Bush And Our "TV Screens"

It has always been a pseudo-obscenity to hear our Commode In Chief refer to the carnage in Iraq as violence that we see "on our TV screens". A way to convey tangible, confirmable, irrefutable death as though it were a media-created entertainment.

On any day in Baghdad, when you read...47 dead...60 dead..175 dead.. those are people. Each one deserving of that small front page photo in the paper with a paragraph summation of their personality and accomplishments and aspirations. Each one leaving behind grieving relatives. And if, instead of babbling how "tough" it is to bring freedom, Bush were to actually acknowledge their deaths, if he were to attend memorial services every time mass bloodshed occurred, Air Force One would be forever circling above the Tigris.

But the media won't insist on that...oh no...what they insist on is that we "learn" from the ravings of a deluded punk with semiautomatic pistols who brought horror to innocents in Virginia. And not only do they do this, they cloak it in nobility. To watch Steve Capus make the self-justifying rounds of his cable shows was to see Matthews and (most distressingly) Olbermann kissing his ass as though he were Bill Paley giving Murrow the go-ahead for Harvest Of Shame.

Major League Baseball will not show a fan running on the field. They will cut away to avoid copycats seeking fame. But if you have guns and video you will be heard.

Yes George...it's amazing what we see on our "TV screens".