I’ve been hearing about this ever since Jon Stewart interviewed and author of a book, Jeremy Scahill (the book is titled Blackwater), the coalition of the “billing”. A private “troop surge” not exactly being “braodcast”, particularly on Fox News (that last comment is just my “assumption”– of course, this is not being heavily covered by ANYBODY).
Steve Fainaru highlights today (in the Washington Post) one of the most important stories of the war in Iraq that gets a fraction of the attention it deserves: private contractors from companies like Blackwater, which have been engaged in parallel “surges” of their own
The Daily Show interview from 4/19/07:
My question is this: Just how “Constitutional” is this? Just how would this play with the American public if it were “common knowledge”?
Oh, BTW, I just “upgraded” my cable by doing a deal with Comcast with their “Triple Play” for a year for 99 bucks a month. Seeing how we were already spending 86 a month for just broadband —which essentially comes with limited basic cable, about 20 channels– and adding the full extended basic “digital cable” with about 100 channels, and a land-based phone service that is also digital and free long distance and free caller ID and such, it was a no-brainer, especially since it provides me with live access to Comedy Central which means The Daily Show Monday thru Thursday at 10 pm, and the MSNBC and CNN duo (I simply pass by Fox News on my way to something else—-and I kid you not, for the fist solid week, EVERY TIME I passed Fox News and lingered long enough to recognize SOMETHING on the screen, they were doing coverage of something re: Paris Hilton. EVERY TIME! And this was something like 30-40 times. Are they “News” or are they “Tabloid”? They’re a complete joke. Not that CNN and/or MSNBC were “Paris-free”. They were not. LIke the line in the movie “Airplane”, “looks like I picked the wrong time to ” get some news channels”.
Anyway, this Blackwater thing smells.
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall June 16, 2007 12:23 PM
