The Political Teen has the O'Reilly video.
Captain Ed is surprised, despite himself.
Perhaps in an era where mainstream journalists appear to be embracing the "fake but accurate" standard for publication stories like this should not surprise us, but one would think that key figures in the communication industry would be more careful in how they express themselves.
USS Neverdock almost calls it treason.
She needs to be made to produce the evidence or be fired. This is just more fodder for the terrorists to use against our troops.
LaShawn is doing more digging with a phone call or two.
I called the Newspaper Guild (202.434.7177) a few minutes ago to speak to Linda Foley and/or someone willing to go on the record, and I got a message saying something like, “Due to the number of calls that we believe are a coordinated effort to tie up the line, we regret that we cannot answer your call. Please leave a message and someone will…”
Euphoric Reality is taking up a collection:
I volunteer to begin a collection to send Ms. Foley to Iraq, where she will be free to wander around without the protection of the “brutal and cavalier” U.S. military.
And there's already a site called FoleyGate.com.
Scared Monkeys observes some irony.
How come the first reaction when a liberal is caught saying what they really believe is that their words were taken out of context. In this instance, SHE WAS TALKING TO REPORTERS!!! Is she saying that her union members, people who pay her salary, can not report the news accurately.
It would greatly surprise me if Linda Foley survives the avalanche that is headed her way. Without evidence to substantiate her statements, she will likely soon be looking for new employment.
(*Updated to add Amazon link: 5/21.)
Article comments
1 - RJ
We need an Amazon link...
2 - Matt
Wow. Bloggers up in arms? Call a fucking congressional committee, then. This is big stuff. We can't have political bloggers up in arms.
John Cole wants evidence? Holy shit! Big news!
Mr. Preston and Junkyard Blog thinks Foley should step down? Earth shattering!
There has never been a greater divide than there is between how important political bloggers think they are, and how important they actually are.
I hope this one hits Google's front page. Its big news for sure.
3 - Matt
RJ--forgive Myopic Zeal for his/her haste in getting this up, sans Amazon link. Sometimes hard news needs to get to the masses, and quick.
4 - RJ
BTW, good article...
5 - RJ
Matt...
Can't you admit that bloggers have some power now, and that their efforts might very well end Ms. Foley's career?
6 - Matt
Umm...no, not really...
Frankly, I don't give a shit either way. Never heard of Foley, don't give a fuck if she loses her job over making a dumb comment.
What I do love is watching self-important people give themselves a lot more credit than they are due.
7 - Matt
If you missed it, check out this blogger's review of traffic changes since the last year. Sites like blogcritics are flourishing, while political blogs are losing steam. Big time.
May 20, 2005 at 10:24 pm
8 - Matt
Let's try that link again
9 - Comment
Its OK to bomb afghanistan WITHOUT evidence.
It is OK to torture people in x-ray and abu gharaib WITHOUT evidence
It is OK to invade Iraq and destroy the country and kill oh 100,000 MORE people WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE
but it NOT OK to say the obvious as Ms Foley has said :( ...
10 - FPF/HR
Conc.: Foley's rightful remarks - see Url. - may I say there's nothing new under the sun?
She and we journalistst and correspondents are damn right:
PENTAGON THREATENED EARLIER TO KILL REPORTERS IN IRAQ - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/7gnsu
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be . . . The People cannot be safe without information.
When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe."
Thomas Jefferson
HR
11 - Dave Nalle
PPF/HR - if this is the level of intellectual accuity which you and other journalists display then I now fully understand the disreputable state of modern journalism.
I followed the link. The Pentagon did NOT say it was targetting journalists. It warned journalists that if they used devices which issue similar signals to those being used to trigger terrorists bombs then the devices generating the signals might be targeted. In this case some cell phones, pagers and radio phones.
Warning journalists that something they do might put them in danger is NOT threatening them, it's an effort to help keep them safe. Targeting cell phones and pagers is NOT targeting journalists just because they happen to have them.
Twisting the Pentagon's warning this way is really despicable and shows such a blatant bias that if you really are a journalist you ought to be banned from any respectable news outlet.
Dave