Thursday, March 30, 2006

Jill Carroll Freed

The insanely brave Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll is freed, via our angry but huggable friend Americablog. I am unreasonably pleased by this news, probably showing that the maudlin gene in my Irish heritage is starting to become dominantas I age.

Situations like Jill's are one of the reasons I feel the way I do about people like Kaloonybin, i.e. not crossing street to piss on him, see under if on fire. (Oh, and do check out the "Baghdad photo" he's replaced the the fake one with to bolster his claims that all is well in Baghdad. It's shot from, apprently, my backyard.)

These craven bastards so need to protect their precious worldview, they'll not ony slag people who are out there trying to find the truth, they'll then set themselves up as being the ones who are doing something courageous, as being morally superior to somebody out there risking their lives. Because the truth that these reporters find is inconvenient.

I am obligated to link to Lara Logan, on the ground in Baghdad, smacking the shit out of this nonsense. I hope my wife will forgive my tiny new crush on Ms. Logan, in the same way she forgives my gay crush on the con-man dude from Lost.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yet another photo of the gleaming streets of liberated Baghdad.

veteran novice said...

In comments on other blogs, I have posted the same link to Ms. Logan's response to CNN anchor Howard Kurtz, who has been spewing the "it's the medias fault we are losing" B.S. for the last week. He tried to ambush her with a list of her own "negative" reports of shootings and explosions in the last week. Lara,the CBS Iraq reporter who is actually in Iraq, took exception. I wanted to stand up and cheer for Lara at the end, she spoke with furious eloquence.
I might add, they cynical sob's spouting this b.s. do not believe it themselves, but are starting up the rhetoric for the fall elections. Blaming the left-wing media for imaginary ills has worked very well for them past, but I cannot believe people will fall for it again. But then I can hardly believe more than ten people living outside of mental hospital could have voted for these losers last time, so I guess you never know.

Anonymous said...

The Lara Logan Crush Club gladly welcomes you with open arms.

We are legion.

Anonymous said...

i'm just glad she's safe. if there was a deal made with the kidnappers, who's to notice in this hobo clusterfuck of a shitstorm? if there was a ransom paid, cool. if prisoners get released, good for them. if the kidnappers had a "what the fuck are we doing?" moment of decency, good for them. this was one decent thing that happened in a world of shit. welcome home jill. welcome home.

Anonymous said...

and lara is insane hot. i would be tempted to piss her off all the time because she's so beautiful when she's angry. . .it would be dangerous.

Anonymous said...

Lara Logan is outstanding, and sadly, very, very married.

Stick a beautiful woman in a war zone. Hey, worked for Diane Sawyer and CBS before...

Anonymous said...

Btw, Stefan? I think that photo is actually of the UAE.

I mean, they've got EVERYTHING over there now.

Unknown said...

Sawyer? Really?

It's more of my general geek gayosity in viewing habits. Weds. is LOST and VERONICA MARS, and my wife can only shake her head at me.

Simon Underwood said...

Try crushing on Michael Schofield in "Prison Break" - an inmate? What the hell is my subconcious trying to tell me?!

Luckily my Michelle Trachtenberg collection sits only feet away, bringing me back home.

I become more and more interested in global politics each day cause of this blog - my media lecturers would finally be pleased. Four years too late.

Anonymous said...

Glad to hear of the hostage release.

I think this media investigation requires further research. I'd like to be embedded with Lara Logan, and listen to her tell the truth.

Listen to her tell the truth all night long.

Hurray for speaking truth to power.

And hurray for the smoking hotness.

Rob

Anonymous said...

I'm gay but I've been crushing hardcore on Lara Logan all week.

Amazingly, I've found a few conservative bloggers who've posted to the Kurtz smackdown as evidence of the liberal media's 'defensiveness' about their 'gloom-and-doom' reportage.

As friggin' if.

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