Caption:
Najaf - A U.S. soldier uses a dummy to draw an insurgent sniper into view. (Photo by Jim MacMillan, August 20, 2004.
I hope someone will be kind enough to post it here for freeper comments.
Leni
Yeah, that's great, give'em a prize for that. Well I won't veiw them, that's for darn sure.
We must crush the left, every last one of the buggers, under the heel of our boots. It's going to take 100 years at least, how long did it take the destroyers to get where they are today?
Geez, the bias is about as subtle as an RPG. Every photo could be captioned either "U.S. bad", "Insurgents brave", or "Iraq in Chaos".
This pretty well demonstrates why some of us refer to them as "Putzpuller Prizes."
He said even during WWII they ran down the American War Effort.
I learned and I have remembered it.The AP today is a Leftist mouthpiece just as it was then.
Some of these need to be "recaptioned"...FReeper style!
Caption:
Najaf - A U.S. soldier uses a dummy to draw an insurgent sniper into view. (Photo by Jim MacMillan, August 20, 2004.
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Analyzing the AP's Pulitzer-winning photos
This year, the prize went to the Associated Press staff for, as the Pulitzer organization's site says, "its stunning series of photographs of bloody yearlong combat inside Iraqi cities."
I looked at the twenty photographs and broke them into groups on the basis of content. Here are my results:
• U.S. troops injured, dead, or mourning: 3 (2, 3, 11)
• Iraqi civillians harmed by the war: 7 (4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 13, 18)
• Insurgents looking determined or deadly: 3 (6, 15, 20)
• US troops looking overwhelmed or uncertain: 3 (7, 12, 14)
• US troops controlling Iraqi prisoners: 2 (16, 17)
• Iraqis celebrating attacks on US forces: 2 (1, 19)
Equally telling is what the photos don't show:
• US forces looking heroic: 0
• US forces helping Iraqi civillians: 0
• Iraqis expressing support for US forces: 0
• Iraqis expressing opposition to insurgents: 0
Not only do the twenty photos consistently portray the American invasion and occupation of Iraq as an unmitigated disaster, but, as Michelle Malkin notes, at least one of them (number 20, depicting the insurgents' shocking execution of Iraqi election workers) has been exposed (by Powerline, Belmont Club, and others) as the result of at least some degree of coordination between the AP photographer and the insurgents themselves.
There hasn't been as disgraceful a Pulitzer Prize since NYT newsman Walter Duranty picked one up for sweeping Stalin's mass famines under the rug back in 1932. Shame on the Associated Press for its biased photojournalism, and shame on the Pulitzer Prize Board for "honoring" it.
Dead/wounded/mourning Iraqi civilians: 8
Dead/wounded Americans: 4
Terrorists/Insurgents in action: 4
U.S. Soldiers in action: 4
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| Fallujah - A 1st Division Marine carries a good luck mascot in his backpack as his unit pushed into western neighborhoods of Fallujah. Coalition forces launched a major November offensive for control of the city. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus, November 14, 2004.) |
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It reminds me of some of these threads: Terrorists Take Wrong Doll Hostage Captive U.S. Soldier Doll Rescued by Bush Doll DFU SONG: Rag Doll (the terrorists are killing our dolls...they're killing our dolls!) Captive U.S. Soldier Doll Rescued by Bush Doll Toymaker says soldier in photo appears to be doll |
1. Bodies of contractors hanging from bridge.
2. Dead U.S. soldier.
3. Dead U.S. soldier.
4. Kid killed by U.S. soldiers.
5. Kid killed at car bombing.
6. Shi'ite terrorist with a dove on his shoulder
7. U.S. soldier on ground holding up dummy head to draw fire.
8. Woman at Abu Ghraib.
9. Rescued man at car bombing.
10. Mourners after a car bombing.
11. Dead U.S. Marine being prayed over.
12. GI Joe doll in backpack of U.S. soldier.
13. Displaced Iraqi children at Fallujah.
14. U.S. soldiers taking cover (on their faces).
15. Iraqi terrorists firing a mortar and machine gun at U.S. soldiers.
16. Marine forcing tied-up prisoner forward, head down.
17. Solitary confinement cage at (where else?) Abu Ghraib.
18. Youth running through car-bomb scene.
19. Iraqi man celebrating on top of burning U.S. Humvee.
20. Assassin shooting election worker in street.
Anybody else find this disgusting?
7 is interesting. The Zaitsev technique, using dummies to lure out snipers.
12 is cool. I like toys!
16 is hands down the best. I call it "Butt Whompin'."
The rest of it is BS. I especially love number 6. "Ooh, it's the freedom fighters and the sympol of peas!" Barf. That's one stupid bird. Most animals know better and avoid murderers and scumbags. I'd shoot the terrorist sh!thead and the bird in one shot. Two idiots for the price of one.
Pulitzer must be rolling in his grave generating a magnitude 5 earthquake. Since when do propagandists of communism and terror win such prestigious awards. Liberals and their opposite Midas touch strike agian, rendering a great award into a meaningless scrap of metal and perverting the intentions of their founders entirely.
Like Algore, I demand a recount of selected voters---Freepers.