MSM and their View of Israel from Planck's Constant

Israel defense forces patch
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Dan Rather, Katie Couric, and an Israeli commando were captured by terrorists in Iraq.

The leader of the terrorists told them that he would grant them each one last request before they were beheaded.
Dan Rather said, "Well, I'm a Texan, so I'd like one last bowlful of hot spicy chili."

The leader nodded to an underling who left and returned with the chili.

Rather ate it all and said, "Now I can die content."

Katie Couric said, "I'm a reporter to the end. I want to take out my tape recorder and describe the scene here and what's about to happen. Maybe someday someone will hear it and know that I was on the job till the end."

The terror leader directed an aide to hand over the tape recorder and Couric dictated some comments.
She then said, "Now I can die happy."

The leader turned and said, "And now, Mr. Israeli tough guy, what is your final wish?"

"Kick me in the ass," said the soldier."

"What?" asked the leader? "Will you mock us in your last hour?"

"No, I'm not kidding. I want you to kick me in the ass," insisted the Israeli.

So the leader shoved him into the open and kicked him in the ass.

The soldier went sprawling, but rolled to his knees, pulled a 9 mm pistol from under his flak jacket, and shot the leader dead. In the resulting confusion, he jumped to his knapsack, pulled out his carbine and sprayed the terrorists with gunfire. In a flash, all terrorists were either dead or fleeing for their lives.

As the soldier was untying Rather and Couric, they asked him, "Why didn't you just shoot them in the beginning? Why did you ask them to kick you in the ass first?"

"What?" replied the Israeli, "and have you two report that I was the aggressor?!"

The preceding brought to you courtesy of Yankee Phillip who insists that the two reporters would have found a way to blame it on President Bush first.

There are variations on this theme with a US Marine Sargeant as the hero instead of an Israeli, but the sentiment is the same.

Rosemary's Thoughts,
Fighting Islamist terrorists and media, not Muslims

One of the major problems the Bush Administration has had covering this war is that the press does not have any idea who the enemy is and how dangerous they are to their very livelihood. I have been reading an excellent article by Jeffrey Imm over at CounterTerrorismBlog. It describes the problem, takes it point by point, and suggests some resolutions to the problem. It is very well written. I guess that is why he is writing over there.

Unrelated, but here are some blog posts I've read today:

Blue Star Chronicles,
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Leaning Straight Up [defunct blog],
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Nuke Gingrich,
Web 3.0 is closer than you think
After Google, what’s next? Writing at Times (UK), Jonathan Richards talks to the "real” inventor of the world wide web (sorry Goracle), Tim Berners-Lee, and speculates on the future of the internet.

machinist.salon.com,
7 Mar 2008,
Does "Obama Girl" help Obama?
Author Clay Shirky explains how the Internet's capacity to create ad hoc groups has altered the media, business and politics -- especially the 2008 campaign.