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don't askGo visit Captain Ed and read about this request found at ABC News' website today:
Jan. 19, 2005 -- For a possible Inauguration Day story on ABC News, we are trying to find out if there any military funerals for Iraq war casualties scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 20. If you know of a funeral and whether the family might be willing to talk to ABC News, please fill out the form below[...]What can one say? As the Power Line notes:
Note that only the families of Iraqi war dead need apply. If a soldier died in Afghanistan, or aiding tsunami victims in Indonesia or Sri Lanka, or in a training exercise, never mind. That isn't the "balance" ABC is looking for.And Captain Ed adds this:
The sheer chutzpah and shallowness doesn't surprise me as much as the laziness that this demonstrates. It's not enough that some bloodsucking leech wants to use the grief of some poor family as entertainment and political theater. They are too freakin' lazy to go out and find one themselves, so they want someone to get them an invitation to the funeral.Remember: last year, Ted Koppel dedicated an entire episode of Nightline to nothing but a roll call of all the American military deaths sustained in Iraq to that point. Not the deaths of our fighting men in Afghanistan or elsewhere, but Iraq only.
Whoever posted this at ABC needs a soul transplant. Disgusting.
And this isn't supposed to be seen as a partisan decision? Goddamned propagandists. Don't even have the courage to show that they pulled the request off their site.
Posted by Toby Petzold
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