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To: maceng2 who wrote (65219)	6/19/2005 3:16:31 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Re: This news seems to be suppressed at the BBC. Hmmm, I wonder if 'suppressed' is the proper word to use. I did a search on "Leigh Ann Hester" in Google News and got 220 hits. (Compared to ~2,300 for "Downing Street Memo"). tinyurl.com How important is the Hester story compared to the Downing Street Memo (DSM) story? If I rate Hester a 1, I'd rate the DSM at 1,000. So, she's getting ten times more coverage than she deserves. Before I'd assume that the BBC is suppressing anything, I'd ask if the 220 outlets that are publishing articles about Hester were also too early on the fraud that the Department of Death perpetrated on the Jessica Lynch rescue fairy tale, or on the fraud that the Department of Death perpetrated in the Pat Tillman fratricide, or, for that matter, in the fraud that George Bush perpetrated when he awarded the Medal of Freedom to the utterly undeserving George Tenet and Paul Bremer. Maybe the BBC is simply researching the story about how Ms. Hester came to be a called a heroine according to a completely disreputable and dishonorable source like the U.S. military. Maybe the BBC is engaged in responsible journalism. While 220 outlets in the U.S. (and the Scotsman) may have some egg on their face when the real story of Ms. Hester's engagement finally emerges from the fog of war.