Media Focuses on 'Sensational,' Cheney Says

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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun2005/20050614_1722.html

Media Focuses on 'Sensational,' Cheney Says
By Capt. Steve Alvarez, USA
American Forces Press Service


WASHINGTON, June 14, 2005 – Media focuses on a "drive to report the sensational," said Vice President Richard B. Cheney during an interview with Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity that aired on the "Hannity and Holmes" show June 13.
In recent weeks there has been a flurry of allegations from human rights groups and media organizations that U.S. military personnel have disrespected the Koran. News reports alleged that guards flushed the Muslim holy book down a toilet at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The news magazine that made the initial allegations later retracted the comments, but, Cheney told Hannity, the comments hurt the global perception of the United States.

"I don't know that it's purposeful, I just think there's a drive to report the sensational," Cheney said. "And it's news if you can say that somebody flushed a Koran down a toilet at Guantanamo, because it does inflame opinion."

However, he added, the truth is that the United States goes out of its way to recognize the detainees' religious rights. "There probably isn't another country in the world who would do what we do, which is make sure they all have a copy of the Koran if they so wish, even though they're there as terrorists who've tried to kill Americans," Cheney said.


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You corrupt bastid!

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the rockets over Bagdad, the capture of Saddam, Bush on the Abraham Lincoln, the joyful reunions from abroad.....

These guys RUN on spectacle to keep anyone from seeing what is really going on.

The real complaint is that the horrendous spectacular truth is finally overcoming the false spectacle of Bushi photo ops and the glories of Bushie's Little War.

is him and his warped view of the world, and there is NOTHING sensational about him!

I thought he was talking about Michael Jackson or the lost-pretty-white woman of the week.

What a tool.

He's all overcome with the vapahs because the media flock to the sensational. I was similarly afflicted at one time in my life, but then I turned 8 and grew out of it.

Just another crybaby conservative.

issue?

Cheney just presumes that everyone at Gitmo deserves permanent jail if not torture: but what do we know about these people, aside from that they are imprisoned? Nothing, because Cheney says he and Bush don't have to tell us anything beyond "they are terrorists who have tried to kill Americans", and the imprisoned don't have any rights to challenge that doom.

You and I could end up there just as easily.

the Gitmo detainees, when Cheney says they "attacked America'?

I mean, does anyone assert even today that these guys aren't capable of error much less of lies?

How many times do we have to be "surprised" by the extent of the falsity?

Two words:

Prove it.

of white christians....now THAT'S sensational!!!!

Shame on you :eyes:

prior to 9/11. Oh yea, they were just getting "warmed up."

And not many other countries lock up innocent people in prison camps and piss on their holy books.

the Downing Street Minutes are. And the Rest of Bush's treasonous behavior. It isn't sensational enough for them

voting patriotic for Bush's second term?

Reporting that someone flushed a Koran down a toilet is not sensational. Reporting that "Republicans all sodimize sheep and drink piss straight from the cock" is sensational.

Do you understand now, Dick?

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then why are they STILL there after more than 3 years? Why aren't they on trial and being convicted and serving out sentences?

Hmm?????

They can't have been terr'ists tryin' kill durn Murricans because they are currently in custody getting ANALLY RAPED by chemical lights. Kind of hard to terrorize while you're sodomized.

It's a GODSEND for Cheney that the MSM focusses on the "Perv of The Day"...