In case you hadn't heard yet...

[thisficklemob]

... much of the civilized world that isn't us, (but i repeat myself), is flipping out because a leaked memo says Blair had to talk Bush down from bombing Al-Jazeera headquarters in Qatar. (And Blair's government seems more leaktastic than the Ken Starr investigation... not that I'm complaining.) And apparently the face-saving spin is: "OMG, he

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[blindman738]

b) the Bush administration has made plain that it hates Al-Jazeera for things like showing pictures of the war dead, or reporting civilian casualties in Fallujah, and blames them for inciting terrorism

Isn't that a bit hypocritical since they allowed Uday and Qusay's bodies to be shown on network news and print media? And aren't they turning a blind eye to troops taking pics of the war dead and trading them for free porn access? I don't understand conservatives vitriol of Al-Jazeera propagandizing on their end, but ignoring the obvious propagandizing in the U.S. Then again, hypocrites bug me to no end.

[thisficklemob]

Oh, the hypocrisy is enormous, as usual. It's not propaganda when they do it, silly. And if anybody were to point out that Al-Jazeera was accurate about civilians being killed in Fallujah, while Faux News et al. were inaccurate in their claims that Saddam had WMD, well, they'd doubtless find some disparaging adjective to dismiss such an argument. Say we were just "re-arguing the war" or something.