Posted on 05/22/2004 6:09:55 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln
Let's let the military in Iraq and Afghanistan vote first, before the election:
It is the Partisan Press.
They claim not to be on the side of the terrorists, but they sure aren't on America's side.
Lando
Lord Haw Haw was hanged for being a mouthpiece for Hitler. The same should happen to today's AQ boosters in the media.
bttt
If there was a Republican president in the White House, during WWII, and we had the same media back then, there would be NO Holocaust survivors.
Explain that?
I'll bet someone has them- parts were seen before the war.
But the author is coorect, our media will do nothing at all that makes Saddam look bad. The US, though, is fair game.
had FDR been a republican - the nazis would have gotten "fair and balanced" coverage in the US media. they could never have shown the true effects of the holocaust, it would have demonized the nazis. its the same thing here - if they showed the true torture in iraq; this story, the one about the surgical removal of hands being spiked - then fewer americans would care that some prisoner was punched or nude or had a barking door go after him.
And today the likes of Dan Rather are toted as hero's!(to some) Go figure.
In order to deny a Republican President a second term, I believe that the present mainstream media would have looked the other way, concerning the concentration camps. Does anyone really believe that if this was Algore in the White House, with things going exactly the way that they have been going now, that the media would have published any of those prison photos.
and sadly - Fox News is part of the cabal. What are they showing? The Berg beheading? This stuff?
Even with his WPA and etc, he was to the FAR right of even a Republican of nowadays! : (
Thanks!
Most people's definition of obscenity includes the graphic depiction of violence against humans. These torture tapes definitely cross the line. Showing them cannot be defended as satisfying the public's "need to know."
I hope any broadcaster who shows the tapes gets his FCC license pulled, immediately.
As horrific as it sounds, I think your speculation is correct.
They would have taken the side of the National Socialist German Worker's Party and tipped them off of major actions, and blocked reporting on the atrocities. Like Rwanda, for instance.
Plus, back then, the gov't asked all reporters not to report on actinides, uranium, thorium, plutonium and so on to protect Manhattan Project Engineering District. Today, the whole Manhattan project would have been outed by Ellsberg-like "heroes".
They would have covered up the concentration camps and the Bataan Death March, and put every training accident and bombing of cities in Japan and Germany on page one as war crimes and atrocities.
We had a censored media in the US during WWII. The American Public and our Armed forces Knew nothing of the Holocaust until the last days and end of the war. FDR knew all about it though from at least 1940 even before we joined the war and knew about how it escalated. Admiral Canaris- head of German Military intel attempted to contact FDR on several occassions in order to get his support for a coup against Hitler. FDR refused any and all contact with him. In fact- he mocked the entire Front of Decent People- when they were finally rounded up after the last attempt to assassinate Hitler. He had leaflets dropped over Germany during their trials saying how if the "Junker militerist aristocracy" thought killing Hitler was going to save Germany they were mistaken.
My Question? How many Jews died because of FDR's slaven loyalty to Stalin?
Perhaps if we had a free media back then FDR wouldn't be wasting lives like he was playing chess.
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