaeda has been routed in Baghdad.
You would think thats an important story right? Worthy of front page news right?
Not according to the New York Times. Page A-19 baby! To top it all off they name it:
Rebel unit? UNIT?“Rebel Unit Now Out of Baghdad, U.S. General Asserts”
This is al-Qaeda you jackasses!
American forces have routed Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the Iraqi militant network, from every neighborhood of Baghdad, a top American general said today, allowing American troops involved in the “surge” to depart as planned.
Maj. Gen. Joseph F. Fil Jr., commander of United States forces in Baghdad, also said that American troops had yet to clear some 13 percent of the city, including Sadr City and several other areas controlled by Shiite militias. But, he said, “there’s just no question” that violence had declined since a spike in June.
“Murder victims are down 80 percent from where they were at the peak,” and attacks involving improvised bombs are down 70 percent, he said.
General Fil attributed the decline to improvements in the Iraqi security forces, a cease-fire ordered by the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, the disruption of financing for insurgents, and, most significant, Iraqis’ rejection of “the rule of the gun.”
Check out today’s front page. Just imagine if the story was reversed. That AQ was routing the US and the Iraqi’s inside Baghdad. Every single inch on that front page would be covered with it, but not now.
This fact should piss everyone off.
Listen to Rush Limbaugh’s take on this story:Obviously, this is not Page One material. That space is reserved for running down a full-employment economy (the Dow is apparently down to “only” thirteen thousand three hundred), a big picture of Rudy with that ol’ Times fave Pat Robertson, the news that Bernie Kerik is about to be indicted, and cheers over a House vote in favor of “Broad Protections for Gay Workers.”
Has someone told Pinch that the ‘08 election is next week?
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As to the actual story it’s obvious that while there are still many hurdles to overcome The Surge is a brilliant success by a General who, if this success continues, will go down in the history books. General Fil, the source for much of the story, says that the next phase must be a surge against a faltering infrastructure. With the decline in fighting and violence they now have even more opportunities to bring those up to snuff.
Not like the MSM would report on it tho.
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