MSM stupidity: runaway bride

MSNBC actually has the nerve to put up a poll as to whether the guy should still marry her. I would have thought that this was an intensely private decision which should concern nobody else.

This, along with other distractions such as the Michael Jackson case or who was the latest person booted from "Survivor" continue to occupy many minutes of news time. Meanwhile, massive ongoing atrocities in Iraq still go unreported. For example, we still have not seen any photographs of what Falluja looks like now.

MSM: avoiding reporting on the real news whenever possible.

Bush Administration Allied With Sudan Despite Role in Darfur Genocide






Story on Democracy NOW! today:

In the days after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush issued an ultimatum to the world: "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." Three and half years later, it has been revealed that the Bush administration has allied itself with a government listed as a state sponsor of terrorism and one that the administration has accused of committing genocide against its own people - Sudan.

A major expose in the Los Angeles Times on Friday revealed that the U.S. has quietly forged a close intelligence partnership with Sudan despite the government's role in the mass killings in Darfur. The Sudanese government has since publicly confirmed it is working with the Bush administration and the CIA.

Eight months ago, former Secretary of State Colin Powell accused the Sudanese of carrying out a genocide in Darfur. Already 180,000 have died in the region from fighting or hunger. But relations appear to have since changed -- for the better. One senior Sudanese official the LA Times that the country had achieved "complete normalization" of relations with the CIA.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/03/1357228


LA Times Story:


Official Pariah Sudan Valuable to America's War on Terrorism

Despite once harboring Bin Laden, Khartoum regime has supplied key intelligence, officials say.

April 29, 2005

By Ken Silverstein, Times Staff Writer


KHARTOUM, Sudan — The Bush administration has forged a close intelligence partnership with the Islamic regime that once welcomed Osama bin Laden here, even though Sudan continues to come under harsh U.S. and international criticism for human rights violations.

The Sudanese government, an unlikely ally in the U.S. fight against terror, remains on the most recent U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. At the same time, however, it has been providing access to terrorism suspects and sharing intelligence data with the United States.

Last week, the CIA sent an executive jet here to ferry the chief of Sudan's intelligence agency to Washington for secret meetings sealing Khartoum's sensitive and previously veiled partnership with the administration, U.S. government officials confirmed.

A decade ago Bin Laden and his fledgling Al Qaeda network were based in Khartoum. After they left for Afghanistan, the regime of Sudanese strongman Lt. Gen. Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir retained ties with other groups the U.S. accuses of terrorism.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fg-sudan29apr29,1,2464174.story


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x123141

the runaway bride thing, and how it was time wasted that could have been used reporting on the M.J. case. It was last night sometime but I'm not sure what show it was. It made me crazy 'cause that comment really showed just how they turn the public's attention away from the issues that would make them think, for a change.

Are they oblivious to the fact that we're either laughing at them or ignoring them at this point? I have to go to CNN for entertainment news and Comedy Central for political commentary. :wtf:

I sent Greta van Susteren the following:
Greta,
With respect to your poll question "Should John Mason marry Jennifer Wilbanks?" I was forced to select "other". I hated to do it, but since "It's none of your fucking business" wasn't an option, I had no choice.
Sincerely,

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I haven't heard anyone ask that question.