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ARNETT FIRED!

bhayes420bhayes420 Member Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited April 2003 in General Discussion
Thank God! Can't really believe NBC would pull the plug, but they did. Matt Lauer (sp?) read a statement on "Good Morning America" re-hashing what Arnett did on Iraqi TV, and then read a statement from the suits at the network saying he had been released by NBC and MSNBC, and that National Geographic had also released him. But the funny thing was, right after he read the statement, Matt said, "And now, live from Baghdad, is Peter Arnett...." And proceeded to talk to the scum-bag! Arnett was groveling like a whipped dog...hated the "firestorm" he had caused back home, yadda, yadda, yadda. Then good ol' Matt loved up to him, along with Katie. What buttheads! But at least Arnett is gone!

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    cowdoccowdoc Member Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    cool, cause i sent e mails to msnbc and nat geo exp that i was going to call direct tv and cancel my subscriptions to all nbc networks that i get until they fired "Baghdad pete" also let them know that i thought he was guilty of treason....guess now i dont have to call them though i should anyways.
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    EVILDR235EVILDR235 Member Posts: 4,398 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The axe has fallen.Next
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    mustangmustang Member Posts: 615 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    COOL!!!!!
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    AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,050 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gee......Who could have seen that comming?

    Now let's see if he can dodge those Special Forces people that owe him one!

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    loruslorus Member Posts: 130 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good riddance to bad rubbish.

    But we will get another wave of statements from anti-war folks that this is an attack on freedom of speech.
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    allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,234 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I saw the interview Peter Arnett gave to Iraqi tv, and I thought he crossed the line. He said that the spirited Iraqi resistance had caused the American army to change its battle plan. He said that the original American plan had been thrown out, and a new plan now had to be made.
    Now, what he said may be true. We won't know for months, if ever, if these allegations are true. But an American reporter should not be saying that on Iraqi tv. It gives aid and comfort to the enemy. If Arnett wanted to say those things off the record, off camera, to his Iraqi counterparts, fine. But not on world wide tv. I would have fired him too.
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    chappsynychappsyny Member Posts: 3,381 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thank god at least one network knows when to draw the line and pull the plug. I wonder what type of cushy severance package Baghdad Pete will be getting. Probably never have to work again.

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    offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I agree. Fox News demonized him pretty hard, and when I saw the video of his interview on Iraq TV was surprised that from the sound bite they showed, he wasn't quite as awful as they made him out to be. But the more I saw of the interview the less I could justify. I think they made the right call -- not the safe call, or the politically correct, commercial call -- but the right call. Whatever Arnett's reasons for moving over to MSNBC from CNN (makes you wonder?), and however benign he seemed to be in the first week of the war, reporting from Baghdad even after CNN's Robertson was ejected from the country, Arnett acts like a "man without a country."

    He and Scott Ritter both seem brainwashed by these abusers, gassers and decapitators in a very strange way. It makes you wonder if they don't both have big oil-funded Swiss bank accounts. Meanwhile, Geraldo is accusing NBC and Arnett of jealously trying to stab him in the back, since he is now further into Iraq than he has ever been while they were falsely reporting he had been ejected, and he only just heard the false rumors.

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    drobsdrobs Member Posts: 22,531 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    From: http://www.nbc4columbus.com

    NBC Severs Relationship With Peter Arnett
    Arnett Was Covering War From Baghdad

    POSTED: 7:54 a.m. EST March 31, 2003
    UPDATED: 10:24 a.m. EST March 31, 2003

    Journalist Peter Arnett will no longer report for NBC News and MSNBC because of remarks he made on state-run Iraqi TV.

    NBC on Monday retracted its defense of Arnett.

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    Arnett (pictured, above) went on state-run Iraqi TV on Sunday and said in an interview that the first American-led war plan has failed and U.S. strategists are now trying to "write another war plan."

    Arnett was covering the war from Baghdad for NBC and its cable stations.

    NBC News President Neal Shapiro spoke with Arnett via telephone early Monday morning in an attempt to fully understand the circumstances of Arnett's interview on Iraqi TV. After their discussion, NBC News issued the following statement:

    "It was wrong for Mr. Arnett to grant an interview to state-controlled Iraqi TV -- especially at a time of war -- and it was wrong for him to discuss his personal observations and opinions in that interview. Therefore, Peter Arnett will no longer be reporting for NBC News and MSNBC."

    NBC said Monday he wouldn't be reporting for "National Geographic Explorer," either.

    Arnett told an Iraqi interviewer that the first war plan failed because it misjudged the Iraqi resistance and determination.

    Arnett said the U.S. is reappraising the battlefield and delaying the war for up to a week while writing another plan.

    The interview was broadcast in English and translated by an Iraqi anchor wearing a military uniform. NBC said Arnett agreed to an interview after attending an Iraqi briefing. NBC also said that Arnett's reporting has been "outstanding" and that he was simply offering an analytical answer to a reporter's question.

    On NBC's "Today" show, Arnett said he was sorry for the statement, but added, "I said over the weekend what we all know about the war."

    He also said he wanted to apologize to the American people for "clearly making a misjudgment" and said he would leave Baghdad.

    NBC had earlier defended Arnett, saying the interview was a professional courtesy and that his remarks were analytical.

    Arnett drew criticism while covering the Gulf War for CNN from the first Bush administration, which suggested he was conveying Iraqi propaganda.





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    SkydiveSkydive Member Posts: 737 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You know I can't help but jump into a post like this. Normally I would defend Pete because he does generally provide good media coverage where others can't get it. But I have to agree with you extreme right-wingers this time.

    The entire episode seemed a bit self serving. Appearing on Iraq TV bought him points with the current leadership and his comments, while I still believe in that little thing called the first amendment, were completely one sided and I know someone with his contacts has to have received equal feedback from the other side. Frankly I am a bit shocked. I used to have a great deal of respect for the man because he put himself out there to get info from the inside, but this was just too much.


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    allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,234 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Arnett was fired a while back from CNN, and he admitted that he has carried a grudge against Ted Turner ever since. When CNN was kicked out of Baghdad recently Arnett was quoted as saying, "CNN has been kicked out, and I am still here."
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    96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    FOX is still for me.

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    NickCWinterNickCWinter Member Posts: 2,927
    edited November -1
    Ditto, Fox is #1. Kudos to MSNBC and even NBC for ousting Peter A. Suggestion about Fox, though: I love Bill O'Reilly's views. But one wishes Fox would hire Joan Rivers or Bea Arthur to sit on camera by Bill every night. Then, when he gets manic about interrupting guests, she could slap his hand and coo, "Wait your turn, dear."
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    NickCWinterNickCWinter Member Posts: 2,927
    edited November -1
    After posting the above, heard from a friend that Arnett was fired during the Vietnam Unpleasantness for reporting falsely that our troops had used gas warfare on our own men. And he was also fired by CNN during the Gulf War. So. Coincidence? Low learning curve?
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    sodbustersodbuster Member Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This morning when I read the news that he got fired, it made my day[:D]. I'm sure he could get on with aljaazera or iraqi tv,they might be short of help these days[;)],,,sod

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    Honor, all call upon us for vigorous and manly exertion, and if we
    now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.
    Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the
    aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate
    and encourage us to great and noble Actions." --George Washington


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    bhayes420bhayes420 Member Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    NickCWinter...He was fired by CNN for druming up the false story about the Vietnam war. It is true it was about the Vietnam war, just way after it ended. Something to do with our troops using poison gas to kill supposed American traitors, I think. It was all proved false, and several folks at CNN got the axe over it.

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    sodbustersodbuster Member Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Skydive:
    quote:But I have to agree with you extreme right-wingers this time.

    I always figgered the fine folks on this board as 'moderates'.
    Wait a minute,,if they are extreme right-wingers then I'm,,,,,,,[:0],,,no,,,I couldn't be[:I],,,,[;)]sod

    "We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our won Country's
    Honor, all call upon us for vigorous and manly exertion, and if we
    now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.
    Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the
    aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate
    and encourage us to great and noble Actions." --George Washington


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    chris_cechris_ce Member Posts: 1,608 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:ARNETT FIRED!
    should be fired at.

    chris
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    gap1916gap1916 Member Posts: 4,977
    edited November -1
    Maybe the French will give him a job. You think? [8D]

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    chappsynychappsyny Member Posts: 3,381 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Heard from a friend that the London Daily Mirror just hired him. Don't know if it's true or not, but that's what I heard.

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    bhale187bhale187 Member Posts: 7,798
    edited November -1
    YES!!!!!!!!!!!
    This is the best news I have heard in weeks, I sent a email to the editor this morning stating that I would never again watch NBC or MSNBC if he was not fired, appearantly I was not the only one who let them know how disguisted I was with his comments.
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    alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    It couldn't have happened to a better errr worser person! Now he probably will be hired as husseins personal newscaster for the english speaking.

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    5db5db Member Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Arnett is the same class as Jane Fonda. For some reason they hate the American Military.

    Arnett reported a story named "Tailwind" where gas was supposedly used to kill USGI's that were AWOL in a Vietnamese camp. A big lie. An associate of mine was depicted as a "Sniper" at the scene. He was indeed a Sniper in Vietnam but never at that scene! He was successful in suing Arnett and the broadcasting company. And Arnett lost his job. So I was surprised to hear that a US news company hired his sorry butt for this war.

    I say offer him to France......

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    bhayes420bhayes420 Member Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, he has resurfaced with the London Daily Mirror. And guess what the SOB did? Backed WAY-OFF his earlier insincere apology on NBC! What a freaking pig! Where is he from? If the US, I say revoke his passport and let him stay in Iraq if he loves Saddam so much!

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    YankeeClipperYankeeClipper Member Posts: 669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good. Did any of you happen to notice tha after Bill Clinton there isn't much said about treasonous activity? We have sure seen some examples lately.

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    96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    He should stay there or come back and face a firing allright but at the muzzel of a rifle. FIRING SUAD!!!!!!!!!

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    gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    From now on refer to him as- Bagdad Peter.
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    toolmaniamtoolmaniam Member Posts: 3,213
    edited November -1
    We should send him back to New Zealand where he came from on a slow leaky raft![}:)] Isn't New Zealand waters home to Great White sharks?[;)]

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