Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
Go read this.
By UTI's own brilliant DarkSyde:
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But this diary isn't about Tim Russert, it's not about you; it's about some other people who you occasionally cover and for whom you may now feel an unwanted and yet inseparabale kinship. It's probably too early to say this, and yes, I apologize if anyone feels this is crass or inapproriate, but I'm going to say it anyway: The same intractable pain that has reached out cruelly and gripped you with despair is felt by every mother and father, brother and sister, and friend and spouse of every single soldier killed in Iraq. Those men and women died doing a job that paid peanuts, most of them at a young age. Despite whatever loyalty they may feel to their comrades in arms, odds are good that quite a few of them would have rather been somewhere else right up until the moment their bodies were ravaged by fire and red-hot lead. The gut punch, horrific beyond comprehension, is their departed died for a mistake or a campaign of intentional deception, take your pick.
They will bear that pain for the rest of their lives without the benefit of round the clock coverage, or scores of media superstars lining up to console them with anecdotes about what terrific human beings their loved ones were. Their fallen will get a few words on the local news, maybe a brief mention on CNN or ABC if they're lucky. If they 'make too big a deal about it' or 'ask the wrong questions,' or grieve in anything but the proper, GOP approved, Bush cheering way, behind closed doors out of sight and out of the media limelight, God help them. They will be roundly, loudly, shamed as traitors and terrorist sympathizers and cowardly surrender monkeys by right-wing operatives and juvenile chicken-hawks appearing, in too many cases, on your own news programs.
And that's just part of it. Read the whole thing.
Jim Downey
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Almost right
I misread this for a few minutes, I thought he meant
Meaning the People of Iraq.
Well, I guess I should be glad someone gives some level of truth.
And the media answers back in a private memo.....
"Bush doesn't want attention drawn to dead people. It makes him look bad he says."
Awesome Letter
It's because of these thoughts that I started blogging. DarkSyde is much better writer than I am and I can only hope that the right people read this. Still can't figure out why our president is our president...
And congress wonders why they have lower approval ratings than he does.
Well done DarkSyde.
Adam
Who would the right people
Who would the right people be???? I think the people that could make a difference now have already heard it, but they've ignored it. The people who can change things now are voters by demanding what issues they want addressed and not letting up until they are. Everyone needs to be active at every level. Never think that anything is insignificant. Never think that YOU are insignificant.
SL,
I deleted the duplicate. Just FYI.
Jim Downey
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