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« on: March 31, 2003, 06:18:04 AM »
What an idiot.  I liked some of his stuff on National Geographic too.  What a putz.  After the things he said on Iraqi TV about our war not working and that we are having to reinvent our war plan is so ludicrous.  How in the F would Arnett know that we are changing our war plan?  

It looks to me that we are just resupplying and regrouping.  Why should the ground troops go into Baghdad already when the air power is pounding them.

Anyway, he said a ton of other things to that were terribly inapropriate and way off base.  

He was fired from NBC, MSNBC, and NAtional Geographic.  I wonder if he will stay in Baghdad?


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,82656,00.html

http://www.nbc4columbus.com/news/2074832/detail.html
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« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2003, 06:23:31 AM »
Nice apology too...

Arnett, on NBC\'s Today show on Monday, said he was sorry for his statement but added "I said over the weekend what we all know about the war."
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« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2003, 07:33:44 AM »
Telling Iraq that they are doing well and that we are having to rethink our war plan is an awful thing to do.  Even if it were true.
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« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2003, 07:39:12 AM »
He is getting paid by Saddam.
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« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2003, 09:21:54 AM »
I\'d have to say that all things considered, I probably wouldn\'t have fired him.  I just generally don\'t like the policy of firing someone (or taking other punative measures) because you don\'t like their opinion.  That\'s basically what happened.  Of course that\'s the reality in a world of corporate-owned media, and Arnett should have expected it, but that doesn\'t mean I have to agree with it.
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« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2003, 09:33:29 AM »
The guy is an arogant asshole.  He actually thinks that his reports are fueling anti war protests.  What an idiot.

I do like the guy and I normally find him very knowledgable about the middle east, but this was just plain stupid.

You just don\'t say to the enemy, "You guys are doing great.  Keep it up!!  You are obviously doing the right thing because they are having to rework their plan."

I use quotes in jest.
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« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2003, 09:39:16 AM »
No arguing that he has considerable knowledge of Iraq and the Middle East, but in this case I think he has gone native.
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« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2003, 09:57:41 AM »
Why do you say he\'s arrogant?  Here are his words:

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"Maybe some people think I\'m insane, but I\'m not anti-military," he added. "This is the biggest story of my life."

Asked what the future held for him, Arnett said: "There\'s a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to."

"I\'ll leave, I\'m embarrassed," he said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030331/tv_nm/media_iraq_arnett_dc_3


Doesn\'t sound very arrogant to me.
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« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2003, 10:00:49 AM »
That part isn\'t, but see my first post in this thread about him being the voice of America so to speak.
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« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2003, 10:11:01 AM »
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Why do you say he\'s arrogant?  Here are his words:



Doesn\'t sound very arrogant to me.


You picked a couple quotes where he wasn\'t being arrogant.  You should be a journalist.
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« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2003, 10:18:49 AM »
:)  So show me the other quotes.
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« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2003, 10:33:29 AM »
Arnett is the Lord Haw Haw of Iraq
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« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2003, 10:56:36 AM »
I don\'t have time to look right now, but here is one....

"Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States," he said. "It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments."


Does he really think his reports have any effect on us?
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« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2003, 02:25:11 PM »
Maybe he can find himself a job at Iraqi tv or Al-Jazeera???
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« Reply #14 on: March 31, 2003, 03:34:28 PM »
Free ****ing speech. I could care less what he had to say, but why the **** shouldn\'t he say it?
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