Release of photos of bodies raises ethics concerns [New `Sexed-up' D.N.C. ad: Will it work?]

CNN ^ | Friday, July 25, 2003 | By Christy Oglesby

[JohnHuang2]

Phony intelligence. Cooked intelligence. Faked intelligence. Sham intelligence. Hyped intelligence. Sexed intelligence. Phrases that have blanketed news coverage for weeks and weeks. Finally, finally -- at long last -- those Mullah-hating, Saddam-bashing White House neo-conners recklessly ruining the lives of innocent dictators for sport, cabaling for evil Halliburton and U.S. Big Oil, were getting their just desserts!

[JohnHuang2]

Friday, July 25, 2003

Quote of the Day by Paul Atreides

[MJY1288]

A ping for an AM read, I'm too tired to fully enjoy the two cents you have thrown our way,

Good Night John

Mike

[JohnHuang2]

G'nite, my friend. Sleep well :-)

[Terp]

Well, the liberal readers of CNN online seem to disagree. From there own Quickvote Poll.

Is the U.S. right to release photos of the Hussein brothers' bodies?

Yes 81% 331564 votes

No 19% 79210 votes

[Terp]

I'm convinced that they at CNN know that most of there polls are nothing other than to see if the shit there slinging will stick to the wall. If it does, it's a scandal in the making, if not like this story we won't hear about it in a couple of days. It's a non story and they know it now from there own poll results. Instead of reporting the news they are on a ceaseless pursuit of trying to create news.

[11B3]

Please nominate yourself for Essay of the Week, John. You win hands down.

[OldFriend]

Oh this was an excellent article........thank you so much.

Interesting isn't it.....all those dems who clammored for the first President Bush's head for NOT going all the way to Baghdad during the firt Gulf War have suddenly clammored for this President Bush's head FOR going all the way to Baghdad.

[JohnHuang2]

Why, thank you, friend. Glad you liked it.

[JohnHuang2]

Thank you :-)

all those dems who clammored for the first President Bush's head for NOT going all the way to Baghdad during the first Gulf War have suddenly clammored for this President Bush's head FOR going all the way to Baghdad.

Excellent point, friend.

[JohnHuang2]

Have a great weekend, y'all. God bless, see ya soon.

[mrtysmm]

I have been wondering why this point has not been made "loud and clear"! I hope someone starts thinking and talking about it.

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', John ! Good job, as usual !!

Kidding aside, for Democrats, the news from Mosul -- that Kiowa rockets and bullets from the 101st Airborne Division had given Saddam's darling sons Uday and Qusay the full sexed-up treatment Tuesday morning . . .

$30 Million worth of trash

-- wasn't exactly welcome news. Indeed, for Democrat strategists, the news couldn't possibly be worse. Or come at a worse time. Democrats were sure -- absolutely positive! -- they had Bush on the ropes, finally. "Growing questions" about White House ``misuse" of pre-war intelligence had Washington presstitutes in feeding-frenzy mode. On cable gab shows, talking-heads filled the airwaves nightly with `Bush-Is-Doomed! No uranium in Niger! Only catching the Husseins makes this scandal go away! And the Husseins will never be caught! Yippee! Yeah, baby!' predictions. The White House was put on a death watch. It was all over for Bush. The long knives were out, obituaries were being written, `blood' was in the water, sharks were circling. Bush's credibility was dying the death of a thousand cuts, said those doing the thousand cuts. Attacks on Bush had escalated to full-scale guerrilla war. The raking fire was relentless. CBS "Evening News" hammered and hammered away nightly, labeling Bush a liar who conned a nation into war. War for uranium in Niger.

Calls from Democrats for Bush's impeachment were growing louder by the hour. A panel on Hardball Monday night urged Bush to `come clean,' confess to things he didn't do and the story will go away. In other words, `please, Mr. President, tell America you deliberately lied in your State of the Union address about uranium in Africa, that you and Cheney sexed the whole case against Saddam up, and we in the press will forgive and forget! Promise!'

It's true ! Little tommy was . . .

Saddened, deeply saddened . . .

[eureka!]

Sharp humor cutting the left like a knife. Great job John. You and yours have a good weekend...

[OldFriend]

Perhaps the new EXCELLENT chairman of the RNC will be making this point in future TV appearances. He certainly set the record straight on Hard-head Matthews last night. That is when Matthews shut up long enough for Gillespie to get a sentence out.

[OldFriend]

CNN ought to realize that when the polls reflect their own opinions it means they don't have a broad spectrum of viewers.

[OldFriend]

The media and the DNC hope we all have Alzheimer's......

[mewzilla]

Doesn't say much for the viewers they do have, either.

[Freee-dame]

Another ping for a later read

[lawdude]

"tell America you deliberately lied in your State of the Union address about uranium in Africa, that you and Cheney sexed the whole case against Saddam up, "

What is "sexed up"? Do they mean that "W" was getting a BJ while he was giving the SOU? I mean, the term must be a reverant reflection of their idol.

[OldFriend]

One reason FNC has such high ratings is that they give both sides of every issue which attracts viewers with a wide variety of political persuasions.