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2007-04-04
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5100 off topic or abusive comments have been dumped since 3/26/2004. Today's count is 2.
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1 Swan I hope you don't mind an off-topic comment, but this is important: There is a great post on The Carpetbagger Report from a few days ago about the mainstream media's (specifically Time magazine's) ignoring the prosecutor purge scandal. http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/10367.html What explains the failure of the mainstream media to cover the purge scandal for so long, and so many other scandals? Do you think somebody just set up newspaper editors to cheat on their wives, and threatened to tell if the editors wouldn’t play ball when they come back some day and ask for something? It wouldn’t be that hard to do, when you think about it. People wouldn’t talk about it. 2007-04-04 19:05
2 Aris Katsaris Jules> "And the list probably goes on and on." Indeed. But for the full understanding of the propaganda situation you also need think of the various ways that Iran *could* have acted in regards to the situation -- e.g. if they had forced the prisoners to pose in naked pyramids, fierce dogs threaten them, waterboarded a few, tortured another few to death, had the men naked with panties on their head, the women naked with male underwear on hers, photograph the lot in such a condition. Then hold them for years and years, during which time they'll be often subject to sleep-deprivation, waterboarding, and other means of torture. Such a treatment would have effectively managed to shut up every Iran-appeasing voice in the West -- the same way that Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and the like has effectively managed to shut up so many moderate voices in the Muslim world and other possible supporters of you elsewhere. Trailing wife> You don't *really* think that's a genuine muslim, do you? That's merely a caricature of one. And if anything it displays the dishonesty of whoever made him. 2007-04-04 12:45