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Have a meaningful Memorial Day weekend, folks.
And to think you could have been watching Juliet on FoxNews, what were you thinking?
LOL! Maybe Dan Rather can lip synch TAPS at their funeral.
Memorial Day Weekend ping....... and media continued insanity.
Bless all vets and their families on this day and every day.
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If it had been cBS, DannyBoy would have just directed the props department to toss a flag over some cardboard boxes. From the Kinkos dumpster. Fake, but accurate.
WARNING: Do not watch Good Morning America while working with power tools. Could cause accidents, decapitation, and dangerous rampages.
DO NOT HURT YOURSELF!
PUT ON SOME CHARLIE DANIELS,JOHNNY CASH OR WHOEVER!
HAVE A STEAK ON THE GRILL.
KEEP THE T.V. OFF!
GODBLESS OUR COUNTRY,TROOPS AND PRESIDENT.
Typical GMA presentation.
On Memorial Day, instead of honoring the sacrafice of our fallen soldiers, they had a guest "journalist", and he started out his conversation, saying how DIFFICULT this war was been on the journalist. Can you believe it?
I immediately turned OFF the TV.
GMA missed an opportunity to do something worthwhile. I pray that someday, our whole country will refuse to watch GMA.
Then GMA and today's "Doonesbury" make excellent bookends. I was already apoplectic this morning over that aging maggot Garry Trudeau, then I read this thread. Damn, I'm gonna have a stroke today at this rate.
we know damn well most of the liberals, media out front, hates the military- so tomorrow is a different type of mourning for these SOB's.
I'm put in mind of The Iliad. In that story, the Greeks and Trojans battle at Troy - and when a captain of the Greeks is killed, the two sides fight over the body. Back in the 1950s that seemed strange to me. But look at what's going on here - the MSM and FR are battling over, not the actual body per se, but the memory of the fallen.The MSM wants to reduce the memory of the fallen to the flag-draped coffin as an emblem of futility. OTOH we want the fallen to be remembered as part of an ongoing, and very much alive an kicking, army of liberation. An army engaged, at painful cost, in defeating the philosophy that the end justifies the means. The philosophy, that is, of which suicidal assassination is the ultimate expression.
The victory of that liberation is expressed in the fact that the assassins are reduced to murdering not presidents but mere Iraqi voters - and that Iraqi voters are legion.
In seeking to promote the flag-draped coffin, the MSM seeks to promote not the fallen hero but the fallen schlub - the fool who went into danger to implement the policies of "Shrub" Bush. We promote the living soldier, in faith with his fallen comrades, as heroic actor on the world stage. Making a difference in a way far more meaningful than the propaganda of the MSM.
Journalism promotes the negative and the supericial because that is its stock in trade. Virtue is not superficial, and memory of virtue is the opposite of journalism. Journalism has to try to undercut Memorial Day.
Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate
Disgusting, but not unexpected. Thank goodness, most of this country is better than its "media."
It's too bad ABC didn't replay videos of 9/11, then show how our soldiers freed Afghanistan from the Taliban and then set Iraq on the road toward democracy. A few shots of Saddam's killing grounds, trenches filled with hundreds of thousands dead might be in order, too.
bttt
ping
Oh they have shame but its reserved for the likes of murderers and thieves muggers and rapists and child molesters oh and of course hollywood freak show artists
Turn off the TV and go out and play with your kids toss some ball watch a snail walk across your lawn it's much more interesting to do these things than to watch ignorance in motion that is Grief mourning America
Thank you for the ping!
Well unlike ABC I had a great Memorial weekend with memories of stories and reletives of the past that have fought in just about every war we ever had!