October 01, 2004
This Sounds Like A Job For Powellman
The Bush Administration frequently complains that the Western media never show us any of the good news coming out of Baghdad.
According to the now-widespread e-mail penned by The Wall Street Journal's Farnaz Fassihi, there's a reason they don't:
I am house bound. I leave when I have a very good reason to and a scheduled interview. I avoid going to people's homes and never walk in the streets. I can't go grocery shopping any more, can't eat in restaurants, can't strike a conversation with strangers, can't look for stories, can't drive in any thing but a full armored car, can't go to scenes of breaking news stories, can't be stuck in traffic, can't speak English outside, can't take a road trip, can't say I'm an American, can't linger at checkpoints, can't be curious about what people are saying, doing, feeling. And can't and can't. There has been one too many close calls, including a car bomb so near our house that it blew out all the windows. So now my most pressing concern every day is not to write a kick-ass story but to stay alive and make sure our Iraqi employees stay alive.
How to counter such negativism? Easy. Send Colin Powell out to give another of his patented "presentations", a la his February '03 gig before the United Nations.
Sure sure. He could, for example, show before-and-after pix of the humvee bombed by a U.S. helicopter, killing a bunch of Iraqis. But instead of them having been "killed" (that's "propaganda", you see), the absence of any kids in the "after" picture proves that the children are off attending class in schools rebuilt by the "Multinational Force".
Or Powellman could hold up a chart showing that the oil pipelines which are sabotaged every day are quickly patched back up.
And so on, and so forth.
Save us Powellman (as only you can)!
Posted by Eddie Tews at October 1, 2004 11:49 PM
Comments
You are such a fucking whiner. I think I have figured it out, Eddie Tews is a dumb fuck with a tiny penis and is jelious of others. I bet you think "Its not fair that in a country so full of wealth that his penis be larger than mine and he should have to pay". Get the fuck out of this country shit face suckin scum bag. Go to Iraq so you can have your head cut off and do us all a favor. -- Posted by: bud on October 2, 2004 03:33 AM
vote for bush -- Posted by: Bob Kraut on October 3, 2004 11:24 PM