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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (389718)	4/10/2003 7:30:48 PM
From: username	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

I'm enjoying the media coverage of the war. Not the embedded reporters, they seem to be pretty much OK. The other ones are hysterical. I flip around for a kind of variety/comedy thing. This morning, some idiot woman on Fox claimed that all the roads in and out of Baghdad were "blocked to Iraqis". Then another different one appeared over a graphic that said "Operation Iraqi Freedom" and explained how "Iraqi fighters" were still fighting. She didn't elucidate on who the "Iraqi fighters" were fighting for or if they were for or against the "Iraqi Freedom", but she did mention "para-military pockets of resistance", which I guess is a pita pocket-style sandwich or something. Then I switched to CNN just in time to see recap of the "fall of Baghdad", with more "Iraqis" dancing and laughing and hugging Americans. I guess they all showed up when they were stopped at the roadblock. I couldn't tell if they were "fighters" but they seemed civil enough. Then, wonder of wonders, I saw another moron in New York ask his embedded reporter (in reference to the identity of the suicide bombing guy that killed 4 Marines), "Was he Al Qaeda or Fedayeen or what?" I kid you not. I wish I would have been that embedded reporter. I would have looked sternly at the New York moron and said, "Well, we looked for his Al Quaeda ID card and we didn't find it, and we searched religiously for his Fedayeen dog tags, but there were none, and when we questioned the part of his head that was left in one piece, it failed to answer, so we are unfortunately unable to give you anything concrete. Back to you in the studio." These journalists, it appears, have failed to do their homework. A cynic could suggest that their mental melange of regime combatants, Fedayeen, foreign religious fundamentalists and innocent civilians might not be 'fair' or 'the most trusted', and might even paint a less-than-accurate picture for the rest of the world; but I take whatever laughs I can get and move along.