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1. #1
   On July 5th, 2007 at 2:37 pm, citizen said:

   I don’t trust anything nbc news says about anything. I assume they are lying, faking, deceiving, and generally doing anything but reporting.

   Same same for all the rest of them, and nearly the same for Fox news.

2. #2
   On July 5th, 2007 at 2:51 pm, EdDantes said:

   To quote a great
   

   American, “Surprised?…I wouldn’t be more surprised if I woke up tomorrow morning with my head sewn to the carpet.” - Clark W. Griswold

   NBC news distorting facts is nothing new.

   Someone might want to check and see if Dan Rather is doing fact checking for them now.

3. #3
   On July 5th, 2007 at 3:19 pm, The Raging Republican said:

   NBC News would like to issue an official ‘oops my bad’.

4. #4
   On July 5th, 2007 at 3:26 pm, Rick Moran said:

   First the GM van fakery. Then the NASCAR set up. Now this.

   One would think legitimate news organizations would do something about these dolts. But they won’t. In fact, NBC News will keep winning awards because the press is incapable of policing itself. To do that, they’d have to examine their methods and the news gathering process itself. That’s not going to happen anytime soon.

   I wonder what body armor NBC News correspondents and crew wear in Iraq?

5. #5
   On July 5th, 2007 at 3:51 pm, student said:

   This kind of thing is annoying and it is fun to fulminate, but really, what do you expect? I no longer read any newspaper or watch network news because you basically have to fact check everything they say. Why bother when you can get more accurate news faster on the Internet?

6. #6
   On July 5th, 2007 at 3:52 pm, josetheguerilla said:

   NBC should be put on the No Fly List. Shame on NBC for scaring military families. How much lower can they go? Good job Preston. Semper Fi’ Zoomie.

   jose

7. #7
   On July 5th, 2007 at 4:33 pm, jferg49 said:

   I can’t believe a main stream media giant like NBC would intentionally mislead the public to make the current administration look bad!
   Maybe NBC has a lot of stock in Dragon Skin?…

8. #8
   On July 5th, 2007 at 5:49 pm, pgtips said:

   I agree with what was said at the end of the video. I think NBC needs to be held accountable for the misinformation it publishes. In fact, all media outlets need to be held accountable either via the courts or some other system. This would reduce the number of sensationalist stories which aren’t based on fact, and this is a good thing.

   There’s enough nonsense out there to sort through, you don’t need people deliberately trying to mislead you.

9. #9
   On July 5th, 2007 at 6:31 pm, Laree said:

   Telemundo belongs to NBC, I just watched this on Fox, and one of their anchors had an affair with a mayor, and now it is all over the news, his wife filed for divorce. I didn’t know that Telemundo belonged to NBC before I heard that broadcast.

10. #10
    On July 5th, 2007 at 7:22 pm, John Ansell said:

    Nothing But Clinton news channel is a joke.

11. #11
    On July 5th, 2007 at 7:35 pm, Mr_Conservative_Cat said:

    iferg 49: “I can’t believe a main stream media giant like NBC would intentionally mislead the public to make the current administration look bad!”

    No offense, but hello, there, iferg! This has been going on for 40 years. When I was a little kid, I somehow wound up with, believe it or not, a “Richard M Nixon coloring book” filled with “witty” comments (I say “somehow because both my parents were Republicans). Even as far back as the lkate 60’s/early 70’s the mainstream left had no trouble trying to brainwash even little kids into seeing the world through their tunnelvision prism, though doubtless the comic-book venue would be defended by the left as “parody”. Still, it was sold amongst the kid stuff where kids, primarily, would be exposed to the thick propoganda in it’s “wimsical” pages. These people are beneath nothing, and will do anything.

    That’s why we need start making noise, and not just here: anywhere - call-in talk shows, e-mails, blogs like this, editors to the paper (like they’re going to print desenting views!)

    I may sound a bit like a wild-eyed reactionary here, but no more so than if someone you loved had a heart attack in front of you: do you sit and assume everything will be all right, or do you scamble to the phone like hell and do everything you can while awaiting the ambulance? That’s the situation with this country right now - it’s feedom and it’s societal values, it’s blood - are being drained and clogged, and the left-wing media is the heart attack. So much else goes away - almost everything troubling from a socio-political stabdpoint, if you just get rid of that heart attack. And it needs to be done, and fast. The left used to be shy about going too far because the backlash was an unknown quantity. Now they know they can get away with almost anything they want, and that’s exactly what they’re trying to do.

    I work in the media. Trust me - I know!

12. #12
    On July 5th, 2007 at 7:41 pm, TMoney said:

    If my boys and girls were allowed to fight this war the right way, they wouldn’t need much armor. In addition they would have been home for July 4th celebrations of 2003!
    No matter what…they are my heroes.
    God bless them all.

13. #13
    On July 5th, 2007 at 8:06 pm, johnv40 said:

    SCREW NBC!!!!!

14. #14
    On July 5th, 2007 at 10:27 pm, hadsil said:

    General Motors, US Military, same thing

15. #15
    On July 6th, 2007 at 11:08 am, geminicontender said:

    N(othing)B(ut)C(ommunists)

16. #16
    On July 6th, 2007 at 8:26 pm, jimC said:

    What can we do to hold NBC accountable for these lies? It doesn’t do any good to call them. They don’t care. If they did, they wouldn’t have lied in the first place. Most of us don’t watch the alphabets anyway, so not watching them any more won’t do any good either.

    I agree, they’ve got to be held accountable, but really… what can we do?

    Jim C

17. #17
    On July 6th, 2007 at 10:18 pm, gippergirl said:

    N(othing)B(ut)C(ommunists)
    

    I realize you were trying to insult the old peacock, however “communism” is probably on their mission statement.

18. #18
    On July 7th, 2007 at 12:37 pm, RobM1981 said:

    Any lawyers here? Can a class action lawsuit be filed along these lines:

    -NBC was given accurate information from the Pentagon about how the vests performed,

    -NBC chose to perform their own tests, but their willful negligence in non fact-checking led them to come up with wrong results,

    -NBC then chose to present their fallacies as facts, accusing the US Military of deliberately providing an inferior grade of body armor for combat. This fallacy, caused by direct negligent, therein caused enormous emotional harm to soldiers and their families.

    Can’t we get a Class Action suit out of this? I’d love to financially break the peacock over this. This was malicious.

19. #19
    On July 7th, 2007 at 2:09 pm, sherlock said:

    I can’t believe the things I am hearing about the media here. It seems clear to me that the media industry is pretty much completely free of the hypocrisy and deceptions that plague other industries, and institutions like the republican Party.

    Do you ever read about newspaper editors propositioning young people, getting nailed for DUI’s, or cooking the books? Do you ever hear radio specials about reporters taking favors from political candidates for favorable coverage, or columnists who neglect to mention that they contribute to someone’s campaign? Do you ever see an hour-long expose’ on TV about anchormen who just fabricate and lie to the public? Of course not!

    That’s why the media is the most ethical force in our society, because none of that nasty stuff happens there like it does in all the businesses and institutions like you read about in the media all the time.

    And you can be sure that if it did, they would tell us about it because their complete honesty would compel them to. So let’s cut out all the media-bashing, okay? There’s a war on, and we need to be able to count on the media to give us the unbiased truth at all times.

    ps. And how about knocking off criticizing our Hollywood celebrities? If not for the image of America they project, the world might see us as nothing more than a few hundred thousand young men and women risking their lives to free millions from tyranny. The media certainly would not want that to happen.

20. #20
    On July 10th, 2007 at 10:23 am, freedomamerie said:

    I wonder how much fact checking Michelle does with FOX NEWS.

    I’m sure they NEVER get stories incorrect, you know like that “sandwich of hate” story.

    BTW, the story ran on May 17th and she is just getting around to it now?

21. #21
    On July 10th, 2007 at 1:34 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    NBC - aren’t they the guys that blew up a truck to show how dangerous it was on the street? (Without bothering to mention that in the story of course.)