WHY am i looking at DEAD, BLOATED BODIES on my TV?

[matcom]

what kind of SICK FUCK authorized this SHIT???

DISGUSTING!!

this fucking country is PERVERTED!

i don't give a RAT'S ASS WHO died for ANY reason!

what the fuck are their dead, cold bodies doing on my TV DURING PRIME TIME????

nope. not even drunk. just fucking tired of HAVING to be a member of a barbaric society that is SUPPOSED to be above all of this.

excuse me while i look for a place to expatriate.

:puke:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. change the channel

:D

[Clete]

2. If there was ever any doubt that the media is taking orders

from the WH, this is it.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Because his Majesty, George Bush II

the king of this realm, the would-be emperor of all the world, has decreed that we must.

Yes, it is barbaric. That is what we have running this country. Sad and sick, isn't it?

[LynneSin]

4. What??!! You didn't have a wave of patriotism flow through your veins...

when you saw those pictures.

Or if you were Iraqi, to drop down your arms and praise Allah the Americans are here?

Personally, I'm opening a surf shop in one of the top surfing beaches in the world - Tamorindo Costa Rica - you can join me there hun!

[Ellen Forradalom]

5. As long as they're not getting blow jobs

it's acceptable in this society.

[MrBenchley]

6. Cheney just LOOKS dead and bloated

seriosuly, wasn't it just a few weeks ago the Pirates of Enron were having a hissy fit over dead Americans being shown?

And how are Iraqis, who are still without electricity, supposed to see this?

[JohnKleeb]

7. Change the channel as NSMA told you matcom it may save you

from having a heart attack. put it on PTI theres always some neat sports debate there if you are a sports fan that is. I know you may be pissed at ESPN about Fatty Limbaugh getting a job there but my guys Mike Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser are cool and I thinks they are leftist but its not well known and they arent open like Rush.

[Ellen Forradalom]

10. People suck.

Watch Animal Planet.

[Runesong]

8. Because our country is sick.

[molly]

9. They were on all day today

I switched channels so many times. I hope this is the last day of this - it has been almost constant - they even have forensic experts on. This is supposed to take attention away from the 9-11 report and all the other crap going on? :crazy:

[Cocoa]

11. it all goes back to the stolen election

the reason America doesn't resemble America these days is that we are temporarily being run by an illegitimate government.

[displacedtexan]

12. the reason for the asp...

cleopatra knew she would be dragged through the streets of rome like a circus animal; hence, the asp.
there's much more room for rumor and martyrdom after the death of the well known than there is if s/he is captured alive.
putting pics of the dead on my tv is just plain dumber than dirt. these freaks (* and friends) are just adding fuel to the martyrdom fire.

[slackmaster]

13. Turn the damn thing off

Or change the channel.

[Plaid Adder]

14. Turn it off, Matcom! Turn it off!

Quick, before your head explodes!

This is just one of a million things that makes me glad I've stopped watching TV.

It CAN be done, people. I get my news from the Web and the radio (grrrr...friggin' NPR! grrr...) and I get my entertainment from Netflix. No Married By America, no Big Brother, no Survivor VIII: It's Cold In Outer Space, no O'Reilly, and NO DEAD BLOATED BODIES!

Now is the time! Follow me to freedom! TURN IT OFF!

As for why we're really looking at these dead, bloated bodies, I do have a crackpot theory:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/plaidder

Join me on the dark-screen side,

The Plaid Adder

[BrewerJohn]

18. Not crackpot at all, PA

I think you're spot on. It's a return to barbarism, plain and simple. And it's intended as a demonstration for us at least as much as it is for the Iraqis. How many of them are even able to see the pictures broadcast, with the power down?

Rule by fear...it's the Bush way.

[SummerGrace]

15. Rumsfeld authorized it

Photos of Hussein Brothers' Bodies Provide Proof to Iraqis
By Kathleen T. Rhem
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, July 24, 2003 - The deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein sent "a very clear signal to the Iraqis that the Hussein family is finished and will not be returning to terrorize them again," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today.
Releasing photographs of the brothers' bodies was not a decision he made lightly, the secretary said during a Pentagon media briefing. But, he added, he believes the Iraqi people deserve proof that their longtime tormenters are really gone.

"To get closure that two particularly vicious members of (the former) regime are, in fact, dead is ... something that will contribute to more Iraqi people being willing to come forward with information, less enthusiasm and heart on the part of some of the lower-level Baathists to continue the fight, and a greater conviction (that) the regime is done," Rumsfeld said. "It's gone. It's not coming back."

And if these things lead to fewer Americans being killed by regime holdouts, then, he said, "I'm happy to make the decision I made."

Americans have historically shied away from displaying war dead or prisoners. But Rumsfeld asserted that this is an "unusual" situation.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jul2003/n07242003_200307246.html

[janx]

25. So they show the dead bloated bodies to Iraqis because they have to?

So why the hell are they broadcasting them on prime time in the United States?!

[RC]

16. So, they show the dead brothers on American TV so the

Iraqies will know they are dead and won't be bothered by them any more. Sure, ok. Makes sense.
Iraq's tv and electrical power don't work very well since we bombed the crap out of it and refuse to fix it. So the powers have to use the tv system here in the States using American electrical power, which is much more reliable because it hasn't been bombed yet.

[Robb]

17. Without even so much as a "Parents,

"...you may want to tell your children to leave the room."

I mean really. Wasn't there a time when you had to at least drop a little warning before you started showing pictures of REAL FUCKING DEAD PEOPLE???

OK, calm down. It can't get any worse from here, right?

[dbt]

21. It can always get worse, Robb

Stick around.

:argh:
dbt

[DeathvadeR]

19. Because the WH needed another diversion.

And plus they needed something to gloat over and they had to resort to this, because they don't have much else.

[diamond14]

20. "dead bloated bodies" represent the bush* administration

kill, kill, kill is our current administration's policies...it's the ONLY solution that the bush* cabal can see for any problems facing our country...kill, kill...what better symbol of bush* leadership that a few "dead bloated bodies"....these "dead bloated bodies" are being tauted by bush* and all his minions as one of his greatest achievements...

and the newly modified "dead bloated bodies" complete with waxed up faces, and major slicing through to get the organs, laying in a morgue...it all ranks right up there with bush* promise to restore "dignity".....

bush* must make us eager to accept the killings, and cheering the killings, so that the next step will be easier....following hitler's solution to the economic problems of Germany...the blaming...the killing...the "people will get used to it"...the lack of conscience...the political assassinations were first...other steps followed...

[Chicagonian]

22. Are you watching "CSI"...or "CSI:Miami"...?

or are they replaying "Six Feet Under" and I didn't hear about it...?

[dbt]

23. Matcom, the simple answer is:

because the White Haus wants those dead, bloated bodies on your TV screen. Then there's the fact that if one network shows the bodies, all the others will be afraid not to show the bodies.

The logical conclusion of this whole syndrome was pointed out some years ago by Stephen King in "The Running Man."

I agree totally with the poster who opined that showing the bodies simply proves that the media is a tool of the Regime.

"And so, my fellow Americans, kill your TV before it kills you!"

:argh:
dbt

[janx]

24. I just turned on Tweety's show and prepared to watch it with dinner.

I am SO DISGUSTED that I cannot believe what I saw.

And there's good ole' NACHMAN, who probably decided to air that shit!

This is beyond the pale.

[janx]

26. Does anyone have email for Tweety's show?!

I need it and I need it now.

[diamond14]

27. bush* said they were EVIL, throwing babies out of incubators

and other EVIL...all kinds of EVIL...and now, we will KILL them...and cheer...

the TV said they were EVIL, and tells us to CHEER while we watch the dead bloated bodies...and bush* gloats over the KILL...

it's not long, folks, before bush* will tell us of other EVIL people, maybe Americans, maybe others...but just telling us that they are EVIL, and must be KILLED will result in more cheering...if you don't agree, you are attacked as supporting dictators and you are treasonous...and you may be put on a "list"....

America is gone now...the "innocent until proven guilty"...even hitler's minions were taken to the war court for trials...but now, just the statement of the pResident, a known liar, is enough to condemn you...and Americans are cheering while the dead bloated bodies are displayed as trophy hunters do....

first they came for selected political operatives, and I said nothing, then they came for people with disabilities, and I said nothing.......and then they came for .... .... ....

[Noli Mitangere]

28. sure it is sick,

but the images weren't anymore gory than what you would see on CSI or on the internet. If you really want to see some sick stuff go to Rotten.com. That site is unbelievable.

[Plaid Adder]

29. Makes a difference that they're a) REAL dead people, and

b) on the mainstream news.

:scared:

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[Chicagonian]

30. I don't see any big difference, myself.

It's not like I knew U and Q personally, or anything.

and after years and years of movie/TV beyond realistic syntho-gore, I am well conditioned to the real stuff.

[janx]

31. Is this some kind of sick-o fascist propaganda?

Because it sure looks that way. I'm serious. I cannot believe I saw that.