Posted on 11/14/2003 6:31:21 AM PST by OESY
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:50:22 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Jessica Lynch may have been the victim of an extremely bad car crash in Iraq, but she has had to endure a demolition derby of type-casting ever since. Patriotic heroine, propaganda tool, overnight millionairess, sexual-assault victim, media darling, anti-warrior, photographer's vamp -- it's all been projected on her. Some of it might even be deserved, but it doesn't matter. Whether she likes it or not, Jessica Lynch comprises enough cultural personae to keep Camille Paglia occupied for the next decade. And all because someone missed a turn on the road to Baghdad.
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