Trey Jackson: Are you familiar with Linda Foley's comment about a month back at the National Conference for Media Reform? Linda Foley is the President of the Newspaper Guild and she said: "Journalists, by the way, are not just being targeted verbally or … ah, or … ah, politically. They are also being targeted for real, um … in places like Iraq. What outrages me as a representative of journalists is that there's not more outrage about the number, and the brutality, and the cavalier nature of the U.S. military toward the killing of journalists in Iraq." What I wonder is, Eason Jordan apparently made a similar statement but there was no video of that statement or transcript... [actually there is a video but the conference holders refuse to release it without Jordan's consent, which he refuses to give. .ed]
Newt Gingrich: There's a pathology of being anti-American which runs through the American left. It shows up in journalism. It shows up in the academic community. It's a pathology. It's not something you can argue about. These people are out of touch with reality. You just have to say it. First of all, if she honestly believes the American military targets journalists, how come so many of them were embedded? How come so many of them survived everyday covering the war?
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