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Listening to Lara Logan

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Listen to Lara Logan, CBS News Chief Foreign Affairs and 60 Minutes Correspondent on the Colbert Report sell not only her 3-part Special Report on CBS, but throwing an impassioned (and obviously well-rehearsed) pitch for the escalation of the war in Afghanistan to the US people.

I am physically revolted by the murderous audacity of her appeal to continue slaughter and ruin in that devastated country.

Ms Logan, a South African, tells us that what "appears to be a wavering of US resolve, smells like victory to Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

I must less-than-elegantly observe that her ˜wavering resolve' line smells a lot like a blend of the verminous horseshit that reporters and government spokes-people were spoon-feeding us during the war in Southeast Asia and the predigested bull-twaddle of a time-share salesman trying desperately to close the deal.

This blatant propagandizing of a war increasingly unpopular with the American people (not to mention the Afghani people) by a member of what sadly passes as the Fourth Estate in the US can only be reviled and vilified by civilized, intelligent witnesses.

This despicable display of war-mongering by one who shows no sign of professional journalistic objectivity must be seen as nadir point but for the fact that the New York Times is also riding the pale horse of war.

In a review of Robert Greenwald's documentary, ˜Rethink Afghanistan' which opened in New York City last week, Andy Webster complained about there being too many dead and maimed in the film. He further kvetched in his thinly veiled editorial that what Mr Greenwald presents in his documentary "again and again, are terrifying images of children . Then in a turn that would be the envy of The Exorcist special FX team, he snidely quips "Military engagements, it seems, are messy and claim innocent lives.

One must stand dumbfounded at the callous, calculating disregard for human suffering so brazenly, disdainfully displayed by Mr Webster and his editors.

Now consider this: it is a shop-worn axiom " an article of faith - that the New York Times and CBS News are purveyors of ˜the liberal media bias'. What an evil friggin' joke. Yes, bleeding hearts one and all. Bleeding from self-inflicted wounds to their professional integrity, whining and blustering as the circumstance dictates while thousands upon thousands of children are murdered by Minuteman missiles and Predator drones.

Thanks, Lara, Andy, for your fair, even-handed objective reporting of world events. Your checks from the Pentagon will be deposited directly to your accounts as agreed.

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