Posted on 05/19/2004 12:44:28 PM PDT by DocFarmer
Speaking Ill of the Dead--The Media Treatment of Nick Berg and Pat Tillman
Posted by Doc Farmer Wednesday, May 19, 2004
My column last week was written before the news about the horrific slaughter of Nick Berg, an innocent American contractor. I had commented on the stupidity and cowardice of the mainstream (see also: lib/dem/soc/commie) media, their fear of us doing anything remotely discomforting in this, or any, war.
However, Mr. Berg’s tragic demise brought into focus the true problem of the media. Their complicity with the enemies of America.
I’ve seen the video. I made a point to watch it. Not because I am a ghoul, or because I get a kick out of the senseless and gruesome death of an innocent. No, it is because of something Dad taught me a long time ago. Know your enemy. Know the capabilities of your enemies, know their modus operandi, learn just what they will do and how far they will go. Only then can you adequately prepare to defend yourself, and defeat them. And yet, our media have not given us the tools with which to understand just what wickedness we are fighting, the malevolence that is terrorism. The evil that must be vanquished.
Now, I could understand the mainstream media wanting to ''spare'' Mr. Berg’s parents (although the media didn’t seem to be too bothered about sparing the parents and families of the folks murdered on 9/11). What I cannot understand, however, is why the media are now being complicit in the trashing of this Nicholas Berg.
Do an Internet search on Google News of the exact phrase ''Nick Berg.'' At today’s writing (Tuesday, 05/18/2004) the search created 5,680 hits. Many of the items called what happened to Mr. Berg a beheading. A beheading (be it by sword or guillotine) is swift. What these terrorist scumbags did to Mr. Berg was not a beheading, it was a forty-second slaughter, with his head literally sawn off. You could hear his screams for the first 20 seconds, up until his trachea was finally severed. Even worse, the media are now printing all manner of conspiracy theories about Mr. Berg, with absolutely no basis in fact.
So far, I’ve seen stories that state that Nick Berg was a Jewish spy. A Halliburton operative. A Mossad Operative. A CIA operative. That Mr. Berg was not killed by terrorists, but by the CIA itself, posing as terrorists. They’ve blamed the FBI for his death, the military, Dubya/Cheney/Rummy/Condi/Mannie/Moe/Jack/etc. They’ve even claimed that it never happened at all--that the entire event was staged to divert media attention from the heinous ''skivvies on the head of a prisoner'' incident. Not that it worked, however. Do a similar Google News search on ''Abu Ghraib'' and you’ll get over 20,000 hits.
Of course, the media have focused on Nick Berg’s father, a viciously anti-war and anti-Dubya activist. Why not? After all, he’s ''one of their own.'' Lost in the news reports were Nick’s philanthropic activities, his good works for the poor, only to be replaced by the ranting of a lib/dem/soc/commie using his own son’s slaughter to trash the war, the president and the military. A member of International A.N.S.W.E.R., a communist front organization, Michael Berg appeared on camera to shed crocodile tears and spin conspiracy theories on the death of his own son. I’m not sure who is more shameful--Nick Berg’s father, or the lib/dem/soc/commie media who slurped up his words like so much champagne.
Now, if this were the only example, one might be excused of assuming this was a mere aberration. But then, take a slimy little no-talent twit named Ted Rall who makes a career out of creating a no-talent ''comic'' strip that regularly trashes Dubya, calling him evil. That in and of itself is no real shock--most of the lib/dem/soc/commie media seem to make that exercise its stock in trade. However, when the tragic death of former football player Pat Tillman came to light, the squamulouse Mr. Rall dedicated a ''comic'' and an editorial to trashing Mr. Tillman and his sacrifice. He, defending his right to be a cad and a jerk on ''Hannity and Colmes'' and ''The O’Reilly Factor,'' proved himself to be this generation’s candidate for ''Tokyo Rose.'' Sadly, Mr. Rall is in a rather large crowd of contenders...
I see the media, which are supposed to serve the public trust, instead serving the enemy. I see the political pundits using the death of honorable servicemen and women in our war against terrorism as a club with which they beat down our nation and our president. I see the alphabet news anchors and reporters, braying that they are impartial, while all the evidence suggest that they are so left-leaning that it’s a wonder they don’t keel over to port every five seconds. I see our military trashed. I see our innocent civilians slaughtered. I see terrorists appeased and held blameless for the evil they do.
I’m sick of seeing it. I’m sick of hearing it. I’m sick of reading it.
I’d wager that you are too.
Perhaps it is time to look at a serious boycott of the major news outlets in the United States: ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, et al. The news organizations, and their sponsors.
I’m not a great fan of boycotts per se, and I feel they should be used as a last resort. However, the news media have proved themselves to be blinded by their own self-importance, and their own lib/dem/soc/commie bent. They’ve not become ''fair and balanced'' as Fox News has pioneered. If anything, they’ve become even more politically reactionary and less able to discern the line between news and opinion.
The news media are supposed to be the fourth estate--a balance to the three branches of our government. Instead, the news media constitute a fifth column, helping to destroy the nation from within.
They have violated the public trust again and again and again. It is time for them to be punished. It is time to hurt them financially. It is time for them to either tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, or be put out of business.
I urge you to pass this article along to everyone you can. To friends, relatives, colleagues. If you know of a group that wishes to organize such a boycott, please let me know and I’ll be happy to help publicize it.
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Doc Farmer can be found tilting at windmills--perhaps somewhere around the La Mancha district. He receives e-mail at: DocFarmer9999@yahoo.co.uk
This Article Was First Published At ChronWatch.
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I've been boycotting for years now, ever since I got FoxNews and the internet.
Treason is as treason does.
Well, that's three boycotters so far. Now, if only I can get about 40 million more. I'd better get some stamps...
Guess I'm out. I don't read or watch any of these. I don't even visit their websites. They are not my sources of news.
I added some keywords, hope you don't mind.
I never, ever watch ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC. I only watch FOX and read online. I've ruined too many TV's and perfectly good pairs of shoes listening to those baffoons...or is it baffooni?
I did not see the beheading video but even so I still lost some sleep over it because JUST THE THOUGHT . . .
::Sigh:: I finally got myself to watch the video...and it took a lot out of me. However, having had not seen the video before all the conspiracy chat was abound, I can honestly say there is something fishy about it.
First off - and I had to go through some very disturbing websites to find it... - the biggest thing I noticed was that the picture kept skipping, which if my limitied knowledge of video serves me means that there were stops and starts in the shooting, and that speech was not read in one piece. What that means, I couldn't say.
But there were other things, and it may have just been the video I saw but the sound was out of synch (esp. noticeable when the scum jump him and pin him to the ground) and yes, their skin is a bit to white for my liking, and there was little to no blood during or after the beheading.
This could mean that they had bled him beforehand (for some disgusting torture-related reason, no doubt) or that this someone wasn't real.
Listen, that was gross, and I never want to see it again, but I felt I had to, as I think many would agree. Of course, regardless of all this we still cannot trust the media to prioritze their news stories by importance - they've got ratings-needs and political agendas that prevent this.
Personally, I think you all should view the video and judge for yourselves...
C.O'D.
Yeah, I guess the decapitated body found under a bridge in bagdad was "fishy" too.
bump
Maybe if the boycott got some legs, it could be extended to all major newspapers....
Do you happen to know any groups who would assist in a coordinated boycott?
townhall.com ???
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this leads to a WEB RING of conservative web sites ....
IN!
"Guess I'm out. I don't read or watch any of these. I don't even visit their websites. They are not my sources of news."
Ditto. Not since the early eighties.
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