WTF "_________ &__________ were hung in Baghdad this morning and neither was mistreated."

[stellanoir]

Headline on the Today show by Lester Holt. Unbelievable.

[Roxy66]

1. Wow....how puzzling. Holy crap!

[Algorem]

2. but boy are their necks sore

more dark secrets silenced

[lapfog_1]

3. Well, decapitation might be considered mistreatment

when it's done by the noose. (one of the victims was decapitated)

We, on the other hand, are only made brain dead by the news.

[malaise]

4. I no longer know whether to

laugh or cry. What a complete inversion of fugging reality.

[stellanoir]

5. I empathize totally.

It's as though it's mind numbing by design.

Every time the misrepresentation of the facts is uttered, I think "it can't get any more extreme." Then it does and my brain goes into an agitation cycle.

Sheesh.

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. The MSM is like the weather....

... we all talk about it but no one seems to know what to DO about it.

[stellanoir]

7. I was PM ing with a metaphysician in England a while ago while the

remnants of a tropical storm were passing through. The windows kept blowing openning and I told him about it forgetting that he had professed to be able to effect the weather. Several minutes passed and we were discussing other things and then he asked me "has the wind died down?" I said, "yup." He said, "you're welcome." LOL

Ya never know.

[Smarmie Doofus]

8. I'd file that under "this too shall pass" phenomena.

I'm thinking more in terms of ways to 'impact' (hate that word!) the inexorable takeover of MSM content by the gov't.

They've always 'owned' the media; but they historically allowed some leeway with regard to *content*.

Now they get to tell us what to think and what NOT to think in the same sentence.

[stellanoir]

11. Consolidation of media by the war profiteers

has bred unprecedanted disingenuousbness for sure. Your response has me thinking just how many honest well informed journalists are left.

Let's see. . .Helen Thomas, Bill Moyers, Keith Olberman, Greg Palast, Dahr Jamail, Randi Rhodes, Mike Malloy, Sam Seder, Rachel Maddow, Thom Hartmann, Will Pitt, "fake news" specialists Stewart & his crew, and Colbert.

Those are the ones who come to mind immediately though there must be at least a few more I'm forgetting.

Can you think of any others. . .?

[Smarmie Doofus]

13. Bob Herbert, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd from....

... the NY Times. Of course these are all 'pundits'; god knows what or who is doing the actual 'reportage' these days.

Locally, there are old school *independent* people all over ( I'm hoping?) who never rise to national notice. And some local journals. The Village Voice remains a ( very isolated) bastion of investigatory journalism here in the NYC area.

You mentioned Rachel Maddow: like her a lot. Underappreciated... hugely.

[stellanoir]

15. Thanks

I knew I was omitting many.

[leesa]

9. Will their trials continue tomorrow too?

What a mockery of justice we have made in Iraq. I wonder if they have any of that blue dye left on their fingers?!?

[KharmaTrain]

10. And We Know This How????

They already have the cellphone video to show over and over? This is one of the better oxymorons I've heard in a while...they were hung "just fine"...sheesh.

I guess we're all supposed to be real happy about this...another "big milestone" has been reached, right? Troops should be ready to come home any day now, right? It's not? It's just more brutality caused by this regime's war for profit? That sounds more like it.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. "Hanged but not mistreated" ... sort of "well-hung"?

Anyway, to the Iraqi hangmen:
"Good job, lads, for not abusing the prisoner before the hanging"

Does any of this get us closer to exiting that area? Probably not, so to me, it's just a sideshow.

[stellanoir]

14. good word play there

There's nothing like gallows humour.

They did just suggest on the BBC that one of the bodies would not have become severed from the head had it not been previously dead and/or tortured.

Not sure if that's true. Lynchings are not my field of expertise.