Geez, the media is absolutely giddy about Saddam's execution...

[BlueStorm]

They are just drooling about it.

I was at the dialysis center sittin with my mom and she kept going back and forth between Fux and CNN. The media whores are just absolutely estatic about Saddam's hanging, they are talking about it nonstop. Even my mom was a bit excited about it.

Is anybody else noticing this, I mean, I don't whether I should be disgusted by their giddiness or if I shouldn't just care.

Blue

[michaz]

1. It is an eye opener

to what we have become in this country. It is sick and scarey and just not normal.

[DainBramaged]

2. If it bleeds, it leads.

[Malmo Blue]

3. FOX News

Of course FOX News are gloating about Saddam getting executed. They pretty much forced the American people to either support the war, or shut up.
"Fair and balanced", my ass. I didn't know whetever to laugh or puke or some shit when they claimed that France supported Hamas. Give me a fucking break.

[tnlefty]

12. Welcome to DU, Malmo Blue!

Don't forget that anyone who didn't/doesn't agree with them are traitors, too.

Go ahead and puke, sometimes it does make one feel better! :hi:

[Malmo Blue]

15. Re: Welcome to DU

Alrighty then. :puke:

By the way; crank up Media Matters, look after "Memisovski" and open the O'Reilly video clip from February 3, 2006, where he tells someone to "stay away from those far-left websites - they don't make you look smart". Yeah, that's me he's jibber-jabberin' about. Not that I give a shit about his opinions. :puke: Oh, that felt good.

EDIT: Wrote the wrong date - the movie is dated February 3rd.

[dogindia]

4. I spent the whole day sending messages to WH and all to try to stop this madness.

Perhaps I am not the one to comment but I think it shows a deep mistake in thinking about life, love and furthering creative participation in endeaver. In other word this is gross beyond any words.

[rfranklin]

5. We Americans love a good execution! We're right up there in the top...

four nations executing people. Right up there with the Chinese.

[Nikki Stone1]

6. This is really inappropriate during the Christmas Season

:kick:

[Breeze54]

16. What's a hanging got to do with Christmas?

What about Hanukkah? Kwanzaa?
Besides, Christmas is over for this year.

They have to hang him before the new year!
Something about bush tax deductions. :sarcasm:

NBC is creaming their jeans over "the hanging'.
They're all a bunch of ghouls!!

Everyone is getting into the act.
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blsaddamhang.htm

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Warnings against Saddam hanging

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6214093.stm

Last Updated: Thursday, 28 December 2006, 12:36 GMT

Newspapers in the Arab world warn that executing Saddam Hussein could lead
to greater unrest in Iraq. Some commentators argue that he is more use alive.
Iraq under Saddam was stable when compared to the large-scale killings which
have taken place since the US-led invasion, some say, and there is a call for
current Iraqi leaders to be put on trial.

EDITORIAL IN PAN ARAB AL-QUDS AL-ARABI

US officials are making a new mistake more dangerous than any in the past.
They think executing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein will lead to calm in Iraq,
but the exact opposite is likely to happen. The US Administration may gain
more by keeping Saddam alive behind bars and using him as a bargaining card...
to negotiate with the Baath party for the sake of calm.

[Nikki Stone1]

19. Isn't an execution just a stab at Christmas?

Or a war on Christmas, if you prefer?

[BlueJazz]

7. Yeah...I had a run-in with an Idiot at the Grocery store today.

I was in the check-out line and this Man behind me says:
"Ha, Ha..Tonight we'll get some justice for 9/11"
I said: "If you mean Suddam, He didn't have anything to do with 9/11"
He says: "That's not what I heard"
I said: Where did you hear that?"
He says: "on the News"

I didn't go on any futher....I sensed I was talking to a Fox-Borg......

[BlueStorm]

8. I, myself is not sure if the execution is going to be a good thing...

wouldn't it rile up the Iraqi's. I mean that is probably what the media and the Bush administration are probably hoping for. Because if that did happen then they probably get bumped up in their approval ratings. That the American people would support them once again.

God I hope that doesn't happen.

Should Saddam be executed in the first place?

Blue

[madrchsod]

9. there`s nothing to much worse than

sitting in a hospital or clinic waiting/ treatment room where the tv is on cnn or fox. i`ll take tyra or martha anytime over the news...

[BlueStorm]

11. The library that I go to has it on Fux or CNN all the time... n/t

[madrchsod]

21. a library? that is so wrong on many levels

[BlueStorm]

23. It is, and get this, they are on big screens.

So it takes up one wall.

Blue

[Benhurst]

10. We have met the Evil Empire and

it is us.

[Seattleman]

13. I read on another forum....

That Saddam has been wanting to tell about his activities and history as a CIA asset and involvement with several members of the upper echelon of the US military/industrial complex.

Why would our media be so joyous to see that information squelched?

[Benhurst]

17. Because they are an important part of the criminal gang running this country.

[walldude]

14. Judging from the amount of Saddam threads I'd say

DU is "giddy" as well. How many posts are on the front page showing the time of the scheduled execution then bitching because the news is counting it down?

[Raine]

18. I was doubtful they were actually "giddy" until

I just saw CNN's "This Week at War" with a mock up mannequin showing the vertebra and explaining exactly what happens to the body during hanging...a little too much information for my taste. :puke:

[opihimoimoi]

20. besides being lame in the brain...we are ghoulish too.

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. Read the descrpition of the hangig of the POWs in 1984

and if you do not see the paralel... but that is exactly what is going on

Bread and circus to the people

[malaise]

24. MSNBC has some real crap on

right now. They're equating Saddam with Hitler and Stalin. Maybe they should produce a program on Bush, Blair, Cheney, Rummy and COndi.

Edit spell

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

25. Of course they are. Killing sells a lot of shampoo and beer.

At least the Romans didn't try to dress up their killings in the coliseum as "news".