Posted on 11/16/2004 2:44:57 PM PST by NYTexan
Like Rush said today, President Bush should give this soldier a medal at the white House!
I agree - Sites' blog ( http://www.kevinsites.net/ ) appears to be very supportive of the Marines with whom he is embedded - unfortunately, the anchors at NBC and Al-Jazeera don't share his support.
bttt
If Sites is so supportive of the Marines, why did he shoot this tape and send it in? He couldn't be that dense and not know that they would use it against our troops. He had the option to not record the incident. I say, get the media out of there. They're only putting our troops in danger. I don't think any of us would want a camera following us around while we're trying to stay alive and fight a war against insane zealots.
DA*N!
Don't do that stuff. I was off to the gun rack.
That's a gotcha! Things are so goofy, this made sense, like I mean, all the way to the end!
It's satire
While Mr. Sites may be supportive, the Editors are not. Regardless of his supportive feelings, though, Sites is there to make a living as a freelancer. He has shot much more footage than this, and I'm sure he sends it all in to be parsed for inclusion, since he only gets paid for what they use. Normally, the news editors pick and choose - out of thousands of hours of video - that which they will use. In this case, they were looking for something to incriminate, and they believed they found it in this video.
In this case, regardless of Mr. Sites supportiveness, I'm with you regarding the embedding of reporters in close battle - NBC's and Al-Jazeera's editors have used this to deliberately damage American Marines, and put them in danger. They are using it to aid and comfort the enemy - and so, if possible, we should deny them that ability.
bunp!
We can all imagine it to be true.
An outstanding satire has you going with it for at least a moment before the bs/humor light comes on. This was excellent.
"Something has GOT to be done about these Scrappleface posts!"
LOL!
Suggestions? (I must be out of my mind asking YOU this!)
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