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2005-01-15 Iraq-Jordan

Aiding and Abetting the Enemy: the Media in Iraq

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Posted by ed 2005-01-15 2:58:18 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Good catch, ed. I just emailed this out to 25+ people.

LTC Ryan calls a spade a spade - and backs it up.

There is a Twain quote which comes to mind when I read the MSM that cuts to the bone:

"I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see in it, but because of what others have seen in it. We get almost all our wonders at second hand... By and by you sober down, and then you perceive that you have been drunk on the smell of somebody else's cork."

As I said in my email to friends...

That rather neatly sums up the MSM (MainStream Media) offerings - since the advent of the "professional" media in all its forms. For several decades they have told us what is going on, what is important about it, and what we should think or do about it. With the rise of the Internet, communication has become so simple, so prolific, and so timely as to make a hash of the MSM monopoly. This is a remarkable opportunity... though there is great confusions about source credibility, that sorts itself out over time and you see who is credible - and who is not. Much of the MSM has been shown lacking in neutrality, surprisingly short on expertise, and desperately pushing various editorial agendas. Not exactly awe or confidence inspiring, to say the least. And Twain nailed them a hundred years ago.

Posted by .com 2005-01-15 1:10:50 PM|| 2005-01-15 1:10:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Dan Rather and Peter Jennings, along with a U.S. Marine assigned to protect them, were hiking through the Iraqi desert one day when they were captured by terrorists. They were tied up, led to a village, and brought before the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al Qaeda leader in Iraq.
Zarqawi said, "I am familiar with your western custom of granting the condemned a last wish; so, before we kill and dismember you, do you have any last requests?"

Dan Rather said, "Well, I'm a Texan; so I'd like one last bowlful of hot spicy chili." Zarqawi nodded to an underling who left and returned with the chili. Rather ate it all and said, "Now I can die content."

Peter Jennings said, "I am Canadian, so I'd like to hear the song 'O Canada' one last time." Zarqawi nodded to a terrorist who had studied the Western world and knew the music. He returned with some rag-tag musicians and played the anthem. Jennings sighed and declared he could now die peacefully.

Zarqawi turned and said, "And now, Mr. U.S. Marine, what is your final wish?"

"Kick me in the ass," said the Marine.

"What?" asked Zarqawi. "Will you mock us in your last hour?"

"No, I'm not kidding. I want you to kick me in the ass," insisted the Marine. So the leader shoved him into the open, and kicked him in the ass.

The Marine went sprawling, but rolled to his knees, pulled out a 9mm pistol hidden in his cammies, and shot Zarqawi dead.

In the resulting confusion, he leapt to his knapsack, pulled out his M4 carbine, and sprayed the remaining terrorists with gunfire. In a flash, they were either dead or fleeing for their lives.

As the Marine was untying Rather and Jennings, they asked him, "Why didn't you just shoot them? Why did you ask them to kick you in the ass?"

"What," replied the Marine, "and have you assholes call me the aggressor?"

Posted by John Q. Citizen 2005-01-15 1:19:24 PM|| 2005-01-15 1:19:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Humorous, Yes! However, the names have been changed to protect the military. We are the ONLY ones that are NOT Traitors like those mentioned above.

Posted by leaddog2 2005-01-15 1:34:46 PM|| 2005-01-15 1:34:46 PM|| Front Page Top

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