Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen in Tripoli on assignment told Russia Today that mainstream media outlets such as MSNBC, owned by military contractor GE, FOX and CNN are not accurately reporting on the war in Libya. Events reported by the big news outlets “had nothing in common with what we all saw on the grounds,” Madsen said. “The media is silent.”
“Worse,” Madsen added, “they are putting out disinformation rather than reporting facts as they see them on the ground.” Madsen told reporters that Gaddafi is only gaining support in Tripoli, and as rebels rejoin his forces, the media in America does not bother telling people. “Many former rebels say, ‘look, we weren’t happy with Gadhafi,’” says Madsen, but as NATO is slaughtering civilians, they are becoming more in favor of the colonel, despite his reputation, because he is a Libyan national. And, most importantly, not a foreign invader. No matter how the media is painting it, Madsen says, this is far from being just “a Libyan situation.”
“This is another constitutional show-down between the White House and Congress,” he said.
70 lawmakers on Capitol Hill voted to withdraw support for Obama’s war as the United States and NATO continue to wage a bloody “peace-keeping” “kinetic” action in Libya.
A recent Rasmusssen poll suggests that only about 20% of the American public supports the aggressive action against Gadhafi.