Wednesday, December 13, 2006

How a sane person -- in this case, an AP reporter -- describes a horrible event in Iraq:

A suicide bomber struck a crowd of mostly poor Shiites in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 63 people and wounding more than 200 after luring construction workers onto a pickup truck by offering them jobs as they were eating breakfast....

The Baghdad suicide attack shattered storefront windows, dug craters in the road and set fire to several cars. People rushed to the devastated area to see if friends or relatives were killed or wounded. Mangled bodies were piled up at the side of the road and partially covered with paper. Two men sat on the sidewalk, crying and covering their faces with their hands....

Most of the victims were Shiites from poor areas of the capital such as Sadr City, said police Lt. Bilal Ali....

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, blamed the "horrible crime" on Sunni extremists....


How a right-winger -- in this case, Al Brown of NewsBusters.org -- describes the same event, with his explanation of what really sticks in his craw about it:

The negative story about a successful suicide bombing, one of many staged for the benefit of Western news cameras, received 779 news citations on Google.

There you go. A sane person sees carnage, chaos, and sectarian conflict. A right-winger sees .... a publicity stunt. That's all. A guy blows himself to bits, takes 63 people with him, and Al is upset because it gets too much news coverage -- after all, it's just a pseudo-event, trumped up for the cameras like dozens before it. Nothing to see here; move along. If you just ignore it, it will go away.

Right-wingers are depraved.

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