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Number of journalists in 17 countries who died while covering the news in 2007 — the deadliest year since 1994, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Iraq “led the list for the fifth year in a row, with 31 dead — one fewer than a year ago.”
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Their employers should ask for these reporters signing bonuses back. They didn’t exactly “finish the job”.
December 18th, 2007 at 4:31 pmWere any of them brave State Department employees?
Oh, wait, they refused to go.
December 18th, 2007 at 4:36 pmWere any of them faux news stenographers?
December 18th, 2007 at 4:40 pmWell there you go – that’s why they’re not reporting all the “good news” coming out of Iraq.
December 18th, 2007 at 4:50 pm64: Number of journalists in 17 countries who died while covering the news in 2007
- – The Coalition Of The Killing
December 18th, 2007 at 4:52 pmWell, Britt Hume had a hangnail and John Gibson was slapped by a stripper. That was some serious combat for those losers.
Fux sux.
-GSD
December 18th, 2007 at 5:00 pmSouthern Man, I thought southern men were supposed to be smart?
This statement from ‘Southern man’, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions is clearly one of THE most mornonic utterances ever uttered by a supposed American leader.
Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama said in a derogatory tone:
“The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation’s security.â€
Hey Senator Sessions, your job is to UPHOLD the constitution, not to wet your pants in fear every time a terrorist strikes.
-GSD
December 18th, 2007 at 5:03 pmMost all of them killed by radical Muslims.
December 18th, 2007 at 5:03 pm#9: Most all of them killed by radical Muslims.
- – Maybe one or two gang-raped and killed by Blackwater guards too. Ya know, just sayin’…
December 18th, 2007 at 5:08 pmMost all of them killed by radical Muslims.
Comment by Charles James Napier — December 18, 2007 @ 5:03 pm
Link Chuckie?
December 18th, 2007 at 5:08 pmI thought reporters were supposed to be smart.
Comment by Southern Man — December 18, 2007 @ 4:58 pm
Only if they are not Republican
December 18th, 2007 at 5:11 pmMost all of them killed by radical Muslims.
Comment by Charles James Napier — December 18, 2007 @ 5:03 pm
You have stats on this? Or is this just a factoid you’re pulling out of your butt?
In Iraq, for example, there are radical Muslims overtly trying to exterminate all “infidels”, sectarian Muslims fighting a civil war, Muslims trying to defend themselves from getting killed, Muslims just trying to get out of the way, and foreign mercenaries fighting purely for the money. There are also roadside bombs which could have been placed by anyone, and plain old fashioned accidents. Journalists who get killed in war zones can meet their fate for any number of reasons.
December 18th, 2007 at 5:13 pmsmart = bullet/bomb-proof??
??
December 18th, 2007 at 5:15 pmMost all of them killed by radical Muslims.
Comment by Charles James Napier — December 18, 2007 @ 5:03 pm
Link Chuckie?
Comment by Wayne — December 18, 2007 @ 5:08 pm
From the article:
“This has reached its peak in Iraq, where most of the 124 reporters, photographers and editors, and the 49 other news employees killed since the U.S. invasion in 2003, were slain after being abducted.”
December 18th, 2007 at 5:17 pmLink Chuckie?
Comment by Wayne
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The story linked by TP above says that most were murdered after being kidnapped in Iraq.
Journalists have also been murdered by Islamists in Somalia, The Philippines and Thailand.
Coming in second and third, after the Islamists, are the Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mafia, when it comes to killing reporters….but I have no doubt that you folks will blame it all on the dreaded Chimpy Mc Boooshsky.
December 18th, 2007 at 5:19 pmFCC Agrees to Overturn 32-Year-Old Ban and Broadcast-Newspaper Cross-Ownership to Top Markets
Not so very OT, the fight against free press goes on even in the US:
December 18th, 2007 at 5:19 pmhttp://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/FCC_agrees_to_new_media_ownership_r_12182007.html
If we weren’t there, they wouldn’t have to go die trying to report on us being there, now would they?
Which, btw, makes these journalists some brass-balled so-and-so’s.
December 18th, 2007 at 5:34 pmThe truth is the enemy
December 18th, 2007 at 5:36 pm.but I have no doubt that you folks will blame it all on the dreaded Chimpy Mc Boooshsky.
Comment by Charles James Napier — December 18, 2007 @ 5:19 pm
No unlike you we blame the people that did the killing.
And you are exaggerating what the report states, but we expect you trolls to stretch the truth.
December 18th, 2007 at 5:44 pmThe best journalists in Iraq are Michael Yon and Michael J. Totten.
http://www.michaeltotten.com/
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/desires-of-the-human-heart-part-one.htm
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December 18th, 2007 at 5:45 pmNo unlike you we blame the people that did the killing.
Comment by Wayne
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You better talk to tombaker at post #19 then:
“If we weren’t there, they wouldn’t have to go die trying to report on us being there, now would they?”
December 18th, 2007 at 5:48 pm“If we weren’t there, they wouldn’t have to go die trying to report on us being there, now would they?â€
Comment by Charles James Napier — December 18, 2007 @ 5:48 pm
And where in that statement did tom state he blamed, as you said, “it all on the dreaded Chimpy Mc Boooshsky”????
Your reading comprehension has much to be desired.
December 18th, 2007 at 5:52 pmWayne,
Please, you know exactly what he means.
December 18th, 2007 at 5:56 pmchuckie, at a time like this we need facts, not agendas.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:08 pmWould you ‘tards stop ascribing MEANING to what people say that just back up your RADICAL RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM?
Comment by republicans hate facts
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Radical religious extremism?…When have I ever said anything that would lead you to believe that I’m even religious at all, let a lone a radical extremist?
December 18th, 2007 at 6:10 pmIt’s about f’in time! Next will they take up the issue for those soldiers whose VA benefits were nullified because their assignment orders were a single day short of requirements? After that, you have the maimed and shell shocked. It seems that when the Bushies say support our troops they are referring to bras and cod pieces.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:14 pmHit the wrong thread, sorry.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:16 pmMost all of them killed by radical Muslims.
Comment by Charles James Napier — December 18, 2007 @ 5:03 pm
still no proof whatsoever, and still an illegal, bullying, pointless, losing occupation. Their blood covers Bush.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:22 pmand Bin Laden, still free. How embarrassing for the Bushites.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:23 pmBush will retire in the comfort of knowing that he lost three wars. There won;t be enough cocaine to keep him high; that’s the reason for the paraguayan purchase.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:24 pmWayne,
How about #32?:
“Their blood covers Bush.”
Comment by Lefty Patriot
December 18th, 2007 at 6:27 pmThe surge must be working.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:32 pmWayne,
How about #32?:
“Their blood covers Bush.â€
Comment by Lefty Patriot
Comment by Charles James Napier — December 18, 2007 @ 6:27 pm
yes, too bad you have no way to take issue with that, charlie chickenhawk. War is the idiot’s way, the coward’s way, the retard’s way of solving problems. Bush is the ultimate idiot, coward and retard.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:36 pmLefty Patriot,
Did you destroy your mind with drugs or were you the unfortunate victim of inbreeding?
December 18th, 2007 at 6:40 pmNow Charles, you’re ruining the thread again with your abuse and name-calling.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:48 pmNow Charles, you’re ruining the thread again with your abuse and name-calling.
Comment by tombaker
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I know.
I usually try to be nice, but it is dificult when nearly every response to my comments is in the form of a personal attack or some unhinged rant.
I guess that’s what I get for entering into this nuthouse in the first place.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:55 pmsmatta, Charlie, truth hurts? look, you’re a brainwashed, antiAmerican pig, you’ve made that perfectly clear time after time. You follow a treasonous bunch of mass-murdering psychopaths, and you spread lies and rumors like so much horseshit. What do you expect? You come here to spread lies, to quote the most obvious tools in the press, and then you feign shock when you are exposed for the piece of shit you have made yourself. Boo-hoo-hoo, you poor baby. Youhave notnhing to add to this or any other discussion here, and until you give up the treasonous path you’re on, and turn the corner to become a patriotic American, you get what you deserve; scorn and smackdown. I’m not stupid or naive enough to buy your crap, go sell it a redstate, they’ll swallow it whole, being the braindead scumsuckers they are. I’m certainly not going to play nice with an enabler of treason and illegal warfare. that’s you, by the way.
December 18th, 2007 at 7:11 pmDid you destroy your mind with drugs or were you the unfortunate victim of inbreeding?
Comment by Charles James Napier — December 18, 2007 @ 6:40 pm
finish it off with a little rightard projection, won’t you, chucklehead?
December 18th, 2007 at 7:12 pmif by “nice” you mean “employing scurrilous innuendo veiled in saccharine prose” then i know what you mean there, charles.
i know, there are a lot of people who feel provoked when they’re approached that way, and respond aggressively, and i can’t really blame them.
i can only let the mean righties’ comments slide, and focus my attention on those who are merely repeating falsehoods or ignoring the ordinary conventions of causality, fairness, and the spirit of the US Constitution.
December 18th, 2007 at 7:13 pmI’m giving no rightard a pass on lies and innuendo. The left for too long has let the right get away with stealing elections, wholesale character assassination, influence-buying, election-stealing, and then, once they’re in office, they go about shredding the Constitution, raping the justice system and emptying the treasury into their pockets. There is no basis for rational discussion with sociopaths, and it’s about time that the dems used some of the Repigs tactics on them. This play nice bullshit has gotten us out of the frying pan, into the fire. Bush should have been clobbered daily with his drunkenness, drug abuse, desertion and incompetence. Cheney should have been called a war profiteer every day from the first, because he was then and he is now. These “people” have proven, beyond any doubt, their inability to govern, and they have proven, beyond any doubt, that they hate the American people, veterans and system. The Hague is their ultimate destination, and, with any luck at all, they will hang.
December 18th, 2007 at 7:21 pmThe Hague is their ultimate destination, and, with any luck at all, they will hang.
Comment by Lefty Patriot
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Time for your medicine.
December 18th, 2007 at 7:31 pmOh man, what a great day it was.
Comment by Billy Hill — December 18, 2007 @ 7:33 pm
Very imaginative, billy, i see your latest batch of meth is doing the trick.
December 18th, 2007 at 7:40 pmThe Hague is their ultimate destination, and, with any luck at all, they will hang.
Comment by Lefty Patriot
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Time for your medicine.
Comment by Charles James Napier — December 18, 2007 @ 7:31 pm
actually, I just described yours. choke on it, pig.
December 18th, 2007 at 7:40 pmchoke on it, pig.
Comment by Lefty Patriot — December 18, 2007 @ 7:40 pm
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All this rage can’t be healthy.
You should seek help.
I mean this honestly, as one human being to another.
Listen to your family, they love you.
Get help.
December 18th, 2007 at 7:47 pmListen to your family, they love you.
Get help.
Comment by Charles James Napier — December 18, 2007 @ 7:47 pm
Rage? Please, if you’re not full of rage at your country being stolen by mass-murdering psychopaths, then you’re less than human. If you’re comfortable with over a million dead in iraq, and millions more displaced, then you’re a Republican. If you think I need help, then you know nothing about the human condition. You need help, but appear to be beyond it. Treason is yours to wear, and you are just a sociopathic, sick, twisted little fruit if you aren’t every bit as outraged as I am. I love this country. You don’t care about it. that’s all your bullshit psych 101 trash ays. You are truly stupid if you think I can’t see through your phoniness.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:02 pmStole it by thousands of votes…yes we did!
http://wizbangblog.com/ content/ 2005/ 06/ 06/ washington-stat.php
Comment by Billy Hill — December 18, 2007 @ 7:45 pm
goose, gander, billy-boy. boo-hoo, you deserve it and much more.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:03 pm#15 Most all of them killed by radical Muslims.
Comment by Charles James Napier — December 18, 2007 @ 5:03 pm
Link Chuckie?
Comment by Wayne — December 18, 2007 @ 5:08 pm
From the article:
“This has reached its peak in Iraq, where most of the 124 reporters, photographers and editors, and the 49 other news employees killed since the U.S. invasion in 2003, were slain after being abducted.â€
I wonder who started the killing:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/08/sprj.irq.hotel/index.html
December 18th, 2007 at 8:17 pmI wonder who started the killing:
http://www.cnn.com/ 2003/ WORLD/ meast/ 04/ 08/ sprj.irq.hotel/ index.html
Comment by Evil Spaniard — December 18, 2007 @ 8:17 pm
What utter and complete garbage. You equate a single battlefield accident from April 8, 2003 – when Baghdad hadn’t even fallen and Saddam’s goons were using journalists as human shields – with the deliberate abduction of over 150 journalists and their intentional murder thereafter? Complete sophistry, please do yourself and favor and drop this absurd comparison.
December 18th, 2007 at 9:19 pmOoh, Keltoi, a little close to home, hey? American soldiers blowing up journalists, no, couldn’t be whatever you do, don’t believe your lying eyes. The comparison is not only not absurd, it’s quite likely. I know you think all American soldiers are saints, but that is not the case, especially under the “leadership” of the mass-murdering Bush cabal. Troops follow orders, leaders give those orders. You’re a very naive little tool.
December 18th, 2007 at 9:40 pmTroops follow orders, leaders give those orders. You’re a very naive little tool.
Comment by Lefty Patriot — December 18, 2007 @ 9:40 pm
Leave it to you to embrace this crap.
A tank shell kills three journalists in a hotel from which enemy fire is coming during an urban assault.
This equals the kidnapping and murder of “124 reporters, photographers and editors, and the 49 other news employees killed since the U.S. invasion in 2003″ on Planet Lefty Patriot.
Can you grasp the difference between an ACCIDENT and a DELIBERATE murder following an abduction?
No, of course you can’t, you are Lefty “Patriot” and there is no difference between the USMC, Al-Qaeda, US Army, Al-Quds…they are all the same. Pathetic.
December 18th, 2007 at 9:54 pmNo, of course you can’t, you are Lefty “Patriot†and there is no difference between the USMC, Al-Qaeda, US Army, Al-Quds…they are all the same. Pathetic.
Comment by Keltoi at Night — December 18, 2007 @ 9:54 pm
It is pathetic, but don’t blame me. I didn’t give the orders. Keep your head firmly in the sand, or up your ass, whatever works for you to beatify our poorly-trained, -equipped and-led troops. You conveniently forget that we are the criminals here, by any measure. Every death in an illegal war is a war crime. Are you proud now?
December 18th, 2007 at 11:27 pm“…… our poorly-trained, -equipped and-led troops. You conveniently forget that we are the criminals here, by any measure. ”
Comment by Lefty Patriot — December 18, 2007 @ 11:27 pm
You’ve insulted my intelligence many times but I have insulted myself much worse by acknowledging your self-hating existence. Slither back under your rock.
December 18th, 2007 at 11:42 pmYou’ve insulted my intelligence many times but I have insulted myself much worse by acknowledging your self-hating existence. Slither back under your rock.
Comment by Keltoi at Night — December 18, 2007 @ 11:42 pm
the truth stings, doesn’t it, boyo? Insulting your intelligence assumes facts not in evidence, but it’s nice of you to try to justify your support of war crimes by getting all huffy. Now, jam your head back up your ass so you won’t have to face the reality that you’re an uncivilized savage with sociopathic tendencies. And in the meantime, get all pissed off at me because I don’t see the need for anybody to die for Bush’s ego. that makes me real bad, right?
You’re stupid.
December 18th, 2007 at 11:57 pmCan you grasp the difference between an ACCIDENT and a DELIBERATE murder following an abduction?
No, of course you can’t, you are Lefty “Patriot†and there is no difference between the USMC, Al-Qaeda, US Army, Al-Quds…they are all the same. Pathetic.
Comment by Keltoi at Night — December 18, 2007 @ 9:54 pm
by the way, you might one day think for a minute about calling a war crime an accident. It makes you look really sick.
December 18th, 2007 at 11:59 pmI wonder who started the killing:
http://www.cnn.com/ 2003/ WORLD/ meast/ 04/ 08/ sprj.irq.hotel/ index.html
Comment by Evil Spaniard — December 18, 2007 @ 8:17 pm
What utter and complete garbage. You equate a single battlefield accident from April 8, 2003 – when Baghdad hadn’t even fallen and Saddam’s goons were using journalists as human shields – with the deliberate abduction of over 150 journalists and their intentional murder thereafter? Complete sophistry, please do yourself and favor and drop this absurd comparison.
Comment by Keltoi at Night — December 18, 2007 @ 9:19 pm
It wasn’t an accident because:
1.- If you don’t know the fact, the Palestine Hotel is very distinctive from the outside. The military had digitalized pictures of the main edifices, including specially the Hotel, because was house of the foreing journalists in Baghdad. The not imbedded. All of them.
2.- The standard procedure for the reporters was to inform of their GPS location to the USA HQ. There were hundreds of journalists informed at that precise location at the time of the shelling.
3.- The tank stood for 20 MINUTES before the Hotel prior to fire.
4.- Tanks must check with HQ to fire, reporting the situation of “under fire”. The situation wasn’t of incommunication.
5.- No shot came from the Hotel Palestine. This is koolaid for people like you. There are hundreds of journalists to attest it.
Was a case of bad judgement and knowingly firing at a civilian target that was no threat. Anyhow, a war crime.
December 19th, 2007 at 7:59 amWell ?
Comment by Kilo — December 19, 2007 @ 8:11 am
Calling a war crime an accident doesn’t make it one. Same old wingnut reframing. Nice try, kilo, but when you’re caught, you’re caught.
December 19th, 2007 at 9:12 am