These Soldiers Say 'Over There' Is 'Bogus'

Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | July 26, 2005 | M.L. Lyke

[mystery-ak]

I have no intention of watching this...I lived it for 15mos *over here*.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

Why can't there be a sort of "Fox News Channel" for drama and comedy shows? The ratings would have to better than the crap they show on ABCBSNBC. And the silly stuff on FOX!

[OXENinFLA]

"Over There" BS Ping...

[Thrusher]

I refuse to watch this crap. Bochco can claim it is as "apolitical" as he wants, but anyone with a brain can see that it is obviously more propaganda aimed at breaking the hearts, eroding the spirits, and deluding the minds of the people back home about what is really going on "over there".

The truth is, it's probably both much worse and much better over there, and no crappy TV show can capture an ounce of what it is really like.

[God luvs America]

that won't stop these dirtbags...

[Politicalities]

How about this: Roadside bomb explodes. Humvee get hit. Wounded soldiers yells out. Buddies act like pros, one giving first aid and the others hunting down the cockroach who set off the bomb and capturing him.

Or how about this: sniper takes a shot at a soldier while his buddy videotapes it, chanting "Allahu Akbar" the entire time. Soldier gets knocked down, but manages to crawl to his feet and take cover. Soldier and his buddies hunt down the insurgents^*, wound the sniper, and give him medical aid.

Nah, that's too farfetched. Nobody would buy it. Hollywood would reject the idea as fantastic. Except, of course, it actually happened.

^* Normally, I despise dignifying the bastards who deliberately blow up civilians with the title "insurgent", preferring the far more accurate "terrorist". However, because this particular bastard actually went after a soldier rather than some poor Iraqi woman or child, I'll allow it this once.

[theDentist]

You can't expect honesty and reality when Hollywood decides to undercut the war effort. I mean, come on. /sarc

[Sybeck1]

I watch "The Shield" and "Nip/Tuck", but that "30 Days" crap seems like liberal paradise!

[armymarinemom]

I wrote off watching this program from just watching the advertisements for the thing. This guy always overplayed EMS scenes so I would expect the same thing for his depiction of deployment.

[Bahbah]

It's trying to "Vietnamise" the Iraq war.

You are right on the money. There was some guy on NPR this morning trying with some really twisted logic to prove that we are unpatriotic if we don't want to see fictional depictions of horrific occurrences during a war.

[evets]

Two words: "Cop Rock".

[RockinRight]

I prefer "Cock Rock."

[mewzilla]

It's set in Iraq, hyped as "true to life" by producers...

How the heck would they know? BTW, that look on the face of the 1rst Lt. says it all.

[DTogo]

A better adjective to describe the series would be FUBAR

[RockinRight]

How about "SNAFU warriors??"

[Steve_Seattle]

Good points. Over and over, the MSM portrayed an Iraqi cab driver or school teacher as "the voice of Iraq," accepting whatever they said (e.g., "The Americans killed my mother because she was a Muslim and a good woman") at face value with no qualifiers whatsoever and no questioning of their veracity. Meanwhile, everything Bush said or did was challenged ("Mr. President, was that a real turkey you held up on your trip to Baghdad?) and nitpicked. This was how the war was presented.

[DTogo]

SNAFU directors and producers.

[reagandemocrat]

Maybe Botchco can hire Jihad Jane to promote 'Over There' on her anti-American vegetable bus tour.


RD

[jpl]

If the best he could do was to get this program on FX cable, that means that even the Hollywood bigwigs know this one is a loser. I give it a few months, tops.