You can draw your own conlusions. I’ve drawn mine, but without evidence I don’t know for sure.

I also feel that most of the news stations that continue to show the pictures of the prisoners, are anti-bush. I may be wrong, but it looks awefully funny that this happened months ago, and it is just now coming out in the media…it is getting closer to election. Our government & military officials had been looking into the matter before this blew out of proportion within the media light.

I keep thinking about the situation with Nick Berge and the scandal abuse of the prisoners. Which is worse I say? If it were you or me, I would much rather be humilated than tortured and murdered. Being tortured and murdered is more inhumane than being stripped naked. What do you think?

Amber

Actually, in the few instances I watch CBS, if I’m polled about what I’m watching, I tell them Fox News. I live in a location where IF-detecting trucks (which can measure what channel you are watching from outside your house) cannot get in. I don’t know if they use those systems in the US, but they do in England (to enforce their BBC tax). So I am certainly not helping CBS. Furthermore, I use a PVR and skip ads, so they aren’t getting indirect revenue from me either.

We were once a “watching diary” family for a large polling outfit. You can bet that those programs never showed up in the diary, whether I watched them or not.

To hell with them.

By the way, it is too simplistic to think they are just about ratings. They are also political activists. They will show things that hurt Bush or our Iraq war effort (Afghanistan is still, I think, a little bit politically correct) just for the purpose of doing so. If you haven’t read Bernie Goldberg’s books on the subject, you might find them enlightening.

If you watch the coverage of the last two weeks, there was a lot of dramatic footage available of battle in Iraq. There was a sensational footage of Nick Berge, but all they could do was find things our military did wrong.

They could have done the same thing in any prison in the nation. Why don’t they mention the rape epidemic in our prisons? At least it would provide balance, and could be very dramatic (dig up an ex-con who was imprisoned for something trivial and who now has AIDS).

No, you have to understand that these people have a specific set of political views and an agenda.

I was once a co-host of a nationally syndicated radio show (more stations than Howard Stern). It wasn’t a political show, but i was able to interject my personal political views there. So the show was a little bit political – on one side (pro-gun rights), and I did it on purpose.

These people have much larger audiences and the power of video editing. They are using it against Bush.

Furthermore, notice that they showed a lot of very objectionable (homoerotic) pictures of the Iraqis, but they didn’t show the terrorists sawing off the head of Berg. So the prison pictures are in good taste but the murder was in bad taste? Give me a break.

The Berg murder showed the nature of our enemy. The press want’s people focusing on the “evil” of our forces and by implication, the “irresponsibility” or “incompetence” of the Bush administration.

So the prison scandal will go on in the standard form…. sensational information trickling out, grandstanding congressional “inquiries,” calls for Rumsfeld to step down, etc.

Watch the pace of events. The pace shows two things:

1) The herd mentality of journalists.

2) The pacing set to do maximum damage – in other words, to drag out the news of the bad as long as possible, obscuring news of the good.

Fox News has adopted a new practice, which will get them attacked in the journalism world: they intentionally show something good every day about what our people are doing in Iraq. And unlike the rest of the news who do the opposite, Fox isn’t sneakiy about it. They tell you they are doing it, and why.

It’s no wonder they beat CNN 3 to 1 in prime time.

Thank you for your comments and I agree.

Let me shed a little light on this. In 1971, John Kerry, who is favored by the mainstream “anybody but Bush” media, made many strong accusations of atrocities being normal practice for American soldiers. These accusations were not true then, and in fact those accusations and many other things he said were calculated to damage our will to fight. And it gets even worse than that.

By highlighting abuses by our soldiers, whether My Lai, Tiger Force or now Abu Ghraib, they seek to convince the public that Kerry was right to make those charges.

Kerry knows that his speech and it’s real meaning are eventually going to be a matter of debate. He is so wary of that period that his biography was carefully structured to hide the fact that he was still a Naval officer when he was saying these things, and then when he was forced to partially release his Naval records, he changed his biography to remove the coverup and not mention any service dates!

Here is what he said, to a Senate committee while under oath, and to television cameras which spread this all over the world. If you read it all, you will find the source of some of the myths that we Vietnam Veterans have had to live with, and some of the myths that to this day are believed by many people in the world.

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