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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Did you just read your sentence? Yes, absolutely it does. Its a huge red white and blue flag, and the commentators all but beamed when Iraq started getting bombed. It was treated like a carnival by Fox. Nothing wrong with that, I guess, but it is pretty damn biased. We all had the same horse in that race, but most of us were shaking our heads saying "Fuck, how in the hell has it come to this?" or "I don't know if this is such a good idea, but we'll see soon enough..." Nobody with any brains or conscience was saying "Yes. Lets get Iraq!"... mainly because no one could summon any reason to "get" Iraq. There was nothing to retaliate against. Fox wrapped a cynical strategic move in the flag, and played along with Bush's sale of the war on false pretenses to the lowest common denominator of our society. As Warren Zevon sang, that "ain't that pretty at all." CNN may be left, but at least it tried to show some dignity by just broadcasting the bombs and saying "here's whats going on." Fox could have done that, but instead it cheerlead. I guess it wasn't wrong for them to do so, but it did leave a pretty bad taste in my mouth.

Cheerleading in Afghanistan was fine, but Iraq? I mean, really... what was the cheer? "Yes, we're going to take the war to the shores of a weak third party we knew we could topple! USA! USA!"

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