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I agree with you, but if they had written "Marines relax in palace splendor after a hard day of baby killing?" (probably the al Jizzera caption) would that be acceptable?

I don't mind them making a good caption, but I deplore a false one. Slanted isn't much better.

No that certainly wouldn't have been acceptable as a caption because not only would it have been slanted, it would've been a lie.

My point is that I don't see any untruth or, as much as we'd like to see it, any slant here. It's what happened.

I think the response to this touches on something I said in a thread about Pfc. Lynch the other day. We conservatives get so anal and fearful and worried and have our antennae up 365/24/7 thinking that the libs are just waiting there to pounce on any and use every single, solitary, little thing they can do or can get their hands on to hammer us.

In many cases, that is true, and I certainly don't want us to put our antennae down and I realize that we're in a war here just as well as we are over there.

Basically, though, I think we give our enemies too much credit sometimes, and don't give the American public enough credit for their ability to see through that garbage and filter out the bias and slant.