tianli_ wrote:

"Al Patrick" wrote

I think there may be a hidden message there. The government influences
movies and documentaries that are made.
...

THIS may be the beginning of the government getting around to saying,
"We lied to you to protect you! We didn't think YOU could take it so we
kept it quite. BUT NOW we need to do thus and so because ...."

Leftie Anchorman Peter Jennings and his a CanadAlien broadcast

As a child he was "bone lazy and a bit delinquent," Jennings told a Good
Housekeeping Magazine interviewer, and he found school "boring." He was
expelled from several private schools, then dropped out of school forever
before completing 10th Grade.
...
"My mother.was pretty anti-American," Jennings said on the September 6, 2002
CBS "Late Show with David Letterman. "And so I was, in some respects, raised
with anti-Americanism in my blood, or in my mother's milk at least."
...
Jennings had limited knowledge of American history and culture. He
pronounced words like "schedule" and "lieutenant" in a distinctly Canadian
and aristocratic way - "SHED-u-al," "lef-TEN-ant." He once mispronounced
Appomattox, site of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender that
effectively ended the War Between the States. He confused the U.S. Marine
Corps anthem with the U.S. Navy's, "Anchors Aweigh."
...
He impressed bosses by doing the first-ever interview with terrorist
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat.
...
"In the early 1970s, when he was single [i.e., divorced from his first wife]
and head of the ABC bureau in Beirut, Peter Jennings dated Hanan Ashrawi,
who at the time was also single and a graduate student in literature at the
American University in the Lebanese capital," reported the December 30,
1991/January 6, 1992 U.S. News & World Report. "Jennings was introduced to
Ashrawi's parents and sisters and became part of her circle of friends."

Ashrawi was, in fact, the youngest of five daughters of a politically active
doctor. At American University she was a leader of the General Union of
Palestinian Students while dating Jennings. As an adult the chain-smoking
Ashrawi became part of the public ruling circle of the Palestinian Authority
in Arafat's regime. "Anyone who has known Hanan as long as I have," Jennings
said, "is not surprised to see her emerge as a persuasive spokesperson for
the Palestinians."

On September 11, 2001, Jennings was Anchor of ABC when Islamist terrorists
killed nearly 3,000 Americans in a series of attacks that destroyed New York
's World Trade Center and struck the Pentagon.

"It is certainly a motivating factor," Jennings told viewers during his
coverage of this horror, "that the hatred of the United States, and the
hatred of the United States as a patron of Israel, whether you're from
Afghanistan, or whether you're from Iran, Iraq, or inside the Palestinian
territories is so intense at some levels, and has become more intense in
recent months, that nobody will be, very many people will not be surprised
at this attack today though like everybody else will be amazed at the
magnitude and success of it."

"[Peter Jennings] hosted what looked like a little intercontinental tea
party for alleged experts on the Middle East," wrote liberal television
critic Tom Shales in the September 17, 2001 Washington Post, "one of whom
was professional Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi, whom Jennings hailed
as 'widely known in the United States.' "Jennings wanted to know," wrote
Shales, ".how anyone could hate America so much that they would launch this
kind of vicious, calamitous attack. Ashrawi blamed U.S. foreign policy (for
having 'fought Arab nationalism') and, predictably for her, Israel. Ashrawi
complained that 'Israel is given preferential treatment, treated as a
country above the law, as part of her condemnation. Jennings deferred to
Ashrawi, as usual, and let her filibuster. It was a nauseating display,"
concluded Shales.

Jennings never informed his audience about his close relationship with
Ashrawi, nor of his having been "part of her circle" of radical friends in
Beirut. In 1972, while covering the murder of 11 Israeli athletes by
Palestinians at the Munich Olympics, Jennings went out of his way to refer
to the murderers as "guerrillas" and "commandos," never using the word
"terrorists."

"I first saw Jennings on ABC when, as a young TV journalist, he reported
from the Munich Olympics," wrote Martin Peretz, publisher of the liberal The
New Republic in its September 13, 2001 issue. "And I was filled with disgust
that his subsequent career has only deepened. At Munich - I still remember
it, 30 years later - Jennings tried to explain away the abductions and
massacre of the young Israeli athletes. His theme: The Palestinians were
helpless and desperate. Ipso facto, they were driven to murder. That's
life.."

"In Sept. 2002, when ABC News aired a retrospective on the Olympic
Massacre," wrote the web site HonestReporting.com, "Jennings unabashedly
said that Israel should stop regarding the Palestinians as terrorists as a
result of the Olympic Massacre of three decades ago. Jennings dismissed the
continual barrage of thousands of Palestinian terror attacks against
Israelis, not only before, but also since the '72 Olympics."

In large part because of Peter Jennings, ABC News was quicker than its
rivals to air foreign criticism of Israel and to portray Palestinians, other
Arabs, Iranians and even terrorist organizations sympathetically. "I felt
very strongly - and I still do - that there is much more than the Israeli
side to the Middle East story," Jennings told Rolling Stone Magazine. "There
are nineteen countries in the Arab world, and I worked in all of them."

"It is Hezbollah, which means 'The Party of God,' that gets credit for
liberating Lebanon from the long Israeli occupation," said Jennings in his
report from Beirut on March 27, 2002. "Yesterday, I went to see its
38-year-old leader, Hassan Nasrallah. He is a popular member of the
political establishment. The Bush administration says Hezbollah is a
terrorist organization. 'Hezbollah was proud to resist the Israeli
occupation,' he says. 'We gave our lives. We are not terrorists.'"

Jennings never informed his audience that Hezbollah was responsible for
bombing the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon and a U.S. military barracks where 241
Marines were murdered by a Hezbollah truck bomb. He also neglected to
mention the theocratic dictatorship of Iran's role in arming and funding
Hezbollah, a Shiite terrorist organization with close ties to Tehran.

As war with Iraq approached in 2003, Peter Jennings did reports favoring
continued inspections by the United Nations. On January 21, 2003 Jennings
reported on "several hundred artists and writers walking through the streets
of Baghdad to say thank you to Saddam Hussein" whose regime "has always
supported the arts." On his newscasts Jennings featured anti-war activists,
described as noble idealists, but he never told viewers of the radical
background of many activists nor that the organizer of the largest anti-war
protests was the Marxist-Leninist pro-terrorist group International
A.N.S.W.E.R.

After U.S. troops removed Saddam, Jennings described those gathered at the
toppling of the dictator's statue as "a small crowd." Jenning's protégé
during the war, fellow Canadian and MSNBC reporter Ashleigh Banfield,
ascribed U.S. policy to the influence of what she called "the Jewish Lobby."

In 1975 Jennings returned to Washington, D.C. to host "A.M. America,"
forerunner to today's "Good Morning America." By 1977 he transferred to ABC'
s London bureau, from which in 1978 he became part of a triumvirate of
evening news anchors along with Frank Reynolds and, from Chicago, Max
Robinson.

In 1983 Frank Reynolds was suffering from cancer, and ABC chose Jennings to
replace him. "Anchor people are slaves to the daily broadcast," Jennings has
said. "Very high-priced slaves I grant you. But slaves." He has been
enslaved as anchor of "World News Tonight" for more than 20 years.

In 1990 he also began doing specials under the name "Peter Jennings
Reports." These have often dealt with controversial topics. In 1999 he
anchored a 12-hour series titled The Century and co-authored a best-selling
book with the same name. In 2004 he anchored "Jesus and Paul - The Word and
the Witness," a three-hour special that provocatively interpreted these
founders of Christianity through the views of radical theologians such as
Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong.

"We may tell you all the time that our principal aim in life is to
communicate and assist, inform," said Jennings on a 2001 CBS News special
Breaking the News. "But if you see injustice and you can get people to do
something about it, ahh, it's just a glorious feeling.. There's nothing a
reporter likes more than to have an effect on policy."

In what directions has Peter Jennings shaped ABC News coverage to influence
policy? Decades of documentation and analysis by the Media Research Center
and others, as well as statements by Jennings himself and those with whom he
has worked, provide answers.

"Peter, I believe, genuinely thinks of himself as a nobleman doing public
good," former ABC News Correspondent Peter Collins told Cybercast News
Service (CNS) in December 2003. "When he and his producer load and tilt a
story, you can argue it's leftist bias, but it's just as effective to say
they left out basic facts because they couldn't see them or they are
incompetent to see them... In order to save the peasantry in America.it's
their obligation to present these facts the way they present them."

Jennings' patronizing condescension towards American "peasants" - "Americans
are pretty insular people for the most part," he told David Letterman in
2001 - was never more on display than in November 1994 days after voters
removed Democrats and put a Republican majority in control of both houses of
Congress for the first time in four decades.

"Ask parents of any two-year-old," said Jennings in his daily ABC Radio
commentary on November 14, 1994, "and they can tell you about those temper
tantrums: the stomping feet, the rolling eyes, the screaming. It's clear
that the anger controls the child and not the other way around. It's the job
of the parent to teach the child to control the anger and channel it in a
positive way. Imagine a nation full of uncontrolled two-year-old rage. The
voters had a temper tantrum last week.. Parenting and governing don't have
to be dirty words: the nation can't be run by an angry two-year-old."

Jennings did not vote in that election. He was a citizen of Canada,
ineligible to cast a ballot in the United States. When his rival American
news anchors were prevented by a legal travel ban from visiting Communist
Cuba, Jennings traveled there to do reporting with his Canadian passport.

In 2004 Peter Jennings announced that he had become a U.S. citizen, but this
statement was incomplete. He in fact also retains Canadian citizenship and
is therefore a dual citizen. Jennings' political views remain those of a
cosmopolitan Canadian. He is far more European than American in values and
culture.

Among the most repeated themes in stories by Peter Jennings are that the
United States is "lagging behind" the rest of the "industrialized world"
(and Europe in particular) in government-provided health care, child care,
paid leave for parents and other social programs.

"The best child care system in the world..the Swedish system is run and paid
for by the Swedish government, something many Americans would like to see
the U.S. government do as well," declared Jennings in a virtual editorial on
"World News Tonight" on November 22, 1989. Jennings did not mention that in
the socialist nanny state of Sweden, children have been taken away from
parents who were declared unfit for being overweight.

"Mr. Bush believes in a universal tax cut," reported Jennings on October 4,
2000, "which would mean a very large chunk of money not available for
government programs." His reporting depicts nearly every potential tax cut
negatively. Jennings in 1996 dismissed the proposed "flat tax" as "a very
radical notion."

But Peter Jennings admires radicalism on the left.

"Medical care was once for the privileged few. Today it is available to
every Cuban and it is free," Jennings on April 3, 1989 told "World News
Tonight" viewers. "Some of Cuba's health care is world class. In heart
disease, for example, in brain surgery. Health and education are the
revolution's great success stories." He did not mention that patients must
bring their own sheets and light bulbs to the operating room or may die from
lack of antibiotics. He did not mention that education includes making
children work unpaid in factories, and that it includes military training to
teach children how to "kill the Yanquis."

After the mother of five-year-old Elian Gonzalez died trying to bring her
son across the waters between Communist Cuba and the United States, the
prison island's Marxist dictator Fidel Castro demanded the boy's return.
President Bill Clinton's Administration sided with Castro and on an Easter
Sunday used shock troops to attack reporters and at gunpoint to tear the boy
from the arms of relatives in Little Havana, a suburb of Miami, Florida.

"In Miami today, immigration officials met with the Miami relatives of Elian
Gonzalez again," said Jennings, also siding with Castro, to begin his
newscast on March 28, 2000. "And once again the government has failed to get
the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of this
young boy to end in a civilized manner that is best for him."

According to former ABC Correspondent Peter Collins, when in 1989 he
proposed to do a report from Nicaragua on the 10th Anniversary of rule by
the Soviet-aligned, Fidel Castro-supported Marxist Sandinista regime, Peter
Jennings intervened.

"[Jennings] himself called me up in Managua and essentially dictated to me
what I should say. Basically what Mr. Jennings wanted was for me to make a
favorable pronouncement about the 10 years of the Sandinista revolution,"
Collins told Cybercast News Service, "and he called me up, massaged my
script in a way that I no longer recognized it."

"The Sandinistas brought with them Marxist ideas about spreading wealth and
creating a new, unselfish society," read part of the Jennings-rewritten
script that ABC broadcast. "And in the first few years, they did manage to
reduce illiteracy, the infant death rate and launched the biggest land
reform in Central America. But the Reagan administration saw the Sandinistas
as a threat and forced them into a war with the U.S.-backed Contras."

Jennings frequently pressed ABC reporters to rewrite their stories with a
more leftward slant. In recent years he has supported efforts by ABC News
Political Director Mark Halperin to do the same. Halperin on the day of the
final 2004 presidential debate, a debate moderated by Charlie Gibson of ABC
News, sent out a memo directing all ABC news reporters and other personnel
to deal more harshly with any misstatement by Republican candidate President
George W. Bush than any by Democratic presidential candidate Senator John
Kerry (D.-Massachusetts).

"In terms of the direction that Peter Collins recalls Peter Jennings pushing
in - and that was to the left of where the correspondent is - that's
consistent with my experiences, and I think most [ABC News correspondents']
experience," Bob Zelnick told Cybercast News Service. Zelnick ended his
21-year career as an ABC News reporter in 1989 and now chairs the Department
of Journalism at Boston University.

Is Jennings a biased journalist? "I'm a little concerned about this notion
everybody wants us to be objective," he said in October 2004, noting that
journalists are human and have points of view through which they filter
their perceptions of the news. He added: "There's a whole industry of
conservatives saying, 'Ah, it's those damn liberals,' and a whole group of
liberals saying, 'It's all those damn conservatives.'"

"Historically in the media, it has been more of a liberal persuasion for
many years," L. Brent Bozell III quotes Jennings as saying in his 2004 book
Weapons of Mass Distortion: The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media. "It
has taken us a long time, too long in my view, to have vigorous conservative
voices heard as widely in the media as they now are."

"I think there is a mainstream media," Peter Jennings told CNN's Larry King
on May 15, 2001. "CNN is mainstream media, and the main, ABC, CBS, NBC are
mainstream media. And I think it's just essentially to make the point that
we are largely in the center without particular axes to grind, without
ideologies which are represented in our daily coverage, at least certainly
not on purpose."

On the October 17, 2000 "World News Tonight," Peter Jennings eulogized
Soviet apparatchik and Communist Party USA leader Gus Hall, who died that
week at age 90. Gus Hall devoted his life to defeating America in the Cold
War and to establishing a totalitarian dictatorship in the United States,
none of which was mentioned by Jennings. "Hall," said Jennings, "never
wavered."

http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1733

Bottom line: Jennings is just another 'tard from CanaDuh... a highly paid 'tard,
but a 'tard none the less.

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