Posted on 06/26/2004 9:31:44 AM PDT by ArmyBratproud
...We need to understand the reality of that gore, and we need to understand it again and again. That's why I differ from my colleagues in the media, even the fine organization with whom I'm associated, FOX News, when I say, show me those beheadings of innocents like Paul Johnson and 33-year-old South Korean humanitarian worker Kim Sun-il.
Show me the senselessness of their killings. Show me the evil behind their killings. Show me it. Show me all of it. And don't sanitize it. Don't blur it, mask it, color it or frame it. Don't gloss over it and try to make us not see it or be appalled by it. You see, I want us appalled. I want us angry. I want us outraged. I want us sickened.
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I think it was T.S. Eliott that said something like
"Man is an animal that can stand only so much truth."
Sadly, today's media is largley composed of VERY effeminant types.
Until those same bastards are dead, at which point we can calmly go back to our regularly-scheduled civilization.
But not before.
Honestly, this is what it will take to get the public shocked out of their complacency.
Go Neil!
Just don't try to force it on the rest of us. I'm not interesting in consuming their propaganda or watching their snuff films.
I guess it's fair to say Cavuto flies the flag instead of hanging yellow ribbons.
If it were an American doing it to an Arab it would be all over every nightly newscast for a month. If it were a white male doing it to a black man it would be the most widely reported newstory of the year. It doesn't fit the agenda. Portraying our enemies as evil is of no interest to our media, afterall we have a Micheal Moore movie out that clearly shows Bush is the evil enemy.
For a second there I thought he was talking about Algore. Maybe they should show the gore of the beheadings in the background when Algore rants and then ask the question whether Al has lost his head as well.
cavuto is right...when we don't see the tree fall in the woods its like it did not fall at all.
To my knowledge, no one has shown or leeked the video of the 9/11 victims from the towers.
Notify the families. Set a time so parents can make decisions and show it. Read from their bible first then show it. Show what happened at the WTC too. I don't want to watch this either but we need to , to see what our enemy would do to us, our children, our family if they get the chance.
But not before!
That's the boiled down truth which needs repeating over & over until the job gets done, no more no less!
Start with the sanitization of the Trade Center site. I found it quite unsettling that supposedly all there was to see was concrete rubble and glass. Why do I need a big brother in the government and media to decide what is too much reality, then switch back to Freddy Krueger after the news?
Neal is as confused as some people on this forum are. Neal thinks leftists who see this will suddenly swerve into conservative territory on matters of national defense. Of couse that's preposterous. The left will mearly blame Bush policy for the outcome, case closed.
I have objected to the full video being shown. It's shock value is worthless in the real world, a world where standing up to terrorists is deemed 'causing the problem', not dealing with it head on.
The showing of the video footage thus becomes nothing more than a snuff film . I don't watch snuff films. I don't need to see the act to know that cutting off someone's head is wrong. I don't need to have this fact reinforced. I doubt many people do. Obviously others disagree. They think seeing the act will act as a magic potient, innoculating the left from being shills for Hussein/Laden/terrorist.
Dream on.
I love Neil!
He tells it like it is and has no problem verbalizing his displeasure of all the others that come against AMERICAN views.
Whilst theirs, comes from the pit of Hell!
And YES. I do believe our Country is based on Christian principles!
He loves our President, our Country, and our honorable Military!!! God Bless 'em all!
It's beliefs like his that built this Country!
I'm just thankful he has his own show.
Now he can speak what I and many others, many, many, many others think! And people are listening.
Nobody wants commercial content to be ruined by reality. Gotta sell more stuff ya know..........Reality kind of kills the buying spirit for those new Nike's.
They don't necessarily need to show the snuff films. But the media should be doing what the media did, for instance during World War II.
Everyone knew about the Bataan Death March. Everyone knew about the Japanese treachery at Pearl Harbor. Everyone knew about Nazi brutality. Some of it was pictures, some of it was words, but mostly it was the media as a whole, understanding which side of the war they were on.
Our media is on the other side.
We are not "Civilized". We have become timid and cowardly in pretense of being civilized. The civilized are aware and just. The beheadings, as well as the people falling from the WTC should - with some parental warning - be given Rodney King-like exposure in the mass media. When the enormity of the horror and savage brutality of these acts are truly comprehended by Americans, we will then be truly "Civilized".
I heartily agree with your take on the media. Instead what the media seems to be determined to do is break our will to carry out the task we must. The evidence reveals that they want Hussein in power, desire Laden be allowed to go about his business, and that the U.S. never go beyond it's own borders in self-defense.
Hollywierd has also done a flip-flop since WWII. At that time they made inspirational movies, driving public opinion to support the war effort. Today???
Both these groups deserve our complete disgust.
Yes, I truly believe the media ARE the opposition, in most cases.
They only want to show the side that brings down our Republic.
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