Posted on 07/26/2005 7:55:18 AM PDT by Cecily
A truck tire hits a flagged wire, a roadside bomb explodes, a handsome private with shredded leg screams in agony. In the bloody chaos of the moment, his soldier buddies panic. One pukes.
Stop the cameras! Sir!
"People don't act like that when an i.e.d. (improvised explosive device) goes off. They make us look like idiots. We're not idiots!" said a first lieutenant previewing "Over There," the new TV series from Steven Bochco ("NYPD Blue," "Hill Street Blues") that debuts tomorrow night on FX cable network. It's set in Iraq, hyped as "true to life" by producers and hailed by critics as "unflinching" and "gut-wrenching."
"Bogus" was the preferred adjective among the eight soldiers -- most of them Iraq vets -- viewing the series pilot last week at Camp Murray, headquarters of the Washington State National Guard in Tacoma.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...
That's too bad--it looked like it might be worth watching.
If Bochco is producing it, you know it's BOGUS! LMAO
Sounds like some old WW II films.
Tony Snow gave a brief review of the program this morning.
It should like a typical hollow-wood rendition.
FX is bad about pc-ing newy topics.
Note the headline "These Soldiers Say 'Over There' Is 'Bogus'". They emphasize that this story is an anecdote; that one particular collection of soldiers, having watched an episode, called it bogus. There's nothing wrong with that. That's fine, that's accurate, that's good journalism. Except for negative stories, the media always omits the qualifier. If the story is about a couple of returned soldiers who oppose the war, the headline is, "Iraq Veterans Oppose War." If the story is about a handful of Iraqis who are protesting the occupation, the headline is, "Iraqis Demand U.S. Withdrawal." They never, never use the headline to accurately portray anecdotal evidence when it paints the United States in a negative light.
"Bogus" was the preferred adjective among the eight soldiers
This is more of the same Sleazywood crapola.
Sleazywood does this to make their own warped lives seem less warped. They desperately try to normalize their sick, out-of-the-mainstream life.
Doesn't seem to work....they are still FREAKS.
Hollywood inject trumped-up drama into real life? I'm shocked, shocked.....
Was thinking the same thing....although I must say that I had my reservations that it would be spun as anti-war by highlighting the suffering and death of our troops. This confirms my thoughts.....it's a shame...they really could have done something positive for the war effort and over all morale with this too.
How about this: Roadside bomb explodes. Humvee get hit. Wounded soldiers yells out. Buddies act like pros, one giving first aid and the others hunting down the cockroach who set off the bomb and capturing him.
I'd watch.
Yet M*A*S*H was awesome, nonetheless.
The P-I may be taking a little journalistic liberty here. I suspect the actual preferred adjective might have been different, although it very well may have also begun with the letter B.
Of course they're "Vietnamising" it. That's the only way to push their agenda and "prove" that it's a quagmire.
Good observation. Very subtle yet very diceptive on the part of the MSM. Another attempt at immersing their bias (or lack of) when it is convenient to their cause er I mean their story!
FX is blocked in our house except when they are showing NASCAR.
Yup...my favorite M*A*S*H character was Frank Burns. He was a buffoon but the only conservative on the show...even though the writers made him a hypocritical two-timing moron.
Sounds like one that I will love to miss.
I had a feeling this one would be clunker. (The name "Bochco" was a clue.) Not surprised at all. We've already decided not to watch.
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