{"id":427,"date":"2007-08-18T19:01:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T23:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=427"},"modified":"2009-10-26T19:06:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T23:06:26","slug":"a-fox-five-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"A Fox Five Exclusive!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, while I’m just finishing choking down the news about the DC Gummint <\/strong>— at the urging of Fox Channel 5 News — trying to sock the ANSWER Coalition with a fine for exercising basic Constitutional rights, I get a mailing from Rob Naiman’s “Just Foreign Policy” list mentioning that their Iraqi Deaths Estimator<\/a> has just rolled over a million. That’s right, a million Iraqi dead since the “Shock’n’Awe” of March 2003 — or 1,012,979, to be exact, as I write this.<\/p>\n

\"bodypile\"That’s right, one Friggin’ MILLION.<\/em> Jesus Herbert Walker Christ.<\/strong> And that’s not counting the million and a half or more Iraqis this nation murdered with sanctions throughout the 1990s (nobody died when Clinton lied? My ass.<\/em>).<\/p>\n

I’d been noticing lately that Fox News hasn’t spent a whole lot of time reporting on Iraq because, y’know, there just isn’t any goddamn’ good news coming out of that goddamn’ place, unless you count some oft-repeated DoD press release mentioning that the Army has rebuilt some goddamn’ stretch of highway from the airport (that they bombed the piss out of just a while back).<\/p>\n

Yeah, when your Empire’s crumbling, the outrage and dissatisfaction are so palpable you can cut ’em with a goddamn’ knife, the one thing you need your press to be doing is exposing the nefarious doings of bands of left-wing wheatpasters defacing the Seat Of Our Empire with free expression.<\/p>\n

Left-wing posters? In OUR<\/strong> Capital?<\/em><\/p>\n

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So, while I’m just finishing choking down the news about the DC Gummint — at the urging of Fox Channel 5 News — trying to sock the ANSWER Coalition with a fine for exercising basic Constitutional rights, I get a mailing from Rob Naiman’s “Just Foreign Policy” list mentioning that their Iraqi Deaths Estimator has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,64,13,5,10,9],"tags":[148,89,149,1456,93],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bushit","category-dc-local","category-iraq","category-liberty","category-media","category-war-and-peace","tag-answer","tag-dc","tag-fox-news","tag-iraq","tag-posters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}