Media Focuses on 'Sensational,' Cheney Says

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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun2005/20050614_1722.html

Media Focuses on 'Sensational,' Cheney Says
By Capt. Steve Alvarez, USA
American Forces Press Service


WASHINGTON, June 14, 2005 – Media focuses on a "drive to report the sensational," said Vice President Richard B. Cheney during an interview with Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity that aired on the "Hannity and Holmes" show June 13.
In recent weeks there has been a flurry of allegations from human rights groups and media organizations that U.S. military personnel have disrespected the Koran. News reports alleged that guards flushed the Muslim holy book down a toilet at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The news magazine that made the initial allegations later retracted the comments, but, Cheney told Hannity, the comments hurt the global perception of the United States.

"I don't know that it's purposeful, I just think there's a drive to report the sensational," Cheney said. "And it's news if you can say that somebody flushed a Koran down a toilet at Guantanamo, because it does inflame opinion."

However, he added, the truth is that the United States goes out of its way to recognize the detainees' religious rights. "There probably isn't another country in the world who would do what we do, which is make sure they all have a copy of the Koran if they so wish, even though they're there as terrorists who've tried to kill Americans," Cheney said.


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[meganmonkey]

1. And aren't you lucky that they do?

You corrupt bastid!

[ixion]

2. my thoughts exactly

:applause:

[Inland]

7. Like, say, Bush at the site of the WTC, the invasion w/embeds,

the rockets over Bagdad, the capture of Saddam, Bush on the Abraham Lincoln, the joyful reunions from abroad.....

These guys RUN on spectacle to keep anyone from seeing what is really going on.

The real complaint is that the horrendous spectacular truth is finally overcoming the false spectacle of Bushi photo ops and the glories of Bushie's Little War.

[Carla in Ca]

20. HA! All I see in the news

is him and his warped view of the world, and there is NOTHING sensational about him!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

3. OMG. What a frickin' two-faced loser.

[kliljedahl]

4. If it's on Insannity & Gnomes it must be true

Keith’s Barbeque Central

[TalkingDog]

5. See? I was all set to agree with him....

I thought he was talking about Michael Jackson or the lost-pretty-white woman of the week.

What a tool.

[gratuitous]

6. Somebody call the waaaaahmbulance for Crashcart

He's all overcome with the vapahs because the media flock to the sensational. I was similarly afflicted at one time in my life, but then I turned 8 and grew out of it.

Just another crybaby conservative.

[Barrett808]

8. Oh, you mean like aluminum tubes and uranium ore from Niger? n/t

[Inland]

9. And nobody asks for proof there are terrorists at Gitmo. Isn't that the

issue?

Cheney just presumes that everyone at Gitmo deserves permanent jail if not torture: but what do we know about these people, aside from that they are imprisoned? Nothing, because Cheney says he and Bush don't have to tell us anything beyond "they are terrorists who have tried to kill Americans", and the imprisoned don't have any rights to challenge that doom.

You and I could end up there just as easily.

[old blue]

11. beat me to it :/

[Inland]

22. Isn't it time that we just wondered if Bush/Cheney is being straight on

the Gitmo detainees, when Cheney says they "attacked America'?

I mean, does anyone assert even today that these guys aren't capable of error much less of lies?

How many times do we have to be "surprised" by the extent of the falsity?

[old blue]

10. "even though they're there as terrorists who've tried to kill Americans"

Two words:

Prove it.

[Debi]

12. Like Howard Dean saying the Republican Party consists mainly

of white christians....now THAT'S sensational!!!!

[Spinzonner]

13. Like color-coded terrorism alerts ?

[Debi]

14. You question the administration? Alert Level back to Orange!!

Shame on you :eyes:

[The_Casual_Observer]

15. This is the same idiot who sat and did nothing for the 9 months

prior to 9/11. Oh yea, they were just getting "warmed up."

[Kipling]

16. They are totally innocent until proven guilty.

And not many other countries lock up innocent people in prison camps and piss on their holy books.

[Ilsa]

17. Yeah, I've noticed how dull the media think thinks

the Downing Street Minutes are. And the Rest of Bush's treasonous behavior. It isn't sensational enough for them

[applegrove]

18. Yeah Cheney - like that Iraqi War that insured Americans were

voting patriotic for Bush's second term?

[struggle4progress]

19. If he were naked on all fours barking, I might take him more seriously.

[NightOwwl]

21. Let me borrow Jon Stewart's "Over the Top" analogy...

Reporting that someone flushed a Koran down a toilet is not sensational. Reporting that "Republicans all sodimize sheep and drink piss straight from the cock" is sensational.

Do you understand now, Dick?

[catzies]

23. "Media ignores your lies!" says me to Cheney.

n/t

[Roland99]

24. *IF* "they're there as terrorists who've tried to kill Americans"

then why are they STILL there after more than 3 years? Why aren't they on trial and being convicted and serving out sentences?

Hmm?????

[Zerex71]

25. Cheny's logic falls apart once again.

They can't have been terr'ists tryin' kill durn Murricans because they are currently in custody getting ANALLY RAPED by chemical lights. Kind of hard to terrorize while you're sodomized.

[BiggJawn]

26. Good for this bunch that they do.

It's a GODSEND for Cheney that the MSM focusses on the "Perv of The Day"...