"Americans see violence on their TV screens" ?????? Where?

[ProfessorPlum]

In the last couple of weeks, this kind of statement has been made many times, most prominently by Chimpy in his interview with David Gregory:

"The enemy has got a powerful tool, and that is to get on your TV screen by killing innocent people, and my job is to continue to remind the people it's worth it. "

Also Condiliar Rice, in her interview on MTP recently, said,

"I understand that Americans see, on their screens, violence. They continue to see Americans killed, and we mourn every death."

What channel are they watching, or what channel do they think Americans are watching? Can we really claim that we really see very much violence in Iraq on our TV screens? Compared to the amount that is going on there? The government won't even release sanitized pictures of the coffins coming back to Dover (lest that "aid our enemies").

Where I see the violence in Iraq is mostly in my mind's eye, as I read newspaper reports about the latest deaths. On TV, what I mostly see are dusty images of soldiers on guard with weapons, possibly a column of smoke, sometimes people running. And once in a great while we get a video of a nutcase cutting someone's head off. (OK, that certainly counts as violence on the TV, but it is extremely rare).

Why do they keep making this claim (as if it is true)? I know they just lie reflexively every time their cake holes are open, but what does show about them and their thinking on the issue?

It's bizarre that they keep pushing the idea that we are bombarded by violent imagery about this war, when in actuality it's been sanitized into near invisibility. If any station did play violent images, I'm sure the junta would turn on them at once.

[dipsydoodle]

1. Well it will be alright

now that Tiny Blur has said to the insurgents " It's ok lads. No need to insurge anymore - go home and have a nice cup tea"

So - no more violence on TV .:sarcasm:

[Skittles]

2. my theory, Professor

they are worried about the impact of such documentaries as "Baghdad ER".

[subterranean]

3. If a lie is repeated often enough

some people come to accept it as fact. Like the "liberal media" myth. Or the Saddam-9/11 connection.
Maybe they are trying to implant the idea that showing any violent images from the war aids the enemy. It could also be a response to recent programs like the HBO documentary that does show the unsanitized reality of the war.

By the way, that's some twisted statement by Bush, isn't it? He literally said that his job is to continue reminding people that it's worth it for the enemy to get on our TV screen by killing innocent people.

Reminds me of when he said our enemies "never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."