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Lara Logan ROCKS
I apologize for the nonstop political posts . . . but hey, that’s what I do on the weekends, catch up on the news.
Crooks and Liars has video of CNN’s Iraq Correspondent Lara Logan responding to the Bush Administration’s lying meme that the press is too negative in their coverage of the war. Logan is righteously pissed, yet her eloquence never slips.
KURTZ: But critics would say, well, no wonder people back home think things are falling apart because we get this steady drumbeat of negativity from the correspondents there.
LOGAN: Well, who says things aren’t falling apart in Iraq? I mean, what you didn’t see on your screens this week was all the unidentified bodies that have been turning up, all the allegations here of militias that are really controlling the security forces.
Logan’s defense of journalists’ reportage strikes me as unassailable. See for yourself. Watch it to the very end, and you’ll catch Logan’s look of raw disdain regarding Laura Ingraham’s eight-day visit to Iraq. Oh, it’s sweet.
Journalists are my heroes — not the ones who act as conduits for the Administration Propaganda Sewer, but the ones like Logan who risk their butts to report the truth.
D.
PS: Also at Crooks and Liars, a link to a Peace Takes Courage slideshow reviewing our “progress” over the last three years in Iraq.
I’m speechless. Watching that video, all I can think about is the fact that Mister Bush wants this to go on, and on, and on.
Thanks for the link to Lara Logan. She was great!
You are right, she does rock.
Oh, (whiney voice) but you make war look like such a BAD thing.
Duh, it IS a BAD thing.
Just for the record, I can not truthfully call myself a liberal. I am pretty much “middle of the road” when we first went to Iraq I thought it was the right thing to do, and I still think getting Saddam Hussein behind bars was a very good thing. I have never taken this stand lightly. I live 20 miles from Ft. Bragg, home of the 82nd Airborne. I see these kids (yes, most of them are kids, brave as Hell, but kids) in the mall, the grocery store, on dates at the movie theater. When I was much younger I occasionally was the date at the movie threater. They aren’t “troops” to me. They are people. It made me heartsick to think of them going to war, but I felt it had to be done.
Now all I feel is “when will it ever end.” What have we accomplished since Saddam was captured? And was it worth the lives of over 3000 of our youngest and bravest Americans? Dubbya needs to admit that we have accomplished everything we can accomplish and bring our people home. I have never been a deeply political person, but every time I hear about another bomb going off in Iraq and another 8 or 10 Americans or innocent Iraqi children being added to the death roster in the same voice the newscaster uses to recite his or her grocery list, I feel sick.
Looks like I am feeling particularly ranty tonight. If this goes on much longer I may be the most liberal person in North Carolina. That may not be so hard. Ever hear of Jessie Helms? At least I never voted for him.
Thank God for those who risk their lives to give us the truth. May He bless and protect them all.
[…] 13. Lara Logan. In general, I love reporters — real reporters, not the glorified weather men/women who fill the ranks these days. If Sy Hersh were a gal, he’d make it on the list in a heartbeat, no matter what he looked like. I’m still sizzling over Lara Logan’s no-nonsense Iraq reporting. Helps that she’s a babe, too, and NNDB assures me she’s straight. […]