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HBO Reality And Democracy Now! Gloating
Bob Parks: Black & Right ^ | 5/18/06 | Bob Parks

Posted on 05/18/2006 5:57:52 AM PDT by bocopar

In the performance of my daily work duties, I was watching some of Wednesday’s edition of Democracy Now! Now while this is one of my more painful duties, I often find myself stopping and watching out of sheer disgust and this was another of those instances.

This Sunday night, HBO will be premiering the documentary "Baghdad ER" and DN hostess Amy Goodman’s demeanor during her interviews with the filmmakers and an Army doctor showed her contempt for our sons and daughters who were passing through the Baghdad hospital.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amygoodman; democracynow; pacificaradio
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To: PurpleMan
I was answering rhetorical questions with rhetorical questions.

No matter who does the documentary, the truth is done in the editing room and frequently lies on the cutting room floor.

21 posted on 05/18/2006 7:03:44 AM PDT by Racehorse (Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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To: Racehorse

Got it (DUH. More caffine, please)

Agree that creative editing will always be the method by which the filmaker's agenda is attained.


22 posted on 05/18/2006 7:14:48 AM PDT by PurpleMan
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To: mlc9852
Good morning.
"Was Baghdad ER filmed in Baghdad military hospitals? Did they film real soldiers and doctors or was it staged?"

More important is the question of editing. The Left is very good at editing footage to present the message they want.

The bottom line is that anything they produce is probably a lie.

Michael Frazier
23 posted on 05/18/2006 7:21:38 AM PDT by brazzaville (no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)
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To: VOA

Thanks for the link on Pacifica. I knew some of the history (including Houston) and even some of the "recent" upheaval/takeover (as politics again came to the forefront of programming and music libraries were sold off and even burned).


24 posted on 05/18/2006 1:45:21 PM PDT by weegee (Slowly but surely and deliberately, converativism is being made a thoughtcrime.)
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To: bocopar
Also, do any of us remember a "Mogadishu ER" or a "Haiti ER" or a "Bosnia ER" show being produced when a Democrat president initiated war...?

If any of those conflicts were of the scale and cost of the Iraq War, I believe you would have seen similar treatment.

25 posted on 05/18/2006 1:48:35 PM PDT by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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