WTF ?!!? If this is true, then we need to toss our media into a black hole. Now. Cause they

[unusualmusic_lj_archive]

aren't doing shit. And right behind 'em, toss out the neocon self-righteous fuckwitteries. "We don't talk to evil????"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/20071003/cm_ucru/quotwedontspeaktoevilquot

<i> "After the 9/11 attacks turned the U.S. against the Taliban, U.S. media outlets put footage of a handful of jeering Palestinians on heavy rotation. Meanwhile, "In Iran, vast crowds turned out on the streets and held candlelit vigils for the victims. Sixty-thousand spectators respected a minute's silence at Tehran's football stadium."

Wondering why you never heard that? The above quote comes from the BBC. Fox News didn't report. American news consumers didn't know, much less decide."<i/>

 

Funny.  I thought they were all bloodthirstily plotting our explosion, envying  our freedom and planning to kill us all for our democracy. I thought they were part of the Axis of Evil. Oh they aren't? Silly me for believing my government. And the media, who were supposed to be the Fourth Estate that would look out for us the people.


<i>  Finding an opportunity for rapprochement and a mutual foe in the Taliban, Iran became a silent America ally after 9/11. The Iranian military offered to conduct search and rescue operations for downed U.S. pilots during the fall 2001 war against the Taliban. It used its influence with the Afghanistan's Dari population to broker the loya jirga that installed Hamid Karzai as president of Afghanistan. </i>


How many people knew that? How many media outlets reported that?

<i>  In May 2003, Iran shook off its annoyance and again tried to make nice. The Iranian overture came in the form of a letter delivered to the State Department after the fall of Baghdad. "Iran appeared willing to put everything on the table--including being completely open about its nuclear program, helping to stabilize Iraq, ending its support for Palestinian militant groups and help in disarming Hezbollah," reported the BBC.

U.S. officials confirm this overture.

"That letter went to the Americans to say that we are ready to talk, we are ready to address our issues," says Seyed Adeli, an Iranian foreign minister at the time. Larry Wilkerson, chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, says the Bushies made a conscious decision to ignore it. "We don't speak to evil," he recalls that Administration hardliners led by Donald Rumsfeld said.<i/>

I'm sorry, but did I see the part where far-right military industrial complex supporting, imperialistic neocons said that "We don't speak to evil!" huh? Wait, wha?  Have you paid <i>any<i/> to the maelstrom of human misery that is Iraq, lately? Have you forgotten to whole torture thing in that prison in Cuba? Have you forgotten the women forced into prostitution since you fucked up the economy and failed in the security-guaranteeing so hard that they have to sell themselves to you to eat?  have your heard of that bible verse that reccomends fixing your wrongs before yelling about the wrongs of others? You should. After all, your president is a Christian, isn't he?

Comments

[doktor-x.livejournal.com]

Ah well, can’t let reality get in the way of Bush’s plan to bring on World War III and the return of Jesus >_<

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

Course not. The world is going to end...

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

Well, this is why I don't watch Fox News. Their idea of fair and balanced reminded me of the McCarthy hearings.

That's why I watch CNN...and read the crawl at the bottom of the screen. You wanna know what's going on, ignore the talking heads, read the crawl.

And yeah, while finding out about the moments of silence actually gives me hope, what our government is doing now, ie finding another "bully" to punch, makes me wanna go back to bed and pull the covers over my head. Wake me when we're all blasted to kingdom come, willya? I just hope they have QAF on feed.

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

Wake me when we're all blasted to kingdom come, willya? I just hope they have QAF on feed.


Dies. I used to watch CNN, but I got so sick of the talking heads that I stopped. The talking heads are full of shit and don't contribute one iota of sense to the conversation. They always use the same ones regardless of whether or not the person is qualified to talk about a particular nuance of an issue and and it's just completely fucked up. For instance, if anything happens in the black community, they always draw for the same person to represent all blacks perspectives. If god-forbid, they talk about feminism, it the same person. IF it's foreign affairs, its the same person. And I've gotten so sick of the overly dramatic tone of voice that is imparted to every news item, I swear that everyone has now learned a certain drawl that drives me goddamn nuts! And wall-to-wall coverage of the stupidest things... Paris Hilton, Anna Nicole... Because of advertisers, we now have infotainment, not news.

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

All of the major US networks, including CNN, have their own political agendas to further, and quite frankly, sensationalism sells. You are much better off to watch BBC World News, or BBC World News America to get an unbiased reporting of events.

[avalon13.livejournal.com]

Ah. I've always been very conscious of what I put on my LJ ever since my f-list expanded to include my many American friends, but sadly I must admit your president makes me want to beat my head against the wall. Your media too, pleads me to crush its venomous head, like the poison spitting, mutated, german genetically engineered cobra it is.

What I've never liked is the whole 'if you are not with us, you are against us' mind frame. Dude, Malaysia is a tiny country. We piss off anyone, we are dead liek woah. We wish to be Swiss.

[doktor-x.livejournal.com]

An awful lot of Americans feel exactly the same way.. Bush’s foreign policy is something akin to a child with a gun, Congress has done absolutely nothing to restrain him, and our news media would rather spend its time on celebrity scandals rather than honest reporting on world events. It’s no wonder Bush and Congress currently have the lowest approval ratings ever recorded *sighs*

I watch the BBC World Report in the morning, the only foreign news programming my cable company sees fit to give me..

[avalon13.livejournal.com]

CNN hurts my brain.

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

What I've never liked is the whole 'if you are not with us, you are against us' mind frame. Dude, Malaysia is a tiny country. We piss off anyone, we are dead liek woah. We wish to be Swiss.


snickers.

I am so with you on that one. Of all the foreign policies I've heard, this Lone Cowboy, bullying-all-other-nations-because-we know-best one is the worst eva! And it's getting us into a shitload of trouble...

[avalon13.livejournal.com]

At one point, I think Saddam rang our then PM and said,

"Dude, we totally need some firepower." Us being a country with rich land resources, rice fields and corn, replied,

"Sure thing, I'll just send you the spare battleship I have sailing in my pool shall I? And some extra Plutonium I just happen to have lying around in my tool box? Would you like some fries with that? Maybe a Laser Ray gun of Doom?"