Or the NSA programs are working. Remind me - were you for or against those?

Please explain yourself a bit better. You make the charge of the MSM trying to portray Zarq as a hero, and as evidence you give us a passage that consists entirely of quotations from Gen. Caldwell!!! What exactly are you saying? Is Gen. Caldwell in on the great conspiracy?

Must be, because after that passage, you move on to a quote from Powerlyin in which he is ranting about reporters acting as if there was a cover-up. Asking whether the face was cleaned up etc. Nothing there about Zarq being a “hero”. (Would he be a hero if he actually were stomped to death? Would he be a hero if he died in the bombing with minimal blood on his face? Where does this hero stuff come from?)

Sounds to me like basic sharp questioning of the type that any reporter should be doing when the government puts forth a picture and a verison of events and claims that this is the exact way it went down.

So please share. Where is the “hero-making”???

What in God’s name are you blabbing about? I have no idea what you are referring to.

The appropriate role of the press in society is to report the facts as best they know them. ANd publishing the unsubstantiated charges from someone who couldn’t possibly have seen what happened does not fall into that category.

The press apparently was trying to create a storyline where Zarqawi died some kind of heroe’s death. In case you didn’t know it, this is how “news” is gathered. It isn’t only a question of the facts, the facts must also fit into a narrative that “marches” or is interesting. If that sounds more like creative writing to you than journalism, welcome to the early 21st century media business. It’s not even a question of right or left. It’s what will sell.

The fact that you don’t see this makes you a naive consumer of news. It isn’t so much the bias. It’s the storyline that needs to be outed.

Here is a hint for you. Take it as a cardinal rule - dont believe a word that anyone in the government says - at least not until you probe, question, examine every alternative, be the complete skeptic. It is only through the process of surviving such examination that any rational person can have confidnce that they are being told the truth. And it is only if government spokesmen know that their words are going to be subject to such examination, that they will be strongly disincentivized to BSing (or at least they will know they need to be damn good at it).

What is really shameful here is how you seem to think that reporters should simply accept as gospel truth whatever the government says (including the military). Have you learned nothing in your life?

“Chapter 12 - Like We’re Supposed To Care?

I have never seen children enjoying their incurable diseases so much.

It seems to be all the rage for witches of want with a so-called “terrible illness” to try and turn their maladies into some sort of whining, cause-celeb begathon for medicines and research to cure their condition or relieve their pain.”

I see a lot of aupport in here for Coulter…you all can be damn proud!! I mean really, is this how you all want to be defined? Bitter angry obnoxious bloviators who pick on widows and sick kids. Maybe next year your agenda of flag burning and stopping gay marriage will be put into the Constitution…naw. And let us not forget, the “Sodomized virgin” exception in South Dakota. Once upon a time, I voted for Reagan and Bush. Then came Teri Schaivo. Never again. CONGRATULATIONS!
We’ll win in the middle east when we raise an army large enough to fight the regional war there.
That will happen, eventually. Republican or Democrat in control. Just not with these guys in charge now who took the golden opportunity to build a huge army, and blew it.

A must read

http://tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2006/06/selling-out-of-abu-musab-al-zarqawi.html