Fox News to Put Together Its Own List
Sun May 2nd, 2004 17:08 MSTFox News will read it’s own list next weekend, in response to Ted Koppel’s disgusting climbing on the coffins of those killed in the Iraq theater of battle. Koppel’s actions were clearly meant to delegitimatize that war, by showing only its cost in lives, not showing the cost of Afghanistan, and not mentioning any of the positive accomplishments of the war.
Fox will create a list of positive accomplishments in the War on Terror.
This is a better way to honor the dead - a positive tribute to what they achieved, instead of a cynical partisan use of the dead to imply that they died for nothing.
It is no wonder that the following appears in his biography.
In 1994, Koppel was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the Republic of France. He has received honorary degrees from numerous universities in the United States.
When?
Next weekend. I don’t any more than that.
I’ve just read the entry regarding Ted Koppel’s citation of literary and journalistic honor, bestowed upon him by those crafty Frenchmen, those ami de cour! Of all the Gaul!
(Little did they know that, when they issued the award, they misspelled “Lettres.” Small wonder they once spent 30 years fighting a losing war with their then-disunified Germanic neighbors!)
I’m disappointed in Fox for jumping on that bandwagon. As usual, Mark Steyn has the best commentary on Koppel’s exercise.
Fox is not jumping on the bandwagon. Fox is doing the equivalent of a counter-protest.
They are going to show the good we have accomplished. This will be a little bit of balance against Koppel.
I applaud them.