Do you ever get the idea that you are not getting the full story out of the MSM?
I do, and that is why I do not depend on them to get the full story. Well I am sure you are not learning this from me but in the latest polls it appears that most Iraqi’s are more upbeat than most of the left in this country and around the world. Judging from the media accounts, you would get the idea that these people are living in a living hell. How in the world could they be so positive?
I will tell you how, the media has been trying to feed the American public just the bad news coming out of Iraq in hopes of defeating the Bush administration. I guess they think it is their job to do so. I thought it was to report the news accurately and fairly.
From ABC News: Poll: Broad Optimism in Iraq, But Also Deep Divisions Among Groups
Surprising levels of optimism prevail in Iraq with living conditions improved, security more a national worry than a local one, and expectations for the future high.
Surprising to some but not to those paying attention. I hate when the media makes news that they have been covering up sound surprising like no one actually knew what was really going on.
Surprisingly, given the insurgents’ attacks on Iraqi civilians, more than six in 10 Iraqis feel very safe in their own neighborhoods, up sharply from just 40 percent in a poll in June 2004. And 61 percent say local security is good — up from 49 percent in the first ABC News poll in Iraq in February 2004.
There they go again with that word “Surprisingly”.
Average household incomes have soared by 60 percent in the last 20 months (to $263 a month), 70 percent of Iraqis rate their own economic situation positively, and consumer goods are sweeping the country. In early 2004, 6 percent of Iraqi households had cell phones; now it’s 62 percent. Ownership of satellite dishes has nearly tripled, and many more families now own air conditioners (58 percent, up from 44 percent), cars, washing machines and kitchen appliances.
Nothing new here, I found most of this out watching FOX News the other night.
Therefore, it appears to me at least, that the media is trying to get ahead of the news train, that they can no longer suppress from the American people. In doing so they are going to make it appear that this was so surprising, how could anyone have known, but those of us that have been paying attention know better.