Morford: Very, Very Dirty Pictures

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Friday, December 3, 2004 | Mark Morford; the Marboro Man gets her hot

[presidio9]

This is what you won't see in the paper. This is what you won't see on CNN or on MSNBC or CBS News or on any major media Web site anywhere and especially no goddamn way ever in hell will you see it within a thousand miles of Fox News.

You aren't supposed to see. You aren't supposed to know. You are to remain ignorant and shielded, and, if you're like most Americans, you have been very carefully conditioned to think Bush's nasty Iraq war is merely this ugly little firecracker-like thing happening way, way over there, carefully orchestrated and somewhat messy and maybe a little bloody but mostly still patriotic and good and necessary and sponsored by none other than God his own angry Republican self.

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Or maybe you think war is manly and heroic and cool, as exemplified by that now-famous shot of that macho "Dogface" Marlboro-smokin' Marine whose dirt-encrusted mug was eagerly picked up by newspapers and media Web sites across the nation (including this one), and he became an instant icon for the war and the military was positively giddy about using him an ideal recruitment tool, a model of how to make soldiers look all studly and rugged and badass as opposed to the often poorly educated, disposable hunks of politically abused postpubescent meat

So then. Here is your uncensored truth: fallujahinpictures.com. Real pictures from Fallujah. Real pictures of war. Brutal and explicit and shocking and just one site of many. Be warned: this is very graphic content. Horrific and deeply disturbing. No censorship. No suppression. No Photoshop. No bogus shots of happy Iraqi children running in the streets begging for candy from American soldiers. No night shots of Marines in bitchin' night-vision goggles bustin' down the door of some palace and then cheering.

[presidio9]

This woman would have been against invading Nazi Germany.

[expatpat]

Mr. Morford has not been getting enough in the backdoor, it seems.

[null and void]

I think I'll skip looking at the pictures.

[sierrahome]

ROFLMAO!!

[Huck]

Whoopdidoo. I looked at the pictures. Doesn't change my mind about anything.

[Dad2Angels]

Morford is a self loathing homosexual who epitomizes the psychological term of projection.

[tkathy]

Victimhood, all the ills of the world are America's fault. Screwed up thinking.

[netmilsmom]

War sucks, M. I've been to that website. The pictures are awful. But guess what? The people chewed up in shredders had it really bad as well.

[JustAnotherOkie]

What a pansyassed bitch. This is a classic hate america first.

How about showing some pictures of the tourture and execution chambers that were found or some of the weapons caches.

[stylin_geek]

The only reason this hysterical woman has a column is because he's a gay male and the newspaper needed to "diversify."

No, I don't know this for fact, however, I think this article strongly supports this theory.

[SmithL]

Morfordite Alert

[Bahbah]

I looked at the pictures as well. AND....?

[Red Badger]

Marines aren't Dogfaces, we are Devildogs......

[presidio9]

I sincerely doubt that hiring a fag in San Francisco qualifies as diversification.

[Edgerunner]

Morford is simply suffering from the Arafat Syndrome (oxygen starvation of the brain)...

[piperpilot]

I did look at the pictures and all the dead body pictures are of Iraqis killed by the "insurgents" (read: terrorists), to which I remark, BIG WHOOP!

[leadpencil1]

Here are some more dirty pictures.

[RushCrush]

LOL!!!

[Conspiracy Guy]

I just emailed the little turd.

[stylin_geek]

Hmm, you know, this is a good point.

Perhaps this is the SF Chronicles answer to Eleanor Clift? Same shrill manner, only in print.