Posted on 05/31/2005 8:04:43 PM PDT by saquin
'This was a f---ing mess, man." Kevin Sites peers at the monitor in the bright Californian sunlight, trying to make out the images on the screen. But Sites doesn't really have to look. This is his film, his moment; the images on the screen ones that have come to define his life. [Barf Alert]
Kevin Sites is the journalist who captured the moment when a young US army marine shot an equally young insurgent inside a mosque in Falluja in November last year. Sites' video, broadcast around the world, caused a storm.
[snip]
"I knew what I had right away," Sites says. "I called the top bosses at the network, the three news officials that are responsible for foreign news. Got them out of bed. I said I've got something that is potentially bigger than Abu Ghraib. I need you to know that I have it. For the first time I watched the videotape on playback as I talked to them and I remember my words, I go, 'F---, I have it.'" [Note the excitement at what he "had"]
[snip... two paragraphs later...]
"I hoped at that moment that it had been anybody else other than me shooting that video tape."
[I'm callin' bulls--t.]
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
The man is a proven liar. And his 15 minutes of fame are longer over, no matter how many self-congratulatory interviews he gives to the Guardian.
correction: "long over" not "longer over"
No kidding ! Go away Kevin, your 15 minutes are LONG up.
Riiiiiiight. You're as big a sack of crap as Bernie Shaw and Peter Arnett. Both of whom refused to be debriefed by OUR military on what they saw from their hotel room in Baghdad on the first night of Desert Storm.
Too bad the Marine missed a chance to shoot another one of the enemy.
This will get worse and worse, and the soldiers will turn their guns on the effin reporters, being the SPIES for the enemy that they are.
LOL. Yeah. Didn't somebody say our troops were targeting "journalists" or some such crap?
Damn, beat me by one minute!
He didn't reply.
More than half my wish came true......the other part may yet happen.
*Still hoping*
Hey Kevin, how about going over there again for another "great " story....uh, be very careful though. You know what a dangerous place it is, and how sometimes mistakes happen. Oh, and be careful you don't get lost somewhere in a bad part of town, cause you know, 911 on your cell may not work as well in Baghdad.
We'll be right here eagerly awaiting your last, uh, next story.
And everyone wonders why the military isn't meeting its quota of recruits. Thank God for the ones we get. Every battle is a two front fight.
Then he put down his crack pipe, and picked up the phone. "I've got a film that'll get a thousand more Americans killed around the world. Quick! You've got to air it asap! This one will have American blood pouring out into the streets! I can get an award for this!!!"
At the time did he not say he offered the tape to the CO?
Also, IIRC, there was an article in his hometown paper that claimed the same thing. It is a pathetic rag and I am unable to come up with his name on their site. It is too late to call now, but will in the morning.
We've got a Fifth Column right here at home. And now its getting stronger with the ACLU.
For all of you who gave up on Oreilly, he did a great job tonite on the ACLU scumbags.
The media is littered with unprofessional, childish, blood thirsty A holes.
I still say that the sob should have stopped, or at least slowed down,a bullet.
Which side it was on I do not care.
Why the hell did the military let this piece of crap anywhere near the action?
No matter how he tries to explain it he's a f*cking traitor!
Sites had no idea whether the wounded jihadi had or had not been planted with explosives or weapons during the 24 hours since he (Sites) had last seen him.
So casting the wounded jihadi as somehow "harmless" or "innocent" was a grievous (and perhaps deadly) distortion from the get-go.
Sites is really a despicable person, and his alleged days as a "war correspondent" are over. He'll never walk with any military unit ever again, anywhere.
It would help Sites if anyone would put Sites out of his misery.
I am twice his age and half his size but would pay for 30 minutes of his time in a locked dark room. There has never been a problem in beating the hello out of cowards!
The more the left wing press whines about troops targeting them we really know who is targeting who. Do they think that a Khalifa state will allow freedom of the Press? Guess again. Fools!
I'm not even going to comment on this. Do ya think the author may have a bias? Duh! On the other hand this was a grand slam for sites. Become a hero of the left and hurt the true heroes who trusted you and kept you from harm.
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I bet they regretted that decision fairly soon after.
(click for large images) Sites is very lucky he didn't end up like those scum.
The treasonous leftist media is trying to outdo each other in the level and seriousness of their subversive acts.
Today, The NY Times played one upsmanship by front paging a story highlighting CIA anti-terrorism air operations - giving names, airports and descriptions of the planes.
Treason! Their article has the distinct possibility of preventing interrogation of terrorists who may know of nuclear, chemical or biological attack against US cities.
Thanks for the update.
I read the title and the name "Kevin Sites" rang a bell.
Now I remember who he is. Is he writing a book? Signed a movie deal?
Just what the F..K is going on in this country?!!!!
Are these MSM, ACLU, leftists trying to kill us?
I know, yes. Are they just so hatefully spiteful or just so unbelievably stupid?
And then we've got all the idiots who are tuned out totally. I went to the most moving (yeah, I cried) and inspiring Memorial Day Service in Jacksonville, FL. We had a few hundred people..that's all. BUT...right behind us( the ceremony was outdoors) in our football stadium Willy Nelson & Dylan played to a packed house at top price tickets. The irony hit me when I heard Willy in the background behind Taps.
Go figure.
Ok, ok... tomorrow I'm being put on Decaf!ha.
I remember discussing this with my mom and family at thanksgiving dinner. I told her if I had been that marine I would have put the butt of my rifle right between his eyes. Everyone laughed cause they knew I was serious. All this from a little US gal.
My sentiments exactly.
When the Marines in the field get word of what Kevin Sites words really were, he should remind himself that he could end up in someone's 'sights' (crosshairs) and that would end his reporting PERMANENTLY. Freakin' jounalists don't give crap about our guys, or our country the just want the fame for being the one with 'the story'. SHip 'em all stateside and have 'em go interview deep throat.
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