Slashdot's Myopia
Sometimes, nerds and geeks can't see past their keyboards. And it's a shame.
Yes, I hear we painted some schools in Iraq. Oh, and the power is now on for four hours per day instead of two and a half! Oil exports are, uh, down since Hussein. But I'm sure that after three and a half years, we'll get right on that. It's all the fault of the oil companies anyway.
Yes, there's a lot of good going on in Iraq! Lots of radio hosts have seen it themselves from the safety of hotel rooms in the green zone!
That should mollify the public, what with 38 deaths per day on average due to Sunni/Shia violence in the low-grade civil war we helped make possible.
You know, Rush Limbaugh is right - the whole reason Iraqis are killing each other is the media's reluctance to report the good news. And everything wrong with American politics is the fault of a few "radical lefty" bloggers. Maybe those who think there's a lot of good news in Iraq ought to fly over - in uniform or not - and report some good fucking news themselves. (Somehow I think the leading lights of the 101st Fighting Keyboarders (Malkin, Hewitt, Instapundit, AIRottweiler, LGF, etc.) won't be boarding an Emirates flight to Baghdad anytime soon.)
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The only problem is that the extreme right wing of American politics has slowly inched closer to the mainstream, due to the cowed American "mainstream" media - who want to be "in the loop" more than they care about actually reporting the news.
Since the facts are biased toward reality, we might be in the middle of impeachment proceedings against George W. Bush and Richard Cheney if the news media actually did their job. Instead, they'd rather than talking about the latest missing white girl. Months of coverage about a murdered white 17-year-old last summer - and moments of coverage about the 14-year-old raped and murdered by American troops in Iraq last week.
But I'm sure she was a terrorist anyway, right? I mean, she was a nig......- I mean, Hadji. That's what our soldiers call Iraqis.
Luckily, hurricane season is coming, so CNN will have something to debate on the Shit-Your-Nation Room (With Leslie Blitzer) instead of paying attention to the constitutional crisis in progress.
Yes, I hear we painted some schools in Iraq. Oh, and the power is now on for four hours per day instead of two and a half! Oil exports are, uh, down since Hussein. But I'm sure that after three and a half years, we'll get right on that. It's all the fault of the oil companies anyway.
Yes, there's a lot of good going on in Iraq! Lots of radio hosts have seen it themselves from the safety of hotel rooms in the green zone!
That should mollify the public, what with 38 deaths per day on average due to Sunni/Shia violence in the low-grade civil war we helped make possible.
You know, Rush Limbaugh is right - the whole reason Iraqis are killing each other is the media's reluctance to report the good news. And everything wrong with American politics is the fault of a few "radical lefty" bloggers. Maybe those who think there's a lot of good news in Iraq ought to fly over - in uniform or not - and report some good fucking news themselves. (Somehow I think the leading lights of the 101st Fighting Keyboarders (Malkin, Hewitt, Instapundit, AIRottweiler, LGF, etc.) won't be boarding an Emirates flight to Baghdad anytime soon.)
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The only problem is that the extreme right wing of American politics has slowly inched closer to the mainstream, due to the cowed American "mainstream" media - who want to be "in the loop" more than they care about actually reporting the news.
Since the facts are biased toward reality, we might be in the middle of impeachment proceedings against George W. Bush and Richard Cheney if the news media actually did their job. Instead, they'd rather than talking about the latest missing white girl. Months of coverage about a murdered white 17-year-old last summer - and moments of coverage about the 14-year-old raped and murdered by American troops in Iraq last week.
But I'm sure she was a terrorist anyway, right? I mean, she was a nig......- I mean, Hadji. That's what our soldiers call Iraqis.
Luckily, hurricane season is coming, so CNN will have something to debate on the Shit-Your-Nation Room (With Leslie Blitzer) instead of paying attention to the constitutional crisis in progress.
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