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[bryant]

Remember: commemorating Pat Tillman and his death is OK. Commemorating soldiers who didn’t give up millions of dollars to fight is wrong.

Also, photographs of anonymous coffins are an invasion of privacy in some fashion that does not apply when you’re talking about former NFL players.

Finally, the people of America must be protected at all costs from the evil liberal media, which wishes to use the deaths of soldiers in Iraq for political gain. The people of America, sadly, are not capable of thinking for themselves. They are so damned emotional that the liberal media can play any tune it likes on their heartstrings.

If it’s so obvious that Ted Koppel is only reading the names of the dead for manipulative purposes, why wouldn’t the average voter notice? I mean, come on. Doesn’t anyone have any faith in Americans any more? (Rhetorical question.)

Nota bene: I think that Ted Koppel should read the names of the Afghanistan dead in a separate program; it only makes sense to include them in the Iraq broadcast if the two wars are linked, which they are not. I also believe that Pat Tillman is well worth honoring. So are the 130 or so soldiers who died in Iraq this month alone.

Comments

[that-cad.livejournal.com]

You so totally hit the nail on the head right there. Like, whack! That was you. Whack!. Nail, head, you, hitting.

I read about the Ted Koppel thing, too, and while I do think it probably is a sorta publicity stunt, I have to say it is a right and noble thing to do. Why should one football star get all the recognition? All of the 500 dead should have their name said aloud. They deserve it.

[head58.livejournal.com]

The Liberal Media must be pretty stupid if they're pulling this stunt to influence the elections now, as opposed to the fall sweeps or just before the election. Who will remember this by November?

Stupid, stupid liberal media creatures...

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Amen.

[kodi]

IHNJH, IJLS "The deliberate separation of Iraq from the rest of the War on Terror is agenda journalism at its best."

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I dunno, my innerouter cynic agrees with the StupidInant and his sycophants &mdash it seems to be aimed at trying to affect public opinion about the war. It's not very good journalism.

If they really wanted to honor them, they'd take an hour elsewhere in their programming and name all the dead soldiers. But that would cost them too much.