Pray for Bowling Green

[adamgreer]

...and all the victims of the "massacre" and terrorist attack.

Don't know what I'm talking about? That's ok, there's never been a terrorist attack in Bowling Green. It's yet another alternative fact that Kelly Anne offered up last night. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/03/kellyanne-conway-cites-bowling-green-massacre-that-never-happened-to-defend-travel-ban/?utm_term=.a712654b6b0e

[Petralicious]

Adam, we disagree a lot but I do not think you take easy cheapshots.  I assume you did not hear that she misspoke and corrected herself, Bowling Green Terrorists, not Attacks. Not that it matters to #biasedmedia who hate her.  Here is the story from ABC she was talking about them

Exclusive: US May Have Let 'Dozens' of Terrorists Into Country As Refugees

Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees, according to FBI agents investigating the remnants of roadside bombs recovered from Iraq and Afghanistan.

The discovery in 2009 of two al Qaeda-Iraq terrorists living as refugees in Bowling Green, Kentucky -- who later admitted in court that they'd attacked U.S. soldiers in Iraq -- prompted the bureau to assign hundreds of specialists to an around-the-clock effort aimed at checking its archive of 100,000 improvised explosive devices collected in the war zones, known as IEDs, for other suspected terrorists' fingerprints.

"We are currently supporting dozens of current counter-terrorism investigations like that," FBI Agent Gregory Carl, director of the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC), said in an ABC News interview to be broadcast tonight on ABC News' "World News with Diane Sawyer" and "Nightline".

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-terrorists-country-refugees/story?id=20931131

[Mister Matt]

Not that it matters to #biasedmedia who hate her.

Oh, it's not just the hashtag that hates her.  But it is amusing that "the media" is labeled biased when it opposes (or in many cases, simply sheds light on factual errors of) the right.  There actually was "media" that opposed Obama all day and every day, but the right NEVER labeled them as "biased" when they absolutely were.  So, spare us the hashtag.  

[themysteriousgrowl]

 

Matt, STAHP

[Petralicious]

Mister Matt said: "But it is amusing that "the media" is labeled biased when it opposes (or in many cases, simply sheds light on factual errors of) the right.  There actually was "media" that opposed Obama all day and every day, but the right NEVER labeled them as "biased" when they absolutely were.  So, spare us the hashtag.  

 

"Come on Matt.  aside from a very few cases, the big mainstream media (other than Fox) you can not say (or write) with a  straight face that the media was anything but reverent to Mr Obama. Starting with Chris Matthews and the chills he got down his leg watching him speak. Ignoring his scandals and miscues.   You had NUMEROUS journalists ON THE AIR actually crying actual tears when he left office. Unabashing admiring,. SNL broke format and sang him a love song, and another for Hilary when she lost. 

 



 

[Mister Matt]

aside from a very few cases, the big mainstream media (other than Fox) you can not say (or write) with a  straight face that the media was anything but reverent to Mr Obama. 

Sure I can.  I just can't make such exaggerated generalizations with a straight face.  Do most media outlets appear to lean left?  Probably.  Are all media sources biased?  Most likely.  What do I think the right sounds like when they talk about liberal media bias?  Whiny sensitive snowflakes.  Do I expect them to acknowledge the irony?  Of course not.

Times have changed.  Opinions have changed.  Media has changed.  Communication has changed.  The last major shift in political parties and ideology was with the Reagan administration hitching its wagons to Christian conservatives and evangelicals.  It appears we're in the midst of another, possibly monumental change.  If you don't understand the media's reaction to the current political state of our country, then you're allowing all your "biased" little media trees block your view of the forest.

[Petralicious]

I get what youre saying.  The Media usually (and should) always question the motives of the establishment.They sure didn't for the most part do it the last 8 years. Journalism 101 iused to be get 2 sources and being first isnt the goal but being right is. That has been forgotten. 

Reasons? my opinion is  part of it was afraid of criticizing the first Black President, Part of it is Mr Trumps stupidly combative nature, Part of it is Big Media votes overwhelmingly Democrat and goes too liberal journalism schools. . Part of it is they were embarrassed by their insistance and rooting for Mrs Clinton to win. Part of it is Mr Obama was certainly a much nicer fellow. But there is no doubt it is true.   

Cest la vie. 
 

[kdogg36]

Petralicious said: "Not that it matters to #biasedmedia who hate her."

No no, let's be clear. You have to have a severe bias against reality not to hate her and the rest of the Trump administration.

[kdogg36]

Some interesting points made here about the "Bowling Green Massacre":

http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/03/in-bowling-green-fbi-foiled-fbi-plot

Highlights:

• The FBI created this "terrorist plot" on its own to ferret out terrorist agents.
• Despite the FBI's claim that the two suspects were the "tip of the iceberg," no other suspects were found in the area.
• There were never any plans to attack the US.
• Among 784,000 refugees settling in the US since 2001, only these two men and one other person have been arrested on terrorism-related charges.
• The Obama administration had its own mini-Muslim-ban after the Bowling Green arrests, denying entry to refugees from Iraq - where (me editorializing here) the US must have created a **** ton of them with its military aggression. 

[Mister Matt]

Journalism 101 iused to be get 2 sources and being first isnt the goal but being right is. That has been forgotten.

And Fox News abandoned that long ago.  Their notorious reputation has been well documented and plentiful.

Reasons? my opinion is  part of it was afraid of criticizing the first Black President, Part of it is Mr Trumps stupidly combative nature, Part of it is Big Media votes overwhelmingly Democrat and goes too liberal journalism schools. . Part of it is they were embarrassed by their insistance and rooting for Mrs Clinton to win. Part of it is Mr Obama was certainly a much nicer fellow.

You forgot the part about Captain Creamsicle's racist rhetoric, admission and encouragement of sexually assaulting women, dangerous xenophobic policies, threatening legislation of legalizing LGBTQ discrimination and overwhelming ignorance of American politics, law, the Constitution as well as a thoroughly demonstrated incompetence.  If you feel these rather glaring points, noticed by nations all over the world (not just by the "biased media" or American Democrats) are negligible in your comparison to Obama, then I can understand how you reached that opinion.

[BroadwayRox3588]

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Never forget the Bowling Green Massacre