Fox news ticker taunts protesters

The fairest and balancedest newsmedia megalith Fox News recently used its news ticker in NYC to mock protesters: "War protester auditions here today. . . . Thanks for coming!" "How do you keep a war protester in suspense? Ignore them." "Attention protesters: The Michael Moore Fan Club meets Thursday at a phone booth at Sixth Avenue and 50th Street." This juxtaposes well with a FOX report "Commuters Sound Off on Traffic-Blocking Rallies." I like how it's written.

Does anyone ponder how Orwellian it was to have the U.S. support the weapons inspection program, poke around the country and then suddenly an invasion? Most odd, which makes this collection of American radio propaganda broadcast into Iraq rather creepy. Thx to Schwartz.

They are holding teach-ins here at Macalester Wednesday and Thursday. (links) I'll prolly go to some.

Yay, Congress is annoyed enough to actually consider investigating Halliburton for ripping off the government.

There is a lot of anarchy in Iraq now, as the Anglo coalition doesn't really have the ability to keep order in the cities they've captured. A roaming gang of punks called the 'Iraqi Coalition of National Unity' is lootingand terrorizing people in Najf, with American support. That's just the thing. The Americans and Brits are trying to get interim governments going, with who? The same tribal leaders that ran things under Saddam, because they have all the power and allegiance. But first we must pass through some chaos, before enforcing 'law and order,' which will have to be an order supporting the same locals as before. Or maybe not, but I don't see how.

Robert Fisk in Baghdad reports on the American attack on the capital. Three news reporters were killed today by American bombing, including Al-Jazeera's correspondent. A shell slammed into the Palestine Hotel, where journalists operate from. Fisk's report from April 8 looks more at the historic precedent of Westerners invading an Arab capital for the first time in 80 years:

Amid the crack of gunfire and the tracer streaking across the river, and the huge oil fires that the Iraqis lit to give them cover to retreat, one had to look away ? to the great river bridges further north, into the pale green waters of that most ancient of rivers ? to realise that a Western army on a moral crusade had broken through to the heart of an Arab city for the first time since General Allenby marched into Jerusalem in 1918. But Allenby walked into Jerusalem on foot, in reverence for Christ's birthplace and yesterday's American thrust into Baghdad had neither humility nor honour about it.

An interesting opinion piece points out that we are destined for serious problems in Iraq because of the lack of international and regional harmony. Oh yeah, did you hear Osama calling for suicide attacks on Arab client states? Darn him! A funny piece about everyone betraying everyone else and being utterly useless.

Posted by HongPong at April 9, 2003 12:43 AM
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