Hopefully you are coming here after reading the first post. I didn't want to have it go on too long, so I thought it would be better to break it up into a separate post. Okay, so we saw Fox News' take on the article and I proposed the question to you guys and hopefully you responded to it. Your responses are due tomorrow, so get on it!
Now, let us get back to checking this next article. Next up is MSNBC. I usually don't check out MSNBC so I can say that my knowledge of them are their reporting is limited. I do know they tend to lean to the left, so this will give me an opportunity to see. Here is their article. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/critics-blast-iran-deal-us-defeat.
'Critics blast Iran deal as US 'defeat'. Now, ain't them some fightin' words? I think mentioning the words 'US' and 'Defeat' in the same sentence is bound to get under the skin of some people. Its not a phrase Americans usually hear, or like to hear. Think back to reports of America 'losing' the Vietnam War. It is certainly a much stronger and biased headline than Fox News, and I'm surprised already.
"Republicans and even some hawkish Democrats greeted the Iran nuclear accord with skepticism Sunday, in a challenge to President Obama as he tries to bring about a peaceful, negotiated end to decades of hostilities"
There is that word again. Skepticism. What is this, that Conan segment where they show that many of the same news stations use the same script https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFsDnn9FjOQ? I don't know, as a reader, the word skepticism is a unusual word that I don't think is used unless they had a reason.
Our very own Saxby Chambliss is quoted as well. "Sen. Saxby Chambliss, the Georgia Republican, expressed regrets about the easing what he said were stern and effective sanctions: “We’ve got all the leverage in the negotiations, and we’ve let them out of the trap,” he said during ABC’s This Week."
Now, I'm not very happy about the use of the word "trap". The Iranian people are suffering from the sanctions because of their government. I don't have a source for this, but one of the articles might have mentioned they have a unemployment rate of like 24% or something crazy like that. We flip out when it got to be like 10% here in America. A normal unemployment rate is what, 3-4% for a healthy economy? I don't think our elected officials should be looking at this situation like its a game or a 'trap'. It is people's lives we are talking about. We put everything else but humanity first it seems like. What are your thoughts on this article?
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