Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Drudge shows right wing attempt to capitalize on the beheading

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread
This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (Through 2005) Donate to DU
 
Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:07 PM
Original message
Drudge shows right wing attempt to capitalize on the beheading
Drudge showed the severed head and one word of judgment: SAVAGES!

He could have put a variety of other titles, yet the one chosen suggests how we are intended by the right to receive this propaganda:
"Muslims are Savages".

Recall that we are the "non savages" who are supposed to use this propaganda to fuel our hate and thus overlook the failings of Bush and find new support for this crucial crusade.

I think the Bush focus polls have measured the greatest benefit to Bush from the Berg video and are going for a repeat performance.

The opposing argument to this speculation requires the intended benefit from this act of propaganda. What is Al Qaeda hoping to achieve from this? Was it simply following through to the unreceived demands to save credibility?

Your thoughts?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
EdGy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:08 PM
Response to Original message
1. Maybe he was referring to the Bushies?
Cause when you think about it, Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, Rummie and those guys are the REAL savages.

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:09 PM
Response to Original message
2. Drudge is a disease
When he hits bottom someday and oh he will thats gonna be some book. As for the photos and the SAVAGES!!!!! i'd say it makes them no better than the guys who videotaped Nick Berg's beheading.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Cannikin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:09 PM
Response to Original message
3. My thoughts? When he comes out of the closet, I'll take him seriously.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:11 PM
Response to Original message
4. They ARE savages.
The ones who perpetrated this heinous act, that is--not Arabs or Muslims as a whole. Then again, the "coalition" has perpetrated many savage acts, too. Violence begets violence. This will not end well.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
quinnox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:12 PM
Response to Original message
5. Yea, savages is a loaded word
About Al Qaeda, who knows what their goals are behind this, I would guess more terror. But they lost this round anyway, the leader dude was killed who pulled this caper.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:18 PM
Response to Reply #5
6. ahh - they've already disposed of the evidence?
can I say P.U.? something is starting to mells like bullshit.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
billbuckhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:29 PM
Response to Reply #6
7. What is it with the orange jumpsuits?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:36 PM
Response to Reply #7
9. So far, the official word is
that all terrorists keep a ready supply of orange jumpsuits to let all the observers they run into know that the captive is condemned. How this fits with the idea that they would release him if the demands were met is beyond me.

(Notice they cut the sleeve off to show his tattoo - perhaps as an identifying mark to be sure who he was, as if this was necessary.)

Today is the first time we have heard a plausibe excuse for the orange jumpsuit. I am getting off line momentarily. I wonder if anyone can locate any information online to support this idea that orange is for "condemned". When it was mentioned earlier, they said that the gitmo prisoners interpreted the suits as imminent condemnation to death.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:32 PM
Response to Original message
8. If anyone gets mileage out of a beheading than we are sick...
Edited on Fri Jun-18-04 08:32 PM by higher class
The truth is that we are in a tit-for-tat Radical vs Radical killing spree and with all the participants acting like children.

Our 9-11 dead and all our soldiers are dead as a result of a criminal act made into a war for profit and radicalistic hate.

How does it feel to be led by children in a tit-for-tat fight?

Disgusting and horrific.

All those bodies and limbs and heads.

Where are the adults?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:48 PM
Response to Original message
10. They'll Exploit Anything They Can Get
They can lie about the WMDs still being there and there's no torture in the prisons or the other major problems involving this invasion, but it's not easy these days. They're generally on the defensive...after running their mouths and hubris for the last 10 years. Eating crow isn't one of their favorite things.

This story, like Berg's, at least at the start and on the surface can be used to rally the hive-dwellers...a somewhat legitimate reason for "average people" to be outraged. And it's done on the most banal and simplisitic manner. It doesn't matter if it's a Saudi or Iraqi or Afghani or Yemeni...they're all Muslims...and when one of ours becomes a victim in what's rapidly becoming a way between "Christian" values and "Ismalic" ones (in their and the fundamental Moslem world as well) it's grabbed and used and exploited.

Face it, what else of any real substance do these losers have these days to justify all the lies they are living and the blood on their hands?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
K-W Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:54 PM
Response to Original message
11. What does that make american racists who lynched blacks?
Apparently symbolic murder was invented by arabs.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:55 PM
Response to Original message
12. Abu Ghraib heats up - there's a beheading - heats off for a few weeks...
Terror Memo/Rummy hiding prisoners heats up - there's a beheading - heats off for ???...

Nope. No pattern here.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:56 PM
Response to Original message
13. I think it is not al Qaeda - it is a desperate Saudi Arabia....
They are desperate because no Prince likes his kingdom to be threatened. They need help. They need American help. What is the best way to get America to save their butts? Have an America beheaded in Saudia Arabia? Will that get them back in the country to protect our thrones? Is that what it is about rather than al Qaeda? Something very fishy and smelly about the whole affair....
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view 
this author's profile Click to add 
this author to your buddy list Click to add 
this author to your Ignore list Tue Apr 30th 2024, 03:59 PM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (Through 2005) Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators


Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC