Yeah, Yeah, ‘Grim Milestone’, We Get It Already

Monday, March 24, 2008

By Ken McCracken on March 24, 2008 at 06:54 am

Sheesh.

I hate to be flip about this topic, but I am addressing the way the press handles it more than the actual tragedy of losing our four thousandth brave volunteer in Iraq. I had to create a jpeg here to show in graphic detail how unimaginative and welded to their narrative the press is when it comes to Iraq. Mentioning the overused and tired phrase 'grim milestone' not once, but three times within the headline and first two grafs of the story?

Oops! When I created the jpeg I missed those fourth and fifth grim milestones up at the right under that video.

I'd say this is almost Onion-like as a self-parody of what our press has devolved into. Except it isn't the least bit funny.

Crossposted from Ken McCracken

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Rodney Graves
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Given the utter predictability of such headlines, one must ask how they qualify as “news”?

Oh, and you’re two hours behind me on this…

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Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destroyed.”

Rodney Graves on March 24, 2008 at 10:05 am

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Nice touch, the guy walking among the tombstones at Arlington National Cemetary, don’t you think? Especially since MOST OF THOSE ARE UNDOUBTEDLY FROM PAST WARS AND HAVE VERY LITTLE TO DO WITH THE PRESENT ISSUE.

Yeesh.

Can they be any more transparent?

The future ain’t what it used to be…..

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Pilgrim on March 24, 2008 at 10:14 am

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It is a grim milestone. We must change course so that there are no future grim milestones like this grim milestone. I have the audacity to hope that we can have change. We MUST change, so that no more grim milestones will be grimly reached. And to avoid being grim we must have hope. Hope to keep from being hopeless. Because the hopeless are grim, and to the grim every day is a grim milestone. Given the grimness of the grim, it is undeniable that some would be compelled to say “God damn America.”

I’m Barack Obama. I have approved this message. And anyone who disagrees with me is a filthy racist.

It’s all political bullshit. Liberals (and Robert108) lie and spin and twist and obscure and distract and cheat to protect their guys and hurt the opposing team. It’s like wrestling. They distract the ref while their team mate hits you with a chair. There’s no rule they won’t break, no law they won’t skirt, no crime they won’t forgive as long as they can win.

Kenny on March 24, 2008 at 01:27 pm

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