Supporting the Troops - American lives or ‘SportsCenter’?

[dArKeR]

After May 1, the question must be asked: What’s more important, the loss of American lives or ‘SportsCenter’?

Aug. 1 —  Over a catfish sandwich and a Coke in the Raleigh-Durham airport, I learned how the United States ends a war. Above the bar, a long array of televisions, maybe eight or ten of them, broadcast silent sports-network images of tennis matches and stock car races. Only one was tuned to a closed-caption news channel.

THIS WAS 10 weeks ago, in the middle of May, and it was obvious to any of us who’d covered Iraq that more than 100,000 Americans were still there, still in harm’s way. Serious harm. So why, I asked the woman tending bar, was nobody watching?
        “Well,” she said, in one of those charming drawls where almost every sentence sounds like a question, “during the war, all these TVs were on news all the time? And you know, people would watch it and just kind of feel depressed, like, and down? And then President Bush landed on that aircraft carrier?” She waited for me to nod, like I might not have seen it. I did. “And the very next day, the boss called up and said we could put all these TVs back on ESPN.”
        The war had ended, in other words, because on May 1 President George W. Bush made a thoroughly choreographed display of announcing it was over.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/947146.asp?0cl=c1

We've got a serious problem in our country!

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[Skittles]

1. it's proof

of how easily manipulated people are. Very scary.

[dArKeR]

2. The more I think about this the more I'm convinced this is a football

game to 75% of Americans. It's not a war it's a football game. And the media reenforces it by not showing the death and wounded. They've learned from Vietnam.