Over at MyLeftWing, the diarist thereisnospoon takes a stab at Certainly Not News, showing how eagerly our corrupted and hopelessly broken electronic media has voluntarily joined the Bu$hCo fight against reality. The omission of one word entirely changes the concept behind a story, and successfully toadies to the malAdministration’s preferred tactic of creating the narrative while ignoring the facts.

It’s all about catapulting the propaganda, baby.

No sooner do the traditional media get completely shredded by Mr. Huevos Grandes Colbert for their kowtowing lies--and promptly pretend that the incident never took place, than they come out with one of the most egregiously intentional lies ever to plague CNN's Iraq coverage since "Mission Accomplished."

And all it took was the absence of one word.
The lie concerns the coverage of today's story about the latest big battle in Ramadi, in which only over 100 more insignificant people were brutally killed. According to the CNN Story:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. and Iraqi troops killed more than 100 insurgents last week in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, a U.S. Army officer said Monday.

Two Iraqis also died in the fighting, said Col. John Gronski, commander of the U.S. Army's 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 28th Infantry Division. No Americans were killed.

Thereisnospoon points out quite aptly that the thrust of the story implies that the dead are either not Iraqi citizens (implying they are the phantom “foreign fighters” that was the all-the-rage fantasy theme of last year to explain why lack of planning and insufficient personnel produced a quicksand bog the “size of the state of Californian.” The only “Iraqis” involved in the battle were the two “good guy” soldiers or policemen who died obeying orders so as to make Iraq safer for ExxonMobil, Conoco, and Israel.

Two Iraqis also died in the fighting. You see, it's not at all true that 90% of Iraq's insurgency is HOME-GROWN; that would be a liberal lie--the kind, as Mr. Colbert might say, that you find in books. Or maybe in reality, which, as we all know, has a well-known liberal bias. It would have taken a Godless Pinko Communist to have written the words "two Iraqi troopers/military officers/police"; that would have suggested two legitimate sides to the conflict. That would have been one word too many.

You see, people, it works like this: There's two kinds of Iraqis: a) Iraqis who are part of the police force we hired; and b) Iraqis who resist our occupation of their country--in which case, they have ceased to be Iraqis, and are now non-human scum, and citizens of the new nation Insurgistan (formerly known as Mordor, and headed by Dr. Evil Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi--the man responsible not only for the entirety of the chaos in Iraq, but also, lung cancer, bad cell phone reception, and athlete's foot.)

So, it appears the latest framing of the qWagmire, besides the resistance of the Baathists, deadenders, foreign fighters, evil Librul Press supporting the evil by reporting the truth, Islamofascist sympathizers among the shellshocked Democratic Party, and Hollywood elites, we’re not winning because there aren’t enough Iraqis with purple-stained fingers fighting against those without stained fingers.

Or something.

Because the only REAL Iraqis, are the ones ON OUR PAYROLL, their fingers still stained purple in admiration of Uncle Sam.

The rest aren't even human--they're just statistics to attach to a victory report.

And that's tonight's word. The one they left out. The one that exposes CNN--once again--as the worst kind of puke-worthy right-wing apologist shill.

It’s rather a shame, because CNN was once a noble, honest enterprise, dedicated to reporting news, worldwide, in an attempt to bring the world into our homes. The more we learn about the peoples of other nations, the more we realize they are humans, just like us.

And that would prompt the question: "Just why are we destroying their country?"