The video of this vile spittle can be found here.
The transcript can be found here. Here are Looney Linda's comments, with my biting and evenhanded commentary:
The other thing, ah, I would just like to mention, the other trend that I think needs to be reversed, ah, that isn't talked about very much, is the targeting of journalists.
Linda, Linda, I need to caution you. You are entering Eason Jordan, Mary Mapes, Newsweek fever swamp territory. And I am sensing a partisan attack coming. I thought this was about reforming the media, not reaffirming inaccuracy.
Journalists have become, and this is a problem of the Republicans, Frank, (halting laugh) journalists have become a target particularly from the right side of the political spectrum, ah, journalists are blamed, ah, for many ills, that they just report on.No, No, No. Linda, you are a target for reporting fabricated ills, or spun ills, or your own skewed views of life, not based on facts but based on your own warped views of reality. See: the National Guard Files, Andrew Sullivan's post election rants of heterophobe despair, Newsweak, et. al. No one disputes that journalists report on social and other ills. However, when the stormy weather is portrayed as being an administration's fault, then we have a problem. When isolated incidents create a nageative and false picture of our troops for the sake of making you feel big and getting Peabody awards, then there is a problem. When news stories kill people, then there is a problem. I can see you just don't get it, Linda. But what am I doing, thinking you would? You are affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
However, if you think her current comments are about as bad as Ted Koppel's hair, wait, it gets worse....
Ah, and I think what we have we have to be careful of in the media reform movement, is that we don't fall into that trap.
What is happening in the media is not the fault of individual journalists. Yes, there are some bad individual journalists in the mainstream media. There are also some very good individual journalists in the mainstream media, and it's probably, on balance just like any other profession.
Uhhh, no Linda, there is not balance as in every other profession. Just ask Terry Moran, he can see the bias.
There is, Hugh, I agree with you, a deep anti-military bias in the media. One that begins from the premise that the military must be lying, and that American projection of power around the world must be wrong. I think that that is a hangover from Vietnam, and I think it's very dangerous.
Now, back to Linda's rant....
But what's wrong is that there is a systematic corporate, ah, corporate, ahm, dissolution of what we know is credible reporting and journalism. And that what's really wrong and that's what we need to focus on, and that's what we have to fight.
Dear God!!! Linda Foley's channelling Tim Robbins!!! (Team America Reference)
Seriously, the black helicopter is waiting, Linda....But just when you thought she couldn't get any more looney, the BS meter goes through the roof:
Journalists, by the way, are just being targeted, ah, verbally or, ah, or, ah, politically. They're also being targeted for real. Um…in places like Iraq. Ahn and, ah, what outrages me as a representative of journalists is that there's not more outrage about the number, and the brutality, and the cavalier nature of the U.S. military toward the killing of journalists in Iraq. I think it's just a scandal.
And it's not just US journalists, either, by the way. They target and kill, ah, journalists from other countries, particularly Arab countries like Al -, like Arab news services like Al-Jazeera, for example. They actually target them and blow up their studios, ah, with impunity … and, ah, this is all part of a culture that it's okay to blame the individual journalists and it just takes the heat off these media, ah, conglomerates who are actually at the heart of the problem.
OK, Linda, didn't you get the memo? Eason had no evidence. The only incidence of targetting the media was when Bubba boy launched a cruise missile that hit a Yugoslav media outlet and killed 16 makeup artists. That was in 1999, not today. So, could you be talking about the false reports of Eason Jordan, or do you have a reliable unnamed source like newsweak? The US is not targetting media people, there are no dedicated satellites to target al-Jazeera or Newsweak. Although, given the aid and comfort they have given to the enemy, maybe they should. That last sentence was just borne of anger. It is just as stupid as saying the Army is targetting journalists. Then, she goes ahead and blaems the "EVIL CORPORATIONS TRILATERAL COMMISSION DARTH HALLIBURTON CORPORATIONS!" Dear God, someone get this woman a straitjacket, we got a live one here....
The rest of this goes on with the rhetoric of more people's voices being heard..(however, these are the same people who WANT to see blogs regulated, who want the Fairness Doctrine Reinstated), yet they are talking about free speech. What they really mean, is free, unfettered, unchecked, unregulated, liberal hatescreed from the MSM. They want to shape the world in their own reality, rather than observe and report. And this is their so-called leader, with baseless allegations going beyond Eason Jordan?
Of course, maybe I am wrong. Maybe she was talking about Bill Clinton and Wes Clark the whole time...though I doubt it.
