Filthy Freepers are pissed Jill Carroll is free

[Proud2BAmurkin]

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[Theres-a]

1. Not going over there

No excerepts?

[BlackHeart]

2. One interesting comment

"I don't know how she squares "being treated well" with "watching her translator get murdered in cold blood by her kidnappers"."

I'd say they have a point.

[CottonBear]

5. The actual kidnapping and the captivity are two different events.

She responded to a question regarding her captivity. She said (paraphrased) "I knew I wasn't free or in control." She was being questioned by the Political leader of a Sunni political party. She was not yet back with other Americans (soldiers or citizens.)

[Arkansas Granny]

11. I speculated on another thread that perhaps she is tempering

her remarks in case this group, or another, is holding other captives. Just saying.

[demosincebirth]

27. I think she might have converted to Islam.

[CottonBear]

3. I did this just for you. Now I'm going to disinfect my computer.

Carroll Followed Her Ambition to Iraq
AP ^ | 3/30/6 | ADAM GORLICK


Posted on 03/30/2006 10:23:55 AM PST by SmithL


Amherst, Mass. -- All Jill Carroll ever wanted to be was a foreign correspondent.

The 28-year-old freelance reporter for The Christian Science Monitor was released Thursday nearly four months after being kidnapped in Iraq.

"I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped," Carroll said in a brief interview on Baghdad television.

Her ordeal took place half a world away from where she began her career.

Carroll, who grew in Michigan, received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Massachusetts in 1999.

After college, Carroll worked as a reporting assistant for The Wall Street Journal until 2002, when she was laid off. It was then that she moved to Jordan to pursue her dream of working overseas.

"All I ever wanted to be was a foreign correspondent," Carroll wrote last year in the American Journalism Review. "It seemed the right time to try to make it happen."

Carroll has had work from Iraq published in the Monitor, AJR, U.S. News & World Report, an Italian news wire and other publications. She has been interviewed often on National Public Radio.

Unlike many Western reporters, Carroll speaks Arabic.

One of her former professors at UMass, Howard Ziff, said Thursday that Carroll's decision to learn Arabic was a sign of her devotion to journalism and to the topic she was covering.


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The more we hear from her, the more it's apparent what her ambitions are who her devotions are to.

1 posted on 03/30/2006 10:23:56 AM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL
Traitorette du jour.



2 posted on 03/30/2006 10:25:24 AM PST by La Enchiladita (Walk softly, carry a big stick... and don't forget to connect the dots ...)
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To: SmithL
I don't know how she squares "being treated well" with "watching her translator get murdered in cold blood by her kidnappers".



3 posted on 03/30/2006 10:26:27 AM PST by Numbers Guy
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To: SmithL
The more we hear from her, the more it's apparent what her ambitions are who her devotions are to.
Well lots of people are ambitious. In America, it's more of a virtue than a sin.


4 posted on 03/30/2006 10:27:41 AM PST by 68skylark
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To: SmithL
Having watched her post release interview several times, I have to wonder why she was crying and begging the coalition to submit to the terrorists' demands? She says she wasn't beaten, tortured, threatened and was otherwise treated quite well.
What gives?


5 posted on 03/30/2006 10:27:53 AM PST by Racehorse (Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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To: Numbers Guy
Ditto ! The poor translator has been forgotten.

But she sure has made a name for herself,hasn't she?

She said they didn't do her any harm but what about her parents? I can't imagine what they went through.



6 posted on 03/30/2006 10:29:23 AM PST by Mears (The Killer Queen-caviar and cigarettes.)
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To: SmithL
Despite her language skills, Carroll used an Iraqi translator the day she was kidnapped. The abduction took place when the translator and Carroll were heading to meet Adnan al-Dulaimi, head of the Sunni Arab Iraqi Accordance Front.
Hmmm -- I wonder what happened to the translator. I guess it isn't important or the great journalists at the AP would have mentioned it.


7 posted on 03/30/2006 10:29:35 AM PST by 68skylark
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To: Racehorse
Maybe like the German woman hostage in the recent past she too was a convert and the kidnapping was fake.



8 posted on 03/30/2006 10:30:49 AM PST by Shermy
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To: Racehorse
Arggg...Time for an Expose' before she becomes annointed saint by the press. Whenever she turns on the happy face she needs to be asked about the slaughter of her fellow human interpretor.



9 posted on 03/30/2006 10:31:07 AM PST by samadams2000 (Somebody important make The Call.....pitchforks and lanterns.!)
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To: La Enchiladita; Numbers Guy
Hello, she's just been released from being captive for four months, you know that can have a greta psychological impact on someone. I'm sure being a captive for four months would have no impact on you, but not every one is a superhero.



10 posted on 03/30/2006 10:32:06 AM PST by nickcarraway (I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
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To: 68skylark
He was just an easily discarded appendage. Plenty more where he came from!



11 posted on 03/30/2006 10:32:44 AM PST by nuke rocketeer
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To: Racehorse
Her press conferences from captivity seemed to be scripted by Mel Brooks: "OH! Do What He Say! Do What He Say!"



12 posted on 03/30/2006 10:34:14 AM PST by SmithL (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: SmithL
Note to Jill:
Learn Italian...it's at least a little safer.Except,perhaps,in Sicily.


13 posted on 03/30/2006 10:34:44 AM PST by Gay State Conservative
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To: SmithL
One of her former professors at UMass, Howard Ziff
HUGE Leftist and hater of this country.

Tells me a lot.


14 posted on 03/30/2006 10:37:30 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Never question Bruce Dickinson!)
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[bunkerbuster1]

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[BlackHeart]

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surfing the internet with my Commodore 64.

[CottonBear]

13. It makes you wonder on what they spend all of the fundraising money. n/t

[bunkerbuster1]

14. Oh, I don't begrudge the Cali-fascist's right to scam idiots

A fool and his money and all that...

[CottonBear]

20. I agree. n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

22. A ultra modern RV for their Leader, what's his name? I think they got

taken for a ride. :rofl:

[tkmorris]

33. Well ole Jim Rob has a hell of an RV

Just sayin.....

[ClintonTyree]

16. They may have had some minor software upgrades........

during the 2000-2003 range but the basic format is the same one they've used since FR's inception (for freepers, that means "beginning"). It's still the same crappy format with no noticeable upgrades. RimJob steals the freepers blind, but they're too stupid to realize it. :silly: They say ignorance is bliss. Freepers must be the most blissful people on the planet. :rofl:

[Arkansas Granny]

15. They almost sound disappointed that she was released.

I checked in on the Freepers early this morning when I heard that Miss Carroll had been released and could not believe some of the responses.

[Theres-a]

18. Ugh!Horrible people.

Thanks Cottonbear!:hi:

[CottonBear]

21. You're welcome! n/t

[Left Is Write]

23. Bold remarks made from the safety of their own homes and offices.

I wouldn't presume to know how another person should act/react/think when she has been in captivity for four months. This shows the arrogance of the freeple.

[ima_sinnic]

24. is fweeper #14 confusing Howard Ziff with Howard Zinn?

Just googled Howard Ziff and he recently retired as a very beloved journalism professor, but has he written anything that could be constured as "hating America"? (as if Zinn could be accused of "hating America")
I doubt these brain-dead cretins have ever heard of Howard Ziff. SHITHEADS, go %@(*& yourselves!!!

[latebloomer]

31. They're probably confusing Howard Ziff

with Howard Zinn.

[BOSSHOG]

4. So this is how the react to good news?

[CottonBear]

6. They're pissed off that she speaks Arabic instead of Italian.

(Like that would be helpful to a mideast correspondent.) :(

These freepers are insane. Jesus Christ on a Trailer hitch. :(

[BOSSHOG]

12. So do our military linquists. So should we hate them?

"Conservatives" have no respect for our constitution and do not deserve the liberties it gives. Its hard work confronting these bastards.

[CottonBear]

17. It sure is hard work, especially since they don't employ logic or facts

when making their arguments (such as they are.) :(

Hi BOSSHOG! I hope all is well with you! Spring has sprung here in GA and it is beautiful! :hi:

[radio4progressives]

8. these people are psychotic ... why even bother?

[warrens]

10. They got cheated out of gloating over a beheading

You should have been there when that peace activist got run over by an Israeli bulldozer. They were high-fiving right and left.

So I never feel bad gloating when one of those pigs has something bad happen. Given the morals and proclivities of the disgusting Repukes, I get to gloat a whole lot.

[Katherine Brengle]

19. Wow, ONE reasonable comment in the whole pack --

and it was chastising the other freepers...

The only weird thought that I had when I heard the news this morning was that it seemed like awfully convenient timing for some good news for the administration, and I felt guilty for even thinking it.

[Left Is Write]

25. Admittedly, I thought the same thing.

And I felt a little guilty too.

[wordpix]

26. freepers are psychos, chickenhawks & armchair patriots

[zbdent]

28. You know what's scary?

It sounds like she got better treatment by the "terrorists" than the prisoners at Gitmo or Abu Ghraib . . . now, how true that is, I don't know . . . but it throws the freepturds' arguments about how well we treat "prisoners of war" out the window if they're complaining that she isn't talking about being tortured . . .

[Rocknrule]

29. They're pissed that ANYONE besides them is free

[lonestarnot]

30. Nope can't go there! Peeeeee you!

[0007]

32. Those punks never tire from throwing stones.