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Religions > Atheism |
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"Sean C" |
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16 Nov 2003 11:07:42 AM |
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OT: Jessica Lynch: A Hero for Telling the Truth |
Kudos to Jessica Lynch for refusing to be a pawn. Perhaps some of our
Democratic congressmen and "liberal" media types who have established
headquarters up Bush's ***** could learn a bit about honor and courage
from her.
Sean C
From The Washington Post, 11/14/03:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38673-2003Nov13.html
A Hero for Telling the Truth
By Richard Cohen
Friday, November 14, 2003; Page A29
Against all expectations -- but not against my better judgment -- I've
taken a liking to Jessica Lynch.
Initially she brought such a rush of cynicism to my head I thought I
would swoon from vertigo.
But to the undoubted horror of the White House, the Pentagon and
everyone at Fox News, she has refused to play the propaganda puppet
and has, shockingly, told the truth.
She is a hero -- not for what she did in Iraq but for what she did on
the "Today" show.
There, as in other places, she denied that she emptied her rifle into
the enemy, as initial reports had it, and instead conceded that she
did not fire her rifle at all.
She rued that her rescue has been videotaped and used to suggest that
the operation matched the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima.
She thanked the troops who had snatched her back to safety -- her
heroes, she said -- but lamented the use to which the video was put.
I confess that I was totally unprepared for such refreshing candor --
and I bet the entire Military-Industrial-Television-Publishing Complex
was too.
Lynch became instantly famous when she was rescued from an Iraqi
hospital.
She was the perfect propaganda tool -- young, female, white and
blonde.
In a way, Lynch reminds me of Farragut Jones, a fictional character in
the book and the movie "Don't Go Near the Water."
The story concerned World War II Navy PR men in the Pacific and how
they discovered who they thought was the perfectly named seaman, a
combination of David Farragut and John Paul Jones.
He turned out, however, to be something of a mistake -- a sailor who
could barely complete a sentence without uttering an expletive.
In the movie, played by Mickey Shaughnessy, he was a stitch.
Lynch is no stitch.
She is merely beguilingly honest, the totally unexpected creation of
fast-typing journalists, the confusion of war -- or the fictional
concoction of some Pentagon fibber somewhere.
Either way, the story from the word go was false or embellished.
She was ambushed once in Iraq and yet again in the fertile minds of
marketing geniuses.
To her credit and to almost everyone's surprise, Lynch has emerged as
a generational prototype -- post-racial, post-feminist and
post-falsehood.
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| User: "JTEM" |
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| Title: Re: Jessica Lynch: A Hero for Telling the Truth |
16 Nov 2003 03:06:34 PM |
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"Sean C" <redhawk@burnspammersalivehvc.rr.com> wrote
Kudos to Jessica Lynch for refusing to be a pawn.
In RealLife(tm), I've always defended her as a hero. After all,
she did more for her country than Bush or Cheney could ever
bring themselves to do.
She went out on the limb for her nation and paid a steep price.
It might not have been a higher price as many others, but that
alone is reason to celebrate.
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Jessica Lynch: A Hero for Telling the Truth |
17 Nov 2003 12:41:25 AM |
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In article <VPqdncc9JKS5eyqiRVn-gg@comcast.com>,
"JTEM" <jaytem@yahoo.com> wrote:
"Sean C" <redhawk@burnspammersalivehvc.rr.com> wrote
Kudos to Jessica Lynch for refusing to be a pawn.
In RealLife(tm), I've always defended her as a hero. After all,
she did more for her country than Bush or Cheney could ever
bring themselves to do.
She went out on the limb for her nation and paid a steep price.
It might not have been a higher price as many others, but that
alone is reason to celebrate.
And for not going along with the BushCo BS progaganda machine she has
my applause and admiration.
--
John Hachmann, aa #1782
- Question authority. Now more than ever. -
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