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It looks like someone punched him in his face and bent his nose to the right. This guy must be a loveable guy. lol

but I would imagine the part about being drunk while on the job was a joke.

drunk or sober he went into houses in Fallujah with the first stick through the door.

"A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition." -- Rudyard Kipling

...that how safe you are (in the neighborhoods there) also depends on how you act. If you're purposeful and respectful, you're more likely to be left alone. Act right, and you'll be a lot safer than if you act like a pompous jerk--like Michael Ware for example.

Hmm Terrorists sniping at us soldiers, aided and abetted by CNN.
Eason Jordan making unsupported statements about the military targeting reporters.

They claim to be a news outlet ? what a crock.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
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If any of this anger building against Ware on the starboard side gets traction, expect CNN to point to McCain's camp. And, here's a great way for McCain to get a chip in the big PR game, a chip that CNN can cash in for him in the future. I'm guessing that McCain would prefer pocketing that chip--and enjoying a week of sympathetic press from CNN--to using some of his personal gravitas as a platform from which to unload publicly on Ware.

I hope I'm wrong. But I'll bet I'm not.

"Who will stand/On either hand/And guard this bridge with me?" (Macaulay)

About Ware: "This guy is an activist not a reporter."

Over at Rathergate.com, when the matter comes up, I explain: "I am not a journalist. I am an activist."

If he's fired from CNN, he can probably name his price over at MSNBC, though we don't know for how long they'll remain on the air.

Senator McCain said there were places in Baghdad where Americans can safely go for a stroll. He said this from Washington.

On the ground in Baghdad, it was ridiculed by Michael Ware. I watch his whole report and he said that he went to multiple military sources about the McCain quote and they responded with laughter.

Now today, when McCain takes his stroll, he doesn't go alone but with 100 heavily armed troops, multiple gun ships etc...

One thing I don't doubt if McCain's bravery. If he could have taken that stroll by himself, I believe he would have.

Are you angry that Michael Ware is right or that he was sarcastic in his response or are you angry because you believe he was wrong?

But tapes I've seen taken during interviews with reporters of their nationality are considerably different. A Australian politico cut off an already cowering journalist with "I'm not here to do polemics with you mate". Chirac during a meeting with three reporters acted as if they were door to door salesmen. Only in America do lower order boobs, vulgarians of singular ignorance, trash from the lower depths, get to stand on their hind legs, bare their canine and yellowed teeth and display the taste and intelligence of a Pleistocene hominid.

Either shout the filth down or have them carried from the room and deposited in a garbage compacter. The biggest mistake is to treat them like people, a mistake that has grown and metastasized for fifty years.

There is no reason why this mistake can't be corrected and can be started with a few humiliations of the grosser of a gross breed.

"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville

Chronic drunk Ted Turner must like Ware's sauced commentary as this Oz-boy sluices his career down the chute.
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And see the world as the world is not."

A.E. Housman? I forget. Michael Ware looks like a pub brawler with a chip on his shoulder, and he appears to have picked sides in this war---not the right side, but Ware is not in his right mind.

Ware's known for his terrorist interviews etc.

HOW does he get those interviews? Calling up Terrorists Are Us?

No. IMHO he gets these interviews because he's known to be sympathetic to terrorists, and thus has a built in incentive (his professional specialty is terrorist interviews/propaganda) to shade EVERYTHING to the terrorists liking.

For Ware NOT to heckle and NOT to take the Al Qaeda line would jeopardize at the least his ability to get interviews. At the worst he secures his physical safety from terrorists by being a knowing useful tool.

Lest anyone think this is out of line Eason Jordan of CNN admitted they secured the physical safety of correspondents and other CNN staffers in Baghdad by not reporting things they learned and shading reports to always be favorable to Saddam.

Given their history you can't trust either CNN or Ware to be truthful in anything they say.

I'm thinking of starting a diary calling for the boycott of CNN and all its advertisers until this irresponsible, unprofessional terrorist propagandist is fired (and dropping their overall sympathies for terrorists would be nice too). good idea? bad idea?

These press conference things tend to be televised, who's got the footage of this?