I'm watching the video of Al-Jazeera getting smoked and the discussion about it being bad press for the US. The anchor at FOX takes it upon himself to single handedly displace the Iraqi Information Minister as Worst Spin Doctor of the War.
The video shows the camera (obviously mounted on a tripod) taking incoming rounds. Chunks of concrete (square,triangular,softball sized CHUNKS) splinter infront of the camera as the rounds zero in on the position and the camera falls over on it's side. Pretty obvious that it was straifed.
Here's the FOX spin:
The flying chunks of concrete? "Look closely and you will see the spent casings fly out of what must be an Anti-Aircraft Weapon of some sort." Are we fighting in Baghdad or Bedrock?
The camera falling over? "Obviously the Al-Jazeera cameraman was dropping the camera to man the weapon, thus making himself a legitimate target. Either that or he was shooting from behind the weapon, either way he is in a target area." Funny, still looked like the camera was tripod mounted and was knocked over by incoming. And it was still flying concrete not spent rounds flying around, Numbskull!
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not Pro Al-Jazeera. What I'm saying is don't try and make up some lameass story to make the Troops not look bad. They have actual people to do that for themselves
that are MUCH better at it than you. Try admitting that Al-Jazeera was showing LIVE pictures of US Tanks attempting to take a bridge and we put out the lights so the ENEMY could not use it for targeting.
FOX...Fair and Balanced Yeah they hire people who are "Fairly Qualified to be Mindless Murdock Media" and they are "Balanced completely to Starboard".
