The "Truth Tour" has been pulled together by the conservative Web cast radio group Rightalk.com and Move America Forward, a non-profit conservative group backed by a Republican-linked public relations firm in California.Well, bon voyage -- and don't forget to pack the steel-reinforced turtlenecks if any of you are planning on venturing out of the Green Zone. We are overdue for a beheading video.
"The reason why we are doing it is we are sick and tired of seeing and hearing headlines by the mainstream media about our defeat in Iraq," Melanie Morgan, a talk radio host for KSFO Radio in San Francisco and co-chair of Move America Forward, said.
[Morgan] said the group is going to Iraq to support American troops, who see a disconnection with what they experience and what's being reported in the United States. She said the incongruence is leading to "morale problems."According to retired Air Force Col. Buzz Patterson, host of "The Buzz Cut" on Rightalk, "The war is being won, if not already won, I think....[Iraq] is stabilized and we want the soldiers themselves to tell the story."
The war is over and Iraq is stabilized? Now that would be a scoop.
Will reports from Truth Tour members be objective? Well, listen to Mark Williams.
Mark Williams, talk show host for KFBK in Sacramento and a member of the delegation, said the group will report "what we see and what we are told," but their collective feeling is that there is mostly good.Morgan is adamant: "We are not going to engage in hotel journalism." Well, good luck sweetie. I really mean that, too.
"We believe that the emphasis has been placed on the negative and if Americans knew what really was going on over there they would have an entirely different picture," said Williams.
"We are Americans first and journalists second, as opposed to the crop of 'pinkos' that tell us on the news every night that America is going to hell in a hand basket," he said.
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