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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (104683)	5/20/2005 3:17:50 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The Taliban faithful never confuse facts with a good tale. You are a true believer.

To: E who wrote (104683)	5/20/2005 4:31:48 PM
From: Bill	Respond to of 108807

The Empire strikes back II (Joe Scarborough) I take back the nice things I said about The New York Times last week. Forget the day the editorial page wrote a few nice words about our soldiers' work in Iraq. Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops. Today shocking evidence that U.S. troops abused prisoners in Afghanistan is splashed in a massive front page article in the Times. The details come from an Army report and the timing of the Times article is suspect at best. Like I said earlier this week, media elites always protect themselves. When Newsweek got slammed it was only a matter of time before other media outlets dug up the most offending articles they could find on our men and women in uniform. I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks. Since Newsweek and the mainstream media were set back on their heels by the Koran story, it was critical that the Times put out another piece to show just how terrible American troops were. This morning they succeeded. Here's the punch line: the reports of detailed abuse come from 2002. That's right. The New York Times finds allegations of abuse that go back three years! Coincidentally released a few days after Newsweek skins its nose writing an article that defames our troops. But as I said earlier this week, these guys still don't get it. Americans will give them no credit for circling the wagons around Newsweek if it comes at the price of bashing our troops. And despite the Times' self-righteous claims of trying to protect human rights, this is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire.