"Saving Jessica Lynch " ad on NBC

[hobbes159]

Aired just before West Wing.

I'm feeling nauseated...

[elperromagico]

1. They're trying to make it into

Iraq's equivalent of Saving Private Ryan, which is as ridiculous as claiming Dubya as a modern-day FDR.

[Paragon]

2. Please tell me that isn't the actual title

I beg of you.

[elperromagico]

4. Oh, it is the title

Wish I could tell you otherwise, but the font of the title in the ads is practically identical to the font used for Saving Private Ryan.

[hobbes159]

6. It was either that or...

"Saving Private Jessica" -- they didn't show the title until the end of the add, but I was too busy screaming at the TV once I figured out what it was to see for sure. Tried to find it on NBCs web site, but no luck. Airs in 2 weeks, apparently... oh, wait, doesn't it put the air date right near the off-year elections? Tricky, that liberal media....

[greekspeak]

3. I am suprised they did not air it about November 1 of next year

Maybe there will be a "convenient" rerun of it then.

[DuctapeFatwa]

5. The soldier who rescued her was murdered the other day

by mysterious gunmen, who fled...

[Cha]

7. I know ..that is too weird!

Not to mention the other soldier who died in a car accident in July that was also involved with Lynch's "rescue"!

[hobbes159]

8. Well, can't have that PR film spoiled

by someone admitting in public that the rescue was a sham...

[KFC]

18. Mabye they should have stayed around

It is kind of rude to shoot someone and not stay and socialize for a while.

[hobbes159]

9. Found NBC link

http://www.nbc.com/nbc/Saving_Jessica_Lynch/

[elperromagico]

10. Hmm, they changed the font for the 'net ad

n/t

[ThirdWheelLegend]

13. I almost

punched my monitor... stop posting these links, I can't help but to click them!

BASED ON A TRUE STORY?????

Which TRUE story is that? The false true one?

War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength

AYE CARAMBA


TWL

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[drfemoe]

12. Reopened

:kick:

[drfemoe]

14. Will they have a shot

of the doctors driving her in an ambulance to an *american* checkpoint only to be fired upon?

[Clark Can WIN]

15. good question!

[underpants]

16. Now the lawyer was a kung fu champ and walked 36 miles

Last Friday Dateline had a dripping lovefest for the lawyer who was Jessica's "savior". It included his tales of slipping past sleeping guards, kung fu fighting his way out of his apartment against Saddam-loyal neighbors, and racing across a bridge in his car whilest being chased by the Fedayeen (who didn't make it through the bombs raining down).

On Monday morning this week Jamie Gangel was on the Today show and in 48+ hour period the Lawyer (Mohammed) was no longer just trained in Kung fu but he had suddenly become the former Iraqi national champion. The story actually featured him re-enacting his jumping spinning leg kick that he used to get out of his apartment and find his family.

Last night on Fox (I think it was) the tale was retold and this time it turns out he walked 36 miles to tell the first Marines he could find (though he is just now learning English while working for a Bob Livingston lobbying firm) when it was originally reported that he walked 6 miles. Of coourse he walked through "sniper alley" to do it and these snipers are able to determine through their sights from far off if he was planning on aiding the Americans, but later he drove across the bridge.

No one ever asked him about the statements of the nurses working on the skeleton crew at the hospital that they didn't know any of their co-workers who were married to a lawyer let alone amongst the few people who were still there.

[Kamika]

17. This movie is actually a good thing

Even my freeper dad says that all this stuff is just made up on the fly to get Bush's ratings up.

And said that they should make movies about real events and soldiers instead of staged ones.

[KharmaTrain]

19. Casting? Who Plays The Iraqi Doctor...

You know the one that got spirited out of Iraq into suburban DC and a nice cozy home. Anyone remember seeing anything on this?