The Furious Spinner

I am weaning myself from mainstream news. I had stopped watching it before 9/11. After 9/11 I started again, feeling it was part of my job to know what they were saying was happening (as opposed to what was actually happening). Now it's so depressing how distorted everything is. Have you wondered how it can be that a man who asked to go to Vietnam is now being accused of being unpatriotic by a man who still hasn't explained what he did for that "lost year" of his military service? These are screwy times.

While the mainstream media is unfair and unbalanced, distorting reality at every turn, they seem to forget that real people are dying every day in Iraq. Greg Palast, an actual real-life investigative journalist, reminds us how involved the Bush people have been with Iraq for decades. He also mentions that the New York Times has a daily column called "Names of the Dead." It lists those U.S. military people who have died in Iraq each day. As of today, 711 service people have died in Iraq. Of course, this column says nothing about how many Iraqis have died since the war began.

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