Wounded In Action
This reminds me of the old London Times saying that as far as news was concerned, “The death of one Englishman is worth two Frogs or 100 wogs.” This is an opportunity for the MSM to celebrate their courage for being out there with the troops. I feel sorry for Mr. Woodruff and his family. But the only reason why we know about his injuries is his celebrity and access to the cameras.
Posted by Spike72AFA
01/30/2006 at 09:59 AM
Isn’t this the same body armor the MSM keeps decrying as being inadequate for our REAL troops, and the reason we need to bring them home?
Oh, and who exactly saved these ‘reporters’? Funny how I haven’t seen a whole lot of reporting on how the corpsmen did their jobs.....just how wonderful the victims are.
Posted by candyuniverse
01/30/2006 at 10:21 AM
Apparently the insurgents were not informed enough or sophisticated enough to know that they were attacking allies.
And don’t look for the lamestream media brahmans, or their flacks and flunkeys, to render much praise to the troops who saved Woodruff and his cameraman.
We will be lucky, in fact, if the troops are not blamed for drawing fire in the first place!!
If the tango’s really want to grab the world’s attention, they should target ONLY the media. They’re the ones who truly matter in this world. We’d have ALL TERROR - ALL THE TIME 24/7/365. Until they ran out of reporters!
No no no, CNN pointed oput long ago that the Amerikan Nazitary are the ones targeting reporters. We all know that this whole incident was a plot by the Blackwater/Halliburton/KRB cabal to assassinate another journalist just like the Bushitler regime did to that NYT reporter a few weeks ago!
<moonbat off>
We have this all over the news because it is in the family. “Intrepid reporter hurt in line of duty; whole world in tears!” “Occupation lackey hurt; why he deserved what he got!”
Not to dengrate the reporters’ courage, certainly they were brave enought to get out of the International Zone and not just sit around the bars and pools and interview other reporters, but the drumbeat is a bit telling, idn’t it?
I found it interesting that the media reported, for a change, the attack was by terrorist.
Posted by utahminuteman
01/30/2006 at 02:14 PM
I will say this...I do feel sorry for those civilians, American and other(such as reporters and aid workers), who get captured or killed in places like Iraq or Afghanistan.
But not too sorry. These people had no naivete about WHERE they were going...to a freaking WAR ZONE. A war zone where people are killed, maimed, and kidnapped off the street in broad daylight, etc. No surprises in going to such a place.
For the most part, why do they go there? $$$money$$$ You roll the dice, ya’ take your chances. Woodruff and Vogt took a chance and lost. But you know, they HAD the a choice in going there, HAD the choice to leave whenever they wanted, and certainly get paid better than Corporal John Q. Foxhole. The soldiers should be the news...they are the real heroes over there.
Every group tends to take care of its own when they’re down. Not always bad—we had an old fool who was feuding with his neighbor and shot the paperboy by mistake, thinking he was the ‘enemy’. The newspaper the kid delivered went after the old man with everything they had. They exposed the fact that the shooter had spent the previous night drinking in a neighborhood bar. That didn’t impress the judge.
Posted by Oink
01/30/2006 at 05:41 PM
Why the hell does everybody make a big deal of this asshole? When I was a young grunt I was taught “If you have armor around you - USE IT! Do NOT stand up in hatchways, etc - you ain’t fucking Patton!” If pretenders decide they want to play soldier, they should learn that it’ll get you killed if you don’t follow all the rules (and sometimes even if you do!) Note to the other journalists or visitors to the 50 yard line in Bagdud: Go to Basic Training first (and pass) before you try to keep up with the green machine. It’ll give you a better chance of survival.
BTW: Just look at the picture - No Kevlar, No Steel Pot, no protective gear - what the hell was this numbnuts thinking? The ragheads’ll recognize him as SUPERJOURNALIST and not hit him? Dumb Phuk.
Lt. Bryan Suits, KVI talkshow host and just back from Iraq (third war deployment in the Army) sez this was a big asses ratings stunt and the idjit should never have been there. War is for war correspondents, you know, ex-military or otherwise experienced folks who know enough to keep their heads down. And, why did they not send the female of the co-anchors? Purely sexism, of course.
Too bad for him.
This rabid coverage is just another example of the elitist attitude amongst the modern media. When a footman gets injured, he’s just a number. When a royal gets injured, he’s a celebrity. It’s the Dark Ages all over again.
Imagine (if you will in an alternative universe) the patriotic fever, the re-enlistment rates skyrocketing (oh, wait they already are) and the simple pride that the armed forces would feel if just ONCE a damn week - profile a WWII vet that passed that week (at the rate of 1000 a day - there’s a whole bunch of choices)or profile a deceased/wounded OEF/OIF soldier. At 5 minutes each that would a lousy 10 minutes a week that would show the entire country the generation that served the world so well and the generation that is serving the world so well [my apologies to all inbetween - you all served well too]. Instead we get the same overblown and overhyped ‘bulletins’ on this journalist and his camera man.
I felt the same way (pleeeeeeeeeze, enough already) over the death of Pat Tillman. Terrible and tragic - yes but he and this journalist were/are no different than any other person who signed up to serve in the armed forces or voluntarily chose to go over there.
I have to agree though - I’m surprized 1) that a ‘journalist’ was outside of the hotel to actually be involved in an attack [Other than Oliver North who hangs with his Marines all the time] and 2) that the lamestream press back here hasn’t blamed it on the military. I guess that they are too caught up in preparing their distorted and twisted headlines, editorials and cartoons lampooning the President’s State of the Union address, to do that right now.
The final, cruel but with some truth, word—from Scrappleface:
Terrorists apologize, calling it a regrettable friendly-fire incident
Posted by Oink
02/02/2006 at 11:03 AM
