Tribolum.com Making Light of Things

Remember Jessica Lynch? The U.S. army private who got stabbed, shot and kidnapped by the Iraqis during the height of the Iraqi war? Remember the daring rescue by the U.S. Marines who broke into a highly fortified Iraqi hospital via helicopter insertion and stretchered Private Lynch out using the U.S. flag as a blanket? Or how she was beaten so badly she had amnesia and couldn’t remember being beaten?

I can almost hear President Bush humming the Star-spangled banner on this one. The television networks are clamouring over who gets to tell her story. She finally lands a deal with NBC. Get ready to read her book, watch her MTV, eat her cereal and listen to her songs. The line between entertainment and news is blurred as FoxNews still proclaims that it is the only “fair and balanced” entity in the world.

I was stupid enough to fall for the Tomahawk Missile crap back in the first Gulf War. If you believe this whole Jessica Lynch story without as much raising your eyebrow, you’re more gullible than I thought.